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Legal challenges begin against ND abortion laws
Abortion rights activists today filed the first of what they expect will be several legal challenges to laws recently approved in North Dakota that would make that state the most restrictive in the country for women to terminate their pregnancies. The...Tags: Abortion, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Judges, U.S. Supreme Court
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Bidder pays $600k for coffee with Apple CEO
An anonymous bidder will pay $610,000 for an hour of chat. Why so much? It's a chance to chat with Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook. The online auction site Charity Buzz started accepting bids on the experience about three weeks ago. The winning...
Tags: Politics, Auction Service
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Duckworth makes first trip to war zone since copter shot down
Tribune reporterWASHINGTON — Making her first trip to a war zone since she was gravely injured in 2004, Rep. Tammy Duckworth visited Afghanistan last weekend with five other congresswomen. Duckworth, who lost her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down...Tags: U.S. Congress, Trips and Vacations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kristi Noem, Politics
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Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade [Blowback]
In a May 7 Op-Ed article, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch exhort consumers to support the workers who make our clothes rather than the global apparel industry that exploits them with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Yet exactly how we...
Tags: Immigration, Genetic Engineering, Business, Politics, George Washington
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International court to explore investigating Israeli flotilla raid
JERUSALEM -- The International Criminal Court will hold a preliminary inquiry to decide whether a full investigation into Israel's deadly 2010 raid on a Turkish ship will be opened, according to a court statement Tuesday. In May 2010, Israeli naval...
Tags: Turkey, Human Rights Watch, Justice System, International Court or Tribunal, United Nations
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U.S.-Russia 'reset' thwarted by Syrian war, spy scandal
Just when it seemed that Russia was poised to collaborate with Western powers on a new peace mission for Syria, a spy scandal has erupted to revive Cold War-era mistrust and division. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State...Tags: U.S. Embassy, Sports, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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U.S. diplomat accused of recruiting for CIA in Russia
MOSCOW — Russian authorities detained an American diplomat accused of attempting to recruit a Russian intelligence officer into the CIA, the Federal Security Service said Tuesday. Ryan Christopher Fogle, the third secretary of the American Embassy...Tags: U.S. Embassy, Sports, Human Rights Watch, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism
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Boat capsizes off Myanmar; dozens missing and feared dead
NEW DELHI – A boat carrying approximately 100 Rohingya Muslims capsized late Monday off the coast of Myanmar with many of its occupants feared dead, UN officials said, as the region braced for a cyclone expected to slam low-lying areas inhabited...
Tags: Buddhism, Human Rights Watch, Kaman Corporation, Tropical Storms, Burma
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Human Rights Watch alleges rebel atrocities in Syria
BEIRUT -- Gruesome video footage purportedly showing a Syrian rebel commander mutilating the corpse of a dead soldier while shouting sectarian insults has drawn condemnation from Human Rights Watch and focused renewed attention on battlefield atrocities...Tags: Human Rights Watch, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Court or Tribunal, Justice and Rights
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Bidding for coffee with Apple's Tim Cook surpasses $605,000
Tim Cook is an expensive date. Last month, the Apple chief executive teamed up with CharityBuzz.com to auction off the right to a cup of coffee with him to raise money for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The value of the...
Tags: Verizon Communications, Google Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Easter
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The day the inspectors came
— We had been anticipating the inspection for a while. Such is the atmosphere in today's Russia that many nongovernmental organizations can expect the knock at the door at some point. When they finally came to us, the visit was tinged with farce...
Tags: Russia, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights Watch, Justice and Rights, Politics
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EE.UU. lanza por primera vez con éxito un "drone" desde un portaaviones
La Fuerza Naval estadounidense lanzó hoy por primera vez con éxito desde un portaaviones un avión no tripulado o "drone", que regresó luego a tierra sin problemas, indicó el ejército estadounidense. La prueba se llevó a cabo sobre el portaaviones...Tags: Human Rights Watch, George H.W. Bush, Politics
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