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Roma Children Dying of Lead Poisoning

By Paul Polansky, The New Kosova Report

Roma child in refugee camp.
The UN built camps in Kosovo for homeless Roma gypsies on top of the biggest lead mine in Europe. Every child conceived in these camps will be born with irreversible brain damage. (Photo: Nigel Dickinson)


    This month, Germany's second largest NGO, the "Society for Threatened Peoples" will be sending its Head of Mission for Kosovo, Paul Polansky, to the House of Commons, London and to the EU Headquarters in Brussels in an attempt to save 130 Roma families placed by the United Nations in camps with life-threatening conditions.

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Subcontractor of KBR confining foreign workers in Iraq.

KBR Contractor Warehousing Foreign Workers in Iraq

by: Adam Ashton, McClatchy Newspapers

    Baghdad - About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work.

    Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, an engineering, construction and services company, hired the men, who're from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. On Tuesday, they staged a march outside their compound to protest their living conditions.

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Nora R. Dannehy is investigating dismissal of Nine US Attorneys.

Federal Prosecutor Investigating Dismissal of US Attorneys

by: Carrie Johnson, The Washington Post

    A prosecutor who is investigating the dismissals of nine U.S. attorneys has been meeting with defense lawyers, dispatching subpoenas and seeking information about the events, according to legal sources familiar with the case.

    Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy two months ago, after the department's Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility »

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