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Today's lead stories:
Media Workers also Make Up Rising Death Toll in Iraq
Pope’s Apologetic Afterthought Accomplishes Little
World’s Largest Show of Support for UN Peacekeepers
in Darfur
Nigerian Oil Worker Strike Temporarily Suspended
South Korean Government May Evict Farmers for US Military
“Repositioning”
Neo-Nazi’s Enter the German Parliament
FSRN Headlines
BOMB BLASTS AT SOMALIA'S PARLIAMENT BUILDING
At least 11 people are dead after a failed assassination attempt
targeting the interim president of Somalia. Joshua Kyalimpa
reports.
DETAINEE TREATMENT GUIDELINES
The White House has signaled that it may be willing to seek
a compromise with Senate Republican dissidents over interrogation
rules for terror suspects. Yanmei Xie reports in Washington
DC.
SWEDISH ELECTIONS
Swedish voters have decided by a narrow margin to try a different
political party than the one that has held continuous power
for the past 12 years. The Social Democrat party has dominated
the political scene in Sweden for nearly 9 decades. The soon-to-rule
Moderate Party ran on a platform that included promises to
reform Sweden's social welfare system.
ALTERNATIVE PRESIDENT-ELECT IN MEXICO
In a massive gathering this weekend, a crowd of over one million
named Mexico's center-leftist candidate the People's President
Elect. Tim Russo reports from Mexico City.
CANADIAN TOBACCO LAWSUIT TO GO AHEAD
A landmark court ruling in British Columbia means the Canadian
province will be able to sue multinational tobacco companies
to recover money to pay for tobacco-related public health
care costs. FSRN's Alison Benjamin reports.
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Media Workers also Make Up Rising Death Toll in
Iraq (3:08)
An American sailor was killed in Fallujah over the weekend,
bringing the number of US soldiers dead in Iraq to at least
12 in the last week. The Pentagon reports a minimum of 2,682
US troops have been killed in Iraq since March of 2003. …
Meantime, the group Reporters Without Borders said two journalists
have died in Iraq also last week, bringing the total number
of media workers dead in Iraq to 107 during three-plus years
of war. The US military also regularly detains journalists,
accusing them of cooperating with insurgents. FSRN's Aaron
Glantz and Salam Talib have more.
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Pope’s Apologetic Afterthought Accomplishes
Little (3:08)
Despite apologies by Pope Benedict XVI, Muslims continue
to protest in many parts of the world, offended by the Pope’s
remarks about the Muslim prophet Muhammed. FSRN’s Leigh
Ann Caldwell reports.
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World’s Largest Show of Support for UN Peacekeepers
in Darfur (2:56)
Thousands of people around the world this Sunday to call
for United Nations peacekeepers to enter Sudan’s Darfur
region. According to a report in the Journal Science, researchers
conservatively estimate that 225-thousand people have died
as a result of the ongoing conflict there. Protests saw tens
of thousands gather in multiple cities from London to Cairo
to Hong Kong. The demonstration in New York’s Central
Park was the largest with the crowd estimated to have reached
20 to 30 thousand. FSRN's Rebecca Myles was there and files
this report.
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Nigerian Oil Worker Strike Temporarily Suspended
(3:00)
Nigerian oil workers have suspended a three-day warning
strike which they called to protest growing insecurity in
the country's oil-rich Niger Delta Region. But the move doesn’t
mean the strike is over. violence in the region has forced
Nigeria, the world's sixth largest oil exporter to shut down
about a quarter of its oil production. the reduction of oil
exports from Nigeria as a result of growing insecurity is
a major concern to the international oil market especially
among business interests in countries like the United States
who are looking to increase oil imports from the region in
the wake of the recent war in the Middle East. Sam Olukoya
reports from Lagos.
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South Korean Government May Evict Farmers for US
Military “Repositioning” (3:35)
The South Korean government bulldozed about 80 empty houses
near the U.S. military base in Pyeongtaek last week despite
strong objections from residents and supporters. Two villages
and their rice fields in Pyeongtaek are subject to an eviction
order from the South Korean government to move U.S. military
headquarters from Seoul and some other areas as part of a
"global repositioning" of US forces. But the residents
of the villages have been protesting not to give up their
lands and homes for about four years. FSRN's Miae Kim reports.
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Neo-Nazi’s Enter the German Parliament
(3:12)
A right wing neo-Nazi party in the home state of Germany's
Chancellor Angela Merkel has gained enough votes to enter
parliament. As Guy Degen reports from Cologne, the right-wing
National Democratic Party has exploited voter dissatisfaction
with major political parties in Mecklenburg-West-Pomerania
– the state with Germany's highest unemployment.
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