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(author unknown), NPR Topics: Legal Affairs
Tired of running from the law? The U.S. Marshal's service wants to give you a chance to turn yourself in. What do you get? One-stop shopping: an arraignment, a defense lawyer -- and the chance to go back home, without hiding....
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Nov 02, 2007
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Thelma MejÃa , IPS Inter Press Service - Civil Society - The New Superpower
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 2 (IPS) - The news director of the Radio Cadena Voces (RCV) radio station, Dagoberto RodrÃguez, fled Honduras Thursday after the police warned him that he could be killed by "sicarios" (paid gunmen) in the next 72 hours....
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Nov 02, 2007
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Fabiana Frayssinet , IPS Inter Press Service - Civil Society - The New Superpower
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 1 (IPS) - An attack by armed guards on a group of rural activists occupying a Swiss-owned research farm in Brazil was the latest incident in what pro-land reform movements call the struggle against large landed estates wedded with multinational agribusiness....
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Nov 02, 2007
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IPS Correspondents , IPS Inter Press Service - Civil Society - The New Superpower
COLOMBO, Nov 1 (IPS) - While Sri Lanka’s minister for human rights Mahinda Samarasinghe has denied allegations by a top United Nations official that torture is ‘routine’ in the country, there is little doubt that the renewed civil war has resulted in brutality hitting new lows....
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Nov 01, 2007
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Gustavo Capdevila , IPS Inter Press Service - Civil Society - The New Superpower
LISBON, Nov 1 (IPS) - Works of art with a powerful social message, donated by trade unions in the first half of the 20th century, will again be displayed at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters after being deliberately hidden for the past 30 years....
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Nov 01, 2007
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(author unknown), NPR Topics: Legal Affairs
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has initiated a lawsuit against a real estate appraisal unit of the Fortune 500 company First American Corp. He says the appraiser colluded with Washington Mutual to inflate home values....
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Nov 01, 2007
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Fawzia Sheikh* , IPS Inter Press Service - Civil Society - The New Superpower
ZABUL, Nov 1 (IPS) - In a mud-walled village on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Qalat, police checkpoint commander Abdul Rasool complains he is tired of his country's six-year war and longs for peace....
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Nov 01, 2007
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Diógenes Pina , IPS Inter Press Service - Civil Society - The New Superpower
SANTO DOMINGO, Oct 31 (IPS) - Discrimination against Haitians and their descendants "only exists in the minds of a few sick people" who wish to do the Dominican Republic harm, said governing coalition legislator José Taveras in response to a critical report by United Nations observers....
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Oct 31, 2007
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Milagros Salazar , IPS Inter Press Service - Civil Society - The New Superpower
LIMA, Oct 31 (IPS) - Peruvian Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo signed a memorandum of understanding with mayors and governors opposed to the Majaz mining company’s RÃo Blanco project, which the people of the Piura highlands in northern Peru have been opposing for five years....
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Oct 31, 2007
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(author unknown), NPR Topics: Legal Affairs
The case of Ali Al-Marri addresses some of the biggest legal issues in the war on terror. A federal appeals court in Virginia is set to hear arguments on whether he should be charged or released from military custody. Al-Marri is a legal resident being held as a suspected enemy combatant....
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