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A powerful Congressional committee will next week hold a hearing on restrictions imposed by the Indian government on an American NGO. Congressman Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee AP Photo The anno
stanley cup uncement for a Congressional hearing by the House Foreign Relations Committee came the day Colorado-based Compassion International launched a national campaign against the Indian Governments decision which it alleged is preventing it from sending funds to its more than 500 local child development projects throughout the country. In three weeks, Compassion International - which provides critical tutoring, nutrition and medical services to children in India - could be shut down... Congressman Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said. It is my hope that by bringing attention to this issue, 145,000 children will not be tragically d
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stanley cup uesday morning on a motorcycle parked outside a motorcycle shop near the railway station in Yala town. No one was wounded, but bomb squad police and reporters were sent to the scene where police found a second bomb on another motorcycle. Insurgents triggered the second bomb by mobile phone signal as police were about to defuse it, and it injured 19, Chob said. Police Sgt Subin Pruekmongkol, who was severely wounded, was later pronounced dead in hospital, Chob said. Two other police officers suffered serious injuries, while three local reporters were also hospitalized, he said. Thirteen passers-by suffered minor injuries, he said. Insurgents often use one bomb to lure authorities to a scene where they then trigger a second blast, police said. Bombings and drive-by shootings have become virtually a daily occurrence in Thailand s far south since an Islamic insurgency flared there in January 2004. The conflict has left more than 2,300 people dead. Up to 10 per cent of Thailand s 65 million people are Muslims, most of who live in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat provinc
