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The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNHCR), an independent body set up by an act of Parliament, says it has evidence that almost 500 suspects were shot and their bodies dumped during the past five months. Researchers have spent three months collecting the data from mortuaries as relatives came...
Amid heavy rains, President Felipe Calderon ordered in thousands of soldiers, marines, pilots and federal police on Oct. 29, two days before the most damaging flooding hit. When the riverbanks finally burst, inundating some 70% of the city on Oct. 31, there were more than 60 helicopters buzzing through the...
Presidential and vice presidential candidates must declare their intent to run by Nov. 21, and active campaigning will not be allowed to begin until exactly one week later, according to Michael L. Taylor ’08, chairman of the Election Commission.
As a result, Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist moved immediately after his January inauguration to scrap e-voter machines and return the state to paper by 2008 - to what he and most voter-rights advocates call the more trustworthy optical scan system. In that method, votes are marked on a...
He said that it was not wise for the commission to initiate a new study given the history of the matter.