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By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyFollowing a deadly submarine attack on a South Korean warship in March, presumably by North Korea, the international community has found itself in the tricky position of supporting Seoul in response, while avoiding an escalation to war between the two countries. On Monday, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea announced that his government would suspend trade with North Korea and ban passage of North Korean ships into South Korean waters. Lee minced no words in his statement, saying that "North Korea will pay a price corresponding to its provocative acts" and that he would further ask the ...
Haiti's Miraculous Rescues Continue
By David Knowles - AOL News(Jan. 19) – Six-year-old Jessica Hartelin lay beneath the rubble of a collapsed Port-au-Prince building for six days before an Israeli emergency medical team was able to free her Monday night in one of dozens of miraculous survival stories to come out of Haiti in the last few days. On Tuesday afternoon, more than a week after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake leveled much of Haiti's capitol, an elderly woman, Anna Zizi, was pulled from the ruins near what remains of the National Cathedral. Remarkably, search crews continue to locate and rescue survivors, long after many had given up hope. ...
Lubna Hussein: Sudanese Tear-Gas Supporters at Pro-Pants Protest
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn the continuing saga of Lubna Hussein -- the Sudanese woman charged with violating Islamic law by wearing pants in public -- police in Khartoum Tuesday sprayed tear gas and beat Hussein's supporters who had gathered outside a courtroom with banners reading "No return to the dark ages" and "No to suppressing women." Like a few other high-profile human rights cases with strong women at the center, Hussein's trial has been delayed, this time until Sept. 7. ...
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