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3 hrs ago | Weekday Magazine - Azerbaijan

Watchdog Says Rights Abuses Block N. Caucasus Stability

Amnesty International has said stability could return to Russia's North Caucasus only if human rights violations were thoroughly investigated.

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8 hrs ago | Deseret News

Passengers still in Israeli custody

Most members of a group of foreign peace activists seized at sea by the Israeli navy remained in custody Friday, three days after their failed attempt to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, relatives and supporters said.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Prison

12 hrs ago | Rocky Mount Telegram

Myanmar's frustrated generation looks abroad

**ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, JULY 4** In this June 3, 2009 photo, a Myanmar woman student passes by a sign of the University of Yangon which can be barely seen due to tree branches that overhang it from outside.

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Related Topix: Burma, Southeast Asia, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi

16 hrs ago | Staunton News Leader

Two views of judicial activism

The critics of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have called her an activist and criticized her for using 'empathy' to judge cases.

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Related Topix: US News, Sonia Sotomayor

21 hrs ago | Penticton Herald

Justice Department delays release of report on CIA detention, interrogation until late August

The Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public.

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Related Topix: US Politics, George Bush, US News, W., 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Yesterday | News.com.au

Six hanged in jail, two spared

IRAN has hanged six people for murder, but the lives of two others due to be executed at the same time were spared by the families of their victims, an Iranian newspaper reported today.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

WTOL-TV Toledo

Amnesty accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza

Israel and Hamas are both denouncing an Amnesty International report on the recent war in Gaza as unbalanced.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories

EDGEchicago.com News Feed

Will Gay Iranians Come Out of the Revolt Better --or Worse?

Ever since the Iranian Revolution empowered a socially conservative theocracy led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, the country has been a difficult place for gays, lesbians and transgender people to call home.

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Related Topix: Iran, World News, Middle East, Gay/Lesbian, Transgendered

Reuters

Obama's climate leadership faces test at G8 forum

U.S. President Barack Obama, buoyed by a domestic victory on climate policy, faces his first foreign test on the issue next week at a forum that could boost the chances of reaching a U.N. global warming pact this year.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Global Warming

Bellingham Herald

Judicial activism? You bet

As one who is critical of racial preferences, I'm surprised to find myself disappointed in the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, a case involving a group of mostly white firefighters in New Haven, Conn.

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Related Topix: US News, New Haven, CT, New Haven Metro, African-American

Charleston Daily Mail

Passport fix near for US border midwife deliveries

Citizens delivered by midwives along the U.S.-Mexico border will get to reapply for passports for free under a tentative settlement with the State Department over stalled applications.

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Related Topix: McAllen Metro, McAllen, TX

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Docuticker

New Report From ACLU And RWG Finds Racial Profiling Still Pervasive

Widespread racial profiling by law enforcement agents as a result of Bush-era policies remains a pervasive problem throughout the United States, according to a report out today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Rights Working Group .

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Related Topix: ACLU

KAAL-TV Austin

Animated film tells of Gaza womana s cancer battle

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Her back to the camera, a Gaza woman ashamedly unbuttons her dress before a female Israeli soldier, revealing that her breasts were removed in a failed attempt to halt cancer.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Iran,

Gainesville.com The Gainesville Sun G...

Young Japanese Raise Their Voices Over Economy

A group of young people recently gathered in a darkened park here. Holding placards and megaphones, they chanted slogans condemning the Japanese government and a lack of jobs and opportunity.

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PR-inside.com

Obama White House not appealing transgender ruling

The Obama administration is not fighting a nearly $500,000 judgment for a Library of Congress hiree who lost the job while undergoing a gender change from a man to a woman.

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Related Topix: Transgendered, Libraries, George Bush

Tuscola County Advertiser

Racial profiling of minorities persists in U.S.: ACLU

U.S. authorities detain thousands of people each year solely on the basis of religion, race or nationality despite efforts by senior law enforcement officials and the government to stop it, the American Civil Liberties Union said.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, ACLU

Aftermarket Business

EPA grants California request for clean car standards

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today granted California's request to carry out clean car standards, which immediately clears the way for emission standards in California and 13 additional states to address global warming pollution.

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Reversing Bush, Obama allows California to set own greenhouse gas rules

In a major victory for environmentalists and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Obama administration on Tuesday granted California permission to set the nation's first rules requiring automakers to reduce global warming emissions from new automobiles.

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Related Topix: California, California Government, Global Warming, Dave, Comedy Movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Telegraph.co.uk

Human rights activists 'arrested' off Gaza coast

The small boat Spirit of Humanity was on its way to deliver medical supplies to Gaza when it was allegedly stopped by Israeli warships this morning with threats of gunfire.

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Related Topix: World News, Travel, Israel Travel, US Military, US Navy

The Gadsden Times

Unlikely Ally for Residents of West Bank

Ezra Nawi was in his element. Behind the wheel of his well-worn jeep one recent Saturday morning, working two cellphones in Arabic as he bounded through the terraced hills and hardscrabble villages near Hebron, he was greeted warmly by Palestinians near and far.

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Related Topix: World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel,

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