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This is just too sad. A deer died yesterday after trying to jump over the wrought-iron fence around the cemetery between the Square and the Quad, according to the Cambridge Chronicle, which offers up the following quote from Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief Jack Gelinas...
...Cabinet member, Women's Issues and Social Development Minister Carmen Vildoso, quit June 8 to protest the government's response and there is building pressure for the resignation of Cabinet Chief Yehude Simon and Interior Minister Mercedes Cabanillas, whose office oversees the National Police. Even the normally staid daily El Comercio, dean of Peru's press, called for both ministers to quit. (Read about the political troubles of Peru's Alan Garcia...
Cabanillas, a key member of Garcia's APRA party and its presidential candidate in 1995, is routinely referred to at the Peruvian Margaret Thatcher for her tough stands. Administration sources say that she was the president's pick to become chief of staff in July, when Garcia starts the fourth year of a five-year term that ends in July 2011. That is now politically untenable. The ministers have claimed so far that they have no intention of stepping down and the administration, while saying it wants dialogue to end the tension, maintains that it will not modify the series...
...Autopsy reports and forensic investigations have confirmed that Aasiya and Nilofar, who was pregnant, were both raped, but authorities have not yet confirmed that either woman was murdered. A special police team has been assigned to the investigation. So far, no charges have been made, but chief minister of Indian-administered-Kashmir Omar Abdullah has said the government is committed to finding the perpetrators of the violent crime. "Nilofar and Aasiya were like my sisters and I, as brother, feel the pain of the tragedy that has befallen the victim family," Omar said. He pledged not to rest till...
...other key voices in the movement, most of whom have since been detained under a tough law called the Public Safety Act and shifted to jails outside the Valley. Several hundred average "troublemakers" have also been put behind the bars in the much-criticized sweep by police. Kashmir's chief minister Omar Abdullah has defended the action. "They took advantage of the tragic Shopian incident and plunged people into further misery," he told the Greater Kashmir newspaper...