Kenya is facing a humanitarian ``disaster'' as food aid runs out for the drought-stricken north and east, the United Nations' World Food Program said today. ``Stocks are very low and insufficient for February distributions,'' Tesema Negash, WFP country director for Kenya, said in an e-mailed statement. ``We are in the midst of an emergency. If we receive no new donations now, it is extremely likely that Kenya will be hit by a humanitarian disaster.'' Five years of drought in the past six in many parts of Kenya have left 1.2 million people dependent on food handouts, a number that's expected to increase to 2.5 million next month, the WFP said. The organization said it needs 350,000 metric tons (772,000,000 pounds) of food, valued at $238 million, to feed those 2.5 million this year. ...
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 Male Student Wins Fight To Wear Skirts |
A male high school student can wear a skirt to school after the American Civil Liberties Union reached an agreement with school officials. The ACLU announced the deal Tuesday. It will allow a Hasbrouck Heights School senior to wear a skirt to protest the school's no-shorts policy. The district's dress code bans shorts between Oct. 1 and April 15, but allows skirts, a policy 17-year-old Michael Coviello believes is discriminatory. "I'm happy to be able to wear skirts again to bring attention to the fact that the ban on shorts doesn't make sense," Coviello said in a statement. The Hasbrouck Heights superintendent, Joseph C. Luongo, did not return telephone messages left Tuesday seeking comment. ...
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| ACLU sues U.S. for barring Muslim scholar Group says government using Patriot Act as ‘instrument of censorship’ |
The ACLU sued the federal government Wednesday for blocking a Muslim scholar from entering the United States, arguing that the government should not use anti-terrorism laws as “instruments of censorship.”The lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in U.S. District Court sought to open the way for Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss intellectual and Muslim scholar, to accept invitations to speak to audiences in the United States.Ramadan was blocked from accepting a tenured teaching position at the University of Notre Dame when his visa was revoked in August 2004 because of a provision of the Patriot Act, said Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU staff attorney....
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| Iran accuses UK of bombing link |
Iran has accused the UK of co-operating with bombers who killed eight people in attacks in the restive south-western city of Ahwaz on Tuesday. "Britain must respond to the doubts of Iranians concerning the events," said Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. Mr Mottaki said the masterminds of the bombing "or people of their mind" had been photographed with UK officials. A UK Foreign Office spokesman in London has denied the accusation, saying Britain condemned terrorism. "Any linkage between HMG (Her Majesty's Government) and these terrorist attacks is completely without foundation," said the official. A little-known ethnic Arab separatist group has said it was behind the blasts inside a private bank and state environmental agency on Tuesday. "Our heroes... in the military wing of The Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz attacked and destroyed the dens of the occupying enemy," a statement posted on a website said. ...
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| Katrina evacuees in apparent murder-suicide Infant, severely beaten 4-year-old boy also found in Ga. home |
A New Orleans couple who had been chased from their home by Hurricane Katrina died in an apparent murder-suicide, leaving behind an infant and a 4-year-old boy who had been beaten so severely he couldn’t open his eyes, police said.Police entered the couple’s rented home in the Atlanta suburb of Austell early Wednesday after a call from a relative in New Orleans.The woman “said that her nephew had called her and stated that he had an argument with his wife and that she was hurt pretty bad, and in fact she was dead,” said police Chief Bob Starrett. The boy was found in the same room with his mother.“He was tied to a chair and had been beaten so bad both of his eyes were completely shut,” Starrett said....
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| Amid violence, Iraq launches talks on coalition U.S. Marine, Sunni cleric, journalist slain; TV presenter flees kidnapping |
Shiite leaders have launched talks with Sunni and Kurdish politicians on a national unity government, proposing four candidates to be the next prime minister, a Shiite official said Wednesday, nearly six weeks after Iraq’s parliamentary elections.The talks came amid a spate of sectarian violence, including the killing of a prominent Sunni Arab cleric that threatens to disrupt the forming of the new government.A U.S. Marine also was killed by small-arms fire Tuesday in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, the military said, raising the number of U.S. military personnel killed since the war began in 2003 to at least 2,236, according to an Associated Press count. Elsewhere, an Iraqi television journalist, Mahmoud Zaal, was killed while filming intense fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents near the volatile western city of Ramadi, said Thaer Ahmed, deputy director of the Baghdad television station where Zaal worked. The circumstances surrounding his death were not clear....
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