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Constitutional amendment required to undo ‘Citizens United,’ Senate panel told
Constitutional amendment required to undo Citizens United, Senate panel told It will take a constitutional amendment to reverse the flood of independent money inundating American elections in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee was told on Tuesday. New laws alone will…
WHO launches action plan against ‘hidden epidemic’ of hepatitis
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday measures to fight the “hidden epidemic” of hepatitis which kills more than one million people a year. The virus, which settles in the liver causing inflammation, affects 500 million people worldwide but can go unnoticed for years and even decades, the UN…
UN arms treaty gives too many ‘loopholes’: NGOs
The International Red Cross has joined opponents of a draft arms trade treaty out Tuesday that critics said contains only “ambiguities and loopholes.” Following the release of the first draft, the 193 UN members must now race to agree on a text to regulate the $70 billion a year arms…
Celebrated Spanish human rights investigator Baltasar Garzon to head Julian Assange’s legal team
Famous Spanish human rights investigator Baltasar Garzon will lead the legal team representing WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the whistleblower website announced on Tuesday. Assange is currently at the Ecuadoran embassy in London, seeking political asylum in the Latin American country, after losing his legal battle to avoid extradition…
British PM’s ex-aide charged with hacking, Angelina Jolie targeted
Police have charged Prime Minister David Cameron’s ex-media chief Andy Coulson with phone hacking as a long-running press scandal lapped at the door of Downing Street. Former tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks will also be charged at a later date, police confirmed. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said eight current or…
Canada says suspected spy may have sold U.S. secrets
A Canadian naval officer arrested this year for allegedly leaking secrets may also have compromised top level Australian, British and American intelligence, a report said Wednesday. Jeffrey Delisle, a naval intelligence officer, was charged in Canada in January with communicating over the past five years “with a foreign entity, information…
Olympics mascots made in ‘China sweatshops’: watchdog
A labour watchdog on Wednesday slammed the London Olympics organisers over alleged human rights abuses at Chinese “sweatshops” producing Games merchandise. The group said labourers at two Chinese factories producing merchandise including Olympics mascots Wenlock and Mandeville worked up to 120 hours of overtime a month, or nearly three times…
Chefs reveal eating secrets of world leaders
Barack Obama can’t stand beetroot, artichokes are off the menu at France’s presidential palace and Vladimir Putin does not take any chances with dishes that emerge from the Kremlin kitchens. Those were just a few of the culinary titbits to emerge from the latest reunion of the select club of…
Crowds flock to Virgin ‘miracle’ tree in New Jersey
Fervent Catholics in a crime-ridden New Jersey town are flocking to what they say is the miraculous apparition of the Virgin Mary’s image in a tree trunk. On Tuesday, a crowd of several dozen people stood around the tree, praying, taking photos and swapping stories of what they call a…
WATCH LIVE: Anaheim protesters refuse to disperse
Protesters responding to the Anaheim shooting this weekend are reportedly being fired upon by police. That claim seems to be substantiated by this livestream from journalist Tim Pool: Live video from your Android device on Ustream This livestream is provided by Occupy OC: Stream videos at Ustream…
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