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Today's lead stories:
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Announces Retirement
UN Pursues Investigation Into Secret Detention Facilities
African Countries May Bear The Burden Of Oil Exploration
Contamination Of The US Beef Supply Results In Calls For Better
Testing
Highest Number Of Indian Women Nominated For Nobel Prize
Akwasasne Mohawk Casino Outside New York
FSRN Headlines
Mexico's President Vicente Fox broke his silence over newspaper
workers who are trapped in their offices in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Fox received pressure from international human rights groups
to intervene in the blockade of newspaper staff held by pro-government
activists. Noticias is one of the few newspapers to report
on government corruption. Fox told the governor of Oaxaca,
Ulises Ruiz, to resolve the situation and added that not allowing
them to publish is a violation of their freedom of speech.
Carlos Larial is with the Committee to Protect Journalists
said that Fox’s demands might not have an immediate
impact.
The Committee to Protect Journalists sent a letter to Governor
Ruiz yesterday urging him to resolve the situation. State
run police are surrounding the building and have been instructed
not to intervene.
A couple hundred women in India are protesting a rape case
in which Muslim law forces a woman to live with her rapist.
Binu Alex reports from Ahmedabad.
In a 32 billion dollar spending bill, the Senate passed
a provision that would provide the Department of Energy with
4 million dollars to research the nuclear weapon called a
bunker buster. Chad Benjamin Potter has more from Washington,
DC.
The House of Representatives did not include the funding
for the bunker buster in its version of the spending bill.
United Nations officials criticize Zimbabwe for the demolition
of hundreds of thousands of houses. Haider Rizvi has more
from the UN.
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JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
(4:18)
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman
to sit on the bench, announced her retirement today. O'Connor
was considered a moderate conservative and a crucial swing
vote on issues ranging from the election of George Bush in
2000 to Roe V. Wade. President Bush says he will quickly move
to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice. Activist groups from
both the left and right have begun their efforts to sway President
Bush's choice towards a judge that matches their ideology.
Mitch Jeserich reports from Washington.
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UN PURSUES INVESTIGATION INTO SECRET DETENTION FACILITIES
(2:00)
United Nations human rights experts are opening an investigation
into the torture and human rights abuses of detainees in United
States custody, including the possibility of prisoners being
held in secret prisons throughout the world. FSRN spoke with
Manfred Mowak, the UN Special Rappateur on torture about the
secret detention centers.
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AFRICAN COUNTRIES MAY BEAR THE BURDEN OF OIL EXPLORATION
(3:26)
The 12th Annual Africa Upstream Conference was held in Dakar,
Senegal this week. Attendees to the meeting of 11 West African
countries, along with multinational oil investors, discussed
oil exploration and exploitation. US interest in African oil
has grown in the midst of political instability in Iraq and
some Latin American countries. However, some fear that oil
projects which are supposed to boost development in the region
may instead trigger conflict as it did in Nigeria, or poverty
as it did in the Niger Delta. Environmentally, neighboring
Mauritania’s oil deposit Chinguetti is a threat to Senegal's
Djoudj Sanctuary, located in the Senegal River Delta, which
is home to over 1 million birds. As Ndiaga Seck reports from
Senegal, further exploitation of African oil may cause local
communities to carry the burden of increased poverty and pollution.
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CONTAMINATION OF THE US BEEF SUPPLY RESULTS IN CALLS
FOR BETTER TESTING (3:12)
The government of Panama has announced that it is suspending
all imports of US beef, due to another case of Mad Cow disease.
Panama halted US beef from entering the country in 2003, when
the first case of the disease was announced and resumed exports
in February of this year. Panama will reconsider the topic
when the US clears up its own investigation into the brain-wasting
disease. The US Department of Agriculture’s confirmation
of a second case of Mad Cow disease has generating wide controversy
about it's testing methods and preparedness for livestock
epidemics. Helen Matthews reports.
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HIGHEST NUMBER OF INDIAN WOMEN NOMINATED FOR NOBEL
PRIZE (3:30)
1000 women from more than 150 countries this year have been
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Women activists from
across the world came together and decided to highlight the
work of women against war, poverty, exploitation, and social
injustice. The largest number of nominations from any region,
157, has gone to South Asia. And the 92 nominees from India
is the highest from any one country. From New Delhi, Vinod
K. Jose files this report.
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AKWASASNE MOHAWK CASINO OUTSIDE NEW YORK
(3:30)
Native American-owned casinos have become a huge industry
over the past decade, bringing in more $18-billion in 2004
alone. But Native American communities seeking to open new
casinos are facing increasing resistance, not only from local
residents, but sometimes from members of their own tribes.
Fritz Mayor reports from Sullivan County, New York, where
five tribes are working to launch Indian gaming resorts.
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