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Today's lead stories:
Coordinated Bombings Strike Commuter Trains in India
Senate Considers Guantánamo Detainees
UN Security Council Members Delay Vote on North Korea Sanctions
AMLO Supporters Plan Mass Demonstration
Sectarian Violence on the Rise in Lebanon
Proposed Ugandan Law May Further Stigmatize those Living with
HIV/AIDS
FSRN Headlines
DOCTORS REPORT UNUSUAL WEAPON USED IN GAZA
Israel continues its air strikes in the Gaza Strip today,
killing one and injuring four others. This, as staff members
at a Gazan hospital accuse the Israeli army of using unconventional
weapons in its attacks. Manar Jibrin reports.
Missiles fired from Apache helicopters killed at least one
person and seriously injured two others in Biet Hanoun today.
Israeli tanks shelled the main bridge leading to Biet Hanoun,
destroying it and damaging several nearby houses. Meanwhile,
Palestinian medics are now saying that patients at the Shifa
hospital in Gaza city and some bodies at the local morgue
have unusual burns, raising concerns that Israel was using
chemical weapons in its attacks on the Gaza Strip. Dr Jumaa
Al Saqa the PR person in the hospital: "When the shrapnel
hit the body, it causes very strong burns that destroy the
tissues around the bones. When these shrapnel enters the body,
it burns and destroys internal organs, like the liver, kidneys,
and the spleen and other organs and makes saving the wounded
almost impossible. As a surgeon, I have seen thousands of
wounds during the Intifada, but nothing was like this weapon."
The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt
remains closed after two weeks. Three out at least 4000 stranded
there have died. Those stranded include an estimated 580 people
who had traveled to Egypt for medical care.
MOGADISHU WARLORD SURRENDERS
The last secular warlord in the Somali capital of Mogadishu
surrendered to Islamist militias today. Heavy fighting in
the city has killed more than 140 people since Sunday.
EUROPE-AFRICA IMMIGRATION MEASURES
African and European countries have reached an agreement for
joint immigration enforcement measures. Representatives from
over 50 countries met for a two-day conference in the Moroccan
capital city of Rabat. Measures will include joint policing
of land and sea routes used by migrants. European countries
are also offering aid packages to create programs to discourage
immigration. Spain and Morocco stepped up border enforcement
efforts along the Straits of Gibraltar last year. Numbers
of African migrants arriving by boat to Spain's Canary islands
has since spiked dramatically, with over 10,000 arrivals since
the beginning of this year. That's more than twice the total
for all of 2005.
ARGENTINE PIQUETERO LEADER RELEASED
An Argentine court has ordered the release from house arrest
of an unemployed worker - or "piquetero" - leader
detained during anti-Bush demonstrations during the fourth
Summit of the Americas held in Mar del Plata, Argentina last
year. Marie Trigona has more from Buenos Aires.
Police arrested Ricardo "Chacho" Berrozpe, an organizer
in the "piquetero" unemployed workers movement,
a month after protests against U.S. President George Bush's
actions in the Middle East and in Latin America. During last
November's Summit of the Americas meeting of the regional
heads-of-state, protesters broke bank windows and spray painted
anti-imperialist slogans in Mar del Plata's financial district.
Courts had charged Berrozpe with "inciting riots"
and "preparation of flammable material". He was
released yesterday due to irregularities in his arrest. Human
rights lawyers argued that authorities targeted Berrozpe because
of his organizing activity. For Free Speech Radio News, I'm
Marie Trigona in Buenos Aires.
PINOCHET WEALTH
The jailed former head of Chile's secret police during the
Augusto Pinochet dictatorship has reportedly told an investigating
judge that the former dictator's millions of dollars came
from drug trafficking. FSRN's Jorge Garretón reports.
Manuel Contreras, the head of Chile's former secret police
- who is serving a number of life sentences - told an investigating
judge that Augusto Pinochet orchestrated a drug trafficking
scheme along with Pinochet's youngest son, a chemist who is
alleged to have been killed in Uruguay, and the slain former
head of the Army's military factory. Contreras says in the
1980s, Pinochet ordered the processing and trafficking of
something called black cocaine; that is where chemicals are
added to make cocaine difficult for detection by chemical
tests and drug-sniffing dogs. Today, Pinochet youngest son
filed slander suit against Contreras. He says the claims are
outrageous and called them the attack of a bitter man. However,
the judge investigating the murder of the former head of the
Army factory says he passed the information to the judge who
is investigating the source of Pinochet's wealth. For FSRN
this is Jorge Garretón in Santiago.
SREBRENICA ANNIVERSARY
Today marks the 11th anniversary of the largest single act
of mass murder in Europe since World War II. Bosnian Serb
troops massacred over 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys during
a takeover of the town of Srebrenica and nearby villages in
1995. The two former Serbian generals in charge of the operation,
Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, are wanted by the UN's
International Criminal Court but remain at large.
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Coordinated Bombings Strike Commuter Trains in India
(3:16)
Over 150 people are dead and as many as 400 are seriously
injured after several near-simultaneous explosions on Mumbai’s
train network that struck durring evening rush hour. The devastation
paralyzed India’s financial capital. Binu Alex reports.
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Senate Considers Guantánamo Detainees
(3:31)
The Pentagon has issued a memo that says all military detainees
held in U.S. custody are entitled to be treated under the
Geneva Conventions. Although the memo appears to reverse the
Bush administration’s earlier assertions that terror
detainees are not prisoners of war and therefore not entitled
to protections under the Geneva Conventions, White House Spokesperson
Tony Snow said that “humane treatment has always been
the standard.” The memo’s been made public today,
as the Senate takes its first look at how to treat and try
Guantánamo detainees. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.
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UN Security Council Members Delay Vote on North Korea
Sanctions (2:31)
North Korea announced that they would resume six party talks
on the country’s nuclear program, if the U.S. lifts
economic sanctions. While visiting South Africa, North Korea's
Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hyong Jun also stated that his
country would stop testing missiles if the U.S. ends military
exercises on the Korean peninsula. The announcement comes
at a time when the five United Nation Security Council members
decided to delay a vote today on a draft resolution threatening
sanctions against North Korea in order to give time to China
and South Africa's diplomacy efforts. Selina Musuta reports
from Washington.
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AMLO Supporters Plan Mass Demonstration
(4:15)
Mexicans are beginning to mobilize in their local communities
across the country, for a trip to Mexico City. The goal is
a large demonstration Sunday to demand a full and honest count
of the ballots from last week’s presidential elections.
FSRN’s Norman Stockwell has this update.
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Sectarian Violence on the Rise in Lebanon (3:01)
With the Iraq war dragging on in the volatile Middle East,
sectarian tensions are spilling over to neighboring countries.
As FSRN’s Jamal Ghosn reports from Beirut, these tensions
have the people of Lebanon fearing a return to violence.
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Proposed Ugandan Law May Further Stigmatize those
Living with HIV/AIDS (3:23)
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Lord’s Resistance
Army rebels now have until September 12 to strike a treaty.
Museveni, who originally planned for peace deal talks to conclude
at the end of July, announced the extension amid mixed reactions
to his proposal for total amnesty for LRA leader Joseph Kony
and four commanders.
Meanwhile, people living with HIV/AIDS who intentionally
infect others will soon be hanged, if a proposed law gets
enacted in Uganda. The country’s government is introducing
the law as a measure to curb increasing incidents where some
people infected with HIV/AIDS knowingly infect young girls
through unprotected sex. But as Emmanuel Okella reports from
Kampala, Uganda, the National Association of People Living
with HIV/AIDS has come out to protest the proposed law, saying
it only serves to stigmatize HIV-positive people.
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