SRINAGAR, India (AP) — An Indian police agency investigating the deaths of two women in Kashmir said Dec. 14 that they drowned and were not raped and killed as alleged by locals, a ruling likely to further fuel anti-India sentiment.
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Probe rules out rape and murder of women in Kashmir
Posted on 17 December 2009.
Posted in Vol 28 No 52 | 12/19-25, World News0 Comments
Former NFL players Mahe and Reid visit American Samoa
Posted on 10 December 2009.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pair of former NFL players of Samoan descent finished a trip this week to American Samoa, where they helped with tsunami recovery efforts and handed over a check for $50,000 from the league and players association.
Posted in Vol 28 No 51 | 12/12-18, World News0 Comments
U.S. Senate calls for more engagement with Sri Lanka
Posted on 10 December 2009.
The report released Monday, Dec. 7, by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee warns that neglecting Sri Lanka as it emerges from three decades of bloody civil war could result in a shift toward China and other countries that place “greater value on security over freedoms.”
Posted in Vol 28 No 51 | 12/12-18, World News0 Comments
America wages a new war in Vietnam — on AIDS
Posted on 03 December 2009.
“They told him, ‘There’s nothing we can do for you. Just go home and wait to die,”’ said Do Thi Phuong. When she contracted AIDS, she didn’t seek help, fearing that she would also be shunned. Instead, like her husband, she went home to die.
Posted in Vol 28 No 50 | 12/5-12/11, World News0 Comments
World’s deadliest assault on journalists occur in Philippines
Posted on 03 December 2009.
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines (AP) — Kristia Subang wiped her father’s coffin with a cloth and recalled the last time she saw the veteran newspaperman, when he woke her with a surprise gift of a new set of shoes for school — the night before he and 29 colleagues were massacred on their final assignment.
Posted in Vol 28 No 50 | 12/5-12/11, World News2 Comments
China attempts to fix its failing health care system
Posted on 03 December 2009.
Doctors took 15-year-old Ji Xiaoyan off a ventilator and she was discharged because her family could no longer pay her hospital bills. Her uncle cobbled together a makeshift ventilator from bicycle and washing machine parts, driven by a noisy electric motor. The contraption pumped air into the teenager’s lungs for more than a month, until the family got donations for treatment.
Posted in Vol 28 No 50 | 12/5-12/11, World News0 Comments
Indian boy plight mirrors that of millions of kids
Posted on 25 November 2009.
Each year, 4 million babies die before they are a month old, 150 million children are engaged in child labor, more than 500 million have been affected by violence, and 51 million have fallen so far through the cracks that they have not even had their births registered, according to the United Nations.
Posted in Vol 28 No 49 | 11/28 - 12/4, World News0 Comments
Bangladeshi mom wants her twins to stay in Australia
Posted on 25 November 2009.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday that she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia.
Posted in Vol 28 No 49 | 11/28 - 12/4, World News0 Comments
In China, Obama says freedoms are ‘universal rights’
Posted on 19 November 2009.
SHANGHAI (AP) — Pressing for freedom on China’s own turf, President Barack Obama said Monday, Nov. 16, that individual expression is not an American ideal but a universal right that should be available to all.
Posted in Vol 28 No 48 | 11/21-11/27, World News0 Comments
Fashionistas defy the Taliban with first ever fashion week
Posted on 12 November 2009.
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with her shoulders — and tattoos — exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.
Posted in Vol 28 No 47 | 11/14-11/20, World News0 Comments
