Lebanese women still face discrimination - study Daily Star Lebanon | By Dalila Mahdawi | Daily Star staff | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Women in Lebanon have made considerable strides toward gender equality in education and the workplace but continue to face significant discrimination in many other facets of society, a study said this week. | A...
US Policy is Not Working Khaleej Times Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is asking for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace talks to resume. She is back after her recent trip to the region where she spoke to many audiences and met with several government officials. While her visit to the Arab nations raised some hope, there remains a high degr...
The trials of terror-suspect policy The News & Observer | DURHAM -- The Obama administration has done the right thing by trying to close the detention facility at Guantanamo and establish a clear, justifiable legal framework to deal with captured terrorist suspects at home and abroad. | But with a possibl...
Feds: California man ran student visa fraud ring The Salt Lake Tribune | By Gillian Flaccus | The Associated PressUpdated: 03/09/2010 11:10:09 AM MST | This photo released Monday by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows evidence of fake test scores and California identification cards after they w...
Visa fraud ring busted in U.S. Canoe By GILLIAN FLACCUS, The Associated Press | SANTA ANA, Calif. — Eamonn Higgins has never earned a college degree in his own name, but prosecutors allege that for the past seven years the 46-year-old has been going to school non-stop for dozens of othe...
Student visa fraud ring dismantled in California The Examiner | Eamonn Daniel Higgins, 46, of Laguna Niguel, California, and six alleged clients were charged Monday in relation to operating a ring of illegal test-takers helping Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas, while other 42 individuals also ...
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Obama's Hesitant Embrace of Human Rights The New York Times | As one would expect from so eloquent a leader, President Obama has brought about a marked improvement in presidential rhetoric on human rights in comparison with his predecessor....
Lawyer seeks media access to ailing leader Business Day Online A Nigerian lawyer launched legal action against the aides of President Umaru Yar'Adua on Tuesday in an attempt to force the ailing leader to appear before the media and prove the s...
Proof against barred Iraq candidates to be released The Siasat Daily | Baghdad, February 28: Evidence that led to candidates being barred from Iraq's March 7 election for suspected links to Saddam Hussein will be released in the coming days, the hea...
Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring Kansas City Star More News | A California man was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing various proficiency and college-placement exams for them, federal authorit...
Court Sets An Uphill Task Before EXCOF This Day A Federal High Court in Abuja, last week ordered a review of the judicial process in the suit asking it to direct the Executive Council of the Federation (EXCOF) to declare President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua incapable of discharging the functions of his o...
Presidency and the Parallel Agenda (1) This Day When crisis is endemic in a system, the cycles of explosion get shorter and shorter. It was like that under military dictatorship (1984-1998) and its “civilian” variant (May 1999 to date). In its essence, the crisis of hand-overs and sit-tightism pla...
A century of distinction: 100 women who changed the world The Independent | Tomorrow is designated International Women's Day, and it is a particularly significant milestone this year: the campaign to improve the rights of women was founded a century ago. | To celebrate the occasion, The Independent on Sunday today salutes 100 women who have changed the world for ever and for the better, and who are drawn from all walks o...
GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon" IRINnews web | JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - Rice producing Asian countries had to contend with poor rains in 2009, and now another season of low rainfall has been forecast for some of them, which has prompted concern whether the price of the grain could go up later in 2010. | This is the second of a four-part series on food security where IRIN asks, ...
