Iran. “Clashes between hundreds of determined young men and women chanting 'Death to the dictator' and 'God is great' and security forces wielding truncheons erupted in downtown Tehran today.”
Mexico. “The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, according to documents and interviews with victims, their families, political leaders and human rights monitors.”
G8 and development aid. “If the assistance is delivered and is in fact mostly new money, it will constitute the largest international effort in decades to combat hunger by investing in the fundamentals of an agricultural economy, including seed, fertilizer, grain storage and research into new plant varieties."
Quote of the day. “There is a time to die and a way to do that with reverence. Hospitals should not be meccas for dying. Dying belongs at home, in the community. We built this place with that in mind.” Sister Mary Lou of the Sisters of St. Joseph, a congregation in Rochester, NY, on the convent’s ministry to dying sisters, which provides a social network and continued engagement in life and spiritual beliefs, along with palliative health care. (New York Times)
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