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Rights activists raise political killings at UN

The killings of scores of left-wing activists in the Philippines have been brought before the UN in a bid to put international pressure on President Gloria Arroyo to do more to stop the attacks, human rights advocates said yesterday.

Representatives of five Philippine left-wing groups are attending a conference of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to encourage diplomats and foreign rights advocates to condemn the killings, allegedly carried out by government forces, they said.

"International pressure might at least put a stop to these increasing numbers of political killings," Edelina de la Paz, head of the prominent local human rights group Karapatan, told a Manila forum on the issue.

Source: GulfNews
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Blair 'turned blind eye to Iraq intelligence' in Bush meeting

Tony Blair turned "a blind eye to intelligence" and failed to challenge George Bush over claims that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons, according to new claims published this week.

A note of a private meeting between Mr Blair and President Bush in January 2003 shows that Tony Blair failed to confront Mr Bush when he claimed Saddam Hussein had tried to buy aluminium tubes for nuclear weapons production.

Mr Blair did not contradict the President despite having received "private briefings" which indicated that the aluminium tubes were more likely to be for conventional weapons, according to the new edition of a book by the international lawyer Philippe Sands published tomorrow. The claims in a new US edition of the book, Lawless World, will raise fresh questions about whether Mr Blair played a secondary role to President Bush.

Source: London Independant

Venezuela rejects US apologies

Venezuela has made a formal complaint to the US authorities and the United Nations after its foreign minister was detained at a New York airport.

The US state department has apologised to Nicolas Maduro who was detained for 90 minutes at New York's JFK airport as he travelled home.

He had been attending this week's UN General Assembly meeting.

He said he was verbally abused and strip-searched in what he said was a "flagrant breach of international law".

President Hugo Chavez described Mr Maduro's detention as a provocation.

Source: BBC News
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Thousands peacefully protest in Budapest against Hungarian PM

Tens of thousands of people have rallied peacefully in Budapest in the biggest demonstration so far against Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany over his admission that he lied to the electorate.

An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 demonstrators calling for Mr Gyurcsany's resignation gathered outside the huge neo-Gothic parliament, where protests have been held for the past week.

But there was no repeat of the violence which marred earlier rallies and put riot police on full alert.

Mr Gyurcsany was unmoved, saying he will stay in power and pledging to implement the painful tax rises and spending cuts that have caused his government's popularity to plummet to 25 per cent in recent polls from 40 per cent at April's election.

"I will continue on because I still have much to do here," Mr Gyurcsany told German magazine Focus in an interview.

Demonstrators carrying Hungarian flags and singing patriotic songs said they would stay the course in hoping they could eventually force out the 45-year-old millionaire Socialist.

Source: ABC Austrialia News Online

France looks into Osama bin Laden death report

President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is "in no way whatsoever confirmed."

Chirac said he was "a bit surprised" at the leak and has asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to probe how a document from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the French press.

The regional newspaper l'Est Republicain on Saturday printed what it described as a copy of a confidential document from the DGSE intelligence service citing an uncorroborated report from Saudi secret services that the leader of the al-Qaeda terror network had died.

Source: International Herald Tribune
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North Korea 'makes weapon pledge'

North Korea has said it plans to increase the amount of plutonium it extracts for use in nuclear weapons, according to a US scholar.

Selig Harrison said North Korean officials had told him they would unload nuclear fuel rods from the Yongbyon reactor by the year's end.

Mr Harrison said Pyongyang wants "to use Yongbyon as leverage" to get bilateral talks with the US.

The US insists the nuclear issue can only be addressed in six-party talks.

Pyongyang walked out of multilateral negotiations with the US, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea late last year in protest at US financial sanctions.

Source: BBC News

London bombing victims 'let down'

The emergency response to the London bombings on 7 July last year was flawed, a Home Office report based on the experiences of victims has found.

The government praises the bravery of emergency workers but says procedures in areas including communications and medical treatment need to be improved.

It highlights the need to quickly set up reception and assistance centres.

Source: BBC News
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Lahoud: It is time for Israel to abide by all UN resolutions

It is time for Israel to take responsibility and abide by United Nations resolutions, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said Thursday in his address to the UN General Assembly.

Lahoud called the Israel Defense Forces' 34-day operation on southern Lebanon a "barbaric aggression," and said "this savagery did not weaken our people's resolve."

"It is time to ask Israel to finally abide by past and current UN resolutions," Lahoud said. The president also called on the international community to "safeguard" resolution 1701, which led to the cease-fire between IDF troops and Hezbollah guerillas, though he accused the United Nations of having been "powerless to stop slaughter of the war."

Source: Haaretz
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CIA ‘refused to operate’ secret jails

The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities, according to former CIA officials and people close to the programme.

The former officials said the CIA interrogators’ refusal was a factor in forcing the Bush administration to act earlier than it might have wished.

Source: FT.COM
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Bush, Republicans forge terrorism interrogation deal

President Bush bowed to pressure from leading senators in his Republican party on Thursday, revising a bill for interrogating terrorism suspects that critics had said would allow abusive treatment.

The deal between the White House and the three Senate heavyweights ended days of negotiations and appeared to clear the way for Congress to pass legislation setting up trials for foreign suspects at the U.S. naval facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Source: Reuters
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America is alienating rest of world: Powell

The former US secretary of state Colin Powell has accused the White House of pursuing policies in the "war on terror" that have put America out of step with the rest of the world.

In a rare public breach with the administration, Mr Powell told an audience in Norfolk, Virginia, on Tuesday that he opposed White House plans to redefine America's commitment to sections of the Geneva convention protecting detainees from torture and degrading treatment.

Source: Guardian Unlimited
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Zuma's corruption trial collapses

Corruption charges against former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma have been dismissed - boosting his chances of running for president.

The judge threw out the case after the prosecution said it was not ready to proceed, setting off celebrations by Mr Zuma's supporters in the courtroom.

Mr Zuma was sacked last year in connection with a 1999 arms deal. He was cleared of rape earlier this year.

Source: BBC News Worldwide
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Decision for Darfur peacekeepers

African Union leaders are meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York to decide on the fate of its 7,000-strong Darfur force.

The mandate of the mission expires at the end of the month. It is thought a three-month extension may be agreed, despite their failure to end violence.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has reiterated his opposition to moves to turn the force into one led by the UN.

Source: BBC News Worldwide
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Thai coup leader to install new PM in two weeks

Thailand's military coup leaders will choose a new prime minister within two weeks and step back from power, army chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin said on Wednesday.

Speaking less than 24 hours after leading a bloodless coup to oust billionaire Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Sonthi also said it would take a year to produce a new constitution leading to a fresh general election.

Source: Reuters
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US may ban sale of cluster bombs to Israel

The discovery of hundreds of US-made cluster bombs among the tens of thousands of unexploded munitions carpeting the south of Lebanon, has led to calls on Washington to impose a moratorium on sales of the weapons to Israel.

Bomb disposal experts are working around the clock to clear the lethal leftovers after Israel fired 1.2 million bomblets in the last three days of the war. The pods containing the 650 bomblets, which burst apart at a pre-determined height, have a failure rate of up to 30 per cent, leaving clear evidence of their American origin.

Source: Independent Online
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Thai Army Seizes Power

For the first time since democracy and civilian rule was restored to Thailand in 1992, troops backed by tanks took control of the premier’s office in Bangkok yesterday. Witnesses outside Government House in central Bangkok said forces loyal to military commander Lt. Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin had taken control of the building in a bloodless coup.

Gen. Sonthi met late yesterday with the king after declaring that he had staged a coup against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Gen. Sonthi and the leaders of the navy and the air force met for more than two hours with the highly influential King Bhumibol Adulyadej at his palace immediately after announcing the coup, a palace official said.

Source: Arab News
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The Following Article from the Independent Online explains the reason behind why there was a coup against the Prime Minister.
Source: Independent Online

Chavez greets Iranian ally Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Caracas Sunday for talks with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fellow critic of the United States who strongly defends Iran's controversial nuclear program.

Ahmadinejad, who was warmly greeted by Chavez after landing outside Caracas, will hold two days of talks with his Venezuelan counterpart and sign agreements on energy.

"We have a common thinking, common interests," Ahmadinejad said after his arrival. "We must be united to accomplish these ideas, to reach the objective of peace and justice in the world."

Source: Turkish Press
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Olbermann's choice of video clips from Bush's press conference

Olbermann's choice of video clips from Bush's press conference, on Friday 15th Sept, followed by some analysis by George Washington Univ. Law Professor Jonathan Turley.

Keith Olbermann asks Jonathan Turley if Bush could be trying to retroactively protect himself from possible war crimes charges by demanding that new interpretations of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 be set into law prior to the midterm elections.