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Today's lead stories:
Marine Corp Developing Chemical Weapons?
Supreme Court Deluged Regarding Juvenile Executions
India and Pakistan Discuss Jammu and Kashmir
Virginia’s Anti-Crime Law
FSRN Headlines
Sudan Gov't Participants in Darfur
Human Rights Watch says that they have documents showing the
Sudanese government is directly involved in atrocities in
the Darfur region. Kody Emmanuel reports from WBAI.
Israelis and Palestinians Clash in Lebanon
Fighting has erupted in Southern Lebanon as the Israeli military
and the Palestinian resistance group Hezballah exchange fire
at the Israeli-Lebanese border. Mohammed Shublaq reports from
Beruit.
US Army Biolabs Shut by FBI
One of the U.S. Army’s bio-warfare research labs have
been shut while the FBI searches for evidence related to the
2001 anthrax scare. Kellia Ramares has more.
Black Farmers Want Restitution
Black farmers who won a class action lawsuit against the U.S.
Department of Agriculture asked Congress to reopen the case
since most are still waiting for restitution. Tom Gomez has
more from D.C.
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Marine Corp Developing Chemical Weapons?
A government watchdog group says that at the request of
the Marine Corp it has removed documents obtained from the
Pentagon from its website. The documents may suggest the Marine
Corp is developing chemical weapons that were outlawed by
the Convention Against Chemical Weapons treaty. Mitch Jeserich
has more.
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Supreme Court Deluged Regarding Juvenile Executions
This fall, the Supreme Court will weigh whether it is constitutional
to sentence juvenile offenders to death. A flurry of friend
of the court briefs was filed with the high court yesterday
demonstrating that its decision will be closely watched. As
Renee Feltz reports from KPFT in Houston, the case, Roper
Vs. Simmons, could have special relevance in Texas, where
13 of the 22 juvenile executions have been carried out in
the modern capital punishment era.
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India and Pakistan Discuss Jammu and Kashmir
Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh is holding meetings
with his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on
the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) Foreign Ministers' meet in Islamabad.
The Indian Foreign minister is also likely to meet Pakistani
President General Pervez Mushharaff. Yesterday, Indian and
Pakistani diplomats met in Islamabad to continue bilateral
discussions between the two countries. The SAARC Charter at
the moment does not allow bilateral and political disputes
in its deliberations, but Pakistan has been asking for their
inclusion. The meetings hope to carry forward the peace process
between the two nuclear neighbors who are locked in a dispute
over Jammu and Kashmir. Meanwhile the Jammu and Kashmir High
Court Bar Association went on a token strike yesterday in
Indian administered Kashmir protesting the treatment meted
out to prisoners of the state. Shahnawaz Khan has more.
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Virginia’s Anti-Crime Law
Since July 1st, English and Spanish language newspapers
in the metro-DC-area have been reporting on the alarming sense
of fear experienced by illegal immigrants as a result of Virginia's
new anti-crime law. The law has granted police officers broad
powers to detain illegal immigrants in that state, and many
in Congress have been considering such measures as a nationwide
initiative to crack down on illegal aliens. Dolores M Bernal
has more on this story from Washington, DC.
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