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Teenagers donate blood during a blood drive at Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Ariz. (CHICAGO) — Complications from donating blood are rare but happen more often in teens than in older donors, including dizziness, fainting and falls, a study found. Blood donation has declined in recent years,...
A group of homeless Myanmar cyclone survivors look on at a monastery, being used as a temporary shelter, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Myanmar's military junta will set up orphanages for the hundreds of children whose parents died in the recent cyclone, state media...
NEW YORK, May 21 (UPI) -- Recruitment of child soldiers hasn't stopped with the military-controlled Myanmar being the worst offender, Human Rights Watch reported. The New York rights group in its 2008 Child Soldiers Global Report said despite some progress, "efforts to end the recruitment and use...
Hurrah! At last some good news for Pacific tuna. Eight Pacific Island nations have signed an agreement to stop foreign fishing fleets taking their tuna. Our ship the ">Esperanza has been in the Pacific for the last 7 weeks confronting unscrupulous foreign fleets that take 90% of the fish, and...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. May 20, 2008 – Mattel announced today it will provide more than $125,000 in immediate and long-term disaster relief to support victims of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province of China and the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in southwest Myanmar. Funds will go to the...
The United States is failing to live up to its own commitments to protect children caught up in war, human rights groups said Wednesday. The American Civil Liberties Union said U.S. military recruiters target children as young as 11, violating the terms of a global treaty on child rights that...
Arab dignitaries met at Egypt's 'Red Sea Riviera' for the World Economic Forum. Contributor Liam Stack sends an audio postcard from Sharm el-Sheikh, the Egyptian seaside resort that hosted the World Economic Forum. As the anchor of Egypt's "Red Sea Riviera," Sharm is now one part Bedouin and two...
George Packer calls out China: ...since I’m not a member of the U.N. Secretariat, the U.S. Department of State, or the executive board of Save the Children, I don’t have to be polite to either the Chinese or the Burmese government. So let history record: at the U.N., China is blocking any chance...
Posted to the web 21 May 2008 Bukavu A group of international and Congolese human rights organizations are greatly concerned that international fair-trial standards have been violated in the trial and appeal of four men convicted in the murder of Congolese journalist Serge Maheshe. The military...
CZECH REPUBLIC: People Battle Radar Site By Zoltán Dujisin PRAGUE, May 21 (IPS) - On the early morning of Apr. 28, 20 Greenpeace activists occupied an area of the Brdy woods 90km southwest of Prague, where the Czech right-wing cabinet intends to set up a radar base that will extend the U.S....
