North Korea has accused bitter rival South Korea of committing a crime against peace on the peninsula by casting its vote for a U.N. resolution that chastised Pyongyang for having an abysmal record on human rights. A U.N. General Assembly panel rebuked North Korea on Friday for gross human rights abuses. South Korea voted for a draft resolution criticizing its Stalinist neighbor for torture, public executions and miserable prison conditions. The measure was passed by a vote of 91-21, with 60 abstentions. "South Korea's vote for the U.N. resolution on human rights is an anti-nationalistic provocation that joins a U.S. criminal act, and an intolerable act destroying inter-Korean relations," said a spokesman for the group charged with managing Pyongyang's ties with the South. "South Korea should bear whole responsibility for its crime, which created another obstacle to inter-Korean relations," said the spokesman, cited by the official KCNA news agency late on Saturday...
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 House GOP stays course |
House Republicans yesterday overwhelmingly re-elected most of their top leadership despite losing about 30 seats in last week's elections and control of the chamber. Rep. John A. Boehner of Ohio was picked to be minority leader -- replacing outgoing Speaker J. Dennis Hastert as the party's leader in the House -- and Whip Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri was re-elected as Republicans regroup for life in the minority. "I've pledged to them to do everything I could to bring our team together and to work hard so that we can earn our way back into the majority," Mr. Boehner said. "And to do that means that we need to fight for smaller, less costly and more accountable federal government," he added, harkening back to the principles that won the House for Republicans in 1994 after 40 years in the minority. Mr. Boehner defeated Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana in a secret ballot vote of 168-27, stepping up from the party's No. 2 slot he had assumed ...
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| Canadian Brig. Gen.: NATO Troops Hampered in Afghanistan |
The NATO-led force in Afghanistan would be more effective if member countries lifted restrictions that prevent their troops from fighting insurgents in the country's restive south, a senior Canadian officer said Saturday.Many of the 37 troop-contributing nations serving with the 31,000-strong force have refused to join the fight against Taliban and other insurgents in the south, leaving the task to Canadian, American, British and Dutch soldiers.The French, German and Italian forces patrol relatively quiet sectors in the north under self-imposed limitations, known in NATO as "caveats," that keep them out of combat operations.Brig. Gen. Tim Grant, in charge of Canadian forces in Afghanistan, said that if the commander of the NATO-led force "had more flexibility in the deployment and the use of all the troops here I think it would be better for everyone."...
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| Padilla Case Raises Questions About Anti-Terror Tactics Treatment in Brig Could Hinder His Prosecution |
After he was arrested in 2002, Jose Padilla was considered so dangerous that he was held without charges in a military prison for more than three years -- accused first of plotting a radiological "dirty bomb" attack and later of conspiring with al-Qaeda to blow up apartment buildings with natural gas. But now, nearly a year after his abrupt transfer into a regular criminal court, the Justice Department's prosecution of the former Chicago gang member is running into trouble. A Republican-appointed federal judge in Miami has already dumped the most serious conspiracy count against Padilla, removing for now the possibility of a life sentence. The same judge has also disparaged the government's case as "light on facts," while defense lawyers have made detailed allegations that Padilla was illegally tortured, threatened and perhaps even drugged during his detention at a Navy brig in South Carolina. The Justice Department denied the allegations of torture last week and is pursuing an appeal ...
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| Devoted Sister Loses 2 Brothers to Iraq, Afghanistan War |
Monica, now 27, still remembers the three of them dancing on the bed. She laughs when she recalls the day Freddy flipped a three-wheeler on top of his brother. Before tending to him, he came inside to eat a tortilla.How was it possible that she could lose them both?They were her baby brothers, the boys she adored. She devoted so much time to them that she never even wanted children of her own. The brothers followed each other into the Army. Freddy first, then Andrew.They came home that way, too. Freddy, then Andrew....
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| Immigrants in Limbo 5 Years After 9/11 |
The woman was widowed when her husband died in the terrorists' attack on the World Trade Center, whose twin towers once would have been seen from the windows of the meeting room where she sits with her attorney. But this Sept. 11 widow is an illegal immigrant - one of about 25 identified as having lost a family member in the disaster - and she could face deportation at any time. So could her 17-year-old son, and she begs him to carry his father's death certificate in case someone asks him why he is in the U.S. ``I can't get a driver's license. I can't go to apply for a job. I can't work. I can't study. I can't fly. I can't do anything,'' the 38-year-old woman from Ecuador said this past week. She spoke on condition that her name not be used, for fear she might be deported. A New York City group is urging Congress to pass legislation that would grant permanent residence status to the illegal immigrants who lost family members on Sept. 11. ...
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