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Congress provides $7.7 billion in funding to combat H1N1 flu virus

Washington, DC 11/20/09 · In April, the first case of H1N1 influenza...

Soledad O'Brien, Rep. Waters, Rev. Sharpton, Other Honorees At Black Star News's

NEW YORK 11/20/09 · Soledad O'Brien, Rep. Waters, Rev. Sharpton, Other Honorees...

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending November 20, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. 11/20/09 · 1.  Washington Field: Twenty-Six Charged in Nationwide Scheme to...

Account Director Philip Keightley Takes Clean Sweep At Punch Annual Awards

LONDON, UK 11/20/09 · Search and PR company Punch Communications has announced...

IBM Moves Closer To Creating Computer Based on Insights From The Brain

Portland, OR 11/20/09 · Scientists perform cat-scale cortical simulations and map the...

Departments of Justice News: Guantanamo Bay Detainees Forum

WASHINGTON (RPRN) 11/13/09 — By United States Department of Justice
Departments of Justice and Defense Announce Forum Decisions for Ten Guantanamo Bay Detainees Decisions on Accused 9/11 Plotters, Alleged Mastermind of USS Cole Attack & Others  – The Departments of Justice...

Accused Al-Qaida Sleeper Agent sentenced to 8 Years in Prison

Pretoria, Illinois (RPRN) 10/30/09 — By VOA
By Kane Farabaugh Accused al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali al-Marri has been sentenced to more than eight years in a civilian prison. The Qatar native was labeled an "enemy combatant and held...

New Bin Laden Tape Calls Obama 'Powerless'

WASHINGTON, D.C. (RPRN) 09/14/09 — By Andrea Archibald, RPRN Writer
In a new tape, coinciding with the anniversay of 9/11, Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden calls President Obama weak and powerless to change the state of war in Afghanistan. Bin...

Indian Court Sentences 2003 Mumbai Bombers to Death

MUMBAI (RPRN) 8/6/2009--An Indian court has sentenced three people to death for carrying out bomb attacks in India's commercial capital, Mumbai, in 2003 that killed 52 people. The special court...

Who says "no" to women's human rights - A Message from Amnesty USA

WASHINGTON (RPRN) 7/17/2009--Right now, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are gathering to determine whether a new, federal office dedicated to defending women's human rights will become permanent.An upcoming...

DeVry-Owned Vet School Stops Killing but Animal Suffering Continues

by Ian Smith Norfolk, Va. (RPRN) 6/10/2009- — As a result of an ongoing campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine,...

First Guantanamo Detainee Enters US for Trial

WASHINGTON (RPRN) 6/9/2009--U.S. authorities have moved a Guantanamo Bay terror suspect to the United States for the first time to face trial. The Justice Department says alleged al-Qaida conspirator Ahmed...

Call for journalists' release as trial date nears in North Korea

New York, (RPRN) 6/4/2009---On the eve of the June 4 criminal trial date for U.S. television journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling in North Korea, the Committee to Protect Journalists...

UN Endorses Controversial Peacekeeping Plan for DRC

By Peter Heinlein Goma, Congo (RPRN) 5/19/2009--The U.N. Security Council, on a tour of Africa, has given a vote of confidence to its controversial peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of...

American-Iranian Journalist Roxana Saberi Leaves Iran

Sentence Reduced But Saberi Not Acquitted Of Espionage Charges Reporter was arrested while buying a bottle of wine, which is illegal in Iran Tehran, Iran (RPRN) 5/15/2009--The American journalist recently freed from...