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Today's lead stories:
Latest from Baghdad
White House Takes Hard Line on Syria
Protests Continue Worldwide
Jamaican Economy Suffers from War
One Year Since Venezuela Coup
Cuba Executes Hijackers
Latest from Baghdad
Reporters Without Borders has voiced its concern that a
CNN crew's security escort returned fire with an automatic
weapon when the crew, traveling in several vehicles, came
under fire today at the entrance to the northern Iraqi town
of Tikrit. The use of firearms is a practice contrary to all
the rules of the profession, the organization said. Meanwhile,
lawlessness continues to rein in Baghdad as Independent Journalist
Urban Hamid tells Deepa Fernandes.
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White House Takes Hard Line on Syria
As military operations are slowing in Iraq, attention is
being focused on neighboring Syria. Washington accuses Bashar
Al Assad's regime of giving safe heaven to top Iraqi officials,
developing weapons of Mass destruction, and harboring what
the US administration calls terrorist organizations like Hezbollah
in Lebanon. Raphael Krafft files this report from Cairo.
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Protests Continue Worldwide
Hundreds of thousands marched in some sixty countries this
weekend in protest of the US occupation of Iraq...and against
the US threat to invade neighboring Arab nations. Half a million
marched in Rome, according to organizers, with smaller actions
across Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Thousands
braved the rain to march in San Francisco and LA. The anti-war
march in DC coincided with the Spring meeting of the International
Monetary Fund and World Bank, attracting tens of thousands.
Meredith DeFrancesco with Josh Chaffin report from the District
of Columbia.
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Jamaican Economy Suffers from War
Even though the war in Iraq is miles away from Caribbean
shores, the region has begun to feel the negative affects
of the fighting in the Middle East. Jamaica's national airline,
Air Jamaica announced it has reduced a number of its flights
to America and its employees have taken a pay cut in order
to save 15 million dollars. Jamaican hoteliers say many of
their guests have cancelled their vacations to the island
because of the war. In addition to that Jamaicans are already
paying more at the pumps for petrol. But many political analysts
here believe that Jamaica could continue to suffer even after
the war because of its anti-war position. Patrick Scudder
has more in this report.
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One Year Since Venezuela Coup
One year ago today, on April 14, 2002, the Venezuelan people,
together with support from the military, defeated a coup attempt
against Venezuela's President Chavez. In honor of this anniversary,
an international solidarity conference took place this past
weekend in Caracas. The conference attracted progressives
and left intellectuals from all around the world to learn
about the attempted coup and the transformation occurring
in Venezuela today. Greg Wilpert reports on the anniversary
and the conference from Caracas, Venezuela.
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Cuba Executes Hijackers
As Amnesty International released a report Friday condemning
the death penalty and highlighting that China, Iran and the
USA accounted for 81 per cent of all known executions in 2002,
the Cuban government executed three of the 10 ferry boat hijackers
after a rapid trial. This after issuing a strongly worded
statement Friday morning condemning the release on bail by
U.S. authorities of the last hijackers of an aircraft from
the Isle of Youth to the Florida keys, saying that this tempted
others to take similar action to reach the U.S. Joseph Mutti
reports from Havana.
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