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Today's lead stories:
CIA Spy Leaked by White House?
Battle Ahead for Nigerian Women
3 Year Anniversary of Palestinian Intifada
More Poverty in 2003 in the US
Cuba's Foreign Minister in Harlem
FSRN Headlines by Nell Abram
Corporate Crimes Trials: TYCO trial begins. -- Ama Buadi
White House OMB says Environmental regulations save money.
-- Recardo Gibson
Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors meeting convenes -- Binu
Alex
Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
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CIA Spy Leaked by White House?
The CIA has requested that the Department of Justice investigate
allegations that White House Officials leaked the identity
of a CIA undercover agent to six journalists. Exposing a CIA
operative is punishable by up to ten years in jail. Conservative
syndicated columnist Robert Novak is under scrutiny for his
column that exposed the identity of the CIA operative as Valerie
Plame, the wife of former acting U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Joseph
Wilson, who is an open critic of the invasion of Iraq. Though
Wilson now has no comment concerning the leak, he has said
the White House is attempting to discredit him because of
his 2002 report suggesting there was no proof that Saddam
Hussein tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger. Mitch
Jeserich has more from Washington DC.
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Battle Ahead for Nigerian Women
Late last week a Nigerian woman, women across Africa and
women world-wide celebrated what is being hailed as one of
the biggest victories for the rights of women in many years.
Amina Lawal, whose case became known worldwide after she was
sentenced to death by stoning in her home of Nigeria for the
crime of adultery, was last week vindicated as her death sentence
was quashed by an appeals court. Yet, in the aftermath of
the verdict, as our correspondent Sam Olukoya reports from
Nigeria, for women's rights groups, this victory only highlights
that there is a big battle ahead.
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3 Year Anniversary of Palestinian Intifada
As Israel marked the Jewish high holiday of Rosh Hashana
this weekend, Ha'aretz reported on Friday that a seven-month-old
girl and a man were killed on Rosh Hashanah eve, in an attack
on the Negohot settlement, southwest of Hebron. Throughout
the Rosh Hashana weekend, the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip
were locked down by the Israeli military. This as thousands
of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip commemorated
the third anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada, or "uprising"
over the past few days. The intifada was sparked when the
current Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa
mosque compound in the old city of Jerusalem with an escort
of hundreds of armed police on September 28 2000. However,
as Palestinians point out, the Intifada was also fueled by
the failure of the final status negotiations at Camp David,
when then Israeli Prime minister Ehud Barak made a much lauded
"generous offer" that would have given Palestinians
80% of the Occupied West Bank as a Palestinian state yet with
no common border to Gaza and protectorate status in relation
to Israel. Mohammed Ghalyini has more from Gaza.
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More Poverty in 2003 in the US
The Census Bureau released its poverty report last Friday.
The bureau concluded for the second year in a row, by the
US government’s own statistics, the number of people
in poverty increased dramatically across the country. The
report found 34.6 million people were living below the official
poverty threshold, with 7.2 million families were in poverty,
that children living in poverty numbered 12.1 million, and
that the poverty rate for Blacks was 24 per cent. These figures
represent an increase from 2001. Sarah Olson filed this report
from Oakland, California:
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Cuba's Foreign Minister in Harlem
Brazil's President Lula da Silva visited Havana this weekend
where far reaching trade agreements were signed covering health,
education and fishing. Agreements were also signed between
Brazilian private companies and Cuban state-run firms to jointly
build resort hotels in Cuba. Lula's visit to Cuba is seen
as an important move as the Bush Administration moves to further
isolate the tiny nation, a topic which received plenty of
attention this weekend in NYC when Cuba’s Foreign Minister,
Felipe Perez Roque, addressed a Harlem audience. Speaking
in a wide ranging address at Harlem’s Church of the
Intercession, Perez Roque spoke of the state of US-Cuba relations,
and called for, among other things, the right of the Iraqi
people to govern themselves. Ian Forrest was there and files
this report.
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