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Number of US troops in Iraq falls below 50,000 (AP)

August 24th, 2010

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Brandon E. Maggart, of Kirksville, Mo., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Maggart died while supporting combat operations in Iraq. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has fallen below 50,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and ahead of the end-of-the-month deadline mandated by…

Number of political prisoners in Cuba still murky (AP)

July 23rd, 2010

In this July 17, 2010 photo, Elizardo Sanchez, head of the independent Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation, speaks in Havana, Cuba. While the group is not recognized by the government, it is tolerated, giving Sanchez, a government opponent and former prisoner himself, a unique role in the debate on human rights on the island. Sanchez's commission counts 167 people jailed for political or sociopolitical reasons, including the 52 that the government has pledged to release. The map behind reads in Spanish 'Cuba: map of most of the prisons and internment camps existing in May 2004.' (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)AP - If Cuba releases 52 prisoners of conscience as promised, it will still hold more than 100 people listed as political prisoners by the island’s leading human rights group.…

German bishop surprised at number of abuse cases (AP)

March 16th, 2010

Wolfgang Blaschka is seen during an interview in Munich, southern Germany, on Thursday, March 11, 2010. Wolfgang Blaschka, who was a student at the Domspatzen Preschool in Pielenhofen, talked with journalists of the Associated Press. Wolfgang Blaschka told The Associated Press that while he was a student at the Etterzhausen school just outside Regensburg, corporate punishment was the rule, not the exception. German educators sharply criticized Roman Catholic church officials on Thursday for their handling of a spiraling child abuse scandal - comments that came a day before the country's highest bishop was to meet Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The criticism came as more victims of the alleged abuse stepped forward, including a one-time member of the famed all-boys choir that was led by the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the pope's brother, from 1964-1994. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)AP - The Roman Catholic bishops in Pope Benedict XVI’s native Bavaria sought Tuesday to deal with a sexual abuse scandal whose ever-widening scope has left church leaders baffled.


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