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Today's lead stories:
Supreme Court Takes Up 10 Commandments Displays
Uruguay Inaugurates Tabare Vasquez
Doctors New Targets in Iraq
A Profile of a Kurdish Rebel Fighter in the PKK
After 60 Years, Bus Service Restored in Kashmir
Digna Ochoa Case Reopened In Mexico
FSRN Headlines
Vermont Towns Pass Anti-War Resolutions
56 Vermont towns debated the Iraq war at their annual town
meetings this week. Forty-nine approved resolutions questioning
the Vermont's National Guard's role in the war. Kevin Forrest
reports from Reading Vermont.
Guatemalans Protest CAFTA
Thousands of Guatemalans are protesting CAFTA this week and
calling for a referendum. Jill Replogle reports from Guatemala
City.
UN Peacekeepers Kill 50 in Congo
United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of
Congo have killed more than 50 militiamen in a fierce gun
battle in the northeast. Joshua Kyalimpa Reports.
US Pushes Anti-Choice Position at UN
A United Nations session reviewing a landmark declaration
adopted at the 1995 women's conference in Beijing is being
dominated by US efforts to add anti-abortion language to the
UN statement on women's rights. Haider Rizvi reports.
Turkmenistan Orders Closure of Hospitals and Libraries
The president of Turkmenistan reportedly ordered the closure
of all hospitals except those in the capital, Ashkhabad. The
order, announced by a government spokesman, is part of the
president's radical changes to healthcare. Thousands of medical
workers already have been fired under the plan. At the same
time, he ordered the closure of rural libraries, saying they
are pointless because village Turkmens do not read.
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Supreme Court Takes Up 10 Commandments Displays
(3:17)
Two cases involving the public display of the Ten Commandments
by the government went to the Supreme Court today. At stake
is the purpose intended by the government-sponsored display
of religious materials. Whether the goals are primarily religious
or of legitimate secular value will decide if the separation
of church and state has been violated. Jenny Johnson reports.
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Uruguay Inaugurates Tabare Vasquez (4:19)
A left-of-center coalition of socialists took power yesterday
in Uruguay when the country inaugurated its new president
Tabaré Vázquez. Mat goldin and Zula Warken report
from Montevideo.
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Doctors New Targets in Iraq (1:52)
A judge in the tribunal of former members of the Iraqi government
was assassinated Tuesday night in Baghdad along with his son.
And, at least twelve Iraqi soldiers died and at least thirty
were wounded today in a pair of attacks in the capital. Among
its other effects, the continued fighting has strained the
Iraqi health system and has now made doctors targets. From
the Yarmuk Hospital in southern Baghdad, David Enders has
this report.
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A Profile of a Kurdish Rebel Fighter in the PKK
(2:56)
The Turkish, Kurdish guerilla group, the PKK, will be forced
to abandon its armed activities if it wants to remain in Iraq
- that according to Iraq's likely Prime Minister Ibrahim al
Jaffari. Speaking at a press conference after meeting with
four US senators, Jafaari said his government would not allow
any groups that carried out activities targeting neighboring
countries to take refuge in Iraq. The PKK maintains a base
with about 1,500 fighters in the mountains of Northeastern
Iraq and sometimes uses the camp to carry out cross border
attacks in Turkey - where an estimated 20 million Kurds live
without the right to speak their language and where the word
"Kurdistan" remains illegal. From Northern Iraq,
FSRN's Aaron Glantz gives us this profile of one PKK fighter.
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After 60 Years, Bus Service Restored in Kashmir
(3:19)
After more than a year of intense negotiations, India and
Pakistan have finally announced dates for bus service to resume
between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad. Busses - which have not
operated in the region for nearly 60 years, are now set to
start service again on April 17 and will travel across the
actual line of control in Kashmir. The step is regarded as
one of the biggest confidence building measures between the
two countries, particularly for the disputed Kashmiri region.
The announcement has generated a lot of hopes in Kashmir with
people eager to visit relatives on the other side of the dividing
line. Shahnawaz Khan has more form Indian administered Kashmir.
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Digna Ochoa Case Reopened In Mexico (3:47)
In Mexico City, a federal court has re-opened the case of
human rights attorney, Digna Ochoa, citing the constitutional
right of a family to present evidence in an investigation.
Inquiries by Mexican authorities into Ochoa's case originally
determined her death on October 19, 2001 to be suicide, although
she was found dead in her office with two bullet wounds -
one in her leg, the other in her head. In Mexico, Shannon
Young has more.
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