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Mbeki in Sudan for ceasefire deal Posted: Monday, January 3, 2005
The latest torture documents show the government still isn't coming clean Over the past month, the biggest scoops in the news business have come from ... an organization that's not in the news business. Using the Freedom of Information Act, the American Civil Liberties Union has uncovered thousands of government documents detailing torture of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.
If You Don’t Do What We Want, Bombs Away!
UN: Death Toll Almost 150,000 What we see is that the figures may be approaching 150,000 dead. The vast majority of those are in Indonesia and Aceh, which is the least assessed area
Overblown Threats Now they tell us
Starving islanders kidnap officials A desperate group of starving survivors in one of the tsunami-hit Nicobar islands kidnapped the island's top civilian official and its police chief in protest at the inadequate relief operation, it emerged yesterday.
$2bn pledged, but will the world keep its promises?
Mbeki in Sudan for ceasefire deal
The Big Stories of 2005
Is There One Senator Who Will Stand Up for Black Voters? Perhaps the most powerful moment in Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9-11" was the stony silence in the hall of the joint session of Congress as a line of African- American and other non-white representatives stood up and pleaded for just one senator to issue an official challenge to the Florida electoral college delegation and its vote in favor of candidate George Bush.
The War Hits Home
Patronizing the Palestinians
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