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Honduran vote to face legitimacy test

CNN - 2 hours 41 minutes ago

Hondurans will answer two questions Sunday when the troubled Central American nation holds elections: Who will win the presidency, and will voters heed calls for a boycott?

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Skyline Elementary announces World Children's Award
Carmel Valley Leader - Thu Nov 26, 5:48 pm ET
Skyline student Juliana Reidel opens the ceremony. Children rarely have a say in decisions of international importance except when it comes to name the World's Children's Prize Decade Hero award winner. For this prize, voters are required to be younger than 18. On Friday, this year's winners were announced at hundreds of conferences held around the world, including one at Skyline Elementary ...
CNN anchor speaks to Edina students
Edina Sun-Current - Thu Nov 26, 7:10 am ET
Edina High School students got a visit last Friday from a national anchor for CNN Headline News. He wasn't there to report on anything. Rather, he spoke to students about the investigative reporting he has done on underage sex slavery and human trafficking in Indonesia.
Ankara At Odds With U.N. Over Kurds
OfficialWire - Thu Nov 26, 4:58 am ET
Ankara will not abide by international law when considering the return of Kurds from refugee camps in northern Iran, interior officials said.
Human rights groups: No in-game war crimes
CNET - Tue Nov 24, 4:09 pm ET
Report from two Swiss human rights organizations says too many video games let gamers engage in activities that would be illegal in real life. And they want it to stop.
U.S. must stand for freedom and democracy, says Condoleezza Rice at Beth El Synagogue speech in St. Louis Park
Minnetonka Sun-Sailor - Wed Nov 25, 2:32 am ET
A speech by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Beth El Synagogue brought out people with a wide variety of political views, both inside and outside the facility.
China sentences activist to 3 years
Los Angeles Times - Tue Nov 24, 3:24 am ET
Huang Qi was investigating the role shoddy school construction may have played in the deaths of thousands of children in the Sichuan quake last year. An activist who was investigating the role shoddy school construction played in the deaths of more than 5,000 children in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake was given a three-year prison sentence Monday on charges of possessing state secrets.
Critic Of China's Response To Quake Gets 3 Years
NPR - Mon Nov 23, 10:33 pm ET
Huang Qi, founder of a human rights Web site, had been charged with illegally possessing state secrets. The veteran dissident cast a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children during China's massive earthquake last year.
Briefs
The Conroe Courier - Tue Nov 24, 2:43 pm ET
Endorsement: Texas Right to Life is endorsing Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, in his bid for re-election to Texas Senate District 3. Texas Right to Life is the oldest, largest and only statewide pro-life organization in the state.
Philippines: Amnesty International Calls on Philippines Authorities to Investigate the Abduction and Killings of ...
Amnesty International - Tue Nov 24, 3:45 am ET
Amnesty International condemns the killings of at least 21 civilians, including journalists and members of a politician's family, in the southern Philippines province of Maguindanao. These murders are the first reported killings linked to the national elections scheduled for May 2010.
EU Curbs Spain On Internet Piracy Laws
OfficialWire - Tue Nov 24, 12:26 pm ET
The European Union warned Spain it may not cut off Internet access to suspected content pirates without EU-determined due process of law.
Madoff Trustee Seeks $22 Million for 5 Months’ Work (Update3)
Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 4:57 pm ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Irving Picard , the liquidator for Bernard Madoff’s investment advisory business, asked a judge to approve $22.1 million in fees for him and his team with the law firm Baker & Hostetler LLP , for five months of work on the case.
Stem cell opponents bring debate back to Legislature
Scottsbluff Star-Herald - Tue Nov 24, 10:41 am ET
LINCOLN — Some opponents of human embryonic stem cell research, foiled in their attempts to change University of Nebraska policy on such research, are looking again to the Nebraska Legislature.
Your letters: November 24, 2009
Ventura County Star - Mon Nov 23, 10:06 pm ET
Right to healthcareWe have the opportunity to change our lives and make them better by passing something that every American should support: the right to healthcare.Every American has the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. How can we pursue our dreams when we are worrying about if we have healthcare? How can we make our dreams come true when we are scared that our children may not ...
China activist who spoke out on quake gets 3 years
Channel 8 San Diego - Mon Nov 23, 10:04 pm ET
A veteran dissident was sentenced to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of childrenduring China's massive earthquake last year - an apparent government...
Iran’s Death Penalty Is Seen as a Political Tactic
International Herald Tribune - Sun Nov 22, 8:08 pm ET
A flurry of executions has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to quell pockets of unrest around the nation.