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Honduras de facto leader lifts ban on media, protests » TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The de facto Honduran government relaxed curbs on protests and opposition media on Monday as crisis talks dragged into a third week with no deal on toppled President Manuel Zelaya's return to power.Zelaya, forced out of the country by soldiers in a June 28 coup, slipped back into Honduras last month and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy. De facto leader Roberto Micheletti responded by deploying soldiers around the embassy, imposing restrictions on press freedoms and ba...
Monks Revolution Continue in Burma » Thousands of people took to the streets in Rangoon today to support monks protesting against the Burmese government.More than 1000 monks braved rain in the former capital today to stage another protest against government harassment around the famous Sule Pagoda, where several monks gave political speeches, slamming the military's use of violence against peaceful protests.Huge crowds of civilians gathered in the streets to watch the monks protest. Some reports from Rangoon claimed that almost 10,...
Moldovan student: "we have no freedom" » <object   classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000'   id='seyretpl'  name='seyretpl'  width='350' height='290' > <param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always' /> <param name='wmode' value='transparent' /> <param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /> <param name='movie' value='http://canvasopedia.mediaworks.rs/components/com_seyret/localplayer/player.swf' /> <param name='flashvars' value='width=350&height=290&enablejs=true&file=http://canv...
Environmentalist gets 20 days for Massey protest » MADISON, W.Va. - A Climate Ground Zero activist has been sentenced to 20 days in jail for blocking a road to a Massey Energy office during a mountaintop removal mining protest. The group has been committing acts of civil disobedience all year, many targeting Virginia-based Massey. Twenty-two-year-old Joseph Hamsher is the first to get jail time instead of fines. Hamsher pleaded guilty to conspiracy and trespassing in Boone County Magistrate Court on Tuesday, and will serve 10 days on each charge...
Rights Monitors Concerned Over Fate Of Iranian Student Who Spoke With UN » When the UN's special rapporteur on freedom of expression, Ambeyi Ligabo, visited Tehran earlier this month, his purpose was to meet freely with Iranians and learn more about the human rights situation in the country. But while he was an official guest of the government, the UN representative's welcome did not come without a price. The price -- which has only become apparent since his departure -- was a harsh crackdown by the hard-line-dominated judiciary on at least one of those who talked to h...
Budget Cut Rally » Students, faculty, and other members of the community joined together to show their support for education and their disagreements with Governor Jim Gibbons.  
Tamil protest ends after 73 days » A 73-day protest involving thousands of people demonstrating over the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka has ended. The protest featured hunger strikes, mass sit-ins blocking central London roads and people throwing themselves into the River Thames. One of those involved, Ambi Seevaratnam said: "After 73 days, nothing has worked. The Tamils have been betrayed by the international community." Last month, a senior Metropolitan Police officer warned the long protest was diverting resources from other ...
U.S. Suspends $30 Million to Honduras » WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Thursday that the United States would formally suspend nearly $30 million in aid to the coup-installed government in Honduras. She also suggested for the first time that the United States might not recognize the country’s elections this fall if the ousted president was not returned to power by then.
Second Vermont Republic movement holds mock funeral » If any New Yorker were to become the theoretician for a new secessionist movement, it figured to be Kirkpatrick Sale.Mr. Sale, 70, was a campus rabble-rouser at Cornell in the 1950s long before Berkeley made being one fashionable, a model for a character in Richard Fariña’s classic ’60s novel, “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me,” a writer who worked briefly with his college pal Thomas Pynchon on a musical called “Minstral Island.” For half a century, he’s written mor...
Dozens Protest Egyptian MP's Call for Violence » Several dozen demonstrators rallied outside of Egypt's parliament Tuesday, two days after a member of President Hosni Mubarak's party said opposition activists should be shot.Some of the protesters in Cairo carried banners saying "shoot us," an apparent reference to comments made by National Democratic Party member Nashaat al-Qasas.