News of the Day: Late Edition
Yesterday Bush reiterated his stance in support of sharing nuclear technology with India, which would require Congress to grant India an exception to U.S. laws requiring that it first submit to inspections.
Rep. Tom Delay’s lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, is getting antsy about a felony charge that Travis County District Prosecutor Ronnie Earle is trying to reinstate against Delay. "I ask you treat this case with dispatch and render decision forthwith," said DeGuerin, who also expressed concern that the trial might affect Delay’s reelection campaign.
The protest in Minsk over rigged elections earlier this month is now in its fifth day, and Adrian Severin, the U.N.’s Human Rights envoy to Belarus, has urged the release of more than 100 detained people who were “peacefully demonstrating against the electoral results.”
And speaking of election rigging, protesters in Thailand are planning to rally at a different Bangkok hot spot each day. The group has been calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose party committed fraud in the last election, they claim. Today, hundreds protested at the Electoral Commission.
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