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BSCBA favours two polls under caretaker govt
"The prime minister (PM) was not properly briefed about the Supreme Court (SC) verdict which says the next two polls could be held under CGs, if parliament wants," Khandaker Mahbub Hossain said Wednesday. He said the system should be retained
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:21P
Illegal Construction of CDM Project Barro Blanco Continues
For more than seven hours they held up traffic, trucks, passenger-filled buses and cars on the Pan-American highway to raise awareness about the project. When riot police arrived and put on their gas masks the protesters agreed to stop the rally and to
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:20P
FEMA wants back 2005 overpayments from hurricane victims
Residents who lost homes filed a class-action lawsuit in 2007 challenging the denial of their housing aid and the recoupment process. The lawsuit argued that FEMA's debt collection efforts were full of errors, based on vague standards and without
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:20P
Mass. House approves anti-human trafficking bill
unanimously approved a bill designed to crack down on those who traffic young people and adults for sex or forced labor. The legislation would create the crime of human trafficking in Massachusetts, 1 of just five states without a trafficking law.
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:20P
Ohio adjusts execution for cancer-stricken inmate
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections is using the change as part of its argument that a federal judge should dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state's execution procedures. The state will raise the gurney where Kenneth Smith will lie
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:19P
Two plead guilty in China microchip case: US
Two Chinese nationals pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to smuggle radiation hardened microchips to companies controlled by Beijing in violation of a US arms embargo, the Justice Department said. Hong Wei Xian, 32, and Li Li, 33, were arrested in
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:18P
Port Arthur residents in litigation over collision
According to the lawsuit, on March 31 Rawlins and Trass collided at the intersection of Savannah and 19th Street in Port Arthur. The suit does not state how the incident occurred, nor does the suit list any alleged acts of negligence committed by Trass
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:18P
Al-Azhar grand sheikh: Jihad is legitimate
“Jihad is legitimate in Islam to defend justice,” Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb told a delegation from the British parliament on Wednesday. “But it is forbidden to use it in forcing others to convert to Islam.” Tayyeb also said Islam recognizes
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:18P
Funding arrangement in ManuLife class action changes landscape
Judge George Strathy of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice last week confirmed the funding arrangement he conditionally approved last March. Claims Funding International PLC, an Irish company that's not a party to the case, has agreed to indemnify
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:17P
Virginia chamber names vice president of public policy and general counsel
He also will coordinate the work of the chamber's policy committees and coalitions on civil justice, education, energy, health care, management relations, natural resources, tax policy and transportation. Martin was policy director for the Virginia
Updated: 06/01/2011 02:17P
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