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Several Jamaican sprinters were banned for doping earlier this year and now a footballer from the Caribbean nation has been suspended.

Jermaine Hue, a creative midfielder who has made more than 40 appearances for the national team, received a nine-month suspension after he tested positive for dexamethasone.

But a stiffer penalty was given to the team doctor, Carlton Fraser. He was hit with a four-year punishment after "having administered" the corticosteroid, FIFA said in a statement on its website.

The two were provisionally banned in August after Hue tested positive following Jamaica's World Cup qualifier at Honduras in June.

Hue, 35, has spent most of his career with Jamaica's Harbour View but had brief stints with the Kansas City Wizards of the MLS and Sweden's Mjallby.

According to a report in the Jamaica Observer in August, Fraser was a personal friend of the late Bob Marley and also treated the reggae great.

The sanctions are a further blow to the 'Reggae Boyz' -- they sit last in their qualifying group with only two matches remaining.

Former world-record holder in the 100 meters, Asafa Powell, and Sherone Simpson admitted to testing positive for banned substances in July, a month after double 200-meter Olympic gold medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown received a provisional ban.

1. who is Jermaine Hue?
2. how many appearance has he made?
3. what was he in trouble for?
4. what is his punishment?
5. who else got in trouble?
6. what did he do?
7. his punishment?
8. who told us this info?
9. how old is Hue?
10. has he played in the US?
11. where?
12. dis the doc have a famous friend?
13. who?
14. what group is this suspension hurting?
15. how many matches do they have left?
16. who is Veronica Campbell-Brown?

Numbered answers:
1. a footballer from Jamaica
2. more than 40
3. testing positive for dexamethasone
4. a nine-month suspension
5. Carlton Fraser.
6. administered the corticosteroid
7. a four-year punishment
8. FIFA
9. 35
10. yes
11. Kansas City
12. yes
13. Bob Marley
14. the 'Reggae Boyz'
15. Two
16. a 200-meter Olympic gold medalist

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By 1938, Europe had been experiencing an increased number of attacks on Jews. With no end in sight, Jewish refugee agencies requested the British government to allow them to bring in only Jewish children under17 years of age. This was to be only temporary, until the situation in their home countries was improved.

Kindertransport, meaning "children transport" in German, was then born. Children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other Nazi-occupied regions were transported to the United Kingdom. There they were either placed with other families or in hostels. Later, it was found that many of these children were the only survivors of their families. Nicholas Winton was among those people who helped to save Jewish children. He managed to rescue 669 children from Czechoslovakia and bring them safely to England. In 1938 around Christmas, 29-year-old Nicky was about to leave for a skiing holiday. Suddenly, Martin Blake, one of his good friends, contacted him from Czechoslovakia, asking him to travel there to help political refugees on the run from the Nazis. And Nicholas agreed.

Nicky spent his entire holiday of 3 weeks in the capital city of Prague where he saw the situation first-hand. Once back in England, he immediately started organizing the evacuation of children from the Czech region. From advertising for the necessary permits, Nicky worked tirelessly. By August 1939, 669 children had been helped by Nicky and his friends. _ , the last group of children due to leave Prague in the beginning of September could not do so-- World War II broke out, and swallowed them up.

Nicky did not discuss his particular task with his wife, Grete. It was only when she found a scrapbook in 1988, with names of the rescued children, their (lost) parents and the foster families that had taken them in, that his heroism came to light. Nicky has received several awards in Britain and the Czech Republic.
1. Attacks against who have increased?
2. What is kindertransport?
3. Where are the children transported to?
4. How long was Nicky's holiday?
5. In what City?
6. How many children had Nicky helped as of 1939?
7. Where has he received awards from?
8. Why couldn't the last group of children leave?
9. How did his wife find out about this?
10. Was information on the lost parents on it?
11. What about the families that took the kids in?

Numbered answers:
1. Jews
2. A German term for "children transport"
3. United Kingdom
4. 3 weeks
5. Prague
6. 669
7. Britain and the Czech Republic
8. World War II broke out, and swallowed them up.
9. She found a scrapbook
10. Yes
11. The names of the foster families were in the scapbook.

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Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -- For three weeks, security fears kept U.S. authorities from searching the Afghan village where an American soldier is accused of killing 16 Afghans, an Army investigator testified Wednesday.

Local tempers were so high over the killings that it was too dangerous for the Americans to go, said Matthew Hoffman, a special agent with the Army Criminal Investigation Command. Negotiations with local leaders over the issue took 20 days -- and even then, the investigators were guarded by U.S. and Afghan troops and watched over by two U.S. helicopters, he said.

"We were fully expecting to be attacked at any time," Hoffman said. "We didn't know how much time we had for our investigation."

Hoffman's testimony came during an Article 32 hearing for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier charged in the killings. The hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Washington, will determine whether Bales will face trial for the deaths.

Hoffman was the lead investigator in the case. His team collected blood samples, took photographs and found a number of 9mm shells at the site, but much of the evidence had been collected by Afghan troops the day after the March 11 killings, he said.

The shooting spree near a small U.S. outpost in Afghanistan's Kandahar province last March strained already tense U.S.-Afghan relations and intensified a debate about whether to pull out American troops ahead of their planned 2014 withdrawal.

Stunned friends recall good deeds of killing suspect

Bales is charged with 16 counts of premeditated murder, six counts of attempted murder, seven counts of assault and the illicit use of alcohol and steroids. He could be sentenced to death if convicted.
1. Who is the soldier charged in the killings?
2. For how long did security concerns keep authorities from searching the Afghan village?
3. How many was Bales accused of slaughtering?
4. Why was it so dangerous for Americans to go in?
5. Who is Matthew Hoffman?
6. Where is the hearing going to be held?
7. What did Hoffman's team collect?
8. Who else had already collected evidence?
9. How long did negotiations with local leaders take?
10. What was the name of the hearing in which Hoffman testified?
11. What province did the shootings take place near?
Numbered answers:
1. Joint Base Lewis-McChord
2. For three weeks
3. 16
4. They were expecting to be attacked any time
5. lead investigator in the case
6. near Tacoma, Washington
7. blood samples, took photographs and found a number of 9mm shells at the site
8. Afghan troops
9. 20 days
10. Article 32 hearing
11. Kandahar