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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 19

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“The combination of record heat and widespread drought during the past five to 10 years over large parts of southern and eastern Australia is without historical precedent and is, at least partly, a result of climate change.” — Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology on persistent, nationwide drought (see “Top Stories,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
More deaths alleged at Chevron’s Myanmar pipeline
Africa reels from illegal fishing
Drought persists Down Under
*Environment*
New wind-power projects becalmed
*War, & Other Civilized Pasttimes*
For Cold War Brits, the Day After was a tea-time nightmare

TOP STORIES
* More Deaths Alleged at Chevron’s Myanmar Pipeline
Alleged human rights abuses by soldiers guarding a Burmese pipeline have revived old questions about pipeline co-owner Chevron’s relationship with the military dictatorship that hosts it. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the activist group EarthRights International has interviewed villagers near the Yadana Pipeline, who say government troops working for Chevron have killed local residents, and used others as slave labor.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 18

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. DEAR READERS: We at Newsdesk.org/News You Might Have Missed are on overtime getting ready for the big Innovations in Journalism Expo coming up this Saturday, May 3, in Sunnyvale, Calif. The event is being produced by our parent agency, Independent Arts & Media, working with the Society of Professional Journalists-Northern California. You can learn more about the Expo online. Tickets will be available at the door, but we will likely sell out, so plan ahead if you want to attend.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 17

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“This unique population has given us an indication that cell phone use is associated with cancer.” — Dr. Siegal Sadetzki of the University of Tel Aviv, on cell phones and salivary gland tumors (see “Public Health,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Ghana’s oil — blessing or curse? Broadband: BBC calls for market ‘intervention’
Yemen steps, uneasy, from past to future
*Public Health*
Callbacks on the cell phone cancer story
*Water*
Virtual water and real thirst

TOP STORIES
* Ghana’s Oil — Blessing or Curse?

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 16

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“The police chief has asked us to stop so we are stopping, but remain peaceful, because soon we will be running this country.” — Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, who was drummed out of power 10 years ago, speaking at a rally to mark his political return (see “Malaysia,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
King Tobacco, Balkan crime lord
Cultivating change in Lebannon
Israel: Homelessness spikes for girls
*Intolerance*
Not your father’s hate groups
*Malaysia*
A political resurrection Malaysia

TOP STORIES
* King Tobacco, Balkan Crime Lord
Cigarette counterfeiting and smuggling in the Balkans is one of the primary drivers of crime and corruption in the region, according to a coalition of investigative reporting projects. Bosnia-Herzegovina alone is estimated to lose $200 million each year in tax revenue from tobacco smuggling, a sum that could approach billions worldwide.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 15

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“We do not want to do anything that the companies feel would be negative in their competitive environment.” — Rhode Island cable TV regulator Eric Palazzo, on his move to keep secret formerly public information about cable companies such as Cox and Verizon (see “Top Stories,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
An investor’s guide to presidential candidates
Rhode Island: Secrecy affirmed for cable TV
The ends of the Internet? *War & Terrorism*
Uneasy France steps up to NATO role
*Environment & Health*
Global warming: Something to sneeze at

TOP STORIES
* An Investor’s Guide to Presidential Candidates
Pondering a donation to a presidential candidate?

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 14

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“Some people in the west think they own us or have the authority over us. That is why some judge sits in Spain and indicts Kagame. He has no jurisdiction over us, over Rwanda. If I met him today I would tell him to go to hell.”

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 13

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“The government celebrates [non-resident Indians] and is able to build airports on their remittances, but turns its back on them when they expose the ugly reality of immigrant life in the U.S.” — New Orleans-based labor activist Saket Soni (see “Immigration,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Who wants to buy a President? Cancer in the air, and in your hair
Debt waived for India farmers
*Immigration*
U.S. guest workers kept like “pigs in a cage”
*Women*
Witch-hunting in the 21st century

TOP STORIES
* Who Wants to Buy a President?

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 12

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“You don’t get to be an old cougar by doing stupid stuff like hanging out in backyards and eating cats.” — Researcher Robert Wielgus on why mountain lion attacks are up in Washington State (see “Wildlife,” below). CONTENTS:
*Gay Rights & Refugees*
Gay Muslims seek political asylum in Britain
*Wildlife*
Hunting animals who hunt humans

GAY RIGHTS & REFUGEES
* Gay Muslims Seek Political Asylum in Britain
The United Kingdom has been gripped in recent weeks by the stories of two gay teenagers who say they face persecution and even death in their home countries of Iran and Syria. Though unrelated, the stories the two youths tell are eerily similar.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 11

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“Both the right and the left are talking about Americanization, Westernization, and cultural homogenization. Something like Tisza shoes is embraced because it’s retro, it’s Hungarian, and it’s also a statement against the big corporate brands.” — Anthropologist Balazs Frida on the new communist chic in the former Eastern Bloc (see “Pop & Politics,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Pesticide politics and the light brown apple moth
From bike lanes to “wildlife highways”
Comfort sought in Philippines for WWII sex slaves
*Law & Justice*
South Africans march as crime wave peaks
*Pop & Politics*
Communist chic in the former Eastern Bloc

TOP STORIES

* Pesticide Politics and the Light Brown Apple Moth
California’s nine-county Bay Area is now on a federal quarantine list — to which Mexico has added Los Angeles and Napa counties — as state and federal officials ponder billions of dollars in losses and a massive pesticide campaign to combat the light brown apple moth.