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Sudan:

1. Darfur refugees kill translator in Sudan | Darfur refugees rioted Monday and forced the U.N. humanitarian chief to rush from their camp, then later attacked African peacekeepers and killed a translator in a sign of deep tensions in the wartorn region despite a fragile peace deal (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Darfur peace accord a battle of its own | Rebels balked, bickered in grueling talks (The Washington Post)
   
   
3. Darfur deserves chance offered by peace accord | Senseless violence has resulted in 200,000 deaths and many more displaced (Editorial, The Tennessean, Nashville)
   
   
4. If genocide doesn't spark a 'just war,' what does? | The crisis in Darfur points to the need for a new way to prevent genocide and other human-rights abuses says commentator Joe Loconte (All Things Considered, NPR)
   
   
5. An imperialist indifference | Sudan and the colonial impulse. Richard Just reviews Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gérard Prunier and Darfur: A Short History of a Long War by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal (The New Republic)
   
   

Crime:

1. Police allege terror suspects involved in priest's murder | Five militants arrested Friday in Central Sulawesi were wanted for attacks on Christians there and were not accomplices of Asia's most-wanted terror suspect, M. Noordin Top, police said Monday (The Jakarta Post, Indonesia)
   
   
2. Catholic teen attacked by Protestants dies | A Roman Catholic teenager attacked by Protestants wielding baseball bats died Monday in what was the latest in a string of anti-Catholic attacks in an overwhelmingly Protestant town (Associated Press)
   
   

Sexual ethics:

1. Candidates vow to urge ministers to respect gays | The five major candidates for D.C. mayor pledged last night to promote tolerance for gay men and lesbians in the city's black churches and to combat attitudes that led two prominent local ministers to denounce homosexuality from their pulpits (The Washington Post)
   
   
2. Health experts criticize changes in STD panel | Federal agencies ordered changes to a government-sponsored conference on prevention of sexually transmitted diseases after a congressman raised questions about the absence of speakers supporting abstinence programs, officials said yesterday (The Washington Post)
   
   
3. Study: Lesbians' brains react differently | Lesbians' brains react differently to sex hormones than those of heterosexual women, new research indicates. That's in line with an earlier study that had indicated gay men's brain responses were different from straight men — though the difference for men was more pronounced than has now been found in women (Associated Press)
   
   
4. Marriage fight may turn in state | Gay rights backers see chance for victory here (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
   
   

Life ethics:

1. Indian tribe may open abortion clinic on its land | The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has vowed to build an abortion clinic on Indian land—despite South Dakota's statewide ban on abortion (All Things Considered, NPR)
   
   
2. Pregnant woman who shot self dodges charge | A judge on Monday dismissed a charge of inducing an abortion against a woman who shot herself in the abdomen the morning her baby was to have been born (Associated Press)
   
   
3. OB/GYN group faults FDA on blocking OTC Plan B | The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on Monday condemned the Food and Drug Administration for blocking over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception (USA Today)
   
   

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