The Daou Report is on hiatus. I'll be blogging at UN Dispatch where I'll focus on human rights and related issues alongside a team of great writers. While I was on leave with Hillary Clinton's campaign, Steve Benen, Vanessa Valenti, Jessica Valenti and Mark Goldberg edited the Daou Report and I owe them...
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history...
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KRISTIN KAINING: Parents of video-gaming children, take heart: Your kid is not destined to become an anti-social hermit who lives at home until he’s 35. In fact, a new study shows that all that game...
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MICHAEL PERRY: The Australian government has issued its first license allowing scientists to create cloned human embryos to try and obtain embryonic stem cells. The in vitro-fertilization firm Sydney IVF...
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PALLAB GHOSH (BBC): The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web. Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried...
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ANDREW HEAVANS: Sudanese forces on Sunday launched fresh attacks on a base held by Darfur rebels who signed a 2006 peace deal with the government, the faction's leader said. Minni Arcua Minnawi, leader...
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ALEX FELSINGER: After the Viacom-owned network finished filming their new treasure-hunt themed “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” on a remote, uninhabited island in the Republic of Panama, locals...
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KEITH JOHNSON: There’s a good reason the famous “White Towns” of Andalusia, in southern Spain, are all white-washed. The sun is hot in Andalusia, and white paint reflects the heat, keeping...
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BRIAN X. CHEN: Your iPhone is watching you. If you've got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could...
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CARRIE JOHNSON: The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence...
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DANI COOPER: The world's intellectual property (IP) system is broken and the benefits of biotechnology are being blocked by patent laws, according to the authors of a seven-year study. The Canadian-led...
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The Daou Report is on hiatus. I'll be blogging at UN Dispatch where I'll focus on human rights and related issues alongside a team of great writers. While I was on leave with Hillary Clinton's campaign...
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One of the sad realities of the ever-accelerating news cycle is that we rarely have the opportunity to follow an event or issue before it's drowned out by something new. Here's a sobering NYT article about...
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Stories like this remind us that across the globe, courageous and principled individuals risk their lives to make a difference: The head of Afghanistan's anti-drug court was shot at on his way to work...
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The Minnesota State Canvassing Board today certified Senate recount results that show Democrat Al Fr...
Leon Panetta, chief of staff in Bill Clinton's White House, will be President-elect Barack Obama's c...
If President-elect Barack Obama has his way, individual taxpayers would get a tax cut equal to $500,...
The Twitter accounts of President-elect Barack Obama, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, Britney Spears, Fox N...
Archaeologists have found more than 600 relics from a huge battle between a Roman army and Barbarian...
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Casualties have been pouring into overcrowded hospitals in Gaza as Israel continues its offensive ag...
US carmakers report sharp falls in their sales in December as the economic slowdown drives customers...
Steve Jobs, head of Apple, has disclosed in a statement that he is being treated for a hormone imbal...
State-run French TV stations stop showing ads in prime time as part of President Sarkozy's plans to ...
A recount in the US state of Minnesota confirms its Senate seat was won by a Democrat but the result...
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by air strikes fought to seize ground from Hamas militants de...
SAN CRISTOBAL VERAPAZ, Guatemala (Reuters) - Rescue workers dug with shovels and their bare hands to...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India handed over evidence on Monday to Pakistan that it said linked Pakistani...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States dedicated its new embassy building in Baghdad on Monday, a ste...
KABUL (Reuters) - A troubling north-south security divide could affect the outcome of Afghanistan's ...
