Brad Pitt, New Orleans Residents Launch Rebuilding Campaign
December 3, 2008
National Fundraising Effort to Help City Recover Starting with Lower 9th
Make It Right Project Starting with 150 Homes
NEW ORLEANS(RushPRnews)12/03/08–Brad Pitt and residents of the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans today launched a national fundraising campaign to help the city recover from the lasting devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, starting with the Lower 9th Ward.
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Cracking the Climate Nut: Poznan Talks –Day 2
December 3, 2008
by Dan Bloom
POZNAN,POLAND (RushPRNews)12/03/08 — The two week meeting of 190 nations coming together to discuss the fate of the Earth, and the future survival of the human species, got underway on Monday and continues through December 12. According to two American bloggers, one on the ground in Poznan, attending the meeting as an observer/activist, and the other a professor monitoring the talks from afar, things are heating up.
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VOA Marks World AIDS Day With Special Programs
December 3, 2008
Washington, D.C., (RushPRnews)12/03/08- - The Voice of America (VOA) marked World AIDS Day with programming on the prevention and treatment of the disease with special attention focused on Africa, home to two-thirds of all people living with HIV.
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Motivation for Mumbai Attacks Murky
December 3, 2008
- An image released on Dec. 1, 2008 of Ajmal Qasab who police say was one of the attackers captured during attacks in Mumbai
By Gary Thomas
Washington,DC (RushPRnews)12/03/08-The terrorist attack that left more than 170 people dead in the Indian city of Mumbai remains shrouded in mystery. Charges, countercharges, and sketchy and sometimes contradictory information have contributed to confusion about the attack. As VOA correspondent Gary Thomas reports, the most pressing questions about the attack are: who and why?
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ACLU To Extend Honor To Jermaine Dupri
December 2, 2008
By Erin T. McMillon
Los Angeles(RushPRNews)12/02/08-The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) is set to honor music producer Jermaine Dupri in Southern California next week. According to reports, Dupri will be honored with the Bill of Right Award alongside Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
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What’s going on the Poland climate talks? Talk, and hopefully, some action!
December 2, 2008
by Dan Bloom
POZNAN, POLAND(RushPRNews)12/02/08– As the the COP14 climate talks got underway this week in Poznan, Poland — in anticipation of next year’s pivotal 2009 meeting in Copenhagen — some 9,000 people at the climate confab sat, listened, napped, strolled around, noshed on sandwiches, twittered, emailed, iPodded and got ready to give it all their best shot. Much is riding on these climate talks, and much is expected.
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Bomb scare in south Delhi market
December 2, 2008
New Delhi, India(RushPRnews)12/02/08-Shops shut down, people ran helter skelter and the bomb disposal squad arrived at a market in south Delhi Monday evening after an auto-rickshaw driver raised an alarm, saying that passengers might have planted bombs in his vehicle. However, what were suspected to be bombs turned out to be crackers.
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President Bush Discusses World AIDS Day
December 1, 2008
WASHINTON(RushPRnews)12/01/08-THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Today is World AIDS Day, a day we reaffirm our commitment to fight HIV/AIDS at home and abroad. Thirty-three million people around the world are living with HIV, including more than one million Americans. Once again this year, to observe World AIDS Day, there is a red ribbon on the North Portico of the White House. The ribbon is a symbol of our resolve to confront HIV/AIDS and to affirm the matchless value of every life.
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Cambodian Women Suffer Increasing Violence
November 29, 2008
A gruesome assault on two Cambodian women highlights what the government says is an escalating pattern of violence against women.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia(RushPRnews)11/29/08—A Khmer-American man has confessed to pouring gasoline on his fiancée and her sister and burning them at their home in Cambodia’s northwestern Battambang province, authorities here say, amid what the government describes as a worsening pattern of violence against women.
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