- Bankers for poor win peace Nobel – CNN.com
Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, particularly women.
- BBC | Pamuk wins Nobel Literature prize
Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- China Makes Commitment to Social Harmony – NYT
The leadership declared that a range of social concerns, including the surging wealth gap, corruption, pollution and access to education and medical care, must be placed on a par with economic growth in party theory and government policy.
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- Guardian | French MPs pass Armenian genocide bill
The French lower house of parliament today passed a bill making it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks after the first world war.
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- Paper: Detainee Lawyer Must Leave Navy
The Navy lawyer who led a successful Supreme Court challenge of the Bush administration’s military tribunals for detainees at Guantanamo Bay has been passed over for promotion and will have to leave the military, The Miami Herald reported Sunday.
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- That Which Simmers Is Not to Be Dissed – NYT
Time was when it seemed safe to regard the works of Plato as intellectually superior to the racy romance novels of, say, Nora Roberts. In underground Washington, those days are over.
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- [BW] No Bush Left Behind
The President’s brother Neil is making hay from school reform…
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- Group: U.S. had secret prison in Germany – Yahoo!
The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and other detainees may have been held and interrogated at a U.S. air base in Germany after they were captured, a British human rights group said Friday. Germany denied the claim.
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- Pentagon to probe Gitmo beatings claim
"From the whole conversation, I understood that striking detainees was a common practice," the sergeant wrote. "Everyone in the group laughed at the others’ stories of beating detainees."
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- Strmz Video: Clinton Says Cheney Party to Saddam Atrocities in ’80’s
…I think they thought [the Iraqi invasion] might clean their own skirts a little since most of what Saddam did that was really terrible, he did when he had the full support of the Republican administrations in the 80’s — of which Dick Cheney was a part.
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- BBC | Canada in protest over rendition
Canada is to make a formal protest to the United States over the case of a Canadian man deported to Syria in 2002 over suspected al-Qaeda links.
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