Arizona court approves fifth execution this year

Arizona court approves fifth execution this year: The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the execution of a death-row inmate who was spared from the death penalty last year after winning a last-minute delay from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Abu Dhabi death sentence pair were 'big-time dealers'

Abu Dhabi death sentence pair were 'big-time dealers': Under law, any death sentence must be presented in four different courts and to 19 judges before it can be passed to the president or ruler of the emirate for approval. A legal source said that in the emirate of Abu Dhabi there were no previous ...

Venezuela to join in oil exploration off Cuba | WSLS 10

Venezuela to join in oil exploration off Cuba | WSLS 10: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Venezuela's oil minister says the country's national oil company plans to participate in exploratory drilling for crude off Cuba. Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez says state-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA is next in line to ...

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Cuba, Venezuela, and Chavez get slapped at UN Human Rights ...

Cuba, Venezuela, and Chavez get slapped at UN Human Rights ...: There are few things totalitarian dictatorships hate more than being outed and slapped in their own forum. Via UN Watch: Banging on the table, Cuba,

Celebrating the Alternative Media Movement in Venezuela ...

Celebrating the Alternative Media Movement in Venezuela ...: Today we celebrate the national day of journalists in Venezuela. Because of this day, it's worth remembering a phrase that was written in the streets of Argentina during the December 2001 crisis: “They piss on us and the press says it's raining” ...

Blind children, sick spouse, and trap of poverty: A woman's tale

Blind children, sick spouse, and trap of poverty: A woman's tale

Four blind children. Four children who cannot fend for themselves and need supervision almost every other time.

Haiti - Reconstruction : Evaluation of 16 projects funded by the World Bank

Haiti - Reconstruction : Evaluation of 16 projects funded by the World Bank

The Government of Haiti, in collaboration with the World Bank, has proceeded from 27 to 28 June 2012 to the Joint Review of portfolios of 16 projects and programs financed by the World Bank in Haiti...

Photo Friday: Transforming Rural Communities in Nicaragua ...

Photo Friday: Transforming Rural Communities in Nicaragua ...: Employees of the Tomatoya-Chagüite Grande cooperative wash produce before packaging and shipping it to buyers. Before the cooperative was established in 2001, many farmers in Tomatoya and Chagüite Grande, Nicaragua earned barely enough to support themselves and their families.

Vancouver event recognizes contributions of growing Latin American community

Vancouver event recognizes contributions of growing Latin American community

“Thanks to him now, everyone enjoys every year going to the theatre to see films from Latin America.” Craig said his organization works with Canadians to inform them of the law and their rights, and also focuses on human rights in Latin America ...

Taxes Are The New Death Panels: Exposing The Latest Lie About Obamacare

Taxes Are The New Death Panels: Exposing The Latest Lie About Obamacare

epublicans are responding to the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the individual mandate by constructing a new “death panels”-like lie. The law, they argue, imposes a burdensome tax on millions of middle class families who will have to pay a penalty ...

40 years after Furman, the U.S. Death Penalty Is In Disarray

40 years after Furman, the U.S. Death Penalty Is In Disarray: June 29 marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia. In Furman, the high court abolished the death penalty on the grounds that it violated the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision also barred the use of capital punishment for rape convictions.

Brazil leads region in defense spending

Brazil leads region in defense spending

BUENOS AIRES, June 29 (UPI) -- Ongoing and upcoming Brazilian defense programs translate into the highest defense expenditures in Latin America over the next decade. Business analysis firm Frost and Sullivan said it came to the conclusion after ...

This Week in Poverty: 89000 Children in Pennsylvania Lose Medicaid

This Week in Poverty: 89000 Children in Pennsylvania Lose Medicaid:

In Pennsylvania, 89000 children have been dropped from Medicaid, including many with life-threatening illnesses who were mistakenly deemed ineligible.

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Swimmer's challenge: Cross 103 miles of shark-infested water

Swimmer's challenge: Cross 103 miles of shark-infested water: Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Diving into the clear blue water off Havana Friday, Penny Palfrey began her quest to swim from Cuba to the United States.

State sued over 'stomach-churning' prison conditions

State sued over 'stomach-churning' prison conditions: Using how a nation treats its prisoners as its moral barometer, American morality has reached rock bottom, according to a nightmarish class-action lawsuit filed by Illinois' Vienna Correctional Center inmates earlier this month alleging human rights ...

Mexican drug cartels decapitate rivals in disturbing video

Mexican drug cartels decapitate rivals in disturbing video

He escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001 in a laundry truck and has a $7 million bounty on his head. In January, Los Zetas released a video showing the hanging of two members of the gulf cartel and last month 49 decapitated bodies were dumped along a ...

Cuba's gay rights revolution

Cuba's gay rights revolution: HAVANA, Cuba — Niurka says she is "halfway out of the closet" as a lesbian in Cuban society. She doesn't talk about her sexuality in public, and she's thankful nobody asks at work. But with her curly cropped hair and more masculine dress — most ...

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Fernando Lugo's exit after Paraguay 'coup' a setback for development

Fernando Lugo's exit after Paraguay 'coup' a setback for development

Another year, another rightwing coup against a pro-poor government in Latin America, this time in Paraguay. The 2009 coup in Honduras that removed President Manuel Zelaya from power may have set back reforms in the country for a generation, and human rights abuses continue to be widely reported.

Puerto Rico police must be reformed now

Puerto Rico police must be reformed now: Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union released a report called "Island of Impunity: Puerto Rico's Outlaw Police Force." In its 180 pages, the report details corruption, unjustified violence, discriminatory practices and a blatant failure of ...

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Comprehensive Association Agreement between Central America and the ...

Comprehensive Association Agreement between Central America and the ...

European Commission MEMO Brussels, 29 June 2012 Comprehensive Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union The signing of the Association Agreement between the EU and Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras ...

US governor Jerry Brown calls on politicians to lead over gay marriage

US governor Jerry Brown calls on politicians to lead over gay marriage:

The governor of a US state embroiled in a legal row over gay marriage has urged Scotland's politicians to give a lead on equality legislation. The advice from California's Jerry Brown comes as the Scottish government prepares to release details of its ...

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Bronx Gay and Lesbian Center to Close After Leader Embezzlement

Bronx Gay and Lesbian Center to Close After Leader Embezzlement

Shut the lights off, the party's over. Just days after the former head of the Bronx Pride Center swindled about $338, 000 that she used on vacations and even dog walkers, the organization has announ.

South Florida jewelers cater to gay and lesbian couples

South Florida jewelers cater to gay and lesbian couples:

Jewelers are starting to look to the gay and lesbian market — and the political progress of same-sex marriage — to make their registers ring. They're adding lines of wedding bands and engagement rings designed specifically for gay and lesbian couples..

Sun-Sentinel

Battleground South Florida: Gays feel new passion for politics ...

Battleground South Florida: Gays feel new passion for politics ...: South Florida's gay and lesbian voters are giving a new, more supportive look at President Barack Obama, which may affect other elections.

Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas ...

Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas ...: Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas teen ... in a shooting at a South Texas park that has caught the attention of gay rights ...

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Should Chilean banks force 'no hijab' on Muslim women customers?

Should Chilean banks force 'no hijab' on Muslim women customers?:

Santiago, CHILE: When 40-year-old Chilean citizen Ms. Fabiola Palominos Flores converted to Islam in 2007 she started wearing a hijab (headscarf) as part of her identity as a Muslim woman living in Chile. But at the time she didn't know she would ...

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Chile: Thousands of students turn out for protest pressing for educational reforms

Chile: Thousands of students turn out for protest pressing for educational reforms

SANTIAGO, Chile — Tens of thousands of high school and college students took to the streets of the Chilean capital Thursday to call for the end of public financing of private universities and other reforms to the country's troubled educational system.

HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels

HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels:

As part of the country's "Reconstruction", The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund recently invested $2 million in the Royal Oasis Hotel, a Deluxe structure to be built in a poverty-stricken metropolitan area which is "filled with displaced-persons camps housing ...

Center for Research on Globalization

Venezuela tribe seeks return of sacred stone called 'Grandmother' from Germany

Venezuela tribe seeks return of sacred stone called 'Grandmother' from Germany

BERLIN -- Wolfgang von Schwarzenfeld's sculptures in a Berlin park were meant to promote world peace, but the 79-year-old German now finds himself at war with a Venezuelan tribe which accuses him of stealing a sacred pink stone known to them as ...

Will California once again lead the nation as Medicaid is expanded?

Will California once again lead the nation as Medicaid is expanded?:

California Watch reported last year that to cover basic needs, a family of four in California needs and income of 63000 a year — "nearly triple the federal poverty level." So you can see why we would have embraced an expansion of Medi-Cal. The ...

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Escaped high-profile prisoner speaks out against Venezuela bid to join UN ...

Escaped high-profile prisoner speaks out against Venezuela bid to join UN ...

Escaped former Venezuela prisoner Eligio Cedeño addressed the United Nations Thursday to oppose Hugo Chávez's bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Argentina keeps 2012 growth forecast at 5.1 pct

Argentina keeps 2012 growth forecast at 5.1 pct: BUENOS AIRES, June 28 (Reuters) - Argentina's government is sticking to its 5.1 percent growth forecast for 2012 enshrined in the budget, Economy Minister Hernan Lorenzino said on Thursday, despite recent data that shows a sharp deceleration.

A book written in disappearing ink [video]

A book written in disappearing ink [video]: In Buenos Aires, small bookshop and publisher Eterna Cadencia has been wrestling with the question of the role of books in a digital age. These days, e-books seem more important, more interesting, than their print counterparts. How can print books take ...

17 Individuals Arrested for Carjacking in Puerto Rico

17 Individuals Arrested for Carjacking in Puerto Rico: 17 Individuals Arrested for Carjacking in Puerto Rico - up-to-the-minute news and headlines. 7thSpace is a online portal covering topics such as Family, Business, Entertainment, Headlines, Recipes and more. A place for the whole family featuring many ...

Western donors could learn from Brazil's new brand of development aid

Western donors could learn from Brazil's new brand of development aid:

Jonathan Glennie: Rather than advising governments on what should work, as the west does, Brazil exports success – its south-south co-operation is based directly on what has already worked.

The Guardian

Weekly Unemployment – Latino Perspective

Weekly Unemployment – Latino Perspective:

In the week ending June 23, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 386000, a decrease of 6000 from the previous week\\\'s.

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Cancun first on the LGBT traveler radar

Cancun first on the LGBT traveler radar: In addition to topping the list of desired Mexican locales, the resort town placed well internationally, ranking behind only Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and São Paulo as the most appealing Latin American LGBT destination. By contrast, Puerto Vallarta ...

How the Growth Machine Ate Florida

How the Growth Machine Ate Florida: DEEP POVERTY IN AMERICA TODAY — 20 million with incomes below half the poverty line; Six million living only on food stamps; 46 Million Sunk in Total Desperation; Can Anything Be Done in Today's Brutal Environment? Laura Flanders talks to Peter ...

International Relief Organization Seeks Donations to Continue Work Rebuilding ...

International Relief Organization Seeks Donations to Continue Work Rebuilding ...: The Alliance for Children Foundation's efforts to help orphans in Haiti were highlighted in a front-page cover story in the Boston Globe - "Newton woman brings hope to orphans in Haiti." Filis Casey, founder of the Foundation, traveled to Haiti to ...

Driving America's Energy Policy Through Greater Latino Education ...

Driving America's Energy Policy Through Greater Latino Education ...: At a time when Latino unemployment (10.4 percent) remains above the national average (8.2 percent), nuclear energy is a fast-growing sector that offers accessible long-term, high-paying careers in communities across the United States.

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Gay groups weigh in on court's healthcare ruling

Gay groups weigh in on court's healthcare ruling:

Openly gay Gaston County Democratic Party Chair Robert Kellogg praised today's court decision. “This is a victory for America,” Kellogg said in a written release. “Those who are not a part of Mitt Romney's 1 percent now have basic healthcare rights to ...

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Chuck Norris Supports Boy Scouts of America Anti-Gay Policy

Chuck Norris Supports Boy Scouts of America Anti-Gay Policy: Chuck Norris has voiced his support for the anti-gay policies operated by the Boy Scouts of America. Norris, 72, wrote an Op-Ed piece for the.

Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas teen ...

Gay rights groups call for thorough investigation in shooting of Texas teen ...: McALLEN, Texas — Investigators on Wednesday were still trying to determine a motive for the killing of a teenage woman and the wounding of her girlfriend in a shooting at a South Texas park that has caught the attention of gay rights groups. The ...

Escaped high-profile prisoner speaks out against Venezuela bid to join UN ...

Escaped high-profile prisoner speaks out against Venezuela bid to join UN ...

Escaped former Venezuela prisoner Eligio Cedeño addressed the United Nations Thursday to oppose Hugo Chávez's bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Venezuela drug seizure much smaller than initially reported

Venezuela drug seizure much smaller than initially reported: The amount of cocaine seized earlier this week aboard a ship in the northwestern Venezuelan state of Zulia was actually 4.8 tons, not the 20 tons initially reported, Interior Minister Tareck el Aissami said.

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Violence tops debate ahead of Venezuela vote

Violence tops debate ahead of Venezuela vote: CARACAS, Venezuela—Natalia Guzman stepped hesitantly into the morgue looking for her only son. She was led to rows of refrigeration units, where after peering at more than a dozen corpses she finally found 17-year-old Jaime.

Under-fire UN meet to issue environment, poverty plan

Under-fire UN meet to issue environment, poverty plan: RIO DE JANEIRO: A global summit to root out poverty and fix Earth's worsening environment was set to wrap up here Friday, issuing a roster of promises that many critics have already branded as p ...

Ecuador quits former School of the Americas

Ecuador quits former School of the Americas: ... for training at the U.S. Defense Department-run school formerly known as School of the Americas. Opponents of the school, currently located at Fort Benning, Georgia, blame it for human rights abuses in Latin America by foreign military officers ...

Human rights activists speak to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security ...

Human rights activists speak to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security ...: While operating as the School of the Americas, some graduates were accused of being involved in atrocities throughout Latin America. Under a new curriculum, the school offers courses that emphasize respect for human rights, rule of law, due process, ...

Guatemala sends dozens of drug traffickers to prison

Guatemala sends dozens of drug traffickers to prison: Guatemala has been struggling to contain drug cartels that have spread their operations into Central America to smuggle South American cocaine to the United States. The government has declared two 'states of siege' in Coban and Peten since 2010, giving ...

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Graduation Project Forum in Cartagena Will Create Extreme Poverty ...

Graduation Project Forum in Cartagena Will Create Extreme Poverty ...: DANE, Colombia's statistics administrator, announced in May that the country's poverty rate had dropped by 3% in 2011, extreme poverty by 1.7%, and that its ...

ACLU files lawsuit against Puerto Rico police, alleging abuses

ACLU files lawsuit against Puerto Rico police, alleging abuses

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's police department was hit with a federal lawsuit on Wednesday as the American Civil Liberties Union accused officers ...

Gay Pride: The world through rainbow-colored glasses

Gay Pride: The world through rainbow-colored glasses:

Florida Keys: Revelers carry a 100-foot-long rainbow flag, a symbol of gay pride, down Duval Street in Key West, Florida on June 10, 2012, as a facet of a ...

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UN Report on Haiti Rape Shows Few Prosecutions

UN Report on Haiti Rape Shows Few Prosecutions: The prosecution of rape cases in Haiti remains bogged down, and justice is rarely served, the United Nations mission in the impoverished country said in a ...

Governments can help companies work with nature

Governments can help companies work with nature:

A Brazilian military policeman stands guard next to Brazilian natives, upon their ... sustainable development can lift people out of poverty and preserve nature.

San Francisco Chronicle

Women strive to build a place in Brazil's construction industry

Women strive to build a place in Brazil's construction industry: p><p> Both could have done what many poor women in Brazil do and take up .... A single mother of two from Nova Iguacu, a poverty stricken city just outside Rio ...

80000 March for LGBT Equality in Santiago, Chile « Americas South ...

80000 March for LGBT Equality in Santiago, Chile « Americas South ...: Over 80000 people took to the streets in Chile's Marcha por la Igualdad y los Derechos Humanos de la Diversidad Sexual (March for Equality and Human Rights ...

Cuba struggles for food self-sufficiency

Cuba struggles for food self-sufficiency: The action came in response to the annual cost of food imports rising to above $1.5 billion and to the reality that half of Cuba's arable land, 8.5 million acres, was ...

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Tribal Nations Unite to Defend Sovereign Rights

Tribal Nations Unite to Defend Sovereign Rights: WASHINGTON, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Native American Tribes from across the United States have joined together to announce the ...

UN report on Haiti rape shows few prosecutions

UN report on Haiti rape shows few prosecutions: The study by the U.N.'s human rights section in Haiti, carried out with the cooperation of police and judicial officials, examined a sample of 62 rape complaints ...

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ACLU files suit against Puerto Rico police

ACLU files suit against Puerto Rico police: Puerto Rico's police department was hit with a federal lawsuit on Wednesday as the American Civil Liberties Union accused officers of using excessive force and ...

Venezuela, Belarus ink over 20 cooperation deals

Venezuela, Belarus ink over 20 cooperation deals: CARACAS - Venezuela and Belarus signed on Tuesday more than 20 accords to boost bilateral cooperation in the areas of oil and gas, ...

America's gay marriage debate is going to get louder

America's gay marriage debate is going to get louder:

“I've always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally. At a certain point I've just concluded that, for me personally, it is ...

Bikya Masr

China commits $15 billion in development funds for Latin America

China commits $15 billion in development funds for Latin America

SANTIAGO, Chile -- In a bid to strengthen ties with an important regional trade partner, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told a U.N. economic conference in Chile ...

Brazil Introduces Reading Program For Prisoners To Reduce ...

Brazil Introduces Reading Program For Prisoners To Reduce ...

Like many other states in Latin America, Brazil suffers from a vastly overcrowded prison system. According to statistics released by the country's National ...

Argentina's Moyano ups the ante with truck strike

Argentina's Moyano ups the ante with truck strike: BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's powerful truckers staged a one-day strike on Wednesday and planned to rally outside the presidential palace ...

Cuba To Withdraw Ambassador From Paraguay

Cuba To Withdraw Ambassador From Paraguay: The Cuban government condemned on Saturday the impeachment against Lugo, saying it would not recognise any authority that is not granted by the ...

IKEA asks for help in Cuban prison labor probe

IKEA asks for help in Cuban prison labor probe: The Swedish furniture giant has set up a hotline and asked anyone with information on a 1987 contract to make furniture in Cuban prisons for IKEA to call.

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Allegany County legislators debate housing rehab grant

Allegany County legislators debate housing rehab grant: This includes wages and other household income, such as Social Security. Norman Ungermann Jr., R-Cuba, said this kind of grant money goes to people whether ...

Fighting Capital Punishment

Fighting Capital Punishment: For most people, the death penalty is a concept that occasionally intersects their ... victims, as well as others who have been touched by the death penalty in America.

Why the death penalty is no deterrent

Why the death penalty is no deterrent: The Economist echoes this, 'Despite voluminous academic studies of American executions and crime rates, there is no solid evidence that the death penalty is ...

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California Lowes Employee Threatens Gay Family: 'I'll Be at Your ...

California Lowes Employee Threatens Gay Family: 'I'll Be at Your ...: Jeremy L. Smythe and Daniel Soto, a gay Riverside, California couple, have filed restraining orders against two employees at Lowes after they said they were threatened by employees Andy Olague and Frank Villa when they came in ...

Gay rights icon arrested for child porn dipicting infant rape

Gay rights icon arrested for child porn dipicting infant rape:

San Francisco police arrested gay rights activist Larry Brinkin Friday on ... of child pornography and the sexual exploitation of a child, California Watch reports.

DigitalJournal.com

Scotland could learn from California's experience on equal marriage ...

Scotland could learn from California's experience on equal marriage ...:

The BBC reports today that Governor of California Jerry Brown, believes Scotland should join global leaders on allowing gays to marry. Mr Brown met First ...

PinkNews.co.uk

Venezuela to Host Russian Helicopter Repair Center

Venezuela to Host Russian Helicopter Repair Center: Russia is planning to open a helicopter repair center in Venezuela later in the year, a senior official with Russia's state-owned hi-tech conglomerate ...

Florida's ban on university travel to Cuba stands

Florida's ban on university travel to Cuba stands: The Republican-controlled Legislature slapped the ban on public colleges and universities in 2006. It prohibits spending on trips to Cuba and other countries ...

Haiti - Social : The fight against corruption began...

Haiti - Social : The fight against corruption began...:

We know that tax fraud are a scourge for the state revenue for the country's image [...] if some pay their taxes and others do not, the state authority can not be ...

Haitilibre.com

Haiti quake population drops below 400000

Haiti quake population drops below 400000: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The number of people living in the precarious settlements that became glaring symbols of the Haitian earthquake's devastation ...

Mexico seeks more international cooperation in war on drugs

Mexico seeks more international cooperation in war on drugs: Mexico wants to expand international cooperation in the war on drugs to create new strategies and lines of action, Mexican Deputy Attorney General for Judicial ...

US Journalist Disappears in Mexico Drug Cartel Stronghold

US Journalist Disappears in Mexico Drug Cartel Stronghold:

A 30-year-old American photojournalist has become the latest reporter to go missing while covering Mexico's drug war, after he left his hotel room in the violent ...

ABC News

Pentagon holds gay pride event

Pentagon holds gay pride event: The panel discussion for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender troops came ... Tracy St. George, a South Florida DJ for WRMF, delivers the hottest celebrity ...

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Report: Submarine Hazing Centered on Homosexuality

Report: Submarine Hazing Centered on Homosexuality:

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A Navy hazing case that led to the firing of the top enlisted officer aboard a nuclear submarine was sparked by gay jokes about a sailor ...

SouthFloridaGayNews.com

Matt Bomer: I Never Hid the Fact That I'm Gay

Matt Bomer: I Never Hid the Fact That I'm Gay:

Matt Bomer dodged questions about his personal life for years -- but not because he's ashamed of his sexual orientation. The Magic Mike actor, 34, subtly acknowledged his homosexuality while thanking his longtime partner, publicist Simon Halls, and their three children, Kit, Walker and Henry, when he was honored by the Desert AIDS Fund in Palm Springs in February.

Pentagon holds gay pride event

Pentagon holds gay pride event: The panel discussion for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender troops ... Gangs are a growing concern for police in Southern Oregon and Northern California.

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Teen violin star is Venezuela's youngest conductor

Teen violin star is Venezuela's youngest conductor: MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela (Reuters) - At 2 years old, he was given his first musical instrument: a cuatro, or small four-string guitar. At 8, he cried with ...

Venezuelan tribe angry at "sacred" stone in Berlin

Venezuelan tribe angry at "sacred" stone in Berlin: BERLIN (Reuters) - Wolfgang von Schwarzenfeld's sculptures in a Berlin park were meant to promote world peace, but the 79-year-old German now finds ...

New report highligts anti-poverty role of teen dads

New report highligts anti-poverty role of teen dads: There are more than 30000 children of teen parents in New York City; most of them live in poverty. While the report demonstrates the value of a father's ...

Cubans Seek Change, Not End to Revolution

Cubans Seek Change, Not End to Revolution: New America Media is a nationwide association of over 3000 ethnic media organizations representing the development of a more inclusive journalism. Founded ...

Hundreds protest Haiti gov't plan to destroy homes

Hundreds protest Haiti gov't plan to destroy homes: More than 1000 Haitians marched through the Caribbean nation's capital Monday to protest a reported plan to destroy their hillside shanties for a flood-control ...

Brazil has novel idea to cut jail sentences - Topsy

Brazil has novel idea to cut jail sentences - Topsy: Brazil will offer inmates in its crowded federal prison system a novel way to shorten their sentences: four days less for every book they read.

Pope's personnel changes: Argentine bishop photographed with ...

Pope's personnel changes: Argentine bishop photographed with ...

Monsignor Fernando Maria Bargallo, bishop of Merlo-Moreno outside Buenos Aires, initially denied having had any improper relationship with the woman, ...

Poverty increases in suburbs

Poverty increases in suburbs:

Video on msnbc.com: America's middle class struggles as family members lose jobs, run out of savings and sink toward poverty. NBC's Lester Holt reports. ... on "dateline." america now lost in suburbia, at a special time tonight 8:00, 7:00 central.

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Central America: one of the happiest regions on earth?

Central America: one of the happiest regions on earth?

Central America's myriad problems – violence, drugs, corruption, political folly, social unrest, natural disasters, poverty, emigration, and chupacabras – are a ...

Florida Gets Low Marks On School Funding Report Card

Florida Gets Low Marks On School Funding Report Card: borman818 / flickr. High-poverty Florida school districts receive less state and local money than wealthier districts, according to a new report card. Florida is one ...

Development cooperation with Latin America

Development cooperation with Latin America: It concerns the EU's presence in Latin America and its aim of reducing poverty and improving human rights and living conditions. The EU is the principal donor of ...

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Outcry in Latin America as Paraguay leader ousted

Outcry in Latin America as Paraguay leader ousted: ... prompting an angry din across Latin America and refusals to recognise his successor. ... Under-fire UN summit addresses environment, poverty blueprint ...

World Bank Assures Sustainable Development for Latin America

World Bank Assures Sustainable Development for Latin America: The World Bank representative said that to achieve that goal Latin America deals with the need to continue growing to fight poverty and protect natural resources ...

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Poll: Hispanic voters care more about other issues than immigration

Poll: Hispanic voters care more about other issues than immigration: A new USA Today/Gallup poll makes it clear that economic issues -- particularly unemployment -- matter more to Latino voters than immigration. WASHINGTON ...

Townhall to Examine Economic Issues Confronting Latinos

Townhall to Examine Economic Issues Confronting Latinos: “Latino unemployment stands at a staggering 11% due to President Obama's policies and over-regulation,” said Alfonso Aguilar, whose group is organizing the ...

China interested in Argentine corn, official says

China interested in Argentine corn, official says: BUENOS AIRES, June 25 (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China is interested in buying more corn from Argentina, the world's second-biggest ...

Routing Peace Towards Central America

Routing Peace Towards Central America: Central America is at a critical moment in its history due to crime, drugs, poverty, and violence. The reality is one where Central America's governments, often ...

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Father-and-son team heading for Central America to help the poor

Father-and-son team heading for Central America to help the poor:

Father-and-son team heading for Central America to help the poor ... Both Honigs realize Honduras, with its crushing poverty and largely non-existent facilities, ...

Baltimore Sun

Haiti - Social : Strengthening of the Legal Framework for People with ...

Haiti - Social : Strengthening of the Legal Framework for People with ...

The objective of this program funded by the USAID is to provide technical assistance to build capacity of the Haitian Government to establish a regulatory ...

Eviction pits Haiti police against protestors

Eviction pits Haiti police against protestors:

Clashes broke out in Haiti Monday between police and protestors against government plans to evict them from homes precariously perched on the hills above ...

FRANCE 24

Under-fire UN summit issues environment, poverty blueprint

Under-fire UN summit issues environment, poverty blueprint:

Under-fire UN summit issues environment, poverty blueprint. Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff (R) and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon get ready to bring ...

FRANCE 24

UN Zero Hunger Challenge Ray of Hope in Fight against Hunger

UN Zero Hunger Challenge Ray of Hope in Fight against Hunger: The challenge echoes the successful 'Hunger Zero' strategy of the Brazilian hosts which has cut child malnutrition and lifted millions out of poverty. “Ban Ki ...

Budgeting services struggling with demand

Budgeting services struggling with demand: The Child Poverty Action Group says the services are struggling, and also trying to cope with growing demand. Spokesman Alan Johnson says one South ...

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7 in 10 Americans 'Not Upset' with Gay Marriage, New iMediaEthics ...

7 in 10 Americans 'Not Upset' with Gay Marriage, New iMediaEthics ...:

Several polls show that over the past three years, there has been a significant change in American public opinion in favor of gay marriage. Still, those same po.

iMediaEthics