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Today's lead stories:
Death Sentence Stayed with Hours to Spare
A New Citizen Movement to Censure Bush
Kirkuk to be Semi-Autonomous Kurdistan?
Boeing to close in the US?
India: the Next Womb Renting Hub?
Death Sentence Stayed with Hours to Spare
A federal appeals court blocked the execution of Kevin Cooper
yesterday, less than eight hours before he was to die by lethal
injection in San Quentin Prison for the murders of two adults
and two children in 1983. The 9-2 ruling by the Ninth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sends the case to
a federal judge in San Diego for testing of evidence that
Cooper claimed could demonstrate two things: his innocence
and police wrongdoing. Louis Vandenberg reports.
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A New Citizen Movement to Censure Bush
Move On.org says over 450,000 people have responded to its
campaign to encourage Congress to censure President Bush over
his claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Along
with the National Coalition Win Without War, MoveOn.org unveiled
their campaign to reprimand Bush for misleading the country
into war. From our Washington, DC bureau, Selina Musuta reports.
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Kirkuk to be Semi-Autonomous Kurdistan?
As Iraqis are still recovering from the detonation of two
bombs in the offices of the two main Kurdish parties that
killed more than a hundred people in the Kurdish city of Erbil
last Sunday, the Iraqi Governing Council has agreed with the
principle of a federalist structure for Iraq which would guarantee
large autonomy for Kurds in three provinces in the north of
Iraq. However the federalist aspirations of the Kurds are
closely watched by neighboring Syria, Turkey and Iran. These
countries have Kurdish minorities on their soils and wouldn't
accept a Kurdish declaration of an independent state. In the
oil rich city of Kirkuk, violence has been ongoing between
the various communities since the fall of the city in April
last year. Arabs and Turcomans in the city are strongly opposed
to the Kurds who claim Kirkuk should be included in a semi-autonomous
Kurdistan. FSRN correspondent Rapahel Krafft reports from
Kirkuk.
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Boeing to close in the US?
Tensions at the Boeing Co.'s Wichita plant are intensifying
with the vote on desertification of its second-largest union
just days away. Nearly 3,500 technical and professional workers
at the Wichita facility will decide Thursday whether to retain
the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace.
On Monday, union officials said the company revoked their
access to the Wichita plant for lunchtime meetings with workers.
Adding to worker’s woes is the possible sale of Boeing's
major manufacturing facility in Wichita. Following the lead
of the auto, manufacturing and textile industries, Boeing
has been gradually shifting parts production to outside contractors.
Boeing also has plants in Washington, Oregon, California,
Texas and Oklahoma which, as Martha Baskin reports, has workers
at those plants fearing they will be next.
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India: the Next Womb Renting Hub?
Last week a 43-year-old woman in India gave birth to her
own twin grandchildren after lending out her womb. The surrogate
mother’s actions have caused great controversy in India
where the booming fertility industry is meeting steep challenges
within the various religious denominations. Yet as fewer and
fewer babies are offered for adoption, surrogacy is gaining
popularity, despite these controversial legal and ethical
issues. In India there are no clear cut laws and many fear
that the country could become a hub for poor women renting
out their wombs. Binu Alex reports from Anand in Gujarat where
the surrogate mother delivered the twins.
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