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...Washington Voting Rights Act Stays Alive In a highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling, the 1965 Voting Rights Act survived a legal challenge that many analysts expected to topple the landmark civil rights law. The court's 8-to-1 decision sidestepped the core constitutional issues in question, keeping intact a key provision of the statute. That measure, Section 5, requires all or parts of 16 states deemed to have a history of racial discrimination to seek federal clearance before changing voting procedures. Critics call the requirement outdated; defenders insist the scrutiny is still needed...
...This is another act of desperation by a regime that is terrified of public opinion.' ROSEANN RIFE, a program director for Amnesty International, criticizing China for its sweeping crackdown on civil liberties associated with the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations...
...Russia have dipped to pre-election levels. "Racism in Russia has always been widespread and will always be a problem," she says. "But I don't think the fact that he is black is an issue today." (See pictures of how Obama's election energized the heart of the civil rights movement...
...Stothard says the regime fears a Security Council inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity. Burma has been engaged in a civil war with various ethnic groups since 1948, although some have signed cease-fire agreements with the government. The regime has been accused of torturing its political prisoners. But China and Russia have opposed any Security Council action on Burma. China, which views Burma as a resource-rich, strategically important client state, is seen as the regime's strongest backer in the international community. "It's time China realized that having instability on its border with Burma...
...What Europe should do is follow the U.S. method of banning all airlines from countries whose civil aviation officials don't enforce international security standards," Hubert argues. "Targeting individual carriers is often overly subjective, and inefficient in remedying the original problem of insufficient oversight by national aviation authorities." The E.U. blacklist already effectively bans all airlines from nations such as Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Croatia and Paraguay, in addition to individual carriers from countries whose safety oversights the E.U. considers sound. Even that, though, can't prevent disaster from striking some of the largest and most reputable airlines...