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Londen: De Libische overheid heeft een politieke gevangene nadat hij 15 maanden werd gearresteerd geleden bevrijd, het US-based bovengenoemde Horloge van Rechten van de mens (HRW). Juma Boufayed werd vorig jaar gearresteerd samen met Libische politieke activist 13 in Februari. De groep was van plan geweest om te protesteren wat zij politiebrutality riepen. Boufayed werd bevrijd op Dinsdag, die vrees wist hij zou kunnen gedood te zijn. Van de resterende vorig jaar vastgehouden groep van 13, 11…

Door Robert Verkaik | Een Britse ingezetene die de doodssanctie in de Baai onder ogen ziet van Guantanamo heeft een definitief wanhopig pleidooi aan Gordon Brown gemaakt om zijn beproeving van zes jaar te beëindigen en hem huis vandaag te brengen. In een brief die aan het Verslaan van Straat wordt geleverd, nodigt Binyam Mohamed, de laatste medebewoner van Guantanamo met het automatische recht op Britse residentie, de Eerste Minister uit…

By Leslee Dru Browning | How do mercury emissions affect pregnant mothers, the unborn and toddlers? Do the level of emissions impact autism rates? Does it matter whether a mercury-emitting source is 10 miles away from families versus 20 miles? Is the risk of autism greater for children who live closer to the pollution source? A newly published study of Texas school district ...

By Matthew Rothschild | There is one group of veterans that isn’t allowed to march in the national memorial parade in Washington on Monday. That’s the Veterans for Peace, Delwin Anderson Memorial chapter, based in D.C. It’s named after a World War II vet who fought in Italy and then worked for the VA for many years designing programs ...

By George Monbiot | We have all but forgotten the war with Iraq. We tend to see it now as little more than a "political mistake", like the 10p tax fiasco or Labour's mishandling of the byelection campaign in Crewe. The press and public attention have moved on and focused on more pressing matters, like the price of property. But this mistake has ...

The Iraq War means oil costs three times more than it should, says a leading expert. How are our lives going to change as we struggle to cope with the $200 barrel? Geoffrey Lean reports. The invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 ...

AFP | Police arrested more than 100 protesters in the Indonesian capital Saturday after some burnt tyres and threw molotov cocktails during a rally over fuel price rises, police said. Indonesia hiked the cost of fuel by nearly 30 percent from Saturday in response to soaring global oil prices, and a ballooning subsidy bill, leaving hard-pressed households facing even more economic woes. "More than 100 people have been detained for questioning," ...

By Jo Hartley | Americans need to be aware of what Senator John McCain's health care plan entails. Under the guise of fighting health care inflation, he is targeting the employer-provided system that currently covers over 60 percent of the non-elderly population. This would effectively force people who now have health insurance through their employers to purchase individual health care ...

AP | Burma's ruling junta has agreed to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said today. Mr Ban's comments came after a crucial two-hour meeting today with the junta leader, Senior General Than Shwe. When asked if he thought the agreement was a breakthrough, Mr Ban said: "I think so." Burma's junta has until now refused to allow an unimpeded influx of foreign ...

NaturalNews | The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II. DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of its high density, it is ...

By Suzanne Fournier | Tasers can cause fatal cardiac arrest and are even more dangerous if the subject is agitated, stressed and experiencing pain from the high-voltage device, two top Vancouver heart specialists said Tuesday. Dr. Michael Janusz, a heart surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC told the Braidwood Inquiry into Taser use Tuesday that "Tasers almost certainly can cause ...

By Kim Sengupta | Pervez Kambaksh, the Afghan student sentenced to death after being accused of downloading internet reports on women's rights, yesterday pleaded innocent to charges of blasphemy. He told an appeal court in Kabul that he had been tortured into confessing. Mr Kambaksh, 24, vehemently denied that he had been responsible for producing anti-Islamic literature. He insisted the prosecution ...

VOA News | China says nearly 400 dams and reservoirs near the epicenter of Monday's deadly earthquake were damaged, triggering new worries as Chinese officials warned Thursday that the death toll could top 50,000.The military is in a race against time to rescue tens of thousands believed buried beneath the rubble from Monday's quake. Officials in southwestern Sichuan province say ...

A Milan judge ruled Wednesday that Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi and his predecessor Romano Prodi, can be called as witnesses in a trial on the alleged abduction of a terrorism suspect by agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Berlusconi who returned to office as premier last week was in power in 2003 when an Egyptian imam, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr - ...