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News You Might Have Missed

By Newsdesk.org Staff | December 23, 2004

Important but underreported news from around the world — and your own backyard
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QUOTED: “[Y]ou have to sleep to stay alive, whether there’s a bed for you or not.” –Activist Larry Milligan, on San Diego’s practice of issuing tickets to homeless people sleeping outdoors. (Story #9, below.)
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TOP STORIES
[o1] “Have lessons of the Gulf been learned?” [o2] “Millions ‘to lose textile jobs'”
[o3] “Inuit group seeks link between rights, climate change”
UPDATES
[o4] Military Prison Abuse
[o5] Election 2004
[o6] Faith & Politics
NATION
[o7] “Bleary Days for ‘Eyes on the Prize'”
[o8] “Nicaraguan leftists screened out of entry to U.S.” [o9] “Can a city ticket its homeless?”

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News You Might Have Missed

By Newsdesk.org Staff | December 15, 2004

Important but underreported news from around the world — and your own backyard
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QUOTED: “[W]e should dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them.” –Alabama state rep. Gerald Allen, on literary works that feature gay
characters. (Story #15, below).  – – – – – – – – – –
TOP STORIES
[o1] “Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters”
[o2] “Supreme Court in Ecuador replaced”
[o3] “Government relying on industry to protect water supplies”
NATION
[o4] “Another election mistake surfaces”
[o5] “Founder escapes charges in Global Crossing failure”
[o6] “Changes sought in rules on lunch breaks / Gov. says plan limits lawsuits”
WORLD
[o7] “Abuses intolerable, army chief says”
[o8] “Oil’s legacy in Niger Delta may be pollution, anger”
[o9] “Spanish leader makes bid to reshape the war on terror”
[10] “Blair rules out Iraq civilian death toll probe”
[11] “MRSA scandal”
[12] “‘It’s a massive cover-up'”
STUN GUNS
[13] “Experts dispute data on stun guns”
[14] “U.S. punishes troops over stun guns”
[15] “As orders soar, concern over stun guns grow”
GAYS IN AMERICA
[16] “Tuscaloosa legislator wants to ban gay literature”
[17] “Men face new charges in beating / Prosecutor calls murder a hate crime”
SAME-SEX UNIONS
[18] “NZ recognizes same-sex unions”
[19] “Klein to fight gay unions”
ENVIRONMENT
[20] “Brazil garbage dump could be climate trailblazer”
[21] “Drilling bids set for national forest in Utah”
[22] “Focus now on compensation for victims”
VIEWPOINT
[23] “U.S. media still hiding bad news from Americans”
[24] “Uzbek prisons — a survivor’s guide”

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“Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters”
United Press International, December 7, 2004
Injured and traumatized Iraq war veterans are beginning to seek help at homeless shelters. [o2]
“Supreme Court in Ecuador replaced”
BBC (U.K.), December 10, 2004
Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez has forcibly replaced most of the Supreme Court, insisting they were loyal to the opposition.

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News You Might Have Missed * December 8, 2004

By Newsdesk.org Staff | December 8, 2004

QUOTED
“I would support any bill that would call for the death penalty for illegal loggers, because really it causes displacement and death.” — Phillipines legislator Panfilo Lacson wants illegal logging classified as a “heinous crime,” after clearcutting was blamed for devastating floods and landslides there (story #o7, below).  – – – – – – – – – –
TOP STORIES
[o1] “Reuters still seeking answers on alleged abuse of 3 staffers”
[o2] “From church, a challenge to Israeli policies”
[o3] “U.S. giant’s defense on Bhopal could be undermined by papers”
WAR & TERRORISM
[o4] “German police raid offices of charity with links to Hamas”
[o5] “200 in Iran vow suicide attack willingness”
[o6] “DR Congo settlements turned to ghost villages amid burning reports”
[o7] “Beslan inquiry under fire”
WORLD
[o7] “Death for illegal loggers pushed”
[o8] “Iranian students heckle Khatami”
[o9] “Child suicides high in Shanghai”
[10] “Sistani pulls main Shia parties together to dominate Iraq poll”
HUMAN RIGHTS
[11] “Foes trying new tack to get Pinochet: Financial crime”
[12] “Chinese activists ‘risk torture'”
[13] “Baghdad prostitutes fall on hard times”
[14] “Legislators back reform of felon rules”
ENVIRONMENT
[15] “Large methyl bromide exemptions granted”
[16] “Canada losing pollution fight, report shows”
[17] “Public health group warns about impending plastic problem”
[18] “Climate talks bring Bush’s policy to fore”
VIEWPOINT
[19] “You asked for my evidence, Mr. Ambassador. Here it is”
[20] “Invoking genocide, Rwanda takes aim at rebels”
[21] “Last chance saloon for U.N.?”  – – – – – – – – – –
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“Reuters still seeking answers on alleged abuse of 3 staffers”
Editor & Publisher, December 5, 2004
A Reuters bureau chief in Iraq is investigating the alleged abuse of his Iraqi staffers under interrogation by U.S. soldiers.