The first sit-in at a Woolworth store began 50 years ago today Penn Live | Feb. 1, 2010 | Today: is the 32nd day of 2010. There are 333 days left in the year. | On this date | In 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., which refused to serve them; similar protests sprang up across the South....
Mayor Alfredo Lim's 100 Days Malaya | He may be tough as nails when its comes to criminals thus earning him the moniker "Dirty Harry" but Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim undeniably had a also has a soft spot for his fellow Manilenos. With his 100 days now behind him the chinky-eyed local executive believes there are more difficult tasks ahea...
Cambodia's Past, Pakistan's Future? CBS News Pratap Chatterjee: U.S. Policy Toward Pakistan 2010 Beginning to Resemble U.S. Policy Toward Cambodia 1969 | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments Page 1 of 2 | Presidents Richard Nixon and Barack Obama (AP) Stories Pakistan Bombs Target Shiite Wor...
John Murtha dies at 77; Pennsylvania Democrat forcefully opposed Iraq war in Congress KDVR Reporting from Washington - John Murtha, the Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania and decorated former Marine whose fierce opposition to the Iraq war helped catalyze public sentiment against the conflict, died Monday. He was 77. | Murtha died at ...
Court convicts Vietnamese journalist of assault San Fransisco Chronicle | (02-06) 04:00 PST Hanoi - -- | A Vietnamese court convicted a journalist and democracy activist of assault and sentenced her to 3 1/2 years in prison Friday in a one-day trial that rights groups said was meant to silence government critics. | Tran ...
Global human trafficking news roundup ( Feb. 5, 2010) The Examiner | NORTH AMERICA | | Vermont: College students urge law makers to take action on human trafficking. Though the law passed last year set new penalties on sex offenders against minors, the state has not implemented a law to protect trafficking vi...
Vietnam convicts dissident writer of assault The Wichita Eagle HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has convicted a journalist and democracy activist of assault and sentenced her to three-and-a-half years in prison after she disrupted her trial and demanded to be freed. | Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, 49, was sentenced Friday after...
Vietnam convicts dissident writer of assault Houston Chronicle | HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has convicted a journalist and democracy activist of assault and sentenced her to three-and-a-half years in prison after she disrupted her trial and demanded to be freed. | Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, 49, was sentenced Friday aft...
Vietnam convicts dissident writer of assault The News & Observer | HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam has convicted a journalist and democracy activist of assault and sentenced her to three-and-a-half years in prison after she disrupted her trial and demanded to be freed. | Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, 49, was sentenced Friday af...
