Call to Presidential Candidates to Commit to Ending Torture
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WASHINGTON -- October 27 -- The two main candidates in the US presidential election should commit to working to prevent any torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in US custody.
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The White House and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement Thursday on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror. President Bush urged Congress to put it into law before adjourning for the midterm elections.
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Congressional Democrats, trying to have the first word on President Bush's State of the Union speech, challenged him Friday to renounce use of waterboarding in interrogations, close Guantanamo Bay to detainees and outline new policies toward Pakistan and Iran.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Prominent Palestinian  figures appealed on Sunday for an end to violence, adding  weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to  succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton   joined a chorus of critics of Bush administration proposals for   treating suspected terrorists, saying it would be unnecessary   and wrong to give broad approval to torture.
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U.S. presidential candidates sought Sunday to use their response to the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as an example of their expertise in international affairs. Some
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush&#39;s nominee to lead the CIA pledged Tuesday to shelve his partisan Republican rhetoric and to encourage the agency&#39;s overseas operatives to take more risks in spying and counterterrorism operations.
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JAKARTA - Indonesia&#39;s presidential contenders yesterday launched their final battles on television, both pledging to get tough on terrorism, as the country entered the last stretch of a seven-month-long campaign.
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WASHINGTON BUREAU; Staff writer Ken Fireman contributed to this story, which was supplemented with news service reports. PITTSBURGH - With Democrats calling on him to sharpen his presidential
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Prominent Palestinian figures appealed on Sunday for an end to violence, adding weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who was imprisoned and tortured during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, urged the top U.N. human rights monitoring agency to preserve the independence of its investigators in a key upcoming vote.
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President George W. Bush should stop flouting federal and international law over the legal status of detainees in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Politically motivated officials at the Pentagon have pushed for convictions of high-profile detainees ahead of the 2008 elections, the former lead prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay said last night, adding that the pressure played a part in his decision to resign earlier this month.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Prominent Palestinian  figures appealed Sunday for an end to violence, adding weight  to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed  Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States.
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Six years after the Bush administration embraced harsh physical interrogation tactics, the taint of torture clings to American counterterrorism efforts.
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RAMALLAH: Prominent Palestinian figures appealed yesterday for an end to violence, adding weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.