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Pakistan government pressed on missing persons

An international rights group pressed Pakistan's new government on Wednesday to quickly investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly at the hands of its security agencies.

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Related Topix: Pervez Musharraf, World News, Pakistan, Asia

Fri Jul 25, 2008

Carroll County Online

Police head says surveillance doesn't merit probe Posted

The head of Maryland's state police says a federal investigation into his agency's surveillance of anti-war and death penalty opposition groups is not needed.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty

The Times and Democrat

Nader brings campaign to South Carolina

White House hopeful Ralph Nader is talking up the shortcomings of the candidates that are sure to beat him in November.

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Times-News

Id Aclu looking for new leader

BOISE, Idaho - Officials with the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho will accept applications until August 22 for a new executive director.

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Related Topix: Boise, ID, Non-Profit, ACLU

Amnesty International

Climate of fear in Zimbabwe persists despite deal

As the Zimbabwean government and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change prepare to enter power-sharing talks, Amnesty International called on both parties to ensure there are no pardons for those who ...

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Related Topix: Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe), World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Amnesty International, Charitable Organizations

CANOE

17-year-old fatally zapped by Taser likely youngest stun gun...

An international human rights group believes the 17-year-old victim of a police Taser in Winnipeg is the youngest Canadian to die after being zapped by a stun gun.

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Thu Jul 24, 2008

KSHB-TV Kansas City

Study: Climate Change Could Cost Kansas $1 Billion

Rising temperatures and reduced water supply could cost Kansas more than $1 billion in agriculture losses by 2017.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

WZZO

Obama Talks War, Global Warming, Unity In Berlin Speech

Presidential candidate Barack Obama urged Europe to stand by the United States in stabilizing Afghanistan in a speech to over 200,000 in Berlin that stressed the need for unity in the face of new threats.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, World News, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, John McCain, Life, Veteran Affairs

Pennsyltucky Politics

Nader: Bonusgate justifies new court look ballot case

Ralph Nader wants the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take a new look at its decision ordering his presidential campaign to pay $81,102.19 in costs related to his being tossed from the 2004 presidential ballot.

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Related Topix: Ralph Nader

Scotsman.com

Former terror activist stops eating in jail as extradition row goes...

A FORMER member of the Italian terrorist group the Red Brigades has stopped eating and is being treated in a French prison hospital after the president, Nicolas Sarkozy, ordered her extradition to Italy last ...

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Europe, Italy, World News

The Herald

Global warming leads to more cats?

Global warming and kittens. While it may seem hard to see the connection between the two -- a climate phenomenon that melts glaciers and acidifies oceans, and cuddly, 4-ounce balls of fur -- experts say there ...

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Related Topix: Charitable Organizations, Weather

Rapid City Journal

Senators push bill to fight Indian crime

A bipartisan group of senators is hoping to fight high crime levels on American Indian reservations with legislation that would boost tribal law enforcement and improve coordination between federal and local ...

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, US Politics, US News, Byron Dorgan, US Senate, Democrat, Amnesty International, Charitable Organizations

Wed Jul 23, 2008

The Modesto Bee

Study warns of water problems

A new study predicts that climate change will create devastating drought in this state and throughout the Southwest and continue to drop the levels of already low Lake Mead and Lake Powell, threatening the ...

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

Austin American Statesman

Baer: We're still fighting the battles that began in 1978

Everyone seems to be telling us that if you want to understand 2008, you have to look back 40 years to 1968.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Opinion

AllAfrica.com

Nigeria: MPs Shout Down Abolition Bill

Toye Olori Lagos Hopes of a reprieve for hundreds of death row inmates in Nigeria were dashed when MPs threw out a bill which would have commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment and down-graded robbery ...

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Related Topix: Nigeria, Death Penalty, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

York Dispatch

Pakistan government pressed on missing persons

An international rights group pressed Pakistan's new government on Wednesday to quickly investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly at the hands of its security agencies.

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Related Topix: Pervez Musharraf, World News, Pakistan, Asia

HendersonvilleNews.com

A rare Tibetan critic sues China's government

Woeser, a Tibetan writer and activist is seen during an interview in Beijing, China, Friday, June 27, 2008.

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Related Topix: Columbia University, World News, China, Asia, Blog News

Tue Jul 22, 2008

The Marmot's Hole

Hang the translators

The government can't seem to catch a break with English-to-Korean translations. First we got the supposed "translation errors" in PD Notebook's infamous mad cow show last April.* Now it appears that some of the ...

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Related Topix: Amnesty International, Charitable Organizations

Spokane 7

Superheroes love their animals

Everyone, it seems, loves superheroes. That applies even to those who tend to put their political opinions above everything else.

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Related Topix: Best of 2007

Quick

Debate heats up over new home for Dallas Zoo's lone elephant

Fifteen minutes after KeKe the African elephant died in May, the Dallas Zoo received its first fax imploring that Jenny, her lone companion, be moved to an elephant sanctuary.

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Related Topix: Animal Rights, World News, Mexico, Dallas, TX, University of Texas System, Dallas Metro

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