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Afghan commission: Civilian deaths up in 2010 (AP)

August 8th, 2010

In this undated photo released by David L. Evans, two Land Rovers with International Assistance Mission personnel aboard, navigate down a road in an unnamed region of Afghanistan. Members of a medical team were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages in northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the team said Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. Dirk Frans, director of the International Assistance Mission, said six Americans, one German, one Briton and two Afghans also were part of the medical team that made the three-week trip to Nuristan province. They drove to the province, left their vehicles and hiked for hours with pack horses over mountainous terrain to reach the Parun valley in the province's northwest. (AP Photo/Provided by David L. Evans) NO SALESAP - Civilian war deaths in the first seven months of 2010 rose by 6 percent over the same period last year, Afghanistan’s human rights commission said Sunday. The modest…

Whaling commission ponders suspending hunting ban (AP)

June 21st, 2010

Demonstrators hold banners outside the the 62nd International Whaling Commission's in Agadir, Morocco, Monday, June 21, 2010 as a worker collect rubbish .The International Whaling Commission is holding its most important meeting in decades, as nations ponder whether to suspend the porous 25-year ban on commercial hunting in favor of a more enforceable regime of limited whaling. A proposal before the 88-member commission aims to get Japan, Norway and Iceland to reduce the number of whales they kill each year in exchange for ending their rogue status. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)AP - The International Whaling Commission began its most important meeting in decades debating whether to scrap an ineffective 25-year ban on commercial hunting and instead allow for limited whaling…

Clinton-led commission starts up in Haiti (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, center, speaks to members of the media prior to the first board meeting of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, as Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, left, and Haiti Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, stand next by, Port-au-Prince, Thursday, June 17, 2010. Clinton announced a new fund for Haitian businesses backed in part by Slim, the world's richest man. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton officially inaugurated the commission overseeing Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction on Thursday, pledging to accelerate and organize a process that has raised less than 1…

Pope names envoy, commission to reform Legionaries (AP)

May 1st, 2010

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ's Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican. Speaking at Rome daily La Repubblica, Rev. Luis Garza Medina, the No. 2 official in the Legionaries of Christ, has broken his silence on the eve of a Vatican meeting to discuss the fate of the order following revelations that its late founder led a double life, saying he only realized the accusations against Rev. Marciel Maciel were true in 2006, when the Vatican ordered the founder to spend the rest of his life in penance and prayer. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)AP - The Vatican denounced the “immoral” double life led by the late founder of the Legionaries of Christ on Saturday and said a papal envoy and special commission would…

Commission proposes limited commercial whale hunts (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

AP - The International Whaling Commission has proposed allowing whale hunts with strict limits for minke and other species, replacing a ban in place since 1986.

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