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Today's lead stories:
LGBT Seniors Face Obstacles in Nursing Homes
Coca Cola Faces Another Battle in India
Catholic World Church Day Ignores High Unemployment Rate in
Host Country of Germany
Rights Groups Demand Documents Surrounding John Roberts
National Labor Committee
Israeli Evacuation of Gaza Strip Nears Completion
FSRN Headlines
Two rockets were fired at 2 US warships docked in Jordan's
Red Sea Aqaba port. The rockets missed, instead hitting a
warehouse, a hospital and the Israeli port of Eliat, killing
one Jordanian soldier. Jordanian security said they believe
al Qaeda is responsible for the attack.
A Moroccan man accused of aiding an al Qaeda cell in Hamburg
that committed the September 11th attacks in the United States,
was convicted by a German court today and sentenced to seven
years in prison. Cinnamon Nippard reports from Berlin:
Ecuador has stopped oil production and Defense Minister Solon
Espinoza resigned amid protests over the distribution of oil
profits. In two Amazon regions, protestors blocked highways
and interrupted oil production. They are demanding that foreign
oil companies pay for the use of their land. Appointed President
Alfredo Palacio declared a state of emergency, which restricts
peoples expression and mobility and censures the media. Oil
exportation is Ecuador's largest economic supplier. And the
disruption has caused the price of oil to rise by one dollar.
Norwegian officials confirmed that the Sri Lankan government
and the Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to hold talks to review
the endangered 2002 cease-fire agreement. Ponniah Manikavasagam
in Sri Lanka, reports.
Burundi's parliament has elected a new president in the final
step of a deal to end 12 years of war between Hutu rebels
and the Tutsi army. 300,000 people are estimated to have been
killed during the civil war. Joshua Kyalimpa reports
A strike by public health workers in Argentina completes
week 3. Factory workers show their support by bearing gifts.
Marie Trigona has more from Buenos Aires.
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LGBT Seniors Face Obstacles in Nursing Homes
Discrimination, neglect and abuse towards lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender seniors by insensitive and homophobic
nursing home staff are common across the country - leaving
many in this population isolated. The New Mexican city of
Santa Fe, which has the second largest number of single sex
households in the country, is beginning to look at the state's
LGBT senior population and the treatment they are receiving
at these facilities by talking and teaching about this grave
issue. Dolores M. Bernal reports from New Mexico.
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Coca Cola Faces Another Battle in India
Coca Cola is once again in the firing line in India. Despite
a court order in its favor, Coke is not able to reopen the
production of its largest plant in the country due to public
pressure. India's Pollution Control Board slapped a notice
on the company today, saying the soda processing plant doesn't
comply with regulation standards. FSRN Correspondent Binu
Alex has more.
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Catholic World Church Day Ignores High Unemployment
Rate in Host Country of Germany
About half a million young people have made their way to
Cologne, Germany this week for the Catholic Church's World
Youth Day on Sunday. But while Germany has put out the welcome
mat for Pope Benedict XVI, critics say this massive Catholic
festival comes at time when more than half a million young
Germans are unemployed and their prospects are looking increasingly
bleak. From Cologne, Guy Degen reports.
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Rights Groups Demand Documents Surrounding John Roberts
Several civil and women's rights groups reiterated their
call today for the Bush administration to release internal
documents on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' time as Deputy
Solicitor General under the first President Bush. They want
the memos from 16 cases the administration argued to the Supreme
Court in the early 1990's that span from affirmative action
to reproductive rights. The call comes just a day after 38,000
pages of documents were released on Roberts' time from 1982
to 1986 as associate counsel to Ronald Reagan. So far, those
documents reveal a John Roberts who opposed any Equal Rights
Amendment to enforce equal pay for women, calling it anti-capitalist
and could encourage homemakers to become lawyers. Mitch Jeserich
has more from Washington.
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National Labor Committee
The National Labor Committee (NLC) released explosive reports
this week documenting labor abuses at Disney book printing
factories in China. FSRN correspondent Sarah Turner reports
on the NLC's findings, including unpaid overtime and unsafe
working conditions.
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Israeli Evacuation of Gaza Strip Nears Completion
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas is praising Israel's
evacuation of the Gaza Strip, and is promising Palestinians
Gazans their long-awaited freedom of movement. Meanwhile,
the Israeli army continued its evacuation of illegal settlements
in occupied Gaza today, as it closed a Gaza checkpoint and
built a trench around the largest settlement bloc of Gush
Qatif. FSRN Lalia El-Haddad has more.
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