 Nato leaders at a summit have hailed the relaxation of curbs on deployment of some members' troops in Afghanistan. Nato commanders say they believe they can move an extra 2,500 troops around the country now some smaller members have relaxed their mission conditions. But France and Germany will not move to the volatile south. They say they are only prepared to help in an emergency. The US, UK, Canada and the Netherlands have borne the brunt of fierce fighting with Taleban militants in the south. Violence has risen to heights not seen since the toppling of the Taleban in 2001. Some 4,000 people are believed to have died this year in the insurgency - about a quarter of them civilians. In fresh violence, two Nato soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Logar province on Tuesday. The nationalities of the victims have not yet been released...
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 Bolivian Senate OKs Sweeping Land Reform |
Bolivia's leftist president won passage of an ambitious land redistribution bill and signed it into law to the cheers of impoverished Indian supporters, who stand to benefit from what eventually could be the confiscation of private holdings the size of Nebraska. Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indian president, is intent on reversing centuries of dominance by a European-descended minority and granting greater power to its poor indigenous majority. He's already given poor farming communities some 8,500 square miles of government land this year, and hopes the new land reform bill will eventually allow his government to redistribute some 77,000 square miles of unproductive land. Morales has said the government will not seize productive land, but rather large tracts of Bolivia's sparsely populated east held by a handful of wealthy families. The president did not say Tuesday exactly how the land reform will proceed....
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| Lawyers of man convicted of 24 deaths ask for DNA tests |
Lawyers for Wayne Williams, blamed for the murders of two dozen children and young men in the late 1970s and early '80s, have asked to perform DNA testing on dog hair, human hair and blood. A motion seeking the testing was filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court. Lawyer Jack Martin said in May that the defense planned to make the request. Between 1979 and 1981, 29 blacks, most of them boys, were killed in the Atlanta area, spreading fear throughout the region. Williams was convicted in 1982 of murdering Nathaniel Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Afterward, officials declared Williams responsible for 22 other deaths, and those cases were closed. Williams, who is black, has contended he was framed. He has maintained that officials covered up evidence of Ku Klux Klan involvement in the killings to avoid a race war in the city, which investigators have denied....
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Editor - 07:59:00 11-29-06
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| Powerful Supertyphoon Durian barrels toward Philippines |
Officials canceled school in Manila and nearby provinces Wednesday and raised storm alerts as powerful Supertyphoon Durian barreled toward an eastern Philippine island. With sustained winds of 155 mph and gusts of up to 190 mph, Durian has become a supertyphoon, said chief weather forecaster Nathaniel Cruz. A typhoon becomes a supertyphoon when sustained winds are measured at 149 mph or higher. Cruz said officials approved his recommendation to suspend Thursday's classes in metropolitan Manila and four nearby provinces. Classes already have been suspended on the island province of Catanduanes, where the typhoon is expected to slam ashore Thursday morning. They also have been suspended in five other eastern provinces. More than 25 provinces and the Philippine capital, Manila, are under storm alerts because of the typhoon, named for a pungent fruit native to Southeast Asia....
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| Race dropped in drawing school district’s lines Southern California board was sued by parents for ‘gerrymandering’ kids |
School board trustees in this Orange County suburb have voted to stop using students' race to determine where they will go to school. The vote Monday was part of a settlement with parents who sued the Capistrano Unified School District for including ethnicity as a factor when new school boundaries were drawn last year. As part of the settlement, the group Neighborhood Schools for Our Kids has agreed to drop its lawsuit. Also, students in the predominantly white Talega neighborhood will be permitted to continue attending their current high school instead of a new campus that opens next fall, said Paul Beard, a lawyer for the parents. "We are happy that the district is abandoning a policy that can only be described as racial gerrymandering," Beard said in a news release....
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| FBI evidence offers new insight into Unabomber |
To evade authorities chasing him, Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski kept shoes with smaller soles attached to the bottom in his reclusive Montana cabin, according to evidence released 10 years after his capture. The shoes were intended to make it appear as if a person with smaller footprints were walking in them, investigators believe. Kaczynski, 64, is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole for a bombing spree that lasted from 1978 to 1995. The blasts from homemade bombs killed three people and injured 23. The government had collected evidence from his Lincoln, Mont., cabin for a trial, but it was never publicly released because Kaczynski pleaded guilty in 1998. San Francisco's KPIX-TV aired a report Tuesday about the evidence. A source close to the case gave the station photographs of the items, which included his typewriter, a handmade gun of wood and metal, writings, and the hooded sweat shirt and sunglasses featured in his FBI wanted photos....
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