Honduran teachers lead protests with police crackdown
Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse teachers blocking a main avenue in Tegucigalpa as they call for Zelaya's return from exile in the Dominican Republic. The action comes amid a wider strike by health workers and a push against a raised retirement age for civil servants.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Manuel Zelaya
Zegala
Zelaya
Dominican Republic
Wilmer Suazo
Porfirio Lobo
Organization of American States
Lobo
OAS
Orlando Discua
Honduran Congress
Teachers’ Union
Ilse Velasquez
Duch Appeals 19 Year Sentence For Khmer Rouge Crimes
Kaing Guek Eac known as Duch, former Toul Sleng prison chief, appeals his 19 year term for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He admitted overseeing torture and deaths of up to 16 000 people at S 21 in Phnom Penh. Prosecutors seek life, tribunal mulls personal jurisdiction and broader cases against Khmer Rouge leaders.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Khmer Rouge
Kaing Guek Baw
Duch
U.N
Kar Savuth
Kar
Toul Sleng
S-21
Chen Leang
Sambath
Nuon Chea
Khieu Samphan
Leng Sary
Leng Thirith
Hun Sen
Pol Pot
Carter visits Cuba to press dialogue amid Gross case
Former President Jimmy Carter met Cuban Jewish and Catholic leaders in Havana as he begins a trip under the Carter Center banner to discuss economic policy and U S Cuba relations. He did not say if he raised Alan Gross’s December 2009 conviction.
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Jimmy Carter
Rosalynn Carter
Cuba
Bruno Rodriguez
Jose Marti
Havana
Carter
Washington-Havana
U.S
Washington- Havana
Alan Gross
Raul Castro
Adela Dworin
The
Temple
Jewish Community House
Ortega
Raul Castro Ruz
Castro
Jonathan Farrar
Rosalynn
Granma
Carter Center
State Department
Gross
Mark Toner
Alan
Judy E. Gross
Washington
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