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...feds, and some critics, saw it differently. Wolf, 24, became the first blogger to be targeted by the government for refusing to comply with a U.S. grand jury subpoena. On Tuesday the disputed source material went live on Wolf's website, joshwolf.net, after he and his lawyers reached an agreement with prosecutors. According to the settlement, Wolf won't have to testify or identify the demonstrators shown in his videotape. Former Inmate # 98005-111 spoke with TIME's Laura Locke hours after his release...
...feel vindicated. A lot of people have voiced their objections and their concerns about the agreement. At the end of the day, the government really has no more than they did the day I was subpoenaed, so to that end I feel that this was a victory. I think it's a travesty that the law is such that journalists do not have the protections we need, and I think that my case reveals how powerful those needs are given the fact that there was nothing [incriminating] on the tape...
...TRADE 40% Tariff on U.S. beef that South Korea will phase out over the next 15 years, part of a landmark free-trade agreement reached April 2 between Washington and Seoul that will eliminate tariffs on most types of goods traded between the two countries 400% Premium above global market prices that South Koreans will continue to pay for rice, due to tariffs and subsidies protecting Korean rice farmers that Seoul refused to eliminate as part of the trade deal
...brought to Guantánamo Bay, Australian David Hicks last week became the first Guantánamo inmate to be convicted of a crime after agreeing to a plea bargain. His surprising sentence includes nine months in prison, a one-year prohibition against speaking to the press, and an agreement not to press charges against U.S. government. Officials at Guantánamo have faced increasing pressure—and Supreme Court orders—to try the individuals being held. This first trial, however, is hardly reassuring; rather, it highlights the government’s lack of transparency...
...presence helped trigger the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1990. "In general, every time you have new refugees, no matter what the number, it raises the Palestinian question," says Stephane Jaquemet, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees representative in Lebanon. Still, the U.N. has worked out an agreement with the Lebanese government whereby any Iraqi given official refugee status by the UNHCR can stay in the country for a renewable one-year period. (UNHCR now automatically grants refugee status to anyone from central and southern Iraq.) But most Iraqi refugees aren't legally allowed to work in Lebanon...