 Mexico's presidential candidates have made their last bid for votes ahead of hotly-contested 2 July polls. Candidates addressed crowds in their electoral strongholds before a ban on campaigning, giving voters time to reflect, took effect from Thursday. Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and conservative Felipe Calderon are seen as frontrunners in a very tight race. The campaigns have been marked by bitterly-traded political insults and accompanied by a rise in drug violence. Mr Lopez Obrador, a former mayor of Mexico City, addressed tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in the capital's central square, the Zocalo. He said Sunday's election "will demonstrate that money doesn't always win out over the morality and dignity of the people". ...
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 Miss. developers' murky past includes fraud Brothers owe government more than $9 million from 1990s stock scam |
Two brothers involved in the biggest post-Katrina development on the Mississippi Gulf Coast were key figures in an Internet stock scam that federal authorities say bilked investors out of more than $12 million, MSNBC.com has learned. Additionally, one of the men was barred from the franchising business for life after federal lawyers sued him in a fraud case they said cost investors $6 million. The other brother filed for bankruptcy in 2002, and both have yet to satisfy a federal judgment against them of nearly $10 million.And while the brothers said they had developed numerous real estate projects in Florida, California, Colorado and even Russia, neither they nor their associates would provide specific names and locations of any of the developments despite repeated requests by MSNBC.com....
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| US Guantanamo tribunals 'illegal' |
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Bush administration does not have the authority to try terrorism suspects by military tribunal. In a landmark decision, justices upheld the challenge by Osama Bin Laden's ex-driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, against his trial at Guantanamo Bay. The court's ruling that the proceedings violated Geneva Conventions is seen as a major blow to the administration. But the ruling does not mean the closure of the Guantanamo Bay camp. The Cuba-based facility currently holds about 460 inmates, mostly without charge, whom the US suspects of links to al-Qaeda or the Taleban. It didn’t take a Legal expert to know everything about Getmo was illegal, just a reading of the Constitution would have told them. However, seeing as how over 70% of Americans have never taking the time or effort to read it they are able to get away with routinely trashing the Constitution...
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| Residents flee in terror from rolling thunder |
OPERATION Summer Rain began with the terrifying, telltale sound of rolling thunder shattering the pre-dawn Gaza calm.The sonic boom of the fighter jet shattered windows and spooked already nervous souls just after 2.30am. All of Gaza knew what it meant. After 10 months, the Israelis were back in town. At the southeastern border, tanks and troop carriers rumbled to life and the few remaining Palestinian security forces in the area beat a hasty retreat. The mighty Israeli army moved swiftly across the border it last crossed on the way out in August last year, ending a bloody, decades-long occupation and hoping never to return. ...
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| Israeli jets attempt to intimidate Syria leader |
Israeli F-16 jets buzzed the palace of Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday to intimidate the patron of Hamas militants, tanks rolled into northern Gaza & Israel arrested the Palestinian deputy prime minister & dozens of other Hamas government officials early today, escalating its response to the abduction of 1 of its soldiers. The movement of tanks into northern Gaza continued the opening of a second front in the 2-day-old Israeli military response. Israel denied the northern movement. Adding to the tension, a Palestinian militant group said it killed an 18-year-old Jewish settler kidnapped in the West Bank. Palestinian security officials said they thought the body of Eliahu Asheri had been found in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Increasing pressure on Hamas within the Palestinian territories, Israeli forces arrested more than 30 lawmakers, according to Palestinian security officials. Among those detained were Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser Shaer, Labor Minister Mohammed...
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| House votes to overturn mandatory gun locks |
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to overturn a recently enacted law requiring safety trigger locks on all hand guns sold in the United States. The Republican-controlled House handed a victory to opponents of gun control by a vote of 230-191.Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (news, bio, voting record), a Colorado Republican, argued that the added cost of the trigger locks is passed on to gun owners and that they "do not stop accidental shootings."...
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