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Human rights: Saudis treat domestic staff like 'virtual slaves'

Asian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia face routine human rights abuses that in some cases amount to slavery, with employers often escaping any punishment, according to a new report. Abuses include months or years of unpaid...

Pentagon's new cluster bomb policy treads water

The Pentagon has announced that the US military will continue to use and export even the most unreliable cluster bombs over the next decade. The policy decision comes shortly after 111 countries agreed to a global treaty...

The bullfighters of Pamplona discover new and even less fair ways to torment the animals before...

Bullfighters at the Pamplona festival have found new and, mercifully, less bloody ways to torment the animals. The 'recortadors' usually leap over the bulls tiring them out to make them easier to despatch later on by the...

G8 'fails to dig deep' on emission cuts

scotsman.com     3 hrs ago   44 related          

Published Date: 09 July 2008 WORLD leaders at the G8 summit came under fierce attack from environmental campaigners last night despite committing themselves to cut global emissions in half by 2050. Gordon Brown, the Prime...

Irene Khan: Human rights must be universally upheld

guardian.co.uk     10 hrs ago          

The UK's actions must not weaken its own moral authority to speak out on human rights abuses internationally I do not take liberty for granted. Now, as secretary general of Amnesty International, I see how readily freedom is...

G8 Summit Diary: How woolly hats will change the world

By guest author, Adrian Lovett in Hokkaido, Japan Half way through an interview with a Russian TV news crew I couldn’t help being distracted by something moving in my peripheral vision. In the car park next to us a little...

Ambulance memories

oxfordmail.net     10 hrs ago          

South Central Ambulance Service has tracked down a man with many tales after appealing in the Oxford Mail for old employees to help celebrate the NHS' 60th birthday. SCAS, which itself marked its second anniversary on July 1,...

Gift for teacher? Send a desk, chair or classroom to the developing world

ekklesia.co.uk     8 hrs ago          

If you are stuck for that end-of-term gift for your teacher, then why not follow the suggestion of aid agencies who are suggesting you send a virtual gift on your teacher's behalf to the developing world? The charity gifts from...

Whaleless

computerarts.co.uk     11 hrs ago          

Whaleless kicked off three years ago in italy's Pig Magazine as an art project to raise awareness of the plight of whales, with contributions from artists all over the world, and now it's coming to London. Opening on 11 July at...

Bulls-Hit: 1 Gored, 4 Injured in 2nd Run

go.com     11 hrs ago   35 related          

Hundreds of Daring Runners Descend Upon San Fermin for Centuries-Old Festival By JORGE SAINZ Associated Press Writer PAMPLONA, Spain July 8, 2008 (AP) The running of the bulls through Pamplona on Tuesday left one man gored and...

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