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Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at age 99

Secret life of the Amazon Indians: Incredible images show near-extinct Awá tribe at work and play

Life sentence for 1975 reservation slaying of Annie Mae Aquash in South Dakota

Please support the beautiful and talented Native American actress Irene Bedard

Senate approves $4.6B for black farmers, Indians

Amazon no longer selling guide for pedophiles

Toughest job in the world: Marisol Valles Garcia, 20, becomes police chief in one of Mexico's most violent border towns... because no one else will do it

Pet owner arrested after cat found 'marinating' in oils and peppers; thankfully the cat is alive and well

Judge orders protections reinstated for gray wolf

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

Court orders 'Bookseller of Kabul' author Aasne Seierstad to pay damages

Congress considers cracking down on 'puppy mills'

Bloody Sunday report blames British soldiers fully; Cameron offers apology

Seven people convicted over Bhopal (India) gas tragedy that killed 15,000 people 25 years ago

Blackfeet Elouise Cobell sees end to 14-year government fight: "Cobell's class-action lawsuit represents as many as 500,000 Indians who own property that the government holds in trust for them"

An essay from Luciole friend/contributor Christine McClintock: "Child Abuse - The Fight to Protect"

Afghan violence victims want voice in peace talks

Condemned Utah killer will face firing squad

Obama seeks court nominee who backs women's rights

UK 'Climategate' inquiry largely clears scientists

Lucky to be alive: The bunny torched in his hutch by drunk woman during family argument

Human Trafficking Report: American children, immigrants forced into slavery, sex trade in Ohio

Mystery of missing painting by Rolf Harris now center of court battle over its possession

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Pakistani brothers to have ears and nose chopped off for doing the same to woman who rejected one

Pakistani ruling party grapples with amnesty's end

Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite

Supreme Court takes up 'honest services' (anti-corruption) law

Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery

Man stopped in Norwegian customs caught carrying a tarantula in his bag, with 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos taped to his body

Ending the silence on 'honour killing' -- those who have escaped violence are speaking out to break the code of silence

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea from Uighur inmates in Guantanamo Bay prison to be freed in the United States

Court rules against Stalin's grandson in libel suit

Videos: Luciole Press friend and contributor Graywolf interviewed by Roberta Weighill for AIM TV (American Indian Movement Santa Barbara)

Group of American Indians who find the Washington Redskins' name offensive want the Supreme Court to take up the matter

Mambo, a dog who was covered in gas, set on fire and left for dead, will face his torturers in court

Kenyan police: Arrest in death of Scottish geologist Campbell Bridges, who was attacked "by men armed with arrows, spears and machetes, in an apparent dispute over mining rights"

MY opinion, as Palin ups the rhetoric, saying Obama's health care plan is 'evil' and will make "death panels" that deny care (DESPITE the fact that insurance companies already effectively decide who gets transplants or not)

HOORAH!!!! "Sandbag saved! Animal charities like Blue Cross unite to bring home soldiers' mascot left out in Iraq"

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine allows 3 men (of the "Norfolk Four") convicted in rape-slaying of fellow sailor's wife be freed; outraged victim's family "blame the decision on political pressure from novelist John Grisham"

Welcome home ladies: very touching photos of freed journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling greeting their families

2 articles: "Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial" and "Police fire tear gas at women supporting Lubna Hussein, who is facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers"

2 articles: "Australia threatens Japan with whaling legal action" and "Japan, Norway wasting millions on whaling: WWF"

High court says convicts lack right to DNA testing

Lawsuits over wolf hunting filed in Montana and Wyoming

Blogger jailed in Anna Nicole Smith defamation suit: Lyndal Harrington says she is shocked she is being sued for comments posted on someone else's blog to pass the time

Manohara Odelia Pinot, 17 (a US-Indonesian model), "has escaped her abusive marriage to a Malaysian prince" (whose royal family no longer has immunity from criminal and civil charges)

TIME article: How to Make Terrorists Talk -- "All it took to soften up Abu Jandal, closer to bin Laden than any other terrorist ever captured, was a handful of sugar-free cookies"

$2M for kin of Esmin Green, woman who died on NY hospital floor "struggling to get up while staffers ignored her"

Sotomayor's Supreme Court bid in Senate's hands

GOP keeps filibuster card ready for Obama's Supreme Court pick

Alaska cracks down on man who feeds wild bears (one friend says, "Even if Vandergaw ends up being killed by the bears he loves, that's the Alaska way")

Slayings shattered dreams of rural Iraqi family (14-year-old Abeer was raped and killed along with her parents and sister by convicted former Marine Pfc. Steven Dale Green)

Supreme Court rejects bid to outlaw medical marijuana

Washington Redskins win legal victory in 17-year fight with group of American Indians who contend the football team's trademark is racially offensive

TIME article: Suu Kyi Faces Jail After Visit From Uninvited American

Landmark ruling by the Malaysian courts grants indigenous tribes land rights that could help them stop deforestation and expansion of palm oil plantations on their traditional terrains

Horse trader convicted of mistreating 140 horses, ponies and donkeys in Britain's worst cruelty case

Photo: a rainbow is seen behind the statue of Justice outside the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasilia

Russian prosecutors initiate criminal investigation into the use of helicopters to hunt endangered goats by senior officials (there are only 200 Argali goats left in Russia)

Harrowing cross-examination of four-year-old rape victim sparks demands for overhaul of British court system

Sent in by Luciole Press' artiste extraordinaire, Diana Bonebrake: article, "Terry Nichols's Gut-Wrenching Pain"... domestic terrorist unhappy with his prison diet

8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband

Top Pakistan judge to probe woman's flogging; Samar Minallah, who works for a Pakistani human rights organisation, said "The entire village knows she is innocent"

UPDATE on previously featured topic: Afghan president orders review of marital law

Follow-up to previously posted article.... Critics assail Afghan law that 'legalizes rape' -- "Women's basic freedoms are being sacrificed for the political and electoral gain of a few parliamentarians"

Alaska and Florida consider bans on bestiality: "The act of forcing a living creature to engage in a sexual activity without the ability of consent cannot simply be viewed as a personal choice — no more than forcing a child or an impaired adult would be"

Follow-up on article featured yesterday: "Former Nazi guard Josias Kumpf, involved in massacre of 8,000 Jews, set free after deportation from US as he cannot be prosecuted in Austria"

AP IMPACT: Many Iraqis held by US to go free

Former Nazi guard living in Wisconsin deported; 83-year-old Josias Kumpf served as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany (and more)

Today is International Women's Day

Good news: "FBI, police rescue child prostitutes around US"

A Mexican kidnapping: Police apathy, few answers

Thailand's king pardons jailed Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, who was accused of insulting the Thai royal family in a book that sold 7 copies

Russian court acquits 3 over Politkovskaya murder: "This failure amounts to a human rights crisis" ... "The man prosecutors suspect of pulling the trigger is on the run; they have never identified the person they believe ordered her murder"

France's role in Holocaust legally recognized

Rwanda genocide investigator, Dr. Alison Des Forges, among plane crash victims in Buffalo: "She was... the epitome of the human rights activist: principled, dispassionate, committed to the truth and to using that truth to protect ordinary people"

Detention and torture center, a symbol of Argentina's "dirty war," now a United Nations human rights center

Bushfire death toll "to reach 230'' (or higher) as Australian PM brands arsonists "mass murderers." One badly burned man carrying his burned infant daughter said, "I've lost my wife, I've lost my other kid, I just need you to save my daughter"

Maryland college professor Leopold Munyakazi, accused of genocide in his home country of Rwanda, arrested for being in the U.S. illegally. One person reviewing the indictment said the time frame does not fit

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a survivor of colon cancer, is hospitalized with pancreatic cancer

Gang of children, some as young as 10, caught slowly roasting puppies over bonfire. A passerby intervened and rescued them, taking them to an RSPCA center. They were injured, but will be ok...

WWII Resistance fighter Andrée Peel marks her 104th birthday by breaking silence on wartime heroics; she saved the lives of more than 100 servicemen. "I rarely thought of my personal safety, I just acted and did what I believed was the right thing"

SWAT teams routinely deployed in 911 fraud -- hackers using internet-based phone services for the hearing-impaired to send fake distress calls, which send SWAT teams to random homes across the nation

Norm Coleman's lawsuit to reclaim his Senate seat against Al Franken depends on whether trial judges accept the Bush v. Gore decision, which gave Bush the presidency, as precedent

American Indians could reap almost $3B in stimulus: "It really has the potential to lift our communities out of poverty"

Prosecutor tells jurors: slain toddler Riley Ann Sawyers tried to stop her mother and stepfather from beating her to death by reaching out to her mother and saying, "I love you"

"The people are watching, Mr. President" ... many websites created to track Obama's promises

The real Slumdog Millionaires: Behind the cinema fantasy, mafia gangs are deliberately crippling children for profit

Spanish police confiscate suspected fake Dalis

Project tells story of Nazi forced labor; 590 audio and video interviews of former forced laborers from 26 countries available online at the German Historical Museum; the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future foundation; and Berlin's Free University

Dutch MP Geert Wilders in freedom of speech trial for comparing Koran to Mein Kampf

Article sent in by Luciole Press contributor Dena Rash Guzman: Australian author Harry Nicolaides jailed for insulting Thai king in his 2005 book, "Verisimilitude." Only 50 copies of the book were published, and only seven were sold

Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov (who once represented slain Anna Politkovskaya) and journalist Anastasia Baburova killed in Moscow, by masked gunman after Markelov's news conference to protest release of Russian colonel who strangled Chechen woman

Madeleine McCann detectives uncover Spanish child porn network

Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration

Murder riddle over 60s model Eva Rhodes, best known for film she did with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Rhodes ran an animal sanctuary, was threatened repeatedly and won a victory in the European Court of Human Rights because of police aggression against her

Senate to consider expanding wilderness protection

Drug investigator says Alaskan authorities delayed the arrest of Sherry Johnston -- whose son Levi is engaged to Governor Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol -- until after the election in November

In an unexpected twist, Sen. Dianne Feinstein says Senate should seat Blagojevich's appointee, Roland Burris, because it is "simply the legal thing to do." Many disagree