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Today's lead stories:
Middle East Weekend Developments
NYC Police Misconduct
Gay Pride Weekend
Iraq Is Back Online
Pipeline Explosions: Sabotage Or Something Else?
Free Speech Radio News Headlines
Argentine official extradicted to Spain on charges of genocide
and terrorism
Nigerian general strike
Musharraf calls on Pakistani's to recognize Israel
UN calls for international force in Liberia
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Middle East Weekend Developments (3:59)
After intensive discussions between Israelis and palestinians
over the weekend with US National Security Advisor Condoleezza
Rice, an agreement was reached between the two parties involving
the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and Bethlhem. Meanwhile,
Palestinian Factions issued two separate communiqués
agreeing to a cease fire for three months. This as the Israeli
daily Ha'aretz reports that the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade shot
and killed a Bulgarian construction worker outside the occupied
West Bank city of Jenin. Awad Duaibes has more from Ramallah
on the weekend’s developments.
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NYC Police Misconduct (3:48)
One week after a federal judge paved the way for the reinstatement
of two firefighters and a police officer in the black-face
reenactment of the James Byrd dragging death, the African-American
community in New York is once again reeling from yet another
act of police indifference. A Brooklyn family charge that
a police raid on their home, led to the head of the household
Calvin Washington having a fatal heart attack on Saturday.
In New York Ian Forrest and Nayaba Arinde have the story.
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Gay Pride Weekend (2:50)
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions have marched, or
will march in the name of gay/lesbian/transgender pride this
month and next. Marches in North America swelled this year
in the wake of last week's Supreme Court decision to overturn
the Texas anti-sodomy law, and because Canada has legalized
gay marriage. This as some Republicans today stepped up their
campaign to make sure gay marriage is never legalized in the
US. Josh Chaffin has more.
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Iraq Is Back Online (3:56)
Amnesty International today released a damning report citing
concerns that the US is violating the rights of Iraqi prisoners
they have detained since the war began. Calling the US treatment,
“cruel, inhuman or degrading”, Amnesty addressed
their concerns to the interim administrator of Iraq, Paul
Bremer. Amnesty is also concerned about a number of allegations
of US and UK soldiers stealing money from houses which they
were searching. Meanwhile, as the chaotic process of restoring
Iraqi infrastructure continues at a sputtering pace, our correspondent
in Baghdad Ahmed Al-Rawi reports that the use of the internet
is surging across the country, something that Iraqis had very
limited access to during the reign of Saddam Hussein.
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Pipeline Explosions: Sabotage Or Something Else?
(4:34)
The world media reported last week that as Iraqi oil began
to re-enter the world market, a series of explosions occurred
on the Turkish end of the oil pipeline, the cause given across
the media spectrum was sabotage by Iraqi’s. Our correspondent
in Turkey, Ezgi Saritas traveled to the site of the pipeline
explosion, Ceyhan, where she discovered that Turkish pipeline
workers suspect more than sabotage.
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