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Today's lead stories:
UN on Liberia
A Few Palestinian Detainees to be Released
Gay Bishop in New Hampshire
CAFTA Meetings in New Orleans
Cuban Solidarity Victory
FSRN Headlines Produced by Nell Abrahm
TSA targets more travellers -- Kellia Ramares
Verizon labor dispute -- John Hamilton
Pakistani refugees in Canada -- Stefan Christoff
HIV Summit in South Africa -- Na'eem Jennah
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UN on Liberia
The first seven hundred of some fifteen hundred Nigerian
troops arrived in Liberia today to try to end the civil war
raging in that country. They'll be joined by 2,000 more soldiers
from Liberia's West African neighboring states, and later
this year by a United Nations peacekeeping force. Late Friday
the UN Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the
dispatch of both forces. The vote was 12 to 0. France, Germany
and Mexico abstained over a provision in the resolution exempting
peacekeepers in Liberia from the jurisdiction of the international
criminal court. Susan Wood reports from the UN.
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A Few Palestinian Detainees to be Released
Yesterday a member of the Palestinian resistance group,
the Al-Aqsa martyrs Brigade, was ambushed while planting a
bomb on a road used by the Israeli army near Tulkarem, this
as members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ambushed a car
carrying Israeli settlers near the Gilo settlement south of
Jerusalem injuring 4 people. These attacks come amidst Israeli
requests that the Palestinian authority move 17 members of
the Al-Aqsa Brigade from President Yasser Arafat’s compound
to a prison in Jericho. Meanwhile an Israeli cabinet committee
decided to reduce the number of Palestinian political prisoners
to be freed to 342 – the estimates for the numbers kept
in Israeli jails range from 6000-8000. Correspondent Mohammed
Ghalayini attended the weekly detainee solidarity vigil at
Red Cross office in Gaza and brings us this report.
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Gay Bishop in New Hampshire
The Episcopal Church convened in Minneapolis over the weekend,
attracting protestors and counter protesters in response to
the possible election of an openly gay man to the position
of bishop in New Hampshire. The vote on the confirmation was
today delayed over allegations of pornography and inappropriate
conduct a church spokesman says. Last week, both President
Bush and the Pope came out against gay marriages. Their statements
come at a time when churches are becoming more vocal about
either their support or disapproval of recognizing same-sex
unions, and their rights within religion and government. And
the weekend’s Episcopal meetings in Minnesota come as
the state celebrates the tenth anniversary of recognition
for civil rights for gay, lesbian and transgender people.
From Minneapolis, Dan Greenwood reports.
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CAFTA Meetings in New Orleans
In the wake of last week's Senate approval of two new trade
agreements with Chile and Singapore, delegates from El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua wrapped up
the latest round of negotiations of the Central American Free
Trade Agreement this weekend in New Orleans. Shannon Young
files this report.
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Cuban Solidarity Victory
Eighty members of the 34th contingent of the Venceremos
Brigade, the oldest Cuba solidarity organization in the United
States, successfully challenged the US government’s
travel ban on Cuba this morning. Brigadistas returning from
a two-week trip to Cuba walked across the International Peace
Bridge from Ft. Erie, Canada into Buffalo, New York, where
US Customs officials presented no challenge to their illegal
entry. This, as the US Congress debates two bills aimed at
lifting travel restrictions to Cuba. The Bush Administration
continues to accuse Cuba of violating civil rights, but as
Gail Walker reports from Pacifica station WBAI in New York,
these brigadistas experienced a different Cuba.
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