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Harvest of death is reaped where the cluster bombs were scattered
News – ELEVEN years old, the schoolboy was too engrossed watching a bulldozer demolishing his neighbour's house to notice one of the pine cones fall from the branch above his head. Except it wasn't a cone. Seconds after the tiny object hit the ground Mohammed Hassan Sultan was dead, killed by shrapnel to the heart from an Israeli cluster bomb that had lai
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 08:16am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks
Fashion's dirty secret: 3p-an-hour child labour
News – THE fashion world called it "boho chic". Sienna Miller, the model and actress, was credited with creating the retro hippie look that swept Britain's high streets last spring, but according to human rights campaigners many of the clothes were made in India by children as young as seven.
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 08:03am
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1.2 million children trafficked each year for exploitative labor or sex slavery
Family – With an estimated 1.2 million children trafficked each year for exploitative labor or sex slavery, over 300,000 child soldiers - some as young as 8, and 115 million primary school-aged children denied any formal education whatsoever, the international community needs to become far more effective in ensuring the basic human rights to which children
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 08:03am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks
2 ordered not to discuss Gitmo claims
News – A paralegal and a military lawyer who brought forward allegations about prisoner abuse at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have been ordered not to speak with the press, lawyers and a military spokeswoman said Saturday.
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 07:50am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 27 votes / No sinks
Islamic-safe finance grows in the West
Money – When Caribou Coffee went public last year, sharp-eyed investors noticed some unusual promises in its prospectus. Caribou, the nation's second-largest coffeehouse chain, said it would never sell pork or porn.
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 07:49am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
Muslims find errors in Pope's presentation of Islam
Religion – Senior Muslim scholars, taking up Pope Benedict's call for a frank dialogue, have written him an open letter listing factual errors in his recent speech on Islam that sparked protest across the Muslim world.
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 12:25am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 34 votes / No sinks
Teen Questioned for Online Bush Threats
News – Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her Web page on MySpace.com. She posted a picture of the president, scrawled 'Kill Bush' across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 12:22am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 35 votes / No sinks
Why is the American press silent on the report of 650,000 Iraqi deaths?
News – The US media is virtually silent on a new scientific study that estimates the Iraqi death toll from the US war at 655,000. The study, conducted by John Hopkins University and funded by MIT, was posted Wednesday on the web site of the British medical journal, the Lancet.
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 12:21am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / No sinks
Nuclear weapons and the United States
News – The United States was the first country in the world to successfully develop nuclear weapons, and is the only country to have used them in war against another nation. During the Cold War it conducted over a thousand nuclear tests and developed many long-range weapon delivery systems. It maintains an arsenal of about ten thousand warheads to this da
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Cluster Bombs and Condi's Fatal Birth Pangs
Politics – It's worth noting that Israel continues to withhold information from the UN that would assist in clearing cluster bombs and minefields. For the record, Israel has not denied that it fired the bulk of its cluster munitions in the last days of the war - it just hasn't bothered to explain why.
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 12:16am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / 3 sinks
Abusing the Arab Peace Initiative
Politics – The Arab Peace Initiative was for four years archived into oblivion on the shelves of the Arab League, rejected by Israel, ignored by the US and viewed even by its authors as an unrealistic non-starter, until it was dusted off to contain the negative unexpected outcome of the Israeli 33-day destructive war on Lebanon, notes Nicola Nasser.
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Voted for on October 15, 2006 12:09am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / 2 sinks
Muslim Scholars Challenge Pope's Knowledge of Islam
News – Senior Muslim scholars, taking up Pope Benedict's call for a frank dialogue, have written him an open letter listing factual errors in his recent speech on Islam that sparked protest across the Muslim world.
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Voted for on October 14, 2006 11:54pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 133 votes / No sinks
Bush keeps revising war justification
News – President Bush keeps revising his explanation for why the U.S. is in Iraq, moving from narrow military objectives at first to history-of-civilization stakes now.
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
Anti-Muslim Attacks Surge in UK
News – Physical and verbal attacks against British Muslims have been on the rise since former foreign minister Jack Straw's call for Muslim women to remove their face veils.
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Voted for on October 14, 2006 01:17pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks
Blair devastated as Army chief savages his approach to Iraq
News – The authority of Tony Blair was left battered last night as he attempted to play down a rift with the head of the British Army over his unprecedented warning that the presence of foreign troops was "exacerbating" the security situation in Iraq.
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