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A parliamentary committee heard the rights group's findings in a special session on Sunday.
A 1999 Israeli Supreme Court ruling severely limited the Shin Beth's interrogation methods, essentially outlawing torture except when there was clear evidence the suspect had information that could save people from an attack in the making.
The court outlawed what the Shin Beth called "moderate physical pressure", such as exposure to extreme temperatures and tying up detainees in painful positions.
But the Shin Beth has come under criticism for its new methods, which include shackling suspects in contorted positions and depriving them of sleep for long periods of time.
LUCKNOW: If we cannot remove roadside chaiwalla and other vendors, use them as a resource to keep neighbourhood safe -- The concept of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) which remained confined to western world will be replicated in Uttar Pradesh soon.
On Wednesday evening Indian Police Foundation organised an interaction between town planners, developers, security agencies and senior officials of different government agencies in Lucknow to formulate ways to make upcoming residential blocks safe from criminals through better designs.
Realising the encroachment on the roadside cannot be removed, associate professor of Indiana University (US) Arvind Verma who had come down to share his research work on criminal justice advised UP police to use roadside vendors to keep neighbourhood secure from miscreants.
“The vendors who take control of territory can act as a guardian to report nuisance to security agencies,” said IIT Kanpur graduate Verma who was an IPS of Bihar cadre before he moved on to teaching assignment. President and CEO of Indian Police Foundation N Ramachandran too shared his inputs on making neighbourhood sa...
DGP Sulkhan Singh said that key takeaways of the seminar would be forwarded to UP government to frame policies. “While we stress upon electronic surveillance simple steps like growing thorny climbers near the window of apartments can bring down house burglaries. Similarly while designing the building developers and arc...
CREDAI western UP president Deepak Kumar said a forum should be set up by government to inculcate best practices and industry players should be given incentives on following the model.
CPTED was first introduced by Elizabeth Wood, the director of Chicago Housing Board in 1960s. Though electronic surveillance is widely used these days, back then urban blocks were designed to deter burglars. Using thorny bushes along the boundary walls or thorny climbers next to windows was one such measure. On similar...
Friends will be received Monday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. in the NOLL FUNERAL HOME INC., 333 Third St., Beaver. A funeral service will be conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, Beaver, by her pastor, Reverend Jeffrey A. Arnold. Interment will follow at the Beaver Cemetery. Online condolences m...
Infographic: How Much Money Do You Carry?
While almost half of Americans typically only carry around $20 or less, according to Bankrate.com, 9 percent of Americans carry no cash at all. With so little cash in the our wallets and Americans' reliance on credit cards, debit cards and the growth of mobile payment apps like Google Wallet, does the survey's snapshot...
In the first evaluation of its kind, the study published in Addiction found that problem drinkers provided access to the online screener www.CheckYourDrinking.net, reduced their alcohol consumption by 30% — or six to seven drinks weekly – rates that are comparable to face-to-face interventions. This result was sustaine...
Problem drinking is a major cause of preventable deaths in Canada as well as morbidity, trauma and violence, yet many of those who struggle with problem alcohol use will never seek treatment. A recent general population survey indicated that 81% of problem drinkers in Canada have Internet access, and about a third indi...
By analyzing self-report data, the website provides problem drinkers with a report that compares their alcohol intake to the national average and informs them of the physical and health risks associated with their drinking patterns. The report also calculates the amount of money spent on alcohol annually and how much o...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Polish leader Lech Walesa (center) and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Berlin for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. PHOTO: EPA.
Some dates are so significant that they define the identity of whole nations. For Germans, November 9, 1989, is such a date. It was the day the heavily mined border known as "the death-strip" between East and West Germany was opened or, as popular shorthand would have it, the day the Berlin Wall came down. It was a day...
As the German magazine Der Spiegel wrote from Berlin this week: That night, the whole city celebrated a new Day of German Unity.
The fall of the wall changed the lives of millions of people so profoundly that even after 20 years, some are still struggling to make sense of the day that united a nation but divided their lives into two chapters: before and after the wall.
Editor's Note: This week, and 30 years in the waiting, an international tribunal was convened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to try leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime responsible for the death of an estimated 2 million Cambodians in the late 1970s. In 2002, reporter Amanda Pike traveled to Cambodia in search of the inf...
Editor's Note: This reporting is the result of a joint investigation of international bribery by PBS FRONTLINE, ProPublica and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley. A documentary will air on FRONTLINE on April 7, 2009 at 9 P.M. ET on PBS. Check back on this website beginning January 2009 for a series of i...
This story was published by The New York Times on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008.
MUNICH - Reinhard Siekaczek was half asleep in bed when his doorbell rang here early one morning two years ago.
Mumbai police patrol in front of the Mumbai CST railway station, a day after terrorists stormed the station.
Editor's Note: As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made diplomatic stops in India and Pakistan on Wednesday and thousands took to Mumbai's streets blaming their own government's handling of the crisis, we asked Mumbai-based reporter Dev Chatterjee, who works in the Times of India building in the heart of the ci...
It was a late-night dinner party that may have saved my life. At around 9:50 in the evening on November 26, 2008, I walked out of my office at the Times of India Building opposite the 150-year-old British-built Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) Railway station and boarded a commuter train to my house, 5 kilometers awa...
A young girl scavenges for food in the town of Chitungwiza, east of Harare. Photo: EPA.
On September 15, 2008, the cellphone networks were so jammed, I couldn't reach any of my friends in Zimbabwe or abroad to share the news that I was covering first hand. What a day in the history of our country! After months of anticipation, the political deal was signed.
Almost everyone I spoke to was joyous and expectant. President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party, in power since Zimbabwe's Independence in 1980, had at last agreed to share power with the opposition MDC and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
One of three young siblings addicted to opium at a treatment center in Kabul.
Freshta stared blankly at her children as they lay listlessly on the bed. She picked one of them up, a scrawny shaven-haired boy who is 4 but looks more like 18 months.
"I had five boys," she explained. "I only have three left."
Freshta and her surviving children are all opium addicts -- just one family among tens of thousands of women and children addicted in Afghanistan.
Former U.S. Border Patrol agent Raul Villareal is suspected of assisting human smuggling operations.
Two former U.S. Border Patrol agents suspected of accepting bribes to help smuggle Mexicans and Brazilians into the U.S. now sit in a Mexican prison awaiting possible extradition following their arrest Saturday in Tijuana -- two years after fleeing the United States just as an investigation was closing in on them.
But it could take months or even years before brothers Raul and Fidel Villarreal return to the United States to face charges, a law enforcement official in the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City told FRONTLINE/WORLD.
The brothers were featured in the May 2008 FRONTLINE/World story "Mexico: Crimes at the Border," as part of a feature profiling corrupt border agents.They fled the U.S. more than two years ago after apparently learning of the investigation.
As part of a class at the UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, I traveled to Burma last spring to report on China's growing trade with Burma, which is rapidly depleting forests and has created a thriving trade in exotic animals.
Some of Beijing's historic hutong neighborhoods date back to the 13th Century.
Since 2004, photographer Dan Eckstein has traveled to Beijing four times, chronicling the city's massive renovations in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games. "I keep coming back to Beijing because you never know what is going to be here next time you come," he says.
Almost by chance, he found himself staying in a hotel in one of Beijing's historic hutong neighborhoods, some of which date back to the 13th Century. Their narrow, jam-packed alleyways and streets are filled with traditional courtyard homes.
Al Constantino displays Obama T-shirts for sale outside the African International Mall in the Cedar-Riverside area of Minneapolis, a neighborhood predominantly inhabited by African immigrants.
The candidacy of Barack Obama has galvanized a small but rapidly growing group that had previously avoided any involvement in American politics: African-born immigrants to the United States.
There are now at least 1.3 million African immigrants living in the United States, and Obama's rise has reminded some that as they settle in America and raise their children here, they have a civic duty to participate in politics. Since I moved to Minneapolis a year ago to take a job editing and writing for a paper aim...
The drums of war are beating to convince Obama to stay in Iraq for "many years."
Imagine Madeleine Albright coming at you with an M-16, and you’ll get the right image for the Center for a New American Security, a thinktank made up of right-wing and centrist Democrats who never met a surge they didn’t love.
Thus it’s no surprise that Tom Ricks, a former reporter and author who’s taken up residence at CNAS, has fired the opening gambit in what is likely to be a direct challenge to President Obama by the military, by conservatives and neoconservatives, by surge-lovers and empire builders, and others, to keep US forces in Ir...
Ricks penned an op-ed in the New York Times entitled “Extending Our Stay in Iraq,” as if the 98,000 troops there were business travelers asking the front desk for a late checkout. “Our stay”? He means, the US occupation of Iraq.
Ray Odierno, the US commander in Iraq, has dropped hints about sticking around, too. And Robert Gates, the Republican secretary of defense who just won’t seem to go away, told a press briefing on Tuesday: “We would have to see a pretty considerable deterioration of the situation in Iraq and we don’t see that, certainly...
True enough, as I’ve been writing for weeks now (and for years, in fact, before that) Iran has vast and growing influence in Iraq, and it’s ever more likely that the Iraqi elections on March 7 will be rigged in favor of Iran’s friends among the religious Shia, including Prime Minister Maliki. But the last thing that th...
But when the surge-loving conservatives and the counterinsurgency cultists starting pressuring Obama on Afghanistan last summer, he caved. Even though Obama, so far, has said again and again that the Iraq withdrawal plan that he announced a year ago is written in stone, I don’t have any confidence that he’ll stick to i...
So at CNAS, the record is: Sane, Lynch. Insane, Ricks. Stay tuned.
Lady Palin gets it! Sarah Palin just gave $5,000 – the maximum amount allowed by law – to a candidate in a critically important race. So who is this candidate and why is this race so important? Allow me to explain in the form of a medieval tale.
Can you imagine the horror and tyranny of the out-of-control drunk-with-power lawless Obama regime winning a majority in the House of Representatives? They would control the White House, Senate and House. Their every socialist/progressive dream would be rammed down our throats, equaling disaster for our country. King O...
America must never again be subjected to the Dark Ages of a Congress run by Nancy Pelosi and her decrees that we commoners (the American people) will only find out what is contained within legislation once the bills are already passed.
To his dismay, causing great fury in King Obama, commoners dared to raise up with political pitchforks and plowshares in defiance to King Obama's socialist/progressive agenda and quest to take back control of congress. The peoples' rebellion is strong, known far and wide as the Tea Party. The mere mention of their name...
While the Tea Party has many members and yet no leader, there is one fair maiden Tea Party leader who particularly drives King Obama and his minions crazy; Lady Palin, the Bold, Courageous and Beautiful.
In short, Jason Smith is one of us, folks! He is a Conservative Republican who will fight Obama's job killing regulations that hurt small business.
The NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) endorses Jason Smith because he understands that burdening small businesses with outrageous regulations and excessive taxes makes it harder to create jobs. Smith vows to fight for commonsense reform in Washington.
It has become frighteningly obvious that opposing Obama on any issue will more than likely have dire consequences at the hands of his enforcers.
Every day more and more victims of Obama's enforcers in the IRS are coming forward with shocking un-American horror stories of abuse. Perhaps, the Obama Administration feels invincible and insulated from consequences due to the historical aspect of a black man in the Oval Office. Or perhaps, the Administration's unprec...
Remember the old joke? An animal asked the snake, "Why did you bite me after promising not to?" The snake replied, "What can I say, I am a snake."
For whatever reason, this Administration is arrogant and vicious beyond belief. Despite national bipartisan outrage over the IRS admittedly targeting groups based on their ideology, the IRS continues to harass, target and intimidate conservative groups. http://aclj.org/free-speech-2/irs-president-obama-ongoing-targetin...
Make no mistake about it folks, the Obama Administration has no intention of backing off. Obama enforcers stay on offense – punishing Obama's enemies and rewarding his friends. This is why Lady Palin realizes the importance of not allowing King Obama and wicked queen Pelosi to regain control of congress.
The Missouri 8th District Special General Election is this Tuesday, June 4th.
Let's add another severely needed warrior/hero to our Royal Knights fighting on our behalf in Washington.
Oil prices rose for a second day on Wednesday on signs of strong demand from refineries in China, the world's second-largest crude user, amid tightening supply as producers curtail output and as oil inventories in the US fell unexpectedly.
International benchmark Brent crude futures rose 27 cents, or 0.4%, to $71.99 a barrel early on Wednesday. Brent gained as much 0.5% to $72.08 a barrel, the highest since 8 November and the highest this year.
US West Texas Intermediate crude futures were at $64.48 per barrel, up 43 cents, or 0.7% from their previous settlement.
"Crude oil futures edged up as market sentiments were buoyed by a surprise drawdown in US crude oil inventories and tighter market fundamentals in the current term," said Benjamin Lu, commodities analyst at Singapore-based brokerage Phillip Futures.
China's refinery throughput in March rose 3.2% from a year earlier to 53.04 million tonnes, or 12.49 million barrels per day, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Wednesday. The data also showed its economy in the first quarter expanded by 6.4% compared to a year earlier.
"The demand side of the equation got a substantial fillip via today's China data suggesting prices will continue to move higher on improving global growth and risk sentiment," said Stephen Innes, managing partner and head of trading at SPI Asset Management, in a note.
Crude oil supply has also declined this year as the United States has imposed economic sanctions on Opec members Venezuela and Iran.
The tightening supply and demand fundamentals have pushed WTI up more than 40% this year and Brent up by more than 30%.
In June, Opec and its partners will decide whether to continue to curb their production, although concerns have arisen over Russia's willingness to stick with the cuts.
"As the possibility of Russia ending the Opec deal remains, that is capping further gains," said Kim Kwang-rae, commodity analyst at Samsung Futures in Seoul.
US crude inventories fell by 3.1 million barrels in the week ended 12 April to 452.7 million, compared with analysts' expectations for an increase of 1.7 million barrels, according to data from the American Petroleum Institute (API) released on Tuesday.
Official data on US inventories from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) is due to be released on Wednesday.
This article was published 1/11/2009 (3457 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Hundreds of Métis veterans were forgotten when they got home after serving in the Second World War and they were left out of a museum exhibit when it opened six years ago at Canada's Juno Beach Centre in Normandy.
Now, elderly veterans returning to Juno Beach for Remembrance Day services will finally see their heritage acknowledged.
"It's about the nation, the people, the culture, the identity," said Manitoba Métis Federation president David Chartrand.
The exhibit highlights the history of the Métis in Canada and includes a Red River cart. The symbol of Canada's Métis will accompany the veterans and Métis youth during Remembrance Day events at Juno Beach this year.
Métis veteran Robert Bruce, with wife, Lorna, look through photos from the Second World War.
Close to 50 people are leaving Nov. 8, with just a handful of the elderly Juno Beach veterans able to attend.
Robert Bruce, 87, is going with mixed feelings.
"They always say the Great War," said the Métis Winnipegger, who grew up in Saskatchewan. "I don't think there's anything great about any war. A lot of people were killed — on the other side, too."
Bruce said he's physically prepared for the return to Normandy.
One of the elderly soldiers recently had to cancel for health reasons, said Chartrand, who went to Juno Beach Centre five years ago with a small group of Métis veterans.
"We were ignored," he said. "There was not one piece or message that the Métis even existed in the entire museum. There was an Inuit inukshuk out front."
Chartrand asked one museum official about the lack of a Métis presence. "He said, 'It doesn't matter; you're all aboriginal.' That's like telling all black people they're all one culture."
Veterans Affairs Canada pitched in $80,000 for travel and setting up the Métis exhibit, which volunteers from Manitoba assembled in October. Chartrand said they've nearly matched the amount received from the government by fundraising in their communities so more Métis,including young fiddlers and square dancers, can at...
The Métis veterans have been hoping for a memorial that would finally honour their wartime service and sacrifice.
After the Second World War, Canadian veterans were given financial help to buy houses and land and upgrade their education. According to a report prepared for a Métis veterans association, only eight per cent of Métis veterans reported receiving any benefits and fewer than one per cent received land under the Veterans ...
In 2002, status-Indian veterans were offered $20,000 each in compensation for benefits they were denied.
"The Métis veterans got left out," Chartrand said. "There were two lines. In the Canadian line, they'd say, 'You're native — go to the native line.' "
In the "native line" they were also rejected. "They'd say, 'You're not Indian.' "
October 14, 2017: On October 1st North Korea established a second link to the worldwide Internet via Russia. This link is via a fiber optic line that extended to the North Korean border along the Russian railroad (which is how Russia has long strung long distance telephone and telegraph access). The Chinese fiber optic...

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