Reporting from Washington – The Obama administration is for the first time drafting classified guidelines to help the government determine whether newly captured terrorism suspects will be prosecuted or held indefinitely without trial, senior U.S. officials said. The draft document envisions that a small number of suspected terrorists captured [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Treasury said Thursday it had imposed sanctions on two ‘high-profile’ Pakistani trust fund chiefs allegedly linked to terrorism. They were identified as Mohammed Mazhar, director of Al-Akhtar Trust, and Mufti Abdul Rahim, leader of Al-Rashid Trust, both Pakistani charities whose assets under US jurisdiction were frozen, [...]

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China’s Youth Meet Microsoft
KYE Factory in China Produces for Microsoft and other U.S. Companies
"We are like prisoners… We do not have a life, only work."
-Teenaged Microsoft Worker

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface by an anonymous Chinese labor rights activist and scholar Executive Summary [...]

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I got a telephone call from an unknown number and was surprised to hear Dale calling me from Aruba. He was at the hospital with Sharon who was suffering from rectal bleeding. They may have to cut short their vacation and fly back to [...]

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