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UN rights body: Cuba, Belarus dont need special monitors
July 13, 2007UNITED NATIONS — The UN Human Rights Council, meeting in Geneva mid-June, voted unanimously that neither Cuba nor Belarus need “human rights rapporteurs,” special UN investigators who look into alleged human rights abuses. The Bush administration...
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BBC interviews Cuban 5 prisoner
July 13, 2007News AnalysisOn July 2, BBC News broadcast a television interview conducted by reporter Claire Bolderson with Gerardo Hernandez, one of five Cuban men incarcerated in U.S jails since 1998 for defending Cuba against terrorism. Publicity like...
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July 14: World Notes
July 13, 2007Syria: Iraqi immigration causes disruption Iraq refugees totaling 1.5 million now make up 8 percent of Syria’s population, according to the UN’s IRIN news agency. Some 2,000 arrive every day, and pressures are close to the...
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Heat wave in Europe breaks 100-year record
July 13, 2007ATHENS, Greece — A severe nine-day heat wave in Europe has broken 100-year temperature records. Throughout southern Europe and the Balkans, unusually high temperatures caused many deaths, including 29 in Romania where temperatures reached 113 degrees...
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July 14: National Clips
July 13, 2007COLUMBIA, S.C.: Antiwar veterans tour bases, get arrested Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War had barbecues, information for soldiers regarding their rights and a listening ear for soldiers’ stories on their minds when they kicked...
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