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Oil and gas shut public out again
"Climate Justice Taranaki received an email yesterday from an ENEX oil and gas conference organiser, Gloria Yehia, to inform us that the 'open session' on the second day "is in fact a closed session open only to industry guests and not the public as
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:09P
Week 10: Maher Younis - Palestinian political prisoner
He received his primary education in the village of Ara, and pursued vocational training in the city Al Khdera near Haifa. At the time of his arrest he was registered with the Hebrew University. Maher was arrested on the night of 20th January 1983.
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:09P
Gervasio Snchez: Desaparecidos
Controversy may still arise from the contentious “Law of Historical Memory”, which regulates the disinterment of human remains of the Spanish Civil War. The law, passed in 2007 under the socialist government, aims to restore the honour of victims of
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:09P
Pimp and wife held on bail in Craigslist prostitution killing
Timothy Smith, 26, of the 4300 block of Doty Road in unincorporated Woodstock, appeared in McHenry County Circuit Court after being charged with first-degree murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm, pandering, obstructing justice and pimping,
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:08P
Fr. Arriaga, leader of pro-abortion D&P grant recipient, leaves office
“Luis Arriaga Valenzuela ends his term as director of the PRODH Center,” the site's headline reads in Spanish, and added that the “new leader” is to be Jesuit priest Jos Rosario Marroqun Farrera. No mention was made of Arriaga's next destination.
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:08P
Another firm to intervene in MbPT row
of a large chunk of port area for tearing down ships from across the world. The HC vacation bench of Justice AR Joshi and Justice MN Gilani did not vacate an interim order against the port trust but said it would hear the matter at length on Tuesday.
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:06P
Full Tilt Poker Account Unfrozen
However, EGR Magazine has reported that one of the company's Irish accounts has been unfrozen by the American Department of Justice, freeing up nearly $30 million of the $150 million that is owed to players in the United States.
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:05P
Contentious special session for Texas Legislature is expected
But Democrats blocked the so-called “sanctuary cities” bill that would force local law enforcement agencies to give immigration laws the same priority as violent crime. The politically charged moniker of the bill refers to police departments that tell
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:04P
Give all judicial nominees a vote
When I served as the chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, I worked extensively on the selection and confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, as well as some of the president's nominees for the
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:04P
Supreme's conservatives would let prisoners rot in jail
In two separate dissents, the four justices — Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — thought it an outrageous judicial overreach that a special three-judge court ordered California to reduce the size
Updated: 05/30/2011 09:03P
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