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Pakistan restores 3 judges Musharraf ousted in 2007
The Associated PressPakistan's Supreme Court on Friday reinstated three judges ousted by Pervez Musharraf, cementing political divisions in the country a day before it elects a new president. Musharraf's purge of the court last year deepened his unpopularity and helped...Tags: Values, Judges, Government Ministers, Corrupt Practices, National Government
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China watches U.S. elections with bemusement
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Americans are doing it again, mystifying the masses here with their weird, weird presidential elections. To the Chinese, who are spared by the one-party communist system such complications as an electoral college and party caucuses, the spectacle...Tags: Television Industry, Local Elections, Hillary Clinton, Democratic National Conventions, Barack Obama
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Oil-rich and impoverished, Angola votes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterVoters in Angola, one of Africa's biggest oil producers, will take part in parliamentary elections today for the first time in 16 years, with analysts forecasting peaceful balloting and a victory for the MPLA party, which has been in power for 33 years....Tags: Armed Forces, Unemployment, Parties and Movements, Defense, Commodity Markets
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Editorials from Wisconsin newspapers
DO NOT LIMIT POLITICAL SPEECHFor advocates of free speech -- and that ought to include all Americans -- the day politicians decided it was a good idea to regulate paid messages around elections should be draped in black on the calendar. The argument is always that these ads can...Tags: Local Authority, Juvenile Delinquency, Assault, Biotechnology Industry, Medical Services
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Journalists arrested at RNC
Spin CycleThe radio host and two producers of Democracy Now! were arrested as they covered a protest of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, the Washington Post reports. Amy Goodman was released after a few hours, but was still awaiting......Tags: Republican National Conventions, Washington Post Company
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Thai protesters flout premier's state of emergency
The Associated PressThailand's embattled leader struggled to keep the peace and his grip on power today after declaring a state of emergency that was openly flouted by thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital. While Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej sought to...Tags: Armed Forces, Values, Assault, Coup d'Etat, Labor Disputes
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Thailand protesters unmoved by emergency
Special to The TimesBangkok shopkeeper Rai Varopaspiman is dead tired. Months ago, she joined anti-government protesters and began camping outside the gates of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's administrative compound, demanding his resignation. Six days ago, the situation...Tags: Armed Forces, Values, Assault, Coup d'Etat, Defense
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A Georgian soldier of the Velvet Revolution
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterShe's a soldier in a different kind of war. Every few months, Nini Gogiberidze is deployed abroad to teach democracy activists how to agitate for change against their autocratic governments, going everywhere from Eastern Europe to train Belarusians to...Tags: NATO, Coup d'Etat, Defense, George Soros, Columbia University
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SEIU president says he will seek aid from labor reform groups
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe president of the Service Employees International Union said this week that he plans to consult with two labor reform groups in an effort to clean up his scandal-stained organization, beginning with a new ethics code and an internal watchdog...Tags: Values, Ethics, National Government, Newspapers, Employees
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Mexicans add modern tool to ancient art of protest: Facebook
Chicago Tribune correspondentThe protest is an art form in Mexico. Load up a bus by offering a meal or a few pesos as an incentive, arm the troops with signs and bullhorns, and find a strategic plaza or street for maximum attention or disruption. But with outrage bubbling after...Tags: Facebook, International Relations, Kidnapping, Diplomacy, Hugo Chavez
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Striking harsher chord in piracy
Tribune NewspapersWhen five FBI agents arrested Kevin Cogill at his Culver City, Calif., apartment, it marked the newest weapon in the entertainment industry's war on piracy: felony charges against small-time bootleggers. Cogill posted nine leaked songs from an unreleased...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ryan Adams, Networking, Sales, Culver City
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What to do with Russia-Georgia mess will be a hot debate topic
Russia's new in-your-face "diplomacy" rivals George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in their most hubristic days. Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev don't care if you are with them or against them on their invasion of Georgia. They just want you to get out of...Tags: Dick Cheney, George Bush, NATO, John McCain, Vladimir Putin
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