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A U.S. appeals court ruled Monday that Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar cannot sue the United States over his forced deportation to Syria after his arrest in New York as a suspected terrorist.

Mai said Hung had not eaten and had drunk nothing but water since his conviction, and now weighed just 30kg.

Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.A new report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates sea lions ate 4,960 salmon and steelhead during the spring of 2009 - 2.4 percent of the fish passing the dam located near Cascade ...

SANGAREDDY: With the support of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics has taken up a project intended to improve the quantity and quality of village-based information for better decision making.

Responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and tackling so-called neglected tropical diseases are the focus of the November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs .

Ranchers opposed to the Army's planned expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site are charging The Nature Conservancy environmental group with being the Army's silent partner, based on past and continuing agreements with Fort Carson to establish conservation easements around both the Mountain Post and the 238,000-acre Pinon Canyon training range.

Larry Jones, the founder of Oklahoma City-based Feed The Children, has been fired.

An international human rights group said Friday it has documented three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested during Iran's postelection turmoil, including one that was supported by an official report but not investigated further.

In her weekly radio address, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today said Michigan has been chosen for a new teaching fellowship program that will benefit almost 20,000 Michigan public school students in high-need schools.

Sitting near the top of the Left's ambitious agenda is the tempering of alleged man-made global warming.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Tropical Diseases Article Date: 04 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and tackling so-called neglected tropical diseases are the focus of the November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs.

Amnesty International has urged the Guyanese authorities to charge police officers involved in the torture and ill-treatment of three individuals, including a 15-year-old boy, who were detained in relation to a murder investigation.

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Dallas Fire-Rescue have joined together to "wrap the metroplex in red." They announced today a new campaign to prevent drunken driving and brings MADD's "Tie One on for Safety" initiative to a local level.

St. Louis researchers are trying to engineer algae capable of killing the mosquito larvae that transmits malaria.

Lawrence Mefful's family and colleagues say it was typical of the United Nations security officer and devout Christian to put the well-being of others before his own safety.

One of Columbia's oldest homes, a downtown landmark owned by the same family for 130 years and largely unchanged, has gone on the market.

Houston News.Net Wednesday 4th November, 2009 A non-binding resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which accuses Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in Gaza, has been passed in the US House of Representatives with an overwhelming majority.

A Minnesota state senator is being sworn in as a new member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

Credit card interest rate increases are behind the House's vote Wednesday to make new rules on credit card companies immediately, accelerating the February enactment date in legislation previously passed by Congress.House Democrats say the change is needed because lenders are raising rates ahead of the Feb.