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Today's lead stories:
Baghdad: Tent City Houses Fallujah Refugees
Women’s March Massive Turnout: One Million take to DC
Streets
IMF Protests in DC
Greek Cypriots Reject UN Plan for Federated State
Australia won’t Budge on Timor Oil
Protests over Refugee Policies in Canada
FSRN Headlines
Workers throughout Italy have been making symbolic 1 and
2 hour solidarity strikes to support striking Fiat workers.
But as word spread of police attacks on the Fiat strikers
today, national support gained momentum. Diletta Varlese reports
from Brescia.
Chinese officials have ruled out direct elections for Hong
Kong. Severine Bardon reports from Beijing.
The governor of Massachusetts ordered all Justices of the
Peace to marry same gendered couples or they must resign when
the state begins issuing licenses on May 17th. In the same
statement Governor Romeny also said same gendered couples
who live outside Massachusetts will be denied a marriage license.
Chuck Rosina reports from Boston.
18 people were killed and 107 were injured as more than one
hundred buildings including the United Nation’s office
and refugee camps were burned during clashes in Indonesia
today. Mitch Perry files for Meggy Margiyono in Indonesia.
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Baghdad: Tent City Houses Fallujah Refugees
- (4:01)
A spokesman for an Iraqi delegation from the violence-gripped
city of Fallujah today accused US troops of using internationally
banned cluster bombs against the city and said they had asked
the United Nations to mediate the conflict. Mohammed Tareq,
a spokesman for the US-appointed governing council of Fallujah
and a member of the four-person delegation, said US military
snipers were also responsible for the deaths of many children,
women and elderly people. He told reporters at least 800 civilians
had been killed by American soldiers and at least 1,800 had
been wounded. Tareq said the delegation had also sent a letter
to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking the UN to mediate
"to guarantee the commitment of the United States to
its promises." Meantime, the Iraqi Red Crescent has opened
the first tent city refugee camp for civilians fleeing Fallujah.
From West Baghdad, Aaron Glantz has the story.
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Women’s March Massive Turnout: One Million
take to DC Streets - (3:23)
While over one million people took to the streets of the
Mall in Washington DC to protest the Bush Administration’s
attack on women’s rights and to call for immediate action,
as Gladys Brooks reports.
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IMF Protests in DC - (1:57)
Continuing the weekend of protest in the nation’s
capitol, over 5,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington DC
on Saturday to protest policies of the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank. Tom Gomez from the DC radio Co-op
joined them and files this report.
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Greek Cypriots Reject UN Plan for Federated State
- (4:13)
Voters in Cyprus went to the polls on Saturday in a bid
to end the island's 30-year division before its entry into
the European Union on May 1st. As predicted, Greek Cypriot
voters overwhelmingly rejected a settlement plan drawn up
by the United Nations, while a majority of Turkish Cypriots
voted for it. The result of the vote means that the island
will remain divided, with EU laws and benefits applying only
to the Greek Cypriot south. The collapse of the plan spells
a personal defeat for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who
has labored for years to bring Christians and Muslims together
in a federated state. But some analysts question whether the
plan really represents the kind of compromise needed to overcome
decades of bitterness and mistrust between the two communities.
From the UN, Susan Wood reports.
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Australia won’t Budge on Timor Oil
- (3:50)
Five years after the independence referendum that brought
about the end of Indonesian rule, there are growing concerns
that East Timor is facing a new type of occupation. The island
nation and its big anglo neighbor, Australia, are currently
in dispute over who has the right to mine oil in the Timor
Ocean. Negotiations between the two countries ended last week
with neither country moving ground, and while the Timorese
government has pledged to keep diplomatic channels open, there
is growing resentment amongst ordinary citizens, as Erica
Vowles reports.
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Protests over Refugee Policies in Canada
- (2:49)
This past weekend, refugees from Algeria, Palestine and
Pakistan who are facing mass deportation from Canada, marched
through the streets of downtown Montreal protesting the policies
of the Canadian government. Stefan Christoff reports from
Montreal.
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