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India has complained for years that Western double standards have stopped it from importing the nuclear technology and materials it needs to modernize its civilian nuclear industry. Delhi understands that developing nuclear weapons has earned it the disapproval of the West, but Indians don't accept that they should be denied weapons systems that are the strategic mainstay of powers such as China and Russia. So, you might think the news that the U.S. Congress has passed a bill that bends those rules and allows India to import nuclear fuel would be celebrated in this energy-hungry economic powerhouse...
...abuses of Pinochet - who also died, ironically, on the United Nations' International Human Rights Day - were certainly some of the most brutal South America has ever witnessed. His right-wing regime, which lasted 17 years until he ceded power to an elected civilian government in 1990, was responsible for the deaths or disappearances of more than 3,000 suspected communists and other leftists - "disappeared," in fact, became a noun during his reign - while thousands more were tortured or forced into exile (including Bachelet's family). Even banishment wasn't safe: in 1976, Pinochet henchmen assassinated former Chilean ambassador and Pinochet...
Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) held a “solidarity gathering” yesterday in response to the weekly vigils organized by the Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) for victims of violence in Gaza. The PSC vigils—the group has held three in response to recent Palestinian civilian deaths in the Middle East—have come under fire from HSI members for their allegedly politicized nature. Jewish and pro-Israel groups had approached the PSC in an attempt to organize vigils mourning both Palestinian and Israeli civilian casualties, HSI President Rebecca M. Rohr...
...Diyala and Salah ad Din. Bush blames the increasing violence on al-Qaeda, but the report notes that that the terror group is now responsible for only a "small portion" of it. The sectarian violence between Shi'a and Sunnis in and around Baghdad "causes the largest number of civilian casualties. Iraq is in the grip of a deadly cycle...
...After his lawyers contested the government's right to hold him without trial, Padilla last January was transferred from military to civilian custody. He is set to go on trial Jan. 22 in Miami, along with two codefendants, on charges of supporting terrorism. The charges do not include the "dirty bomb" allegations, which the government appear to have dropped...