The community college that the Tucson shooting rampage suspect had attended has released records detailing a meeting over his suspension from the school just three months before the attack. (July 13)
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When the Xperia Pro first went up for pre-order back in June, we thought it would be available relatively soon. According to Sony Ericsson’s page, however, the handset won’t start shipping to UK customers until “late September.” A couple of friendly tipsters notified us about the change, though the SIM-free price, as you’ll notice, remains fixed at
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4.18 Spirit (Lana) Thank you Smallville Actors Allison Mack and Kristin Kreuk Harmon_Mary says: Kristin Kreuk Fan's: Kristin Kreuk , Charity work, Parvati Creative Inc http://bit.ly/nW9WxY
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Learn how a team approach to back pain treatment may help ease your back pain by combining the skills of doctors, physical therapists, and other health professionals.
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Democratic Unionist MP denies violence was caused by loyalists’ insistence on marching past Catholic Ardoyne area North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds has blamed “militant republicans” opposed to the peace process for organising a sustained riot in the Ardoyne area that lasted into the early hours of Wednesday morning. The Democratic Unionist MP said the violence, which lasted for more than six hours, had nothing to do with an Orange Order march past the area. Dodds pointed out there had also been a peaceful protest against the parade. Police officers came under attack for the second night running, with petrol bombs and missiles thrown by youths from Ardoyne. There were also pockets of trouble elsewhere, with two cars hijacked and burned in the nationalist Market area of central Belfast. A riot in Derry’s Bogside led to seven arrests, including that of a 14-year-old boy. The violence at the Brompton Park and Estoril Gardens entrances to Ardoyne continued into the early hours of Wednesday morning. Several police officers were injured, as well as a press photographer who was hit with a plastic baton round. Police fired dozens of plastic bullets at rioters and repeatedly deployed water cannon after coming under attack from a crowd of up to 200 people. At one stage a petrol bomb exploded on an officer’s head as he stood on the Crumlin Road shortly after 10pm. Colleagues doused the flames with a fire extinguisher and the officer escaped unhurt. The rioters also set fire to water cannon with petrol bombs. The attackers kept up a constant barrage of stones, bottles and other missiles for several hours once a controversial Orange Order parade had passed the Ardoyne shops shortly after 7pm on Tuesday night. The disturbances took place on the most important day in the Ulster loyalist marching calendar, just a few hours after previous riots that had left 24 police officers injured. Most of the violence on Monday happened in the Broadway area of Belfast close to the Falls Road, where local republican youths fought running battles with riot squad officers who were blocking their way to a loyalist area across the M1 motorway. On Tuesday night the tension continued on the Crumlin Road as Orangemen were verbally absued by groups of nationalist women as they returned from a rally in the south of the city. The women sang the Irish national anthem and hurled verbal insults at the marchers. Ardoyne residents have consistently opposed the loyalist parade passing their area and last night a number tried to stage a counter march just before loyalists arrived back from the city centre. When nationalists were prevented from doing so the violence erupted. The latest disturbances also expose divisions in Ardoyne between mainstream republicans who support the peace process and those who back republican dissidents’ armed campaigns. One former member of the Irish National Liberation Army told the Guardian those who took part in the street disorder were future recruits for dissident republican organisations who oppose the power sharing settlement in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland Henry McDonald guardian.co.uk
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Remember a while back when we got our first glance at an updated, prettier and seemingly more useful Android market application? There were rumors that it’d be coming shortly after its leak, but those beliefs have since waned. Fortunately, it was definitely real and it’s finally here. This version of the Android market introduces channels Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Android Phone Fans Discovery Date : 12/07/2011 22:51 Number of articles : 5
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Robert Booth at the high court and Paul Owen at the Guardian office bring you full coverage of the second day of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s battle to avoid being sent to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations • Read more about Julian Assange • Read more about WikiLeaks • Read our live blog of yesterday’s session 10.12am: Mark Summers, who is acting for Julian Assange, says the WikiLeaks founder is suspected “with probable cause” in Sweden but this comes before any charges – so he is not “accused”, so the European arrest warrant is not valid 10.00am: Assange is in good spirits in court four: kisses on both cheeks for his lawyer Gareth Peirce. But the QC for Sweden, Clare Montgomery, is limbering up. 9.55am: Julian Assange has arrived at the high court. As yesterday, he said nothing but smiled and nodded to his applauding supporters. Robert Booth took a picture . 9.31am: John Pilger, the campaigning leftwing journalist and Assange ally, got a round of applause as he arrived at the court this morning. He did not look amused at his role as warm-up act. 9.28am: Robert Booth is at the Royal Courts of Justice, where the usual posse of news cameramen have gathered to record Assange’s court entrance. A few more protesters against the legal proceedings have also turned up. One placard reads: “Julian Assange dacks the rich and powerful”, Australian slang for pulling down their trousers. 9.23am: Julian Assange appeared at the high court in London yesterday for the first day of the latest stage of his fight against extradition to Sweden over sex allegations. The WikiLeaks founder will be back in court this morning for what is expected to be the final day of the hearing. Clare Montgomery QC , speaking for the Swedish authorities, is expected to argue that the decision to allow Assange to be extradited at the last stage of this legal process was correct. They will contend that the European arrest warrant under which Assange was arrested is nothing less than fair, accurate and proper and there is no justification for an inquiry into the validity or accuracy of the statements it contains, as Assange’s legal team suggested yesterday. Judgment is expected to be reserved, so a ruling might not be made public for days or weeks. If he loses, Assange could take his case to the supreme court, although permission to appeal to the supreme court would only be granted on a point of law considered to be of general public interest. Here are the key points from yesterday’s hearing : • Assange is claiming that the European arrest warrant that led to this hearing contained “fundamental misstatements” of what occurred in Stockholm last August. It falsely claims he used violence and “acted in a manner to violate sexual integrity”, Assange’s legal team said. • The WikiLeaks founder’s team claimed that his encounters with two women who made complaints against him involved consensual sex and would not be considered crimes in England. Ben Emmerson QC, his barrister, admitted that the women involved may have found Assange’s behaviour “disreputable, discourteous, disturbing, or even pushing towards the boundaries of what they were comfortable with” – discussing, for example, Assange’s initiating sex with one woman while she was asleep – but maintained that no crime had been committed under UK law. • Emmerson also claimed that the use of the European warrant was “disproportionate”, as there were other means available to obtain Assange’s assistance in the Swedish investigation. You can read all our coverage of yesterday’s hearing as it happened here , while, in the Guardian today, Robert Booth sums up the day’s events . Assange’s barrister set out the accusations against Assange in graphic detail yesterday, but as Robert points out Assange’s case against extradition does not hinge on whether he accepts these versions of events and testimonies relating to other incidents because there are no charges against him, Emmerson said. Rather, the barrister said, it was a question of whether the arrest warrant in connection with the allegations is valid on “strict and narrow” legal grounds. Julian Assange Crime Sweden WikiLeaks Rape Paul Owen Robert Booth guardian.co.uk
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Intelligence services had exploited ‘closed material procedures’ to conceal evidence relating to Guantánamo detainees The supreme court has outlawed intelligence services’ use of secret evidence in court to conceal allegations that detainees were tortured. The decision will be seen as a significant victory for open justice, but the panel of nine judges pointed out that parliament could change the law to permit such “closed material procedures” in future. The appeal was brought by lawyers for MI5 seeking to overturn an earlier appeal court ruling that prevented the service from suppressing accusations British suspects had been ill-treated at Guantánamo Bay and other foreign holding centres. The case arose originally out of claims by Bisher al-Rawi, Binyam Mohamed, Jamil el-Banna, Richard Belmar, Omar Deghayes and Martin Mubanga that MI5 and MI6 aided and abetted their unlawful imprisonment and extraordinary rendition. The five – who deny involvement in terrorism – launched actions for compensation for abuse and wrongful imprisonment. The Guardian, on behalf of a number of media organisations, had intervened in the case to argue in favour of open justice. In the judgment, which runs to nearly 120 pages, all of the judges rejected the security service’s main submission that a court has a common law power to order a closed material procedure as an alternative to the more conventional public interest immunity (PII) certificate. Such a power, they argued, would contravene fundamental and long-established principles of open and natural justice. The court was divided on the security service’s secondary submission that a court has a common law power to order a closed material procedure as an add-on to a conventional PII in certain exceptional cases. Giving his judgment, Lord Dyson said: “There are certain features of a common law trial which are fundamental to our system of justice, both criminal and civil. “First, subject to certain established and limited exceptions, trials should conducted and judgments given in public. The importance of the open justice principle emphasised many times. “The open justice principle is not a mere procedural rule. It is a fundamental law principle. “Secondly, trials are conducted on the principle of natural justice.” To allow a “closed procedure” in such an ill-defined way could, he warned, “be the thin end of the wedge”. “This would be a big step for the law to take in view of the fundamental principles at stake. In my view this is a matter for the courts and not for parliament.” In similarly forthright terms, Lord Hope dismissed the intelligence agencies’ request for legal concealment. “There comes a point,” he said, “where the line must be drawn between procedural choices which are regulatory only and procedural choices that affect the very substance of the notion of a fair trial. “Choices that cut across absolutely fundamental principles – such as the right to be confronted by one’s accusers and the right to know the reasons for the outcome – are entirely different. The court has for centuries held the line as the guardian of these fundamental principles.” The Guardian’s submissions on open justice were acknowledged by the court. The government has, however, promised to produce a green paper on the use of intelligence material in closed court hearings. The detainees’ claims for compensation have, in the meantime, been settled. Last November the government agreed to pay out millions of pounds to former Guantánamo Bay inmates. The payments followed years of denial by the government of Britain’s role in the secret transfer of terror suspects to prisons where they risked being tortured – the CIA practice of “extraordinary rendition”. Torture MI5 MI6 Human rights Owen Bowcott guardian.co.uk
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The US Coast Guard is ending aerial searches for seven Americans still missing after a charter fishing boat sank off Mexico earlier this month. (July 13)
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More than a dozen armed men abducted a naturalized American, her teenage son and Filipino nephew Tuesday from a southern Philippine island near a stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants, officials said. (July 12)
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