Topic: International News

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

Articles: Right to free speech outweighs concerns about minors' access

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:59 PM

	A divided U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to let the government enforce the latest version of a criminal law requiring commercial Web sites to shield minors from sexually explicit material. Read full article: 'Right to free speech outweighs concerns about minors' access'

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Articles: Neighbors Cling to Hope for Missing Soldier

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:55 PM

	Brian Parnes turns on his computer each morning to read and reread the last e-mail message he received from Iraq from his boyhood friend, Specialist Keith Matthew Maupin. Read full article: 'Neighbors Cling to Hope for Missing Soldier'

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Articles: Detainees can tell it to a judge

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:52 PM

	Justice Sandra Day O'Connor put it very well: "It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad." Read full article: 'Detainees can tell it to a judge'

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Articles: Captured Marine said to be deserting

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:48 PM

	The American Marine who kidnappers are threatening to behead deserted the military because he was emotionally traumatized, and was abducted by his captors while trying to make his way home to his native Lebanon, the New York Times reported today, quoting an unidentified Marine officer. Read full article: 'Captured Marine said to be deserting'

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Articles: Portugal's Barroso, New EU Leader, May Confront France, Germany

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:46 PM

	As the next European Commission president, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso inherits a job that has frustrated higher-profile politicians: how to force European Union governments to follow the rules. Read full article: 'Portugal's Barroso, New EU Leader, May Confront France, Germany'

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Articles: U.S. gives Iraq custody of Hussein

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:44 PM

	The new Iraqi government will take legal custody of Saddam Hussein today, to stand trial for some of the worst crimes of the 20th century. Read full article: 'U.S. gives Iraq custody of Hussein'

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Articles: They struggled with ballot box decision

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:41 PM

	Voting history: Has mainly voted Conservative and Liberal but supported Tommy Douglas, the socialist premier who presided over the birth of medicare, while at university in Saskatchewan. Read full article: 'They struggled with ballot box decision'

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Articles: President ends trip with defense of democracy

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:39 PM

	President Bush called Tuesday for the spread of democracy in the Middle East as he wrapped up a five-day foreign trip designed to bolster the new Iraqi government. Read full article: 'President ends trip with defense of democracy'

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Articles: New U.S. Mad Cow Case May Affect Beef Ban, Kamei Says

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 12:38 AM

	Discovery of a second case of mad cow disease in the U.S. may affect Japan's ban on imports of beef from that country, said Yoshiyuki Kamei, minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Read full article: 'New U.S. Mad Cow Case May Affect Beef Ban, Kamei Says'

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Articles: Palestinian rocket attack kills man, boy

Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 12:35 AM

Palestinians fired a barrage of homemade rockets at this Israeli border town yesterday, killing an Israeli man and a three-year-old boy as youngsters arrived at nursery schools. It marked the first time in nearly four years of fighting that Israelis were killed by rockets from Gaza, and harsh Israeli retaliation was expected. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called an emergency security cabinet meeting, an indication he would seek special approval for military action.

Read full article: 'Palestinian rocket attack kills man, boy'

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