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Today's lead stories:
President Bush Addresses UN General Assembly
Thousands Protest Bush’s Address
Thailand Faces Another Coup
Congressional Group Seeks to Re-Instate Habeas Corpus
Doctors Flee Iraq in Unprecedented Numbers
Ehud Olmert Faces Political Resistance
Iran’s Continued Suppression of Media
FSRN Headlines
BRITISH SOLDIER PLEAS GUILTY TO WAR CRIME
A British corporal has today become the first member of the
British military to admit a war crime in court. From London,
Naomi Fowler reports:
RIOTS IN BUDAPEST
In Hungary, an estimated 150 people - mostly police officers
- have been injured in riots that erupted last night in Budapest.
Protests calling for the Prime Minister's resignation have
grown in intensity since the broadcast of a leaked tape in
which the Prime Minister admits to having lied continuously
for years about Hungary's budget in order to win the election.
Prime Minster Ferenc Gyurcsany is refusing to step down. Demonstrators
took over the state-run television station early this morning.
The overnight protests were the most intense that Hungary
has seen since the collapse of communism.
SYRIAN-CANADIAN ABSOLVED AFTER DEPORTATION
A Canadian man, who says he was tortured after his deportation
to Syria, has been absolved of all terrorism allegations.
FSRN's Alison Benjamin reports.
SENATE TO DEBATE BORDER FENCE
This week, the Senate will consider legislation to add fencing,
cameras, and personnel to the U.S. Mexico border. Selina Musuta
reports from Washington, DC.
WALLACE HEARING AT ANGOLA
Louisiana's Angola Prison was today the site of an evidentiary
hearing in the case of a Black Panther who has been in solitary
confinement there for more than 3 decades. Christian Roselund
reports from the Angola Prison.
LRA DEMOBILIZATION
Uganda's government has agreed to extend the deadline for
members of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army to assemble at
two locations in southern Sudan in accordance with a truce
agreement. Emmanuel Okella reports from Kampala.
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President Bush Addresses UN General Assembly (2:43)
President Bush addressed the United Nations in New York
today, where world leaders are gathered for ten days of general
debate as part of the UN General Assembly session. More than
80 heads of state will address the Assembly, debating a broad
range of topics, including the ongoing conflicts in Darfur
and the Middle East, HIV/AIDS, climate change and economic
development. Current Secretary General Kofi Annan’s
replacement, to take his place January of next year, is also
on the table for discussion. One of the first heads of states
to address the UN General Assembly today was President Bush,
who spoke about “a more hopeful world beyond terror
and extremism”. FSRN’s UN Correspondent Danuta
Szafraniec reports from New York.
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Thousands Protest Bush’s Address (2:19)
Thousands of demonstrators sent their own message in response
to Bush’s address to the UN General Assembly today.
Amber Cortez reports.
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Thailand Faces Another Coup
Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is also
attending the UN General Assembly today, but is considering
returning home early, upon news of a coup brewing in Thailand.
Thaksin has already declared a state of emergency in the capital
city of Bangkok through the country’s state-owned television
station, which canceled scheduled programming and is instead
playing patriotic songs. But reports indicate that Thailand’s
military has launched a coup against the Prime Minister and
has surrounded his office with armored tanks, amid calls for
Thaksin, a former telecom tycoon and one of the country’s
richest men, to resign for corruption and abusing state power.
The Army has declared martial law, and has apparently already
seized control in the capital and neighboring provinces.
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Congressional Group Seeks to Re-Instate Habeas Corpus
(2:56)
A small coalition is forming in Congress, trying to re-instate
habeas corpus for detainees held in U.S. custody - although
negotiations on detainees between the White House and Senate
Republicans are ignoring the issue. Washington Editor Leigh
Ann Caldwell has the story.
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Doctors Flee Iraq in Unprecedented Numbers
(3:21)
Dozens of civilians died in Iraq today: collateral damage
in a fresh round of attacks on the U.S. military and Iraqi
police. There were also instances of sectarian violence and
others with no clear cause - for example, a car bomb exploded
near a factory for filling gas canisters in southern Baghdad,
killing two people and wounded 24 others. Iraqis that are
injured in such attacks are having increased difficulty in
obtaining medical care. As FSRN's Aaron Glantz and Salam Talib
report, the daily parade of violence and sectarian tensions
have forced more than half of Iraq's doctors to flee the country.
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Ehud Olmert Faces Political Resistance (3:37)
One month after the end of the war in Lebanon, Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert has set up a limited inquiry to investigate
the war’s conduct, and what lessons can be drawn from
the military and political failures. Olmert is still resisting
holding a full judicial inquiry, but pressure for it has increased,
with the resignation of Udi Adam, the commanding general of
Israel’s northern forces during the Lebanon war. Irris
Makler reports from Jerusalem.
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Iran’s Continued Suppression of Media
(3:32)
Iran’s Press Supervisory Board ordered reformist newspaper,
Shargh, along with two other publications, to shut down. Shargh
is now the third newspaper that has had to shut down after
President Mahmood Ahmadinejad took office last June. About
100 days ago, Iran’s state-run newspaper was banned
for publishing a cartoon considered sensitive against an ethnic
group in the north of Iran. FSRN Iranian affairs correspondent
Saideh Jamshidi, has more.
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