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8 Jun 2009 - Headlines for June 8, 2009
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Two US Journalists Sentenced to 12 Years in North Korea US-Backed Coalition Wins in Lebanon Nation's Unemployment Rate Surges to 9.4% Anti-Abortion Activist Warns of More Violent Acts More than 100 Killed in Somalia; Radio Journalist Assassinated Panel Finds Lax Oversight of Wartime Contracting Iraqi Government Arrests Five US Contractors Report: Global Military Spending Rose to $1.46 Trillion in 2008 Couple Accused of Spying for Cuba Nominee Linked to CIA Torture Declines Position Palestinian Protester Shot Dead by Israeli Troops Gay Rights Activist Cleve Jones Calls for March on Washington Civil Rights and AIDS Activist Dr. Alan Berkman DiesPeruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle * Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed by the police this weekend.
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