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KINSHASA, Congo ? Preliminary results from Congo's presidential election show incumbent Joseph Kabila leading opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, although the country's election chief warned only a small percentage of precincts had been counted.
With around 15 percent of votes tallied, Kabila leads with over 1,52 million, around 52 percent, according to results announced Friday. Tshisekedi is second among the 11 candidates with 997,074, or 34 percent.
Election commission president Daniel Ngoy Mulunda released the early results four days after Monday's vote, after the Election Day was extended for three days to give porters time to transport ballots from the remote corners of this giant nation.
Compiling the results was chaotic. In the capital Kinshasa, sacks of ballots brought in on the backs of poll workers piled up on grass outside the counting center, many having split open. People trampled on the ballots which had spilled on the dirt path leading into the warehouse.
Mulunda released the first results after opposition candidate Vital Kamerhe called a press conference urging the commission to publish partial results for the sake of transparency.
Complicating procedures, fake results had been posted on the election commission's website, said Mulunda. Young Tshisekedi supporters also weaved between cars at downtown intersections, selling a $1 sheet showing a different set of provisional results which had their choice of president in the lead.
Congo remains on edge after days of violence which left at least 18 dead and seriously wounded 100 more, with most of the deaths caused by troops loyal to Kabila, Human Rights Watch said in Friday.
The violence peaked on Saturday when tens of thousands of people descended on Kinshasa's airport to welcome home Tshisekedi as he returned from his final campaign tour in the country's interior. In the government crackdown that followed, at least 14 people were killed, according to the report by the New York-based rights group.
Soldiers fired into the crowd, hitting a 27-year-old mother of five in the head. Among the other victims was a 22-year-old who was shot dead while walking outside a granary near the airport. On Election Day, mobs descended on poling stations. Poll workers were beaten, and vote centers were destroyed.
Government spokesman Lambert Mende denied the accusations in the report, saying the presidential guard shot in the air.
"We are in an African city. We are Africans. And nowhere ? not in (the neighborhood of) Masina, not in the mayor's office ? no one is aware of a wake, or of a funeral. No cemetery has registered a burial. Only HRW is aware of this," he said.
Analysts are concerned that there could be further bloodshed when the election results are announced, scheduled for next Tuesday.
The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned the bloodshed and urged all candidates and their supporters to refrain from further violent acts.
Congo's enormous territory still includes sections of the bush that are controlled by rebel groups, like in the east where the brutal Lord's Resistance Army is known to be based.
In Oriental province near the town of Faradje, Human Rights Watch says the Lord's Resistance Army attacked a group of voters on their way to vote. Three men were killed, and ten women were abducted. The report says that one of the women, who was six months' pregnant, was raped. She was later released and taken to the hospital but lost her baby.
This is only the second free election in Congo's 51-year history, and the first to be organized entirely by the government instead of by the international community. The logistical challenges are casting a cloud of doubt over the vote, and three of the 11 candidates running for president have already called for the ballot to be annulled.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Los Angeles police used nearly a dozen undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA encampment before this week's raid to gather information on protesters' intentions, according to media reports Friday.
None of the officers slept at the camp, but tried to blend in during the weeks leading up to the raid to learn about plans to resist or use weapons against police, a police source told the Los Angeles Times. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing.
The undercover work yielded information that some protesters were preparing bamboo spears and other potentially dangerous weapons in advance of an expected eviction by the LAPD, none of which were used, according to City News Service which first reported the story.
Police downplayed the significance of the undercover work since Occupy meetings were public and easily tracked.
LAPD Officer Cleon Joseph declined an Associated Press request for comment on the reports.
Occupy L.A. protester Mario Brito told City News Service he was not surprised by the revelation, but said it was "tantamount to 1950s McCarthyism."
Meanwhile, the city attorney's office filed criminal misdemeanor charges Friday against 27 more of the people who were arrested following the police sweep of the camp.
In all, 46 of the 291 people arrested during the raid have been charged with misdemeanor crimes of failure to disperse from an unlawful assembly. Some also were charged with resisting arrest.
The arrests came Wednesday during a pre-dawn raid on City Hall Park, where nearly 500 tents had been erected at the peak of an anti-Wall Street protest, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich said.
Fifty-eight posted bail or were released by police, Criminal Division Chief Earl Thomas told City News Service.
An additional 187 protesters were released without bail and without being charged, because they had no prior criminal records.
Bail amounts ranged from $5,000 for most of the defendants to as high as $20,000.
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Grab the Cheetos and the fancy Red Bull, y'all, because we've got a birthday to celebrate!
That's right, Britney Spears has reached yet another milestone, this time of the birthday variety, and today turns the big 3-0. To help the Mouseketeer-made-good-then-bad-then-good-again celebrate, we're taking a look back at her life ? and what a life it's been! ? over the past three decades.
Where to start? Where not to start is the question ... after all, it's Britney, b----.
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Dec. 2, 1981: Britney Jean Spears is born in Kentwood, La. The world doesn't know what hit it.
1993: Making good on her prowess for performing at a young age, Britney joins the cast of "The New Mickey Mouse Club," alongside once and future contemporaries Keri Russell, JC Chasez, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling and, perhaps most notably, Justin Timberlake.
Story: 10 Unforgettable MTV Moments1996: At age 15, Britney lands her first solo record deal with Jive.
1998: Britney releases her debut smash single, "...Baby One More Time," and while it was a massive hit, what really catapulted her into the public consciousness (and fantasy) was the accompanying now-iconic music video released several months later, which saw her wearing an ultra short schoolgirl skirt, donning pigtail braids and engaging in rather suggestive school-hall dance numbers. Soon after, she's linked to fellow Mousketeer and *NSync runt Justin Timberlake, though the couple are urged by their management to both keep their relationship quiet and announce that they planned to abstain from sex until marriage. Um, best-laid plans.
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1999: At 17 years old, Britney releases her first album and tests the bounds of both the stretching power of spandex and the patience of conservative parents everywhere. It's in this year that she nabs her first Rolling Stone cover, which not only sparks controversy for showing the teen reclining in her underwear, but sparks rumors that the bustier-than-remembered singer had gotten breast implants.
2000: Britney releases her second album, "Oops!...I Did It Again," which sells more than 1.3 million copies its debut week. She also takes to the MTV VMA stage donning a nude, sheer, bedazzled body suit. Don't remember it? J.Lo sure does.
Slideshow: The Spears years (on this page)January 2001: Seven words: Britney. Justin. American Music Awards. Matching denim. Later that month, she performs alongside *NSync and Aerosmith during the halftime show at "Super Bowl XXXV."
Fall 2001: Britney's third album, "Britney," arrives, and while sales are still massive, they show signs of dipping from the strength of her previous two. Her watercooler quotient is as high as ever, though, which she ensures by taking to the VMA stage to perform "I'm a Slave 4 U," this time accompanied by an albino snake whose writhing is rivaled only by that of Spears herself.
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2002: Britstin? Justney? Whatever they would have been called (and thank God they decoupled before the advent of the one-named wonders), Britney and Justin break up. Teenage girls everywhere rejoice and Britney is villainized after Justin's "Cry Me a River" is released and seems to indicate that infidelity (paging Wade Robson) was to blame for their split.
2002: The same year, the newly single Spears takes on her first acting role, the widely-panned "Crossroads."
Story: Justin Timberlake attends Marine Corps ballSeptember 2003: For the third year in a row, Britney creates a sensation at the MTV VMAs, sharing the stage (and some saliva) with Madonna and Christina Aguilera. She also releases her fourth album, "In the Zone" and takes the opportunity to present a birthday cake to Michael Jackson, which he infamously misinterpreted as an award for Artist of the Millennium. Which doesn't exist.
Nov. 17, 2003: Spears receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Jan. 3, 2004: The start of something not so good. Spears shocks the world by tying the knot with her childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander in a quickie wedding in Las Vegas. A few days later, the marriage is annulled.
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June 2004: Her fourth world tour is canceled when Spears suffers a debilitating knee injury while filming the music video for "Outrageous."
Sept. 18, 2004: At the age of 22, she marries backup dancer Kevin Federline.
2005: Not content to let the tabloid press do the dirty work for her, Britney makes strides in taking herself off whatever pedestal she was on (inadvertent though that may have been) by turning her home video footage into the UPN reality show Britney and Kevin: Chaotic. And it was.
Sept. 14, 2005: She gives birth to her first son, Sean Preston Federline.
June 2006: After a string of questionable, caught-on-camera maternal missteps, Britney sits down with Matt Lauer for an emotional interview defending her mothering skills and her marriage. It doesn't help her case all that much.
Sept. 12, 2006: Her second son, son Jayden James, is born.
Nov. 6, 2006: Britney files for divorce from K-Fed and immediately begins making the social rounds with Paris Hilton ? and thus begins a string of questionable moves, associations and an alarmingly long period of underwear aversion.
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February 2007: Britney shaves her head and attacks a paparazzi car with an umbrella. The next day, she checks into rehab.
March 2007: She checks out. All better?
September 2007: Clearly not prepared to get back into the spotlight, she opens the MTV VMAs with a trainwreck performance of "Gimme More."
Jan. 3, 2008: A low point. Britney locks herself in her bathroom with son Jayden James. Police, ambulances and helicopters swarm the property and she's removed via gurney and taken to a hospital, where she forcibly returns under a 5150 hold and is ultimately stripped of her custody. Her parents blame Sam Lutfi, her self-styled manager, for drugging and confusing the star.
Feb. 1, 2008: Jamie Spears is granted a temporary conservatorship over his daughter and her affairs, which lasts to this day.
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March 2008: Comeback time! Britney pops up in a guest-starring role as a receptionist on "How I Met Your Mother."
July 16, 2008: Federline is awarded full custody of their two sons, with visitation rights only given to Spears.
September 2008: Britney's comeback album, "Circus," is released. She spends much of the next year on a world tour.
May 2010: Spears confirms that she's coupled up with her former agent Jason Trawick by taking him as her date to the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.
Sept. 28, 2010: Britney guest stars on "Glee."
March 29, 2011: Britney's seventh studio album, "Femme Fatale," is released and becomes her sixth No. 1 album.
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September 2011: Armed and scandalous! Britney and Trawick costar in Spears' "Criminal" music video, which causes controversy in London for depicting the duo ransacking a local store in the wake of the British riots.
August 2011: Britney's career is back in fine form as she accepts multiple awards at the Video Music Awards and even gamely appears onstage alongside Lady Gaga's alter ego Jo Calderrone.
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Fall 2011: Rumors reach a fever pitch that Trawick is planning on becoming the third Mr. Spears and gearing up to pop the question to his longtime girlfriend. Both sides deny. For now.
Dec. 2, 2011: Britney turns 30! Here's to another newsworthy decade.
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LOS ANGELES ? NBA player Kris Humphries asked a judge Thursday to annul his 10-week, highly publicized marriage to Kim Kardashian on the basis that it was fraudulent.
The filing comes roughly a month after Kardashian filed for divorce and apologized to fans.
Humphries' petition did not offer any details to support his contention that the marriage was a fraud, which a judge would have to determine is true for the marriage to be completely nullified.
Kardashian's attorney Laura Wasser declined to comment on Humphries' filing.
The couple signed a prenuptial agreement before marrying in a star-studded ceremony Aug. 20 at an exclusive estate in California.
Kardashian's sisters and TV co-stars Kourtney Kardashian, 32, and Khloe Kardashian, 27, served as co-maids of honor.
Kim Kardashian and Humphries began dating late last year and announced their engagement in May. He proposed on bended knee with a 20.5-carat ring by spelling out "Will you marry me?" in rose petals.
Kardashian filed for divorce Oct. 31, citing irreconcilable differences. The actress-model is the star of the E! Entertainment Television series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," and her marriage to Humphries was turned into a high-touted televised special.
Humphries is a free agent NBA forward who played last season for the New Jersey Nets. He is requesting that if an annulment isn't granted, the couple be deemed legally separated.
Humphries' marriage to Kardashian is his first; she was previously married to a music producer for four years.
Both Kardashian and Humphries are asking a judge to prevent either side from receiving spousal support, and Kardashian wants her husband to pay his own attorney's fees.
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