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2010-07-31: Headlines

• Webnewswire.com: US: End in Sight for Infamous Crack Cocaine Laws 2010-07-31

  Keywords: window.yahooBuzzBadgeType= 'text'; | Jesus commanded Peter to follow him, but when Peter turned around and saw another beloved disciple behind them, he asked, "Master, what about him?" Jesus answered, "What's that to you?" | Rather than envying the other guy being included in something wonderful, shouldn't we rejoice? There certainly is enough love to go around because it is the one thing that has no limits.

• The Desert Sun: Education may teach tolerance 2010-07-31

  Keywords: window.yahooBuzzBadgeType= 'text'; | Jesus commanded Peter to follow him, but when Peter turned around and saw another beloved disciple behind them, he asked, "Master, what about him?" Jesus answered, "What's that to you?" | Rather than envying the other guy being included in something wonderful, shouldn't we rejoice? There certainly is enough love to go around because it is the one thing that has no limits.

• Ottawa Citizen: Cuts to aid a good idea? Dialogue amongst yourselves 2010-07-31

  Division of Canwest Publishing Inc. | More than 300 people lined up outside the Apple Store in the Rideau Centre early Friday morning to get their hands on Apple's latest product, the iPhone 4. | Doomsayers relax: we can, in fact, feed the population of nine billion the world is expected to have by 2050. But to do this, we'll have to abandon our irrational prejudice against genetically modified... | I just called, to say, I'm ...

• South Asian News Agency: 11th Annual International Kashmir Peace Conference 2010-07-31

  WASHINGTON (SANA): The Kashmiri-American Council and Association of Humanitarian Lawyers held its 11th Annual International Kashmir Peace Conference in Washington, DC from July 29th- 3oth July 2010 entitled "India-Pakistan Relations: Breaking the Deadlock over Kashmir".

• Webnewswire.com: Arizona: US Court Blocks Immigration Law⤙s Worst Aspects 2010-07-31

  Under the temporary order issued by Judge Susan Bolton, law enforcement officers in Arizona will not be required to arrest people for reasonable suspicion of unlawful presence, and it will not be a state crime for immigrants to fail to carry identity documents. The US brought a lawsuit against the state of Arizona, contending that these provisions of the Arizona law, SB 1070, violate the federal governments exclusive power over immigration.

• Webnewswire.com: India: Press Burmese Leader on Human Rights 2010-07-31

  Than Shwe, the head of Burmas ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), will conduct a state visit to India from July 25-29, 2010, where he will hold high-level meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other senior officials. Than Shwes visit comes amidst preparations for elections in Burma later this year, which so far have been characterized by continued repression of the political opposition.

• Sify: Global support pours in for Iranian stoning to death verdict woman 2010-07-31

  Human rights activists and supporters of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning on adultery charges was lifted earlier this month and changed to hanging,...

• The Free Lance-Star: As long as is necessary terror bill 2010-07-31

  Keywords: src="http:/ / fbfredericksburgcom.112.2O7.net/ b/ ss/ fbfredericksburgcom/ 1/ H.17--NS/ 0" | A Democratic Congressman has introduced new legislation that advances the Obama Administration's request for clearer legal authority to delay reading terrorism suspects their Miranda rights. The bill filed Thursday by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)

• Gulf Jobs Market News: Human Rights Commission Calls for Summer Work Ban in Saudi 2010-07-31

  Saudi's Human Rights Commission (HRC) called for businesses to put the summer work ban into effect immediately, despite the fact that the ruling won't b...

2010-07-30: Headlines

• RIA Novosti: Russian chief human rights official Pamfilova resigns 2010-07-30

  "I confirm that this [resignation] is true, and I do not want to talk about the reasons," Pamfilova said. | She said she had already recommended a substitute for her position, but refused to provide further details. | Pamfilova was appointed the head of the presidential human rights commission, which was later transformed into a council, in July 2002. | Earlier this year, Pamfilova said that the absence of "qualitative changes"

• Wiki Peers: Japans Death Row Policy is Scrutinized 2010-07-30

  29 July 2010 – The recent dismissal of three judges and a magistrate in Honduras, apparently because they spoke out during the political crisis that engulfed the country last year, sends a disturbing message to other jurists in the Central American country, three independent United Nations human rights experts warned today.

• Arizona Daily Star: AZ immigration-law protests lead to arrests, street closures 2010-07-30

  More than a dozen people protesting Arizona's new immigration law were arrested in Phoenix on Thursday. Protesters caused the delay of a planned immigration and crime sweep by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. | Gov. Jan Brewer, in Tucson today, comments on the ruling by federal court Judge Susan Bolton released today. | Thursday, despite a ruling that blocked key provisions. | incident before the confrontation.

• theunion.com: Diana West: Can Eurabia be far behind? 2010-07-30

  The battle over whether to admit Turkey into the European Union seems eternal, at least among the EU's rulers. Among the peoples of Europe, when gra (read more)

• Bloomberg: Vedanta May Mine Bauxite at Indias Orissa by Year-End, Defying Protestors 2010-07-30

  Vedanta Resources Plc, battling criticism from environmental groups and some shareholders over plans to extract bauxite in India€™s Niyamgiri mountains, said it may begin mining at the site as early as the end of the year. | €œAll is going well,€ Vedanta Chief Executive Officer Mahendra Singh Mehta said in an interview in London.

• shanland.org: Hseng Khio Fah: Junta issues new directive: Substitute cultivated Jatropha plants with tea 2010-07-30

  Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | The ruling military junta has made a dramatic u-turn in policy, issuing a new directive to civilians in Shan State South as well as its own civil servants to pull out all the Jatropha curcas plants they ordered to be planted and to substitute them with teak and tea plantations, local sources report.

2010-07-29: Headlines

• ACTmedia: MAE: Kosovo, no precedent for settlement of potentially secessionist conflicts 2010-07-29

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• Haaretz: A state afraid of its past 2010-07-29

  The role of the security establishment and intelligence services is to protect the state in the present, not to hide the past.

• Nigerian Compass: Biodun Durojaiye: 2011: Jega jacks up voter register budget to N82b 2010-07-29

  He had explained that the figure was arrived at by the commission, following extensive consultations with experts in electronic voter registration, logistics, manufacturers and vendors of electronic data capture equipment. | But yesterday, INEC said that the Commission would need another N10 billion for hazard allowances and other expenses.

• Bombay News: Restrictions in Kashmir again to prevent separatist protests 2010-07-29

  Restrictions in parts of Kashmir Valley, including Srinagar, continued Thursday as authorities tried to scuttle protests and demonstrations by separatist groups against alleged human rights violations.

• Novinite.com: M3 Web - http://m3web.bg: UN Proclaims Universal Human Right to Clean Water 2010-07-29

  Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a fundamental human right, proclaimed the UN General Assembly, settling a debate that has continued for 15 years at the UN.

• www.worldbulletin.net: CM BiliÅŸim: Turkish FM says Tehran Agreement on nuke still valid 2010-07-29

  Keywords: function submitSearchForm(F) | if (window.attachEvent) | Turkish FM Davutoglu said that Turkey did not have a long-lasting crisis with the U.S. in the past and recently. | Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey did not have a long-lasting crisis with the United States in the past and recently.

• EurActiv: Sarkozy under fire for taking aim at Roma 2010-07-29

  The French left joined human rights groups and specialised organisations in criticising an anti-delinquency initiative launched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday (28 July), which is specifically targeted at the Roma community. | According to the European Commission, Roma are the EU's largest ethnic minority, and trace their origins to medieval India. There are many Roma subgroups.

• euronews: Judge blocks Arizona anti-immigration law 2010-07-29

  Immigration - . euronews : Independent, international news from a European standpoint, including politics, diplomacy and all the breaking new ...

2010-07-28: Headlines

• Las Vegas Sun: Afghans: 52 die in NATO attack; alliance disputes 2010-07-28

  The Afghan government has said that 52 civilians, including women and children, died when a NATO rocket struck a village in southern Afghanistan last week _ a report disputed by the international coalition. | The allegation Monday was raised as the founder of WikiLeaks claimed thousands of U.S. attacks could be investigated for evidence of war crimes, and a leading human rights group alleged that NATO has an "incoherent process"

• Las Vegas Sun: Peres: Croatian WWII camp was a show of `sadism 2010-07-28

  Peres: Croatian WWII camp was a show of `sadism' | Touring the site of Croatia's World War II concentration camp, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday it was a demonstration of "sheer sadism" and that Iran's president, who has denied the Holocaust, should visit it.

• Hurriyet Daily News: NATOS enlargement policy in the post-Cold War era 2010-07-28

  The change that began at the end of the last century and has continued since the beginning of the 21st century can only be described as striking and dramatic.

• Al-Bawaba: Archbishop Desmond Tutu Endorses of Olympia Food Co-ops Boycott of Israeli Goods 2010-07-28

  The Olympia Food Co-op's decision to honor the international call for boycott of Israeli goods has inspired an inundation of phone calls, e-mails, and petition signatures supporting the solidarity gesture, including an endorsement from South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. The Archbishop endorsed the boycott with the following statement:

• Reuters Africa: Malaysia opposition demands return of subsidies 2010-07-28

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• Sun.Star: Likely rights chair welcomes Querubin release (3:16 pm) 2010-07-28

  Former Akbayan party-list representative Etta Rosales said she was elated over the provisional liberty given to detained Marine Colonel Ariel Querubin.