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Today's lead stories:
Residents Say Massacre in Fallujah
Ashcroft Resigns, Bush Nominates Equally Troubling Replacement
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Felony Voting Cases
Texas House Race Comes Down to 31 Votes
Religious Attacks on the Rise in Bangkok
Latino Evangelicals Swing to (and Pray for) Bush
FSRN Headlines
In Iraq, the US military reports it has seized control of
70% of the city of Fallujah. Officers say the quick advance
was possible because most resistance fighters left the city
before the assault began. This despite reports that the US
and Iraqi military have cordoned off the city, preventing
military age males from leaving. Aid workers say the assault
has created a humanitarian disaster, displacing tens of thousands
and cutting them off from food, water, and medical aid. in
an attempt to open a second front, insurgents have escalated
attacks across central and northern Iraq, with at least 14
Americans killed outside Fallujah since the assault began
on Monday. And this morning, armed men kidnapped three relatives
of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad allawi. A militant group that
claimed credit for the kidnapping has threatened to behead
them unless U.S. forces pull out of Fallujah. We'll have more
on the situation in fallujah later in this newscast.
Palestinian president Yasser Arafat's condition is rapidly
worsening. Palestinian leaders have agreed that, if and when
he dies, his funeral will be in Egypt but he will buried in
his compound in Ramallah.
The Sudanese government and two rebel groups holding peace
talks in Nigeria have signed an agreement aimed at ending
the crisis in the country's Darfur region. Sam Olukoya reports
from Lagos.
In Italy, two more members of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's
governing right wing coalition have been arrested for ties
to organized crime. But as Diletta Varlese reports from Bresica,
the investigation is being stonewalled by high-ranking officials.
In response to controversy over its decision to release information
on Arab-Americans to the Department of Homeland Security,
The Census Bureau met with representatives of minority communities
to discuss its privacy policy today. Jenny Johnson reports
from the nation's capital.
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Residents Say Massacre in Fallujah
The US Marine Corp continued to pound the Iraqi city of
Fallujah today with scores of 500 pound bombs. US troops have
occupied the city’s main hospital, bombed one of its
clinics and half of its mosques, and turned its railroad station
into a military base. The exact number of civilian casualties
is unknown, but those on the ground are calling it a massacre.
FSRN’s Aaron Glantz has more.
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Ashcroft Resigns, Bush Nominates Equally Troubling
Replacement
Today President Bush nominated White House Counsel Alberto
Gonzalez as the new Attorney General, which could make him
the first Latino to head the country’s justice system.
His nomination, however, is alarming to human rights groups
who cite Gonzalez as the author of the White House memo arguing
that foreign detainees were not covered under the Geneva Conventions.
This comes just one day after Attorney General John Ashcroft
and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans announced their resignations.
Mitch Jeserich reports from Washington DC.
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Felony Voting Cases
The Supreme Court refused to hear two cases this week, one
from New York and one from Washington State, both challenging
felony voting laws through the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme
Court’s action’s allows the decision of two lower
courts, which ruled to deny felons voting rights, to stand.
FSRN’s Leigh Ann Caldwell has more from New York.
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Texas House Race Comes Down to 31 Votes
The outcome of a close Texas House race that threatens to
unseat one of the state's most powerful lawmakers is still
in question. Defeated by 31 votes, Republican Talmadge Heflin
refuses to concede and threatens a recount. From KPFT in Houston,
Erika McDonald has more
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Religious Attacks on the Rise in Bangkok
A second Buddhist man has been beheaded in Thailand’s
deep south, just two weeks after scores of Muslims died of
suffocation while in police custody. Doualy Xaykaothao has
more from Bangkok.
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Latino Evangelicals Swing to (and Pray for) Bush
President Bush enjoyed an increase of the Latino vote in
last week's election. Dolores M. Bernal of the DC Radio Coop
brings us this report on the impact that growing Latino Evangelical
movement is having.
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