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10/03/10 Matthew NasutiKabul Press “Killing 20 Taliban costs $1 Billion / Killing all the Taliban would cost $1.7 Trillion“ The Pentagon will not tell the public what it costs to locate, target and kill a single Taliban soldier because the price-tag is so scandalously high that it makes the Taliban …

Oct 02 2010 06:08 The US on Friday apologised for “outrageous and abhorrent” medical experiments in Guatemala in which American doctors deliberately infected hundreds of prisoners, soldiers and patients in mental hospitals with syphilis in the 1940s. The experiments, conducted between 1946 and 1948, were intended to test the effects …

Links between WHO experts and drug firms that profited from H1N1 pandemic under scrutiny. Last Modified: 04 Jun 2010 15:49 A joint report into the handling of the H1N1 outbreak has found that some scientists who advised governments to stockpile drugs, had previously been on the payroll of big drug …

By Sohail Rahman August 19th, 2010 As our camera pointed towards the sky it was hard to believe that three weeks previously you couldn’t see the sun. Then it was blocked out by a thick grey cloud. Within the coming hours the heavens would open and rains would fall. Nothing …

MUSLIM JUDICIAL COUNCIL Tel: +27 (0) 21 6844 600 Fax: +27(0) 21 696 5154 Address: P.O. Box 38311, Gatesville, 7766 Cape Province, South Africa E-mail: mediadesk@mjc.org.za Website: www.mjc.org.za 13 August 2010 “GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN GROUPS BREAK ISRAELI IMPOSED SEIGE ON GAZA” When ordinary people do justice, leaders will follow International humanitarian …

Businessman Rachid Nekkaz hopes to render new law useless by paying fines for women caught wearing veil in street Lizzy Davies in Paris Wednesday 14 July 2010 14.02 BST A French property tycoon enraged at his government’s plans to ban women from wearing the full veil in public has promised …

July 14, 2010By RONALD P. SOKOL Two years ago, France’s highest court denied citizenship to a Muslim woman on the grounds that she had not assimilated into French society. I agreed to defend her before the European Court of Human Rights. I could have emphasized religious freedom; I raised the …

By Carl Gershman Monday, July 5, 2010 A year ago today, when Chinese police violently suppressed a peaceful protest by the Uighur minority in Urumqi, the capital of the western region of Xinjiang, the world essentially looked the other way. This is the message of “Can Anyone Hear Us?” a …

July 1, 2010 at 12:15:06 By Bill Quigley and Alex Tuscano. [Bill is the Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. You can reach Bill atquigley77@gmail.com Alex directs Praxis, a human rights organization in Bangalore India. You can reach Alex …

Article By: iafrica.com Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:57 A Texas man reportedly suffocated his two-year-old stepdaughter because she would not stop crying during a World Cup game. Hector Castro (28) beat the girl severely enough to crack her ribs before suffocating her during the US vs. Ghana match on Saturday, …