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Today's lead stories:
President Bush Appoints Goldman Sachs CEO as Treasury Chief
Native Americans and Supporters Celebrate Victory against
Divine Strike in Nevada Testing Grinds
Taliban Growing in Strength as Tensions between Pakistan and
Afghanistan Grow
Indonesian Earthquake’s Aftermath
Women Guaranteed Seats in Village Councils
South Central Farmers Host Farmer’s Market
FSRN Headlines
EUROPEAN UNION COURT RULES AGAINST HANDING OVER PASSENGER
DATA
A ruling today from the European Unions Court of Justice will
make it illegal for airlines to give the US personal information
about transatlantic air passengers traveling to the US under
current arrangements. From London, Naomi Fowler reports.
PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES FACE ULTIMATUM
An Israeli jet fighter and a special army unit attacked the
northern part of the Gaza Strip killing four and injured several
others, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. It represents
the first confirmed Israeli incursion into Gaza since its
withdrawal in September of 2005. In the West Bank, the Israel
army invaded several cities and killed at least three today.
This, as Israel's interior Minister has warned four Palestinian
Authority officials to either quit or be expelled from Jerusalem.
Manar Jibrin reports.
SKIRMISHES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND LEBANON
Following the worst fighting along the Lebanese - Israeli
border in five years, the United Nations has urged both countries
to exercise control over the use of military force from its
own territory. Jackson Allers reports from Beirut.
UN PEACEKEEPERS MISSING IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
UN peace keepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continue
searching for seven Nepalese peace keepers who are missing
after a clash with militias which took the life of another
peace keeper. UN troops involved in the world's largest peacekeeping
operation are trying to disarm militias in the volatile eastern
DRC ahead of crucial presidential elections on July 30th.
Joshua Kyalimpa reports from neighboring Uganda.
COLOMBIAN ELECTION RESULTS
In Colombia, President Alvaro Uribe won this weekend's presidential
elections by a large margin. By securing more than 50 percent
of the votes, Uribe avoided the need for a run-off.
CASTE SYSTEM COLLEGE QUOTA CONTROVERSY
The Indian government's move to increase quotas for India's
lower castes at the country's public universities to nearly
fifty percent is facing strong protests from upper caste students
and professionals. Protests by doctors have crippled the medical
services in many cities. Binu Alex reports.
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President Bush Appoints Goldman Sachs CEO as Treasury
Chief (3:30)
Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry Paulson, was nominated
today to succeed John Snow as Treasury Secretary. Paulson,
a supporter of tax cuts and strong dollar policies, will face
the difficult task of dealing with the growing U.S. debt,
as well as tracking international terrorist funding activities.
Anastasia Gnezditskaia reports from Washington, DC.
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Native Americans and Supporters Celebrate Victory
against Divine Strike in Nevada Testing Grinds (4:11)
In an act of mass civil disobedience, Native American residents,
local and out-of-state supporters allegedly trespassed into
a nuclear testing site on the former Nevada proving ground,
just north of Las Vegas – celebrating the cancellation
of what would have been the largest conventional bomb blast
on record. FSRN’s Page Getz reports from Mercury, Nevada.
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Taliban Growing in Strength as Tensions between Pakistan
and Afghanistan Grow (3:06)
As many as 14 people are believed to have died as a result
of U.S. and Afghan troops in Kabul shooting on unarmed demonstrators
who were protesting the death of 4 pedestrians by a US Military
convoy Monday. Soon after the road accident, thousands of
Kabul residents took to the streets, shouting “Death
to America!” setting police vehicles on fire and looting
markets and hotels. The intensity of attacks on U.S. coalition
forces in the rural areas close to the border with Pakistan
is increasing day-by-day; and as FSRN’s Masror Hussain
reports from Islamabad, the Taliban may be acting with other
Pashtun splinter groups as well, contributing to the causalities.
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Indonesian Earthquake’s Aftermath
(2:55)
The Death toll caused by the 5.9 magnitude earthquake in
Yogyakarta and Central Java, Indonesia on Saturday morning
has reached nearly 7,000. Almost 100,000 buildings have been
destroyed and around 20,000 people were injured. From the
disaster site in Yogyakarta, Meggy Margiyono reports.
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Women Guaranteed Seats in Village Councils
(3:35)
The eastern Indian state of Bihar has created a turning-point
in Indian electoral politics by reserving 50% of seats for
women in its village councils. A debate to reserve at least
33% of legislative seats for women on both provincial and
federal levels has been raging for over a decade in the country.
PC Dubey reports from Bihar, India.
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South Central Farmers Host Farmer’s Market
(1:40)
Hundreds of Los Angeles residents visited the 14-acre South
Central Farm this weekend to buy fresh produce from the families
that tend the nation’s largest urban farm. Shoppers
could pick from hundreds of individual plots, where farmers
picked fresh flowers, herbs and vegetables from the ground.
Farmers also donated their produce for a make-shift kitchen
that featured quesadillas, tacos and fruit-flavored water
made from fresh Farm ingredients. The roughly 350 Farmers
are facing a court-ordered eviction – but continue trying
to save the land from developer Ralph Horowitz, who they say
purchased it in a secret back-room deal with the City of LA.
Andrea Rodriguez has been farming a plot for 10 years. She
spent Sunday making quesadillas, and explains why the Farm
is important to her.
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