Human Rights

California Man Pleads Guilty to Trading Video Game Cheat Codes for Child Pornography

JOHN KENNETH CALDERON BASTO (a/k/a Tribal x MoDzz), 22, of Long Beach, California, pled guilty today to causing the distribution of child pornography of a 10-year-old Oklahoma boy, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western...

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AID POLICY: The politics of humanitarian principle

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Aid propping up groups like the Taliban is "unavoidable" says MSF

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In the Line of Duty

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Law enforcement officers in 22 states and Puerto Rico were feloniously killed in 2010.

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UN Secretary-General pays tribute to late renowned jurist Antonio Cassese

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Chinese toddler dies in hospital following hit and run

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BANGLADESH: Old, alone and without support

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An elderly man sleeps on the streets in Dhaka

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FDA Chemist Pleads Guilty to Using Insider Information to Trade on Pharmaceutical Stocks Resulting in Almost $4 Million in Profits

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chemist pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Deborah K. Chasanow in the District of Maryland to one count of securities fraud and one count of making false statements, related to a $3.7 million...

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Asylum requests in developed countries rose in first half of year – UN

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Roma asylum-seekers being housed in Schaerbeek, Belgium

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Mazher Mahmood denies `phone hacking` involvement in spot-fixing story

Former News of the World journalist Mazher Mahmood has denied that his investigation into alleged spot-fixing at last year's Lord's Test between Pakistan and England began after the unlawful taking of evidence from hacked phones.

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Secretary Napolitano Announces Stop.Think.Connect.™ Campaign Partnership with the YWCA

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Stop.Think.Connect.™ campaign today announced a new partnership with the YWCA, which serves nearly 2.6 million women and girls across the country, to expand its effort to promote the importance of...

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