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Today's lead stories:
Democrats Look for Answers to Popular Republican Legislation
U.S. Blamed for More Civilian Deaths in Iraq as Sectarian
Violence Escalates
World Bank Accused of Neglecting its Funding Duties
Sugar Cane Workers in South Africa Refuse Inhumane Work Conditions
Kashmir’s Suffering Tourism Industry
Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary: "Just in the Name of Democracy"
FSRN Headlines
Europe Complicit in Detainee Disappearances
Romania and Poland denounced a new EU report that said there
is evidence the two country's housed secret CIA jails. The
report also says several European countries have been complicit
in assisting the CIA in the practice known as extraordinary
rendition. Naomi Fowler has more from London.
Iraqi Prime Minister to Free 2,500 Detainees
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered the release of
2,500 detainees in a gesture to promote national reconciliation.
Maliki announced the gesture is an attempt to calm tensions
between Iraq's two main sectarian groups and to diffuse some
of the anger towards the US presence there. US and Iraqi forces
have detained tens of thousands of Iraqi men on suspicion
of involvement in the insurgency. One of the 600 men who were
freed today, Mohammed Jassim says he was arrested and accused
of kidnapping people who worked for a mobile telephone company.
Meanwhile, the Sunni political Iraqi Islamic Party is accusing
US forces of murdering over two dozen Iraqis in the month
of May. It said that 29 people were killed in Baghdad and
two towns south of the Capitol from military actions ranging
from house raids to air strikes.
Army Lt. Refuses Iraq Deployment
For the first time, a US Army Lt. says he will not serve in
Iraq when his deployment orders are given by the end of the
month. Sara Olson has the story.
Marriage Amendment Stalled in Senate
The US Senate falls far short of the 60 votes needed to end
debate on a constitutional amendment to ban same gender marriage.
Darby Hickey reports.
Hunger Strike for Pension in Guatemala cut for timeDownload
MP3 of headline
Six elderly Guatemalans were rushed to the hospital as they
are part of a group of 35 who have been on a 48 hour hunger
strike demanding the government fulfill its pension promises.
Jill Replogle reports from Guatemala City.
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Democrats Look for Answers to Popular Republican
Legislation (4:21)
Lawmakers in the Senate this week are taking up same sex
marriage, flag desecration and a repeal of the estate tax
– all of which pleases the Republican base. Democrats
say that meanwhile, they’re avoiding important issues,
including the war in Iraq. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell asked
Democrats what they’re doing to move forward the debate
on the war.
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U.S. Blamed for More Civilian Deaths in Iraq as Sectarian
Violence Escalates (4:04)
Iraq's leading Sunni political party today accused U.S.
forces of a string of massacres against innocent civilians.
Among the incidents listed by Iraqi Islamic Party spokesman
Omar al-Juburi are the May 13 bombings of a civilian car in
Latifiyah that killed six people, and an air attack the same
day on a civilian home that left a family of seven dead. The
next day, the Party says, U.S. forces carried out another
air strike on the house of a Sheik in the town of Yusifiyah
killing 13 people, including women and children. On the same
day in Baghdad's Yarmuk District, the Party says, U.S. forces
raided a home, killing the head of the household and his son.
Meanwhile, Iraqis have been killing each other in a tremendous
upsurge of sectarian violence. FSRN's Aaron Glantz and Salam
Talib report.
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World Bank Accused of Neglecting its Funding Duties
(3:07)
A team from the investigative arm of the World Bank is in
Nigeria, looking into allegations made by local communities.
The Nigerians are saying that the bank abandoned its objective
of combating poverty by helping western oil companies fund
a gas pipeline project, which they said will negatively affect
their environment and make them poorer. Sam Olukoya reports
from Lagos.
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Sugar Cane Workers in South Africa Refuse Inhumane
Work Conditions (3:41)
Sugar cane is one of the most important industries in South
Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. A hundred years ago, indentured
labor from India was brought in to work on the sugar cane
plantations. As FSRN’s Terna Gyuse reports, a workers
in the fields a century later still work brutally long hours
for low pay.
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Kashmir’s Suffering Tourism Industry
(2:32)
Grenade attacks in Indian-administered Kashmir have targeted
tourists in as many as four incidents in the last few weeks.
The attacks have been a blow to the tourism industry in Kashmir,
which expected another booming season after record tourist
arrivals in the last few years. Shahnawaz Khan has more.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary: "Just in the Name
of Democracy" (2:32)
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