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Its been roughly 5 years and 3 months since David Hicks was captured by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and with charges only recently being laid for attempted murder and for providing material support for terrorism, how much longer does David Hicks have to wait before he has his day in court?
The Japanese Imperial Army, from 1932 until the end of World War II used approximately 200,000 women (some as young as 12) from North Korea, South Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia as "Comfort Women". Why is saying sorry so difficult? Is it because people don't like admitting that they are wrong?
David Hicks, after being locked up in Guantanamo Bay for over 5 years, is finally having a day in a court. Not a fair court under international standards, but a military court.
International Women's Day was celebrated on March the 8th all around the world. However, it seems that in some countries, women have very little rights and are constantly abused, raped and treated like second class citizens. This piece talks about the womans rights advocates arrested in Iran and the lashing of a woman in Saudi Arabia
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Une nouvelle compagnie low cost (sauf en vies humaines).
The Senate voted 62-36 to pass an immigration reform bill on Thursday, with 23 Republicans voting for it, four Democrats voting against it, and just about everyone saying it's unclear what the final bill will look like, once the Senate and the House try to hammer out a compromise on their very different bills.
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