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May Day marchers call for end to deportations
Tribune reportersSeveral thousand demonstrators marched through downtown Chicago on Wednesday, banging drums and chanting loudly in support of comprehensive federal immigration reforms that many think could be passed by Congress this year. "Now is the time!" the crowd...Tags: Migration, Extradition, Mexico, Politics, Dick Durbin
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A sensible caution, poorly stated
WASHINGTON -- People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign punishment for...Tags: Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ronald Reagan, Iraq, International Relations
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Rep. Lamar Smith defends tentative changes to research funding
Republicans in Congress, long skeptical of the value of some taxpayer-supported research, have taken aim at the National Science Foundation with a bill that seeks to limit the scope of its grants. A draft bill by House Science Committee Chairman Lamar...
Tags: Politics, Research, Medical Procedures and Tests, Tom Coburn, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Killer convicted after 15 years on the lam
After more than 15 years on the lam, former fugitive Giovanni Spiller was convicted late Tuesday of a 1996 slaying that left the victim's family shattered and exposed weaknesses in America's system for apprehending international fugitives. FBI agents...Tags: Extradition, Murder, Prisons, Crimes, Criminal Laws
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Feds: Father, son conspired to export banned machinery to North Korea
Tagged by U.S. authorities in 2009 for his role in a North Korean weapons procurement channel, Taiwanese businessman Hsien Tai Tsai "Alex" Tsai was banned from doing business in the United States. But in a federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday in a...
Tags: Extradition, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Estonia, Judges, Weaponry
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Letters: Caution on Syria
Re "Time to act in Syria," Opinion, May 9 Chuck Freilich speaks of the terrible consequences of not dealing with the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war. He focuses only on Bashar Assad's regime as the likely perpetrator. A prominent...
Tags: Barack Obama, United Nations, Bashar Assad, International Court or Tribunal, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Taiwan hands out 72-hour ultimatum to Manila
China PostTAIPEI (The China Post/ANN) -- Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has given the Philippines 72 hours to respond to demands regarding the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman or face the consequences, Presidential Office spokesperson Garfie Li said yesterday. The...Tags: China, Taipei (Taiwan), Judges, International Relations, Taiwan
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Guatemala's Maya finally find justice over civil war crimes
ReutersBy Mike McDonald GUATEMALA CITY, May 12 (Reuters) - Ana Caba fled her home to live in remote mountains for nearly a decade after Guatemalan troops razed her indigenous Maya village and dozens like it in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in the early...Tags: Murder, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Crimes
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S. Sudan rejects forming joint administration in Abyei with Sudan
Sudan TribuneSouth Sudan has rejected forming a joint administration with the Sudanese government in the contested border region of Abyei, accusing Khartoum of having "killed the spirit of dialogue with [the] assassination of the area's paramount chief, Kuol Deng...Tags: Arts and Culture, France, Politics, Sudan, Referenda
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Police: Second suspect arrested in White Jewelers attempted homicide case
York Daily Record, Pa.A second man wanted in connection with armed robbery and attempted homicide at White Jewelers last summer was arrested earlier this week and is awaiting extradition to York County, according to a news release from York Area Regional Police. Timothy N....Tags: Extradition, Murder, Shootings, Allentown, Hospitals and Clinics
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U.N. commissioner warns of possible atrocities in Qusair, Syria
The United Nations commissioner for human rights on Friday warned of possible atrocities in the Syrian town of Qusair, near the Lebanese border, as reports emerged of a major military buildup. Commissioner Navi Pillay said Syrian government forces and...
Tags: Murder, Politics, Human Rights, Government, International Criminal Court
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide
MEXICO CITY — Efrain Rios Montt, the former Guatemalan military dictator who ruled his country during one of the bloodiest phases of its civil war, was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity Friday for the systematic massacre of more...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Mexico, Wars and Interventions, Genocide
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