The Supreme Court ruled against two foreign suspects Wednesday who argued an international treaty required police to inform them that they had a right to contact their governments when they were arrested. By a 6-3 vote, justices did not decide whether a 1969 treaty signed by the United States and several other countries requires suspects to be informed of such a right. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said the two men - one from Honduras, the other from Mexico - are not entitled to suppression of statements to police or another chance to raise objections based on the treaty after failing to do so at trial. Notice that <i>Roberts said “foreign suspects have the same protections that U.S. citizens have when arrested: the right to due process and the right to an attorney.”</i> Most ignored that since 9/11 in the Phony War on the Boogieman ...
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 Australian troops patrol East Timor capital |
Australia's peacekeepers were deployed on the streets of Dili today after renewed violence saw houses firebombed, refugee camps attacked by stone-throwing mobs and protesters threatening the local television station.Unrest escalated in the East Timorese capital following Mari Alkatiri's resignation as prime minister on Monday. Mr Alkatiri, who is due to face criminal charges on Friday, urged supporters to return to the capital to protest later in the week.His remarks infuriated opponents, who went on the rampage overnight and continued to terrorise much of the city by day. Up to 26 buildings were destroyed by fire, including a house owned by Jose Reis, one of Mr Alkatiri's aides. Australian peacekeepers stopped a mob throwing rocks at refugees in a camp near the port....
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| Rice Heads to Moscow After Assuring Victory Over Taliban in Afghanistan |
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised victory over a resurgent Taliban during an upbeat visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday and called the country's embattled president one of the most respected leaders in the world. Rice acknowledged that the rise in violence in Afghanistan in recent months is a concern for the United States and the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.But she said democratic gains in the country in the nearly five years since the fall of the Taliban will not erased."That Afghanistan has enemies is not a surprise to anyone," Rice said following meetings with Karzai and with military commanders. All her meetings were held behind heavy fortifications.Rice said the United States is committed to Afghanistan for the long haul. "We are not going to tire, we are not going to leave," she declared....
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| Tenn. and Texas execute two killers, third receives stay |
Tennessee executed killer Sedley Alley, the state's second execution in 45 years, on Wed morning, but stayed another execution pending a review of his competency. Texas executed train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz Tue night. Alley was pronounced dead at 3:12 a.m. ET. He was put to death for killing 19-year-old Marine Suzanne Collins in 1985 while she jogged near a Navy base north of Memphis. Though he confessed, he claimed at trial that he was not responsible for the sexual assault and murder because he had multiple personalities. He recanted his confession in 2004, and said DNA testing could prove his innocence. Resendiz' execution Tue night was Texas' 13th of the year in the nation's most active death penalty state. Resendiz, who had told psychiatrists he couldn't be executed because was half-man and half-angel and didn't believe he could die, received lethal injection for the slaying of a physician in 1998. ...
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| Afghan 'enemies will be beaten' so says Rice. Should we start the Victory celebrations? Again |
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has vowed the US will not abandon its fight against militants in Afghanistan. Speaking in Kabul after talks with President Hamid Karzai, Ms Rice said the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan would defeat "ruthless, determined enemies". The visit comes amid rising security concerns, with recent attacks blamed on the Taleban and al-Qaeda soaring. Last week, Mr Karzai criticised Nato and US-led operations in Afghanistan, deploring the deaths of Afghans. The remarks highlighted strains with Washington over the coalition's efforts to confront the Taleban and other insurgents. There is also a climate of deep mistrust and suspicion between Afghanistan and Pakistan, two key allies in the "war on terror", the BBC's Bilal Sarway in Kabul says...
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| Iceland and Australia top happiness poll |
They are as different as two countries can be: one big, the other small; one hot, the other cold; and at opposite ends of the world from each other. But if it's happiness you're after, Iceland and Australia are the best places to live in the world.A new study that seeks to go beyond the simple measure of GDP and gauge more subtle aspects of wellbeing such as life-expectancy, education and living standards, puts Iceland top of the international happiness scale, with Australia a close second. At the bottom end, the economists Andrew Leigh, of the Australian National University, and Justin Wolfers, of Wharton University, Pennsylvania, ranked Russians, Ukrainians, Romanians and Bulgarians as the world's most miserable. Interestingly, happiness was not always dependent on wealth. The study showed that OECD statistics suggested relatively poor countries such as Mexico and Nigeria were happier than some developed nations. The economists decided to study national happiness quotas because ...
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