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Today's lead stories:
Bush Addresses Nation as his Popularity Hits All-Time Low
Iraqi’s React to Bush’s Speech
Part 1: Refugee Rights: Global Survey Results
Part 2: Refugee Rights: Children Detained in Australia
Argentina: Economic Recovery for Whom?
FSRN Headlines
The Israeli military’s stronghold on the refugee camp
of Rafah has eased as the last of the tanks pulled out today
and the roads were re-opened. People are re-uniting with their
families after the six-day incursion and food and water are
able to move in. 16 Palestinians were buried yesterday. As
many as 50 were killed in the weeklong operation. Yet Edwan
Edwan, a resident of Rafah says the homeless problem has just
begun. SOUND. The United Nations relief agency says close
to 6-hundred people have been left homeless. The Israeli military
claims they invaded the refugee camp and raised 56 houses
looking for tunnels they believe are used to transport weapons
from Egypt to Gaza. Edwan refutes these claims and wants to
ask the Israeli military, SOUND
American Friends opened a special memorial in Washington,
D.C. to the soldiers and civilians who have died in Iraq.
Sogomon Tarontsi reports.
Workers worldwide are regularly denied basic rights, including
the right to organize, according to a review by the International
Labor Organization. With the Workers’ Independent News
Service, Sarah Turner reports.
Georgia’s governor has issued a pre-emptive state of
emergency in 6 coastal counties until June 20th hoping to
curb protests at the upcoming G8 meeting on a seaside island
90-miles south of Savannah. Separately, the city of Brunswick,
Georgia created a new law that gives police the right stop
and break up any protests without providing a reason if a
state of emergency exists. Brunswick is the nearest mainland
town to the G8 conference location. Military and security
teams will be authorized to shoot to kill to protect world
leaders from the most developed nations and their entourages
at the summit. However, Georgia conservation officials will
also train the details to stay away from endangered species
on and around the island. Organizers from the peace and justice
movement, who are planning protests, are criticizing the curbing
of demonstrations as an “overreaction.”
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Bush Addresses Nation as his Popularity Hits All-Time
Low
In what was slated as a major policy speech on Iraq, last
night President Bush said nothing new in his 30 minute address
at the Army War College in Pennsylvania. Bush laid out a 5
step process, that includes maintaining the 138 thousand troops
in Iraq as long as necessary. The final step will be national
elections in 2005. Still, there was no mention of any future
withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Meanwhile an ABC Washington
Post poll shows that only 4 in 10 people surveyed approve
of Bush's handling of the occupation. Mitch Jeserich brings
us reaction to last night's address.
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Iraqi’s React to Bush’s Speech
Iraqis reacted with resignation toward President Bush’s
address on Monday, saying they felt it was aimed at the American
public rather than at them. Most Iraqis now feel the violence
in the country will not end until the U-S military has left
— but they are still divided on how soon that should
be. David Enders has more from Baghdad.
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Part 1: Refugee Rights: Global Survey Results
A global survey released today shows that more than seven
million refugees worldwide have been kept in camps for more
than a decade and deprived of their basic human rights. We
begin our coverage with Tena Rubio in Washington, DC
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Part 2: Refugee Rights: Children Detained in Australia
Meanwhile, more than 2,000 children have been held in Australian
detention centers since 1992 when the Australian government
made it mandatory to detain everyone who arrives in Australia
without a visa. But a recently released inquiry into the treatment
of children in detention has found the government is guilty
of multiple breaches of the United Nations' Convention on
the Rights of the Child. Christine Baker reports from Sydney.
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Argentina: Economic Recovery for Whom?
Two years ago, Argentina plunged into what is widely considered
the worst economic depression of its history. Now, the economy
is rebounding with record growth rates. But for many Argentines,
the turnaround has been only faintly perceptible, if at all.
Reed Lindsay reports from Cordoba, Argentina.
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