State of the Union

Friday, January 26, 2007

4 troops abducted, killed in Iraq attack

AP - In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them to death.

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State of the Union: African Union Sessions to Focus on Crisis in Somalia

State of the Union: African Union Sessions to Focus on Crisis in Somalia

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State of the Union: African Union Sessions to Focus on Crisis in Somalia

State of the Union: African Union Sessions to Focus on Crisis in Somalia

Source: NPR News

African Union Sessions to Focus on Crisis in Somalia

"When member nations of the African Union meet this weekend, representatives hope to find a way to stabilize Somalia, where a weak government has beaten back Islamist forces with the help of Ethiopian troops. There is concern that the fighting will resume unless peacekeepers are introduced into the country."

Abu Ghraib officer to be tried

The only officer criminally charged in the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal will be court-martialed on eight charges including cruelty and maltreatment of detainees, an Army spokesman said Friday.

Study: Immigrants’ skin tone affects earnings

"Light-skinned immigrants in the United States make more money on average than those with darker complexions, and the chief reason appears to be discrimination, a researcher says."

Monday, January 22, 2007

New Orleans Survivors to be Barred from Cleaning up their Apartments

"The housing authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has run New Orleans’ public housing since 2002, say damage from Hurricane Katrina has left thousands of apartments in housing projects unsafe. The agencies have approved plans to demolish the city’s four largest public housing complexes and other smaller sites."

"Attorneys for the Housing Authority of New Orleans e-mailed notice of their plans on Saturday to an attorney for tenants of the St. Bernard Housing Development. A handful of residents there joined hundreds of protesters for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleanup of the development."

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