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Breaking News… - Human rights investigator slams U.N., EU blacklists (Reuters)

Switzerland's Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty speaks at a news conference in Paris June 8, 2007. Terrorist blacklists drawn up by the United Nations and the European Union violate basic human rights, a Swiss investigator working for Europe's leading human rights forum has said. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)Reuters - Terrorist blacklists drawn up by the United Nations and the European Union violate basic human rights, a Swiss investigator working for Europe’s leading human rights forum has said.


Desegregation rulings cause confusion (AP)

Ninth grade students practice in band class at the newly opened Southwind High School in Shelby County,Tenn.,  just outside the Memphis, Tenn. city limits, Monday, Oct. 29, 2007. Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they'll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's 'arbitrary' desegregation order. It'll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of white teachers with black ones, they say. (AP Photo/Greg Campbell)AP - Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they’ll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge’s “arbitrary” desegregation order. It’ll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of white teachers with black ones, they say.


Giuliani may not need early states (AP)

Republican presidential hopeful, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, campaigns at a town hall meeting in Mount Vernon, Mo., Monday, Nov. 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)AP - Early momentum has been the surefire way to win modern presidential primaries: Emerge as the front-runner in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, then steamroll through later states to become the nominee. Most of the Republican candidates are betting on this approach for 2008, but Rudy Giuliani is counting on something simpler: delegate math.


Doctor warns of Darfur camp expulsions (AP)

In this image made available from the African Union Mission in the Sudan, a machine-gunner from African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS) holds a belt of ammunition, during a briefing before armoured personnel carrier weapons training at a firing range approx. 20kms outside El Fasher, the administrative capital of north Darfur Thursday Nov. 8, 2007. Newly arrived troops from two extra battalions of Rwandan and Nigerian soldiers have recently arrived in Sudan's war-torn western region to boost the already 7,000 personnel on the ground ahead of a planned handover from AMIS to a joint African Union-United Nations Mission known as UNAMID consisting of 26,000 personnel at the end of 2007. The troops were undertaking the live-ammunition training as part of a course before their deployment to mission groups sites across Darfur. (AP Photo/Stuasrt Price, AMIS)AP - A prominent doctor who treats displaced people in Darfur says the Sudanese government is risking the deaths of hundreds of thousands by forcing people out of the camps where they receive humanitarian aid.


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