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CANADA: Investigate Fatal Boat Episode Dying to Leave Libya

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(HONG KONG) - Sixty-three out of 72 people died on board a vessel with migrants fleeing Libya, in an episode that occurred during March and April 2011. Their journey ended where it began, on Libyan shores.

Questions exist, over whether military warships near the disabled vessel failed to render mandatory rescue and human aid.

Hanford Officials Claimed Hazardous Waste Leak Was Just Rain Dripping

– Watchdog Warns More Leaks Are Likely to Occur Due to Ongoing Violations and Thousands of Illegally Stored Drums

(KENNEWICK, WA) - Hanford officials claimed a leak of what has been confirmed as numerous hazardous wastes was just dripping “rainwater.”

After confirming that hazardous wastes were leaking into the open from a concrete container at Hanford, the Washington Department of Ecology issued an “Immediate Action Letter” on Friday to the federal Energy Department (USDOE), which runs Hanford.

Impact Of UNHRC Resolution On India-Sri Lanka Relations Analysis

India’s support to the U.S. sponsored resolution was out of sync with other members of the Asian bloc in the UNHRC who did not support the U.S. move.

(CHENNAI, India Eurasia Review) - India was among the 24 countries that voted for the U.S. draft resolution on Sri Lanka’s accountability in respect of human rights violations which was passed at the 19th meeting of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at Geneva.

Fifteen member countries opposed it while eight abstained.

Lies Taking us to War

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. --Mark Twain

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - A January 12th headline in the Wall Street Journal: "Humanitarian gestures and covert actions won't stop Iran's bomb."

They lie and they know it! Show them the wisdom of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: "The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted."

The World Needs Public Trial of Political Leaders for War Crimes and Genocide

Nice and juicy ‘Depleted Uranium’ has nothing depleted about it.

(CHENNAI, India) - Yes, public trial for treason, war crimes, and the genocide going on right now.

This is part of a very long essay on Depleted Uranium weapons, nuclear reactors and their environmental health impacts. In this article the long term consequences of radiation contamination from unilateral aggression of the US and NATO countries on South and West Asia are discussed.

Whitney Houston: What Killed Her?
Not Cocaine, Nor Heart Disease

Marijuana never killed anybody at any dose.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Like everyone else, I've been waiting nervously for the Los Angeles Coroner's Office, for their report. Now that it is here, I am embarrassed for whomever released the report and their amateurish lack of evaluations of the results.

Results, for example, cocaine and heart disease did not kill Whitney Houston.

India Votes for UNHRC Resolution Against Sri Lanka

India had initially shown reluctance to vote on a nation-specific resolution.

(GENEVA Indian Express) - Overcoming its dithering, India on Thursday voted for a US-sponsored resolution at the UN’s top human rights body censuring Sri Lanka for alleged rights violations during the war against LTTE.

India had initially shown reluctance to vote on a nation-specific resolution but had to change its stand under severe pressure from political parties in Tamil Nadu.

Hundreds of Israelis March in Tel Aviv to Protest War with Iran

Anti-war protest comes amid growing Facebook campaign linking Israelis and Iranians; campaign leaders: We have nothing to do with the protest rally.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Hundreds of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against a possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The protest came amid a recent Facebook campaign linking Israeli and Iranian citizens in their opposition to war between the two nations.

Democracy Imperiled in the Maldives

Over the past month, pro-democracy demonstrators have once again taken to the streets as they had under Gayoom's rule.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Well before the launch of the Arab Spring, the people of the Maldives, a Muslim nation located on a tropical archipelago in the Indian Ocean, were engaged in widespread nonviolent resistance against the 30-year reign of the corrupt and autocratic president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.

The growing civil insurrection forced the dictator to finally allow for free elections in October 2008, which he lost.

Will India`s Vote Drive Sri Lanka Closer to China?

A.S. Kalkat cautions that India needs to proactively engage Sri Lanka to ensure that the Chinese don’t gain an upper hand there.

(New Delhi IANS) - India has made it clear to Sri Lanka that its vote on the US-backed resolution was aimed at s
peeding up the reconciliation process in the island nation.

However the move has sparked speculation whether it was a strategic misstep that could drive Colombo closer to Beijing