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...center of international media attention. Hundreds of thousands of French students have been occupying university campuses, on strike from classes, in protest of a new labor law, known as the Contrat Première Embauche. The law will allow employers to fire workers under 26 within a two-year trial period without advance notice. People opposed to the law fear it will worsen the already bleak job market for the younger generation. Harvard students studying abroad in France expressed mixed reactions about how the riots were affecting them. “At first I was slightly annoyed...
When a Christian believer in a nation wholly dependent on U.S. support faces trial and possibly execution simply for embracing the same faith as the President of the United States, you'd think that country would be read the riot act. Instead, Washington's response to the trial in Afghanistan of Abdul Rahman has been rather muted. President Bush said Wednesday he was deeply troubled by the case and said he expected Afghanistan to "honor the universal principle of freedom." Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns has urged the Afghan authorities to follow what he said was their...
...converted to Christianity 16 years ago, has been charged in a case arising out of a custody dispute. He may avoid conviction, however, not because of constitutional provisions for freedom of religion, but because both the judge and prosecutors have questioned his sanity and his fitness to stand trial. "We think he could be mad," prosecutor Sarinwal Zamari told the AP. "He does not talk like a normal person." Rahman earlier told the court, "They want to sentence me to death and I accept it, but I am not a deserter and not an infidel. I am a Christian, which...
...trial of four undergraduates charged with drug violations will be delayed at least until May 5, a judge ordered at a pretrial conference yesterday morning...
...with any case, it’s proceeding towards trial, but anything could happen,” she said...