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Ayoreo Indian dies after first contact

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

A Paraguayan Indian, who lived without contact with the outside world until 1998, has died of tuberculosis. Survival International has called his life, 'a symbol of the fate of indigenous people in the Americas since Columbus'.Read the full story

Mayor rules out Cherbourg contraceptive implants

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The Cherbourg Aboriginal Council has met the town s health service providers to confirm no young girls are receiving contraceptive implants. Last week, reports emerged that girls as young as 12, some with disabilities, were being given contraceptive implants in the Indigenous community of Woorabinda west of Rockhampton.Read the ...

Randi Rhodes Suspended by Air America

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

New York - Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, at a recent public appearance on behalf of Air America in San Francisco which was sponsored by an Air America affiliate station.Read the full story

Media Matters - WSJ editorial falsely claimed

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A Wall Street Journal editorial falsely asserted that "the Senate Intelligence Committee found" former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV "had lied in claiming his wife [former CIA agent Valerie Plame] had played no role in sending him to Niger."Read the full story

Australians taken hostage in China

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Ten Australians, who were taken hostage in China, have been released. Australia s Foreign Affairs department has confirmed ten Australians were travelling on a tourist bus in China s western province of Xian when they were taken hostage by a Chinese man. Read the full story

Qatar Gives Credit Suisse A Lift

Monday, February 18th, 2008

LONDON - Credit Suisse shares got a lift on Monday following reports that the Qatar Investment Authority, a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund, had begun its $15 billion spending spree in Europe and the U.S. with a stake in the Swiss bank. Read the full story

Sarkozy Holocaust plan sparks anger - UPI.com

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

PARIS, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is under attack for his plan to have fifth graders learn more about the 11,000 French children who died in the Holocaust.Read the full story

Campus shooters used same gun dealer - UPI.com

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

GREEN BAY, Wis., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Authorities say a gunman accused of killing five students in Illinois and the shooter in killings last year at Virginia Tech used the same gun dealer. Read the full story

Sarkozy defends Holocaust education plan

Friday, February 15th, 2008

PERIGUEUX, France - President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday defended a plan to require 10-year-olds to honor child victims of the Holocaust, saying adults should not hide terrible truths from children.Read the full story

Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : Land invasion forces Yanomami into local town - News from Survival

Friday, February 15th, 2008

A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.Read the full story