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Honduras' deposed leftist president, Manuel Zelaya, said on Thursday that democracy in the country was "dead" after lawmakers who backed his ouster in a June coup voted to block his return to power.
Adoptingresolution 1897 (2009) unanimously and acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Council also invited all States and regional organizations engaged in this fight to conclude special agreements or arrangements with countries willing to take custody of pirates.
Elections Won’t Resolve Political Crisis; Democracy Must Be Restored Before Free Elections Can Be Held (PRWeb Dec 1, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Honduran_Elections/Human_Rights/prweb3277054.htm
The International Court of Justice is likely to rule in Serbia's favor that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence is illegal, a Serbian official says.
Montevideo - Jose Mujica, a former leftist guerrilla who spent 15 years in prison, has won a presidential run-off in Uruguay, results showed Monday. With nearly all votes counted, results showed Mujica won 53.2 per cent of the vote against 42.7 per c...
Historically, “justice” is a relatively arbitrary term that is thrown around nonchalantly by governments, and one that has been used to justify all manners of atrocities, including the death penalty.
It seems funny to me that those against the death penalty will ardently fight for the human rights of a murderer while ignoring the rights of a victim.
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.
Re Alan Burrell letter, "Enough: Stop U.S. aid to Israel ," Nov. 11:
The government's chief legal advisor informed then British prime minister Tony Blair in 2002 that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The government's chief legal advisor informed then prime minister Tony Blair in 2002 that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Monday • Yoga When: noon Where: Women's Resource Center • Kent Political Union's Fall 2009 Debate When: 7 p.m. Where: Kiva • Amnesty International meeting When: 8:45 p.m. Where: Student Center Room 319 • College Republicans meeting When: 9 p.
With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the bill to advance is fracturing already. Yet majority Democrats will need 60 votes again to finish.
The state dinner comes at an ideal time when both countries have common interests, to spread democracy, economic growth, free markets and fight terrorism.
A new pro-life organization could emerge out of a disagreement between a group of Tennessee House Republicans and Tennessee Right To Life (TRL), House Majority Leader Jason Mumpower says.
by Nina Lakhani Bhopal is a calamity without end. On 3 December 1984, clouds of poison leaking from a Union Carbide pesticides plant brought death to thousands in this central Indian city. Today, fully a quarter of a century later, victims of this, the world's worst industrial disaster, are still being born. Here, in neighborhoods where people depend on water contaminated by chemicals leaking ...
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