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US court backs lethal injection
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:27
The US Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the use of lethal
injections to execute prisoners.
The court rejected by 7-2 the case made by two death row inmates in the
state of Kentucky.
They sued the state in 2004, saying the commonly used combination of
three chemical injections violated the US constitution's ban on cruel
punishment.
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Russia Hits Peak Oil
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 15:10
Russian oil has peaked already according to Leonid Fedun, vice-president
of Russian oil giant Lukoil,
10m barrels a day from the world’s number two oil producing country is
as good as it gets in his lifetime he reckons. He’s 52 but given the
average life expectancy of Russians that may not be too long. And it’s
not going to be stable.
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IOF artillery shells Palestinian hospital
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 15:07
Two IOF artillery shells slammed into the Wafa'a hospital east of Gaza
city at dawn Wednesday severely damaging the ground floor, X-ray
department and the laboratory, the hospital administration said in a
press release.
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Reuters cameraman killed in Gaza
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 15:02
A Reuters cameraman was killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what
appeared to be an Israeli military strike.
Film from Shana's camera showed an Israeli tank stationed several
hundred meters away opening fire. Some two seconds after the shot raises
dust around the main gun barrel, the film goes blank -- apparently at
the moment Shana was hit.
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1 in 33 Homeowners Projected to Be in Foreclosure Within the Next Two
Years
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 11:53
In some states, the outlook is especially grim; for instance, nearly one
in 11 homeowners in Nevada is projected to be in foreclosure and one in
18 Arizona homeowners may face the same cir***stance over the next two
years.
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CNN apologises to China over 'thugs and goons' comment by Jack Cafferty
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 11:51
CNN was forced to apologise today after a news commentator called the
Chinese as a “bunch of goons and thugs”.
Jack Cafferty made the comments on April 9 on CNN’s political programme,
The Situation Room, in which he also described Chinese products as "junk".
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Whose mass graves are these?
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 11:43
The phrase "mass graves" in Iraq has long been associated with former
leader Saddam Hussein. But not anymore. In U.S.-administered and
occupied Iraq people now talk of 'Bush’s mass graves.’
More and more mass graves are being unearthed with hundreds of bodies,
most of them unidentified, but all of them dug in the post-Saddam era
which Iraqis associate with President Bush and his occupation troops.
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US Fed Responsible for the Credit Crisis
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 11:41
The net effect of all this new funding has been to pump hundreds of
billions of dollars into the financial system and bail out banks whose
poor decision making should have caused them to go out of business.
Instead of being forced to learn their lesson, these poor-performing
banks are being rewarded for their financial mismanagement, and the
ultimate cost of this bailout will fall on the American taxpayers.
Already this new money flowing into the system is spurring talk of the
next speculative bubble, possibly this time in commodities.
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Global warming rage lets global hunger grow
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 11:39
We drive, they starve. The mass diversion of the North American grain
harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral
limits.
America - the world's food superpower - will divert 18pc of its grain
output for ethanol this year, chiefly to break dependency on oil
im****ts. It has a 45pc biofuel target for corn by 2015.
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