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Bollywood superstars airport detention prompts protest
August 18, 2009One of India’s beloved Bollywood superstars, Shah Rukh Khan, who is Muslim, made international headlines recently after he was held for questioning at Newark Liberty International Airport. Many here describe Khan as the 'Brad Pitt' of...
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Supreme Court orders new hearing for Troy Davis
August 18, 2009In a significant move the Supreme Court today ordered a new hearing in the case of African American death row inmate Troy Davis accused of killing Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989. Davis’s case...
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Obama admin. assures veterans on health reform
August 18, 2009The White House continued to knock down false information about the president's health reform plan by addressing false rumors circulated in the right-wing media that claim reform could force veterans out of the VA health care...
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Big Oil holding ‘town halls’ on climate bill
August 18, 2009Original source: Following in the footsteps of the corporate-backed protest movement against health care reform, a group founded and funded by business interests opposed to regulating greenhouse gas pollution is planning a series of rallies to...
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Yemen: Fighting forces 120,000 people to flee
August 18, 2009SANAA, 16 August 2009 (IRIN) - Nearly 120,000 people from various districts in Yemen’s northern province of Saada fled their homes to safer areas on the border with Saudi Arabia as renewed clashes between the army...
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