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Today's lead stories:
New Report Calls Investigation of Donald Rumsfeld and George
Tenet
Mexico City Mayor Returns to his Post amid a Wave of Popular
Support
Skepticism Growing Over New UN Arms Embargo
Concern over Possible Changes to National Environmental Policy
Prison Populations on the Rise Even as Crime Declines
Armenians Gather to Commemorate First Genocide of the 20th
Century
FSRN Headlines
Venezuela’s president says the U.S. military can go
home after what he calls attempts to gain intelligence for
an eventual invasion. Greg Wilpert reports from Caracas.
Indian officials say they may begin sending weapons to Nepal
again after a face-to-face meeting with the King of the Himalayan
nation. With Michael Van De Veer in Katmandu, Binu Alex has
more from Ahmdebad.
Lebanon is now free of all Syrian troops. Mohammed Shublaq
has more from Beirut about the mixed reactions.
The Palestinian president is shaking up security in the region
to prepare for elections and the eventual control over the
territories. Manar Jibreen reports from the Independent Middle
East Media Center.
Girls make up as much as 40-percent of the hundreds of thousands
of children involved in armed conflicts around the world.
Daniel Opper has more.
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New Report Calls Investigation of Donald Rumsfeld
and George Tenet (2:29)
A new report by a leading human rights group calls for the
appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA Director George Tenet
for abusive interrogative techniques on detainees in Guantanamo
Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. The call comes as an Army Inspector
General's unreleased report, parts of which have been leaked
to the press, clears all top military officials from involvement
in abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Mitch Jeserich reports
from Washington.
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Mexico City Mayor Returns to his Post amid a Wave
of Popular Support (2:28)
México City mayor Andrés Manuel López
Obrador returned to his office this morning riding a wave
of popularity reinforced by a number of marches and gatherings
throughout the country this weekend. Although the politician's
popularity is highest in the capital city, López Obrador
has found support on other parts of the country where voters
are frustrated with what they view as corrupt, politics-as-usual.
Shannon Young has the story from Oaxaca City.
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Skepticism Growing Over New UN Arms Embargo
(3:35)
There is skepticism about whether a new U.N. Arms embargo
covering all rebel groups in Democratic Republic of Congo
will deliver peace to the war ravaged country. Joshua Kyalimpa
reports
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Concern over Possible Changes to National Environmental
Policy (3:18)
Conservationists are concerned that a House Task Force looking
at the National Environmental Policy Act may be the beginning
of attempts to gut the 35-year-old law, which many see as
the backbone of US environmental law. The task force, part
of the House Natural Resources Committee, is chaired by newly
elected Republican Congress member Cathy McMorris, who held
a field hearing in her home district Saturday. Leigh Robartes
reports from Spokane, Washington.
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Prison Populations on the Rise Even as Crime Declines
(2:36)
According to a new report by the US Department of Justice,
prison populations across the country continue to swell. While
some lawmakers clamor for more prisons to alleviate the over-crowding,
a growing movement of community groups is calling for a rethinking
of the country's prison policy. Darby Hickey has more from
DC.
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Armenians Gather to Commemorate First Genocide of
the 20th Century (4:46)
This month marks the 90th anniversary of the start of the
Armenian genocide, the first coordinated extermination of
an entire people in the 20th Century. During the early days
of World War I, the Ottoman Turks exterminated more than a
million Armenians through direct killing, starvation, torture,
and forced death marches to concentration camps in present
day Syria and Northern Iraq. Another million fled into permanent
exile. Today, almost a century later, the Turkish government
continues to deny this genocide. And so, as they have every
year for generations, Armenians around the world took to the
streets demanding Turkey own up to its crimes. FSRN's Aaron
Glantz files this story from Los Angeles, America's largest
Armenian community, where tens of thousands took to the streets
this weekend to commemorate the genocide.
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