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ments, but is only just several steps away from warhead level at more than 90 percent enrichment. Energy-producing reactors use uranium enriched at levels of about 3.5 percent.
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• WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand police are facing mounting criticism for the way they've handled an investigation into a group of teenage boys who bragged on Facebook about having sex with girls who were drunk and underage.
• Calling themselves the Roast Busters, the Auckland teens publicly named some of the girls and continued operating for two years before their Facebook page was taken down last week following a story on local television station TV3.
• The case has angered many in the South Pacific nation and raised questions about how rape allegations are handled not only by the police but also by other authority figures including school officials and radio hosts. Two teenage girls have organized marches in New Zealand's three largest cities next Saturday in a protest against what some describe as the country's "rape culture."
• In one disturbing video posted online, two Roast Busters teens brag that they take what they do seriously.
• "How about you try to go with the amount of girls we do ... it's a job," says one the teens, adding "they know what we're like, they know what they're in for."
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• BEIRUT (AP) -- Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria -- held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom.
• The widespread seizure of journalists is unprecedented, and has been largely unreported by news organizations in the hope that keeping the kidnappings out of public view may help to negotiate the captives' release.
• The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 30 journalists are being held and 52 have been killed since Syria's civil war began in early 2011. The group also has documented at least 24 other journalists who disappeared

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