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Today's lead stories:
Senate Finance Committee Approves Free Trade Agreement
Iraqis Respond to Bush's Address
Ugandans Protest over New Presidential Terms
Immigration Advocates Lobby to Make Immigration Reform a Reality
India/Pakistan Peace Process Offers Little Hope for Kashmir's
Disappeared
India's Rape Laws Challenged
FSRN Headlines
A day of protest against the Israeli withdraw of Gaza resulted
in arrests and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli's.
Manar Jibreen has more from Bethlehem.
An international delegation has arrived in Aceh to assess
the possibility of establishing international peace monitoring.
From Jakarta, Meggy Margiyono has more.
The United States military has admitted to deploying troops
to the Gulf of Guinea. The region is rich with oil. Sam Olukoya
reports from Lagos.
The United Nations special Rapportuer on torture says he
will open an investigation into the United States’ detention
policy. Special Rapportuer Manfred Nowak says that he has
received serious allegations that the United States is secretly
detaining terrorist suspects on a Navy ship in the India Ocean.
Late last night, Canadian lawmakers voted to amend the legal
definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. From CKLN
in Toronto, Kristin Schwartz has more.
A study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor showing
institutional labor violations in some Central American countries
was released today to the dismay of the Bush Administration.
The Associated Press reported that the Bush Administration
was trying to hide the results since the spring of 2004. The
study by the International Labor Rights Fund found widespread
child labor, pervasive efforts to restrict unions, and exceedingly
poor working conditions in five countries included in CAFTA.
This directly contradicts the administrations view that these
countries have made enough progress to warrant a free-trade
agreement with the United States. Labor violations are cited
by democrats in opposition to D-R-CAFTA. But the Bush administration
pledged 40 million dollars over the next 4 years to promote
labor laws.
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Senate Finance Committee Approves Free Trade Agreement
(2:24)
The Senate Finance Committee gave its mark of approval to
the Central American Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement
today. The full Senate will likely vote this week on the controversial
free trade deal. Mitch Jeserich reports from Capitol Hill.
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Iraqis Respond to Bush's Address (3:06)
(sound of Bush :54)
President Bush addressed the nation in a televised speech
at Fort Bragg, North Carolina last night, a base that has
seen nearly 10,000 of its soldiers sent off to Iraq. The speech
marked a year since the transfer of power to an interim Iraqi
government. It was seen as a way to acknowledge the toll of
the now 27-month long occupation of Iraq, while gathering
fading support from the US public. The toll, which Bush described
as a sacrifice worth taking for the security of the nation,
has seen nearly 14,000 US service members wounded and over
120,000 Iraqis killed since March 2003. FSRN's Eliana Kaya
spoke with Moeyad Al-Hamdani, an Iraqi analyst based in Baghdad
about Iraqi's reactions to Bush's speech.
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Ugandans Protest over New Presidential Terms
(2:44)
Uganda's parliament has voted in favor of a motion to amend
the constitution to allow the president to seek another term
of office. Parliament voted 232 to 50, with 1 abstention -
as police battled with hundreds of protesters demonstrating
against amending the constitution to allow president Museveni
to run for office again when his current term expires early
next year. Joshua Kyalimpa reports from the Ugandan Capital,
Kampala.
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Immigration Advocates Lobby to Make Immigration Reform
a Reality (2:30)
Mexican citizens living in the United States will be able
to vote by mail for the first time in next year's presidential
election. The lower Chamber of Deputies approved the new absentee
ballot system, which had already been approved by the Senate
in April, and will allow the approximately 10 million Mexican
citizens who have registered to vote in their country to cast
their ballot by mail from the United States. Meanwhile, on
Capitol Hill today, members of congress, immigrant rights
advocates, and family members of undocumented workers who
have been deported, lobbied to make immigration reform a reality.
In January 2004, President Bush made a speech saying he was
committed to creating immigration reform that would support
undocumented workers - since then, the Bush administration
has done little to in the way of legislation. Selina Mususta
has more from Washington.
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India/Pakistan Peace Process Offers Little Hope for
Kashmir's Disappeared (3:10)
For the past eighteen months, India and Pakistan have been
engaged in a peace process, reciprocating confidence building
measures. In April, bus service between the capitals of Indian
administered Kashmir and Pakistan administered Kashmir resumed
for the first time in over 50 years. Since then, separatist
leaders from Indian administered Kashmir made a historic visit
to Pakistan. was started for the first time. These confidence
building measures, however, have meant little for the relatives
of those disappeared in Kashmir. From Srinagar, Shahnawaz
Khan has more.
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India's Rape Laws Challenged (2:59)
A 28-year-old Muslim woman's rape in the northern Indian
state of Uttar Pradesh by her own father in law has become
a battle between women's rights advocates and protectors of
Shariat law. A decision by the local Muslim council that she
should now live with her rapist, rather than her own husband
has sparked a fresh debate on the uniform civil code and rights
of women in Muslim society. FSRN correspondent Binu Alex has
more.
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