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A state protection agency for disabled persons on Wednesday was planning to launch an investigation into alleged spousal abuse against Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged woman whose feeding tube was reinserted this week after intervention by the Florida Legislature and Gov. Jeb Bush.

Bizarre Mugabe move has ecologists up in arms Sunday Argus (SA) Date posted:Mon 8-Sep-2003 Date published:Sun 7-Sep-2003 Conservationists in Zimbabwe are rallying international support to protest against the latest bizarre move by President Robert Mugabe's regime - an order to shoot thousands of buffalo at private conservancies "to contain foot-and-mouth disease" By Basildon Peta Conservationists in Zimbabwe are rallying international support to protest against the latest bizarre move by President Robert Mugabe's regime - an order to shoot thousands of buffalo at private conservancies "to contain foot-and-mouth disease". The conservationists say the order is not only "stupid", but it would...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another 9-11 date with death -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com What do you call a country that sentences its prisoners to death by starvation and dehydration? Barbaric, inhumane perhaps? Fasts, even hunger strikes, often are self-imposed for periods of time. However, no one in his right mind passes up fluids. Death by dehydration is a painful, agonizing and arduous process that takes 10 to 14 days. In addition to feeling the pangs of hunger and thirst, the skin, lips and tongue crack. The nose bleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes....

Saturday, 18 January, 2003, 12:15 GMT'Millions could starve' in N Korea A United Nations special envoy has warned that North Korea is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis and has called for tensions over the country's nuclear programme to be resolved. There is a serious and ominous risk that this crisis could escalate. Maurice Strong, speaking after three days of talks in Pyongyang, warned that the country was on the brink of mass starvation. He said up to eight million people were in a "life or death" situation. "You cannot make the children, the ill people, the old people...

Mugabe land grab leaves horses to starve By Jenny Booth (Filed: 20/10/2002) Starving and slowly dying, Zimbabwean horses are stark reminders of the cruelty inflicted on farm animals when President Robert Mugabe ordered thousands of white farmers to leave their land. As the farmers fled, few of their pets and working animals could be evacuated. Although some dogs and cats were quarantined and taken out of the country, greater numbers were put down by vets - until the necessary drugs ran low. For the farm horses, however, there was almost no hope. As they were unable to forage, the choices...

'Sickening' U.N. Elitists Gorge on Caviar as Africans Starve The London Sun today blasted the "sickening champagne and caviar lifestyle being enjoyed by Earth Summit delegates." Just like at the so-called World Food Summit, "They are gorging on mountains of lobster, oysters and fillet steak at the Johannesburg conference — aimed at ending FAMINE," raged the newspaper. And they wash it all down with the finest champagnes and wines, of course. "As the summit began yesterday, desperate kids in nearby shanty towns queued for water at standpipes." Even the self-styled "environmentalist" left-wing group Friends of the Earth called the face-feeding...