Germany: Accepting Guantanamo Detainees a Positive Step 0

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Post Views: 8 Resettling Those No Longer Considered a Threat Helps Advance Effort to Close the Prison (Berlin) – The German government’s decision on July 7, 2010, to accept two Guantanamo Baydetainees for resettlement is an important step in closing

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US: Most Rape Kits Never Tested in Illinois 0

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Post Views: 8 One of the Illinois State Police Labs in Springfield that will test Illinois’s rape kits. While the Sexual Assault Evidence Submission Act of 2010 is a significant step forward and provides a potential reform model for other

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Forgotten Casualties of the Recession 0

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Post Views: 9 Child Poverty in the Age of Neoliberalism Consistently ignored in reporting on the economic crisis is the dramatic toll it’s taking on America’s children.  The prevalence of poverty has expanded dramatically in light of growing unemployment, accompanied

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Terrorista Chávez Abarca confesó ser contratado por Posada Carriles para desestabilizar a Venezuela 0

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Post Views: 3 El terrorista sostuvo que le pagarían lo que él pidiera por el trabajo de desestabilización (Foto TeleSUR) Reveló que recibía directrices del terrorista Posada Carriles para iniciar un proceso de desestabilización en las elecciones parlamentarias venezolanas /

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CIA, Pakistan’s ISI Engage in Fierce but Quiet Battle 0

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Post Views: 17 US Complains to Pakistan Over Apparent ‘Double Agent’ Attempt Though publicly both sides insist their relationship is solid and indispensable, ties between the CIA and Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Agency seem to be suffering in the

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Red Flags for the Economy 0

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Post Views: 7 Warning Signs From the Bond Market   Bonds are signaling that the recovery is in trouble. The yield on the 10-year Treasury (2.97 percent) has fallen to levels not seen since the peak of the crisis while

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The razor and the damage done: female genital mutilation in Kurdish Iraq

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Post Views: 10 The old Kurdish midwife’s hands trembled alongside a bowl that she positions to catch dripping blood. She picked up a razor blade and sliced through a corner of paper, mimicking the ritual cut she has performed at

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Biden Demands Net No Progress on Iraq Govt

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Post Views: 4 No Proposals Made for Next Coalition Govt Though it comes as little surprise given the past four months of political fighting, Vice President Joe Biden’s Iraq visit has come to an end, and his demand for a

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700 children in Turkish jails 0

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Post Views: 9 On 1 April 2006, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the following statement in relation to the incident: “I am addressing mothers and fathers. Those who let their children out and allow them to be used by

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Workers’ rights in Taiwan 0

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Post Views: 3 5 July 2010: A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Taiwan (known at the WTO as “Chinese Taipei”), published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of its trade policies, finds

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