BRAZIL: Sugarcane Alcohol Tarnished by U.S. Maize Ethanol By Mario OsavaRIO DE JANEIRO - Recent efforts by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to clearly mark the difference between Brazilian ethanol and the agrofuels produced by the United States are an admission that signing an agreement with Washington to promote a global bioethanol market was a serious political mistake, say analysts. MORE >>
BIODIVERSITY-US: Loggers, Owls Not Out of the Woods Yet By Michael J. CarterSEATTLE - Some wounds heal slowly, and the wounds of the logging community on the U.S. northwest Pacific coast are still smarting nearly 20 years after measures to protect a threatened species devastated their industry. MORE >>
POLITICS-US: Lawmakers Seek Probe of "Media Generals" By William FisherNEW YORK - As U.S. television networks continue their silence about their use of retired military officers to "sell" progress in Iraq, members of the U.S. House of Representatives are calling on the Defence Department Inspector General to investigate the Pentagon-sponsored public relations effort. MORE >>
RIGHTS-US: Hundreds Arrested Protesting Police Abuses By Haider RizviNEW YORK - She was as happy and excited about getting married that day as any young person in love. But fate had something else waiting. Just a few hours ahead of her wedding, on Nov. 25, 2006, New York City police officers killed her fiancé Sean Bell in a hail of 50 bullets. MORE >>
POLITICS-US: Not With a Bang, But With a Whimper... By Ali GharibWASHINGTON - After the final votes were counted in the two largest remaining primaries for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, the long battle may finally be drawing to a close as Sen. Barack Obama has emerged as a clear frontrunner over Sen. Hillary Clinton with only six primaries remaining. MORE >>
US/IRAQ: Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains "Surge" By Jim Lobe*WASHINGTON - Growing impatience in Congress over the enormous costs being racked up by the Iraq war, as well as the Pentagon's belief that it needs more troops in Afghanistan to fight insurgents there, is putting the vaunted success of the George W. Bush administration's "surge" strategy to the test. MORE >>
RIGHTS-US: Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors By William FisherNEW YORK - As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib "ghost" detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released without charge. MORE >>
SCIENCE-US: Evolution Under Siege in Classrooms By Mark WeisenmillerTAMPA, Florida - Darwinian evolution -- the 19th century geologist and naturalist Charles Darwin's acclaimed theory of natural selection of species and the origins of humanity -- is apparently still a source of controversy, most recently here in the state of Florida. MORE >>
RIGHTS-US: Blacks Suffer Persistent Injustice in Drug War By Jim LobeWASHINGTON - African Americans have suffered much higher rates of arrests and imprisonment than whites in the nearly 30-year-old U.S. "war on drugs", according to two reports released here this week. MORE >>
POLITICS-US: Is Immigration Off the Table in Election 2008? By Bill Berkowitz*OAKLAND, California - These days, while you can still pick up a newspaper or turn on a radio or television gabfest and read, hear and see the issue of immigration batted around, it has become less of a hot-button political issue in the United States. MORE >>
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