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Today's lead stories:
Federal Troops Surround Oaxaca’s State University
Government Agencies Open Investigations in Global Warming
Cover-Up
Israel Approves Largest War Budget to Date
Panama Becomes Consensus Candidate for UN Security Council
Seat
Fallen Migrants Honored on Day of the Dead
FSRN Headlines
ISRAELI RAID IN GAZA CONTINUES
The Israeli army killed 13 Palestinians and wounded scores
of others in the last 24 hours of what is its worst attack
on the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun since June
27. FSRN's Rami Almeghari reports from Gaza.
WHITE HOUSE ACCUSES SYRIA AND IRAN OF BEIRUT OVERTHROW
Syria and Iran are denying Bush Administration accusations
that they are pursuing the overthrow of the Lebanese government.
Kat Aaron has more...
REPUBLICAN JUDGES CHALLENGE BUSH “ANTI-TERROR”
LAW
Seven retired federal judges have joined dozens of people
held at Guantanamo Bay Prison in filing a brief urging an
appeals court to declare unconstitutional key parts of President
Bush’s new so-called anti-terrorism law. The law strips
people held on suspicion of terrorism of their right to habeus
corpus. Three of the judges who filed the brief were appointed
by Republican presidents.
U.S. SOLDIER FLEES FOR A SECOND TIME
A soldier who fled to Canada rather than return to Iraq has
disappeared again. This time Private Kyle Snyder disappeared
just a day after surrendering to the military. Snyder said
he went AWOL for a second time after military officials said
he’d be sent back to his unit, rather than discharged.
PERU’S DEATH PENALTY AND NGO’S
Peru's president Alan Garcia announced that he will have Congress
consider at applying the death penalty to punish those convicted
of terrorism. Garcia wants Congress to convert an existing
constitutional article against treason into a civil code against
terrorism, after recent rumors of a possible resurgence of
Shining Path members in universities and unions. Meanwhile,
the Peruvian chapter of Amnesty International is criticizing
a new law proposed by Congressmembers who support Peru's former
president Alberto Fujimori . Amnesty says the proposed law,
which would intervene in the activities of Non-governmental
organizations, would be terrible for Peruvian society…
Pamela Cueva reports…
FARC/GOVERNMENT CLASHES KILL 19 IN COLUMBIA
Colombia's government is rushing troops to an area near the
Caribbean coast, after the latest in a string of attacks by
members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known
as the FARC, which have shaken public confidence in the government's
hard-line military strategy for the nation's civil war. Mike
Ceaser reports from Bogota.
TWO MORE OIL WORKERS KIDNAPPED IN NIGERIA
Two foreign oil workers from Britain and the United States
are missing from Nigeria's Niger Delta region. Sam Olukoya
reports from Lagos.
The Ugandan government and rebel Lord's Resistance Army have
renewed a landmark ceasefire agreement intended to end northern
Uganda's protracted war. FSRN's Emmanuel Okella reports from
Kampala, Uganda.
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Federal Troops Surround Oaxaca’s State University
(4:00)
Mexico's Federal Preventative Police continue to carry out
actions to quell the popular rebellion in the southern state
of Oaxaca. After breaking up the main barricade on the superhighway
that enters Oaxaca City from Mexico City yesterday and taking
over the occupied facilities of the state-run TV and radio
station, federal troops with helicopters and armored vehicles
have now surrounded the campus of the state university. Members
of the popular movement demanding the ouster of Oaxaca's governor
have barricaded themselves inside the university’s radio
station. Shannon Young and Vladimir Flores report from Oaxaca
City.
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Government Agencies Open Investigations in Global
Warming Cover-Up (4:00)
Inspector Generals at two different agencies have opened
investigations into the silencing of government scientists
on global warming. As Washington Editor Leigh Ann Caldwell
reports, the suppression of information in the Bush Administration
is nothing new according to public interests groups.
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Israel Approves Largest War Budget to Date
(3:15)
Israeli leadership is calling a letter from President Bush
“historic”. Sent on Tuesday, the written statement
is the first time the U.S. government has fully recognized
Israeli settlements on Palestinian land as a legitimate part
of Israel. It also denied Palestinian refugees their internationally-recognized
right to return to their homes. The letter arrived just before
Israel approved its largest war budget ever today. FSRN’s
Jenka Soderberg reports from Jerusalem.
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Panama Becomes Consensus Candidate for UN Security
Council Seat (2:30)
Guatemala and Venezuela, the two Latin American countries
vying for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, gave
way to a compromise candidate after 47 rounds of voting. The
Foreign Ministers of both nations nominated Panama as the
consensus candidate to occupy the non-permanent seat. FSRN's
Jorge Garretón has reaction from Santiago, Chile.
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Fallen Migrants Honored on Day of the Dead (3:30)
People throughout the Americas, and in Mexico in particular,
celebrate Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead today
- a sacred day when the souls of the dead return to this world
to visit the love ones they left behind. Immigration advocates
are taking this time to remember the thousands of migrants
that have lost their lives at the border and worry about the
possible consequences of tighter security measures. FSRN’s
Alonso Rivera reports from the Tijuana border.
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