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The United States authorities are facing demands by doctors from around the world to abandon the barbaric method of force-feeding hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay. More than 250 medical experts are launching a protest today against the practice - which involves strapping inmates to “restraint chairs” and pushing tubes into the stomach through the nose. [...]

The US state of South Dakota has signed into law a near-total ban on abortion in a move the governor called a ‘direct frontal assault’ on the supreme court decision 33 years ago to legalise it. Under the new law, which is due to come into effect on July 1, doctors could get up to [...]

Despite a dip in his opinion polls, George W. Bush’s transformation of the United States into an authoritarian society continues apace, with new “compromises” with Congress actually consolidating his claims to virtually unlimited executive power.
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Scientists say sea life is fighting to survive as the water warms up and ice melts sooner. The changes are profound and may be irreversible. Whales, walruses, seabirds and fish are struggling to survive the changing climate of the Bering Sea, their northern feeding grounds perhaps permanently disrupted by warmer temperatures and melting ice, scientists [...]

Five years after the fall of the Taliban, women in Afghanistan still suffer widespread mistreatment, including rape, murder and forced marriage. Many see suicide as the only way out. But others are fighting back. The reinvigorated Taliban burns schools and beheads teachers for daring to offer education…
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The United States is being reduced to a minority of one in its unyielding opposition to a proposal to create a new Human Rights Council (HRC) to replace the U.N.’s existing much-maligned Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
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Israel is ready to annex sections of the West Bank and withdraw from others to establish “permanent” borders by 2010, the acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said yesterday.
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The United States wants to improve its image with the closure of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. In the meantime though, criticism is still growing about the US’s treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Hundreds of prominent medical experts have called on the United States to stop force-feeding hunger strikers.
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Following President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s issuance of Proclamation 1017 on February 25, 2006 putting the entire country under a state of national emergency, state security forces have cracked down on legitimate dissent in violation of the bill of rights of the Philippine Constitution. The police raided and stationed its personnel in the offices and printing facilities [...]

It has taken more than three years, tens of thousands of Iraqi and American lives, and $200bn (£115bn) of treasure - all to achieve a chaos verging on open civil war. But, finally, the neo-conservatives who sold the United States on this disastrous war are starting to utter three small words. We were wrong.
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