Stockholders blast chief for $107M payday; nix change on company's China policy
San Francisco Chronicle Jun 13, 07 10:34 AM CDT
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Investors railed yesterday against Yahoo Inc.'s management team in an unusually rowdy session of the search engine's annual shareholders' meeting. Angry investors interrogated CEO Terry Semel over his $107.5M paycheck and the company's slumping stock price, which fell 9% in the last year. A third of shareholders mutinied in protest, voting against the company's otherwise uncontroversial proposed slate of directors.
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Executions down 40% in runup to 2008
International Herald Tribune Jun 9, 07 10:05 AM CDT
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Capital punishment is on the decline in China, a country responsible for more than half of the world's executions. Beijing doesn't release figures, but human rights watchers say death penalty cases are down as much as 40% over the last six years. Sinologists reckon much of that drop represents an image manicure as the Beijing Olympics approach.
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Report urges release of info on "disappeared" terror suspects
Reuters Jun 8, 07 9:36 AM CDT
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Six prominent human rights groups want the US to disclose the whereabouts of 39 terrorism suspects, or "ghost prisoners," believed to have been in government custody. The organizations released a report today charging that children as young as 7 have been detained, invoking the loaded term "disappeared," and urging the US to abandon the use of secret prisons.
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Pakistani police say suspects were caught in a car with explosives
Associated Press Jun 5, 07 7:51 AM CDT
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Police in Pakistan have nabbed two men suspected of involvement in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The two suspects —alleged members of a Al Qaeda affiliate—were picked up traveling in a car full of weapons and explosives, police said. One of them, Attaur Rehman, allegedly supervised Pearl's imprisonment in a shack before he was killed.
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Calls for $30 billion over 5 years, after he's out of office
Washington Post May 30, 07 6:53 AM CDT
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President Bush wants to double the funding of a U.S. program that battles the global AIDS crisis. Bush will ask Congress today to commit $30 billion over the next five years after the current program expires in 2008. The extra cash could save the lives of 1.5 million more people.
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Planes disguised as U.N. aircraft to foil arms embargo
BBC May 8, 07 8:00 AM CDT
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Amnesty International accuses Sudan of violating the UN arms embargo with the help of Security Council members Russia and China. The human rights group claims the Khartoum government is using planes disguised as all-white UN aircraft to move military equipment into the embattled region where 200,000 people have already died.
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New Republic May 3, 07 3:15 PM CDT
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The U.S. prison at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan is as bad as Guantanamo, reports Eliza Griswold in the New Republic . Prisoners are kept in barbed-wire cages, beaten, tortured, raped, and held without promise of trial. But unlike Gitmo, Bagram has no visiting congressional delegations.
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Human-rights activist sees region as harbinger of Iraq's fate
Guardian (UK) May 1, 07 12:52 PM CDT
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While the U.S. focuses on Baghdad, a potentially defining crisis is developing in Kurdistan, according to Mark Lattimer, director of Minority Rights Group International. He argues in the Guardian that bloodshed in the only relatively secure region of Iraq is increasing as Kurds forced out of Kirkuk by Saddam tangle with Shi’ites resettled in Kurdistan.
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Preteen appears to execute Pakistani militant; international outcry follows
Guardian (UK) Apr 25, 07 8:24 AM CDT
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International outrage is building over a Taliban video in which a preteen boy appears to behead a prisoner. The Guardian reports that the boy, who "appears no older than 12," denounces the man, a Pakistani militant, as an "American spy" in a high-pitched voice before apparently using a long knife to execute him.
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Internet tool used to raise awareness of atrocities in Sudan
Wired Apr 13, 07 2:12 PM CDT
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Google Earth has teamed up with the Holocaust Museum to bring the realities of genocide to your MacBook. "Crisis in Darfur" employs Google Earth wizardry to help users visualize the scope of the atrocities currently unfolding in Sudan. Viewers can see over 1,600 damaged and destroyed villages up close.
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13 protest supermax conditions
New York Times Apr 9, 07 11:41 AM CDT
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Thirteen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center are on hunger strike, protesting conditions at a maximum-security block known as Camp Six, where 160 inmates are locked in their 8-by-10-foot cells for at least 22 hours a day. It's the first major strike since early 2006, when Gitmo commanders started placing protesting detainees in restraint chairs to force feed them.
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China cleans up for Olympics—and Korean kidney patients feel the pinch
Der Spiegel Mar 29, 07 11:14 AM CDT
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South Korea has a kidney shortage, and the Beijing Olympics are to blame, Der Spiegel reports. China, attempting to clean up its human rights reputation in preparation the 2008 games, has banned organ trafficking and cut down on the state executions that used to create supply. Now countries that used to rely on this most controversial of Chinese exports are feeling the pinch.
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Even where abortion is severely restricted, it must be available to women legally entitled
Guardian (UK) Mar 21, 07 9:16 AM CDT
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Even countries that severely restrict abortion must make them available to those who are entitled to them by law, the European court of human rights ruled yesterday. A Polish mother sued because her fourth pregnancy's damage to her failing eyesight made her legally eligible for an abortion to preserve her health, but a doctor refused her anyway.
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Taha Yassin Ramadan is executed, despite protests of lack of evidence
Associated Press Mar 20, 07 10:09 AM CDT
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Saddam’s loyal vice president was hanged today for the same crimes as his boss. Taha Yassin Ramadan became the fourth to be executed in Iraq for the 1982 massacre of Shias in the city of Dujail. Ramadan’s original sentence of life in prison was found on appeal to be too lenient, and the court traded up to death.
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Associated Press Mar 16, 07 11:42 AM CDT
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A new human rights report suggests that self-immolation is on the rise among Afghan