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ICC makes waging war a crime

The International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg described aggressive wars as 'a supreme international crime' [For the first time in the war stricken story of mankind, waging aggressive wars has become a prosecutable crime in international law and given precise meaning and teeth before the ICC - this on the strength of an unexpected consensus reached between member states of the Court (or in ICC terminology 'states parties').

The conference in Kampala concluded with the adoption of a resolution that at last defined the crime of aggression listed in Article 5 of the Rome Statute - the Court's founding treaty - using the UN General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX) as a guide.

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CONFIRMED: Destruction of 9-11 Options Trading Documents

9/11Just prior to 9-11, someone (or group of people) bought large amounts of put options on various airline stocks. Put options gain in value when a stock goes down. The airline stocks went down after 9-11.

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A Dirt-Poor Nation, With a Health Plan

Dirt poor nation with a health planRwanda has had national health insurance for 11 years now; 92 percent of the nation is covered, and the premiums are $2 a year.

Sunny Ntayomba, an editorial writer for The New Times, a newspaper based in the capital, Kigali, is aware of the paradox: his nation, one of the world’s poorest, insures more of its citizens than the world’s richest does.

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Cheap drug could save tens of thousands of accident victims by stopping bleeding

tranexamic acidAn inexpensive drug could save tens of thousands of lives lost in accidents and war every year by minimizing excessive bleeding, British researchers reported Monday. The drug, called tranexamic acid, is already used during surgeries in many developed countries to prevent unwanted bleeding, but the results from a massive clinical trial reported in the journal Lancet indicate that it could be used on an everyday basis even in the poorest countries.

Physicians had feared that such widespread use of the drug might lead to heart attacks, embolisms or other problems resulting from clot formation, but the new study showed an excellent safety profile for the drug.

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Millions of cancer survivors skip care over cost, study finds

Millions of cancer survivors have put off receiving medical care because they could not afford it, according to a new study.

More than 2 million of 12 million U.S. adult cancer survivors did not get one or more needed medical services, the researchers estimate.

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Targeting Whistleblowers: Truth Telling Endangered

Waterboarding demoThe message is clear – you torture people and then destroy the evidence, and you get off without so much as a sternly worded letter. If you are a whistle blower outlining criminal behavior by the government, you get prosecuted.

In fact, it’s worse. Under Bush, torture was official policy. It remains so under Obama who absolved CIA torturers, despite unequivocal evidence of their guilt. But leaking it risks criminal prosecution for revealing state secrets and endangering national security.

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Red Cross: Gaza blockade illegal

Red Cross: Gaza blockade illegalThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip as a violation of the Geneva Conventions and called on the Israeli government to lift it.

In a statement released on Monday, the organisation called the blockade "collective punishment", a crime under international law. It described Gaza as a territory plagued by frequent power cuts, a ruined economy, and a collapsed health care system.

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U.S. human trafficking report includes U.S. cases for first time

U.S. human trafficking report includes U.S. cases for first timeThe U.S. government's annual worldwide human trafficking report, released Monday, for the first time includes an assessment of trafficking in the United States. The 373-page "Trafficking in Persons Report 2010" says some 12.3 million adults and children are in forced labor, bonded labor, and forced prostitution around the world. Only 4,166 trafficking prosecutions were successful last year, according to the report.

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Israel Gaza "probe" criticized by Turkey and Palestinians

Israel's cabinet approved the flotilla inquiry plan on MondayIsrael's plans to hold an inquiry into its deadly raid on a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships have been dismissed by Turkey and the Palestinians. Turkey said Israel could not run an impartial probe into the deaths of nine Turkish activists during a 31 May raid.

And Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said the inquiry would not meet demands made by the UN Security Council.

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