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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

> Kenya Negotiations Reach Deadlock
> Business Needs Clear Carbon Targets
> Former SAS Soldier Attacks UK Torture Role
> Virgin's Biofuel Test Flight Slammed
> Californians Sitting on Toxic Couches - Report
> Africa's Minorities 'The Most Threatened in the World'
> No More Liberalisation, Trade Ministers Urged
> No Place to Call Home [photoessay]
> Pakistan Intelligence Agency 'Interfered in 2002 Elections'
> Reliving Guatemala's 'Silent Holocaust'

> Bangladesh: People suffering due to Emergency
> A case of legal eligibility versus social ineligibility
> Nepali gays to contest polls

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KENYA NEGOTIATIONS REACH DEADLOCK
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(27 feb 2008) Chief mediator to Kenya's political reconciliation
talks, Kofi Annan, said Monday that Kenya talks had reached a
stalemate as the rival parties could not agree on the role and powers
of the proposed prime minister.

From: The Daily Nation
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158301/7263/237300

BUSINESS NEEDS CLEAR CARBON TARGETS
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(27 feb 2008) The world's rich countries should set a goal of cutting
p***t-warming gases by 2020 so businesses can get a clearer signal
on actions needed to fight global warming, says the U.N.'s top
climate change official.

From: Reuters/Guardian
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158272/7263/237300

FORMER SAS SOLDIER ATTACKS UK TORTURE ROLE
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(27 feb 2008) Former SAS soldier Ben Griffin blasts Britain's
involvement in "Extraordinary Rendition" and its role in maintaining
secretive prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in which individuals face
torture.

From Stop the War Coalition
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158299/7263/237300

VIRGIN'S BIOFUEL TEST FLIGHT SLAMMED
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(27 feb 2008) The World Development Movement has dismissed Virgin’s
biofuels test flight as nothing more than a ‘publicity stunt with
dangerous consequences for the p***t’.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158268/7263/237300
From: World Development Movement
http://www.wdm.org.uk

CALIFORNIANS SITTING ON TOXIC COUCHES - REPORT
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(27 feb 2008) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 26 (OneWorld) - Most of California's
furniture contains toxic chemicals that have been linked to cancer,
birth defects, hormone disruption, and neurological and reproductive
dysfunction, according to a report released today.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158286/7263/237300
From: OneWorld US
http://us.oneworld.net

AFRICA'S MINORITIES 'THE MOST THREATENED IN THE WORLD'
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(27 feb 2008) Over half the top 20 countries in the world where
people are most under threat of genocide or mass killing are in
Africa, says Minority Rights Group International.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158252/7263/237300
From: Minority Rights Group International
http://www.minorityrights.org

NO MORE LIBERALISATION, TRADE MINISTERS URGED
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(27 feb 2008) Trade ministers from the world's poorest countries must
stand firm this week against WTO moves to further liberalise world
trade, a move which has already cost sub-Saharan Africa $272 billion
over the last 20 years, says a leading development charity.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158260/7263/237300
From: ActionAid International USA
http://www.actionaidusa.org

NO PLACE TO CALL HOME [PHOTOESSAY]
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(26 feb 2008) Photographs from the 'front lines' of an international
refugee agency's work in Kenya encapsulates the uncertainty and
desperation of families and individuals displaced by the
post-election uprisings.

From: openDemocracy
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158257/7263/237300

PAKISTAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 'INTERFERED IN 2002 ELECTIONS'
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(26 feb 2008) A former high-ranking official from Pakistan's "shadowy
but powerful" Inter Services Intelligence admitted to having
manipulated the 2002 elections in favor of President Musharraf and is
now saying the organization's political activities should be laid
down.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158256/7263/237300
From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
http://www.ipsnews.net

RELIVING GUATEMALA'S 'SILENT HOLOCAUST'
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(26 feb 2008) In harrowing testimony, survivors recount the
Guatemalan military's scorched earth campaign of the 1980s and 90s
that forced indigenous communities to face death, life in hiding, or
the confines of ghetto-like controlled villages.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158222/7263/237300
From: North American Congress on Latin America
http://www.nacla.org

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BANGLADESH: PEOPLE SUFFERING DUE TO EMERGENCY
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(27 feb 2008) It’s been more than a year now since the State of
Emergency was imposed in Bangladesh. More than 250,000 people have
faced arrests during this period. The Asian Legal Resource Centre has
documented numerous cases of arbitrary arrests, often carried out at
a scale that is difficult to fathom in many other countries.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158300/1893/237300

A CASE OF LEGAL ELIGIBILITY VERSUS SOCIAL INELIGIBILITY
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(27 feb 2008) When a dalit and a widow was appointed as cook in a
government-run school in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, no
one was ready to eat the food cooked and served by her. Everyone
conspired to sack her and saw to it that she was never reinstated.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158298/1893/237300

NEPALI GAYS TO CONTEST POLLS
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(27 feb 2008) At least five Nepali gays will contest elections for
the Constituent Assembly, scheduled to be held this April, to take up
the issue of discrimination against their community. In a nation that
treats homosexuality as illegal and immoral, this is an attempt to
fight exclusion.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/158294/1893/237300

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