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Moldovan NGOs March Against Police Abuse, Torture
July 03, 2009Activists from several Moldovan human rights groups have held a march in downtown Chisinau to protest police brutality which, they say, in many cases amounts to torture, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Members of Amnesty International's Moldovan branch...
US Immigration: New Traps for Aliens Filing for a Green Card
July 02, 2009By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves and Joseph I. Elias The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued a policy memorandum binding to its officers regarding unlawful presence. The memorandum is supposed to merely consolidate...
Moldovan ministry says airport bomb threat hoax
July 02, 2009Reports about Chisinau airport being mined have turned out to be a hoax, the press secretary of the Interior Ministry, Ala Meleca, has said. Meleca said sappers had checked the building, which "a phone terrorist" had threatened to blow up...
Rabbi attacked, robbed in Moldova
July 02, 2009Rabbi Israel Livshits, leader of the Jewish community at the cultural and religious centre in Chisinau, has been attacked and robbed. "I have no doubts that the attack had anti-Semitic character," the rabbi told local television. The...
Air France jet of Flight 447 'broke on impact'
July 02, 2009French investigators trying to find out why an Air France plane crashed in the Atlantic say they believe it broke up on contact with water, not in the air. They also found that the plane's speed sensors had been "a factor but not the cause"...
Survivor speaks of Yemenia Air plane crash
July 02, 2009A 12-year-old girl thought to be the only survivor of the Yemenia air crash has told how she was thrown into the ocean and watched her aircraft sink. Baya Bakari told her father, from a hospital in the Comoros Islands, that she heard voices around her...
Sole Survivor of Comoros Crash Arrives in Paris
July 02, 2009The only known survivor of this week's Yemeni airliner crash off Comoros has arrived in Paris on a government plane. Bahia Bakari, 14, landed Thursday and was met by her father at the airport. He told reporters he is happy to see his daughter, but sad...
Medical Costs, Shortage of Doctors Fuel Midwife Trend
June 30, 2009Midwives are growing in popularity as the caregivers of choice among expectant mothers, with the number of midwife-attended births in the United States doubling between 1991 and 2008. Fueling the trend is the shortage of obstetricians and the low...
New Documentary Slams US Food Industry
June 30, 2009By Penelope Poulou Food Inc., a new documentary by director Robert Kenner, points an accusing finger at the U.S. food industry - a corporate monopoly, it says, that treats livestock inhumanely and grows genetically modified crops with fertilizers and...
Smokey Bear, at his 65th birthday, calls to prevent wildfires
June 30, 2009Smokey Bear Celebrates his 65th Birthday and Returns to Remind Americans... 'Only You Can Prevent Wildfires' Smokey Bear stars in new CG-animated PSAs and appears on Facebook, MySpace and YouTube in time for July 4th The Advertising Council joined today...