Germany smashes child porn ring 9/26/03 "The operation is said to involve at least 33 countries. German police say they have broken up an international child pornography ring with links to thousands of people in at least 166 countries. Several hundred suspects are being investigated in Germany and more than 500 homes across the country are said to have been searched in the past week." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3142080.stm
1,000 arrested in months-long child porn crackdown By Curt Anderson, Ap 9/26/03 "Washington (AP) - An international investigation into child sex crimes and pornography, dubbed "Operation Predator," has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests since its inception July 9, federal authorities said Friday. The crackdown has brought arrests in nearly every state and most major U.S. cities, said Michael J. Garcia, director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency of the Homeland Security Department. The latest arrests came this week in South Florida, where 56 foreigners who had been convicted of crimes involving children were apprehended over three days in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties....Among those charged in the broader probe are U.S. citizens who traveled abroad to have sex with minors, people who allegedly molested mentally impaired children and people who smuggled foreign children into the United States to work as prostitutes, Garcia said. The largest number of arrests, about 400, were on charges of manufacturing or distributing child pornography on the Internet. "The goal of Predator is to get these people off the streets and we're doing that," Garcia told reporters." http://www.fresnobee.com/24hour/nation/story/1010882p-7098209c.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/3138188.stm
Thursday, 25 September, 2003
Wal-Mart battles huge sexism claim
US supermarket titan Wal-Mart is struggling to fend off a huge sexual discrimination lawsuit, which could turn into the biggest civil-rights court case in history. A US judge is currently pondering an application to bundle together claims from up to 1.6 million present and former Wal-Mart employees, who say women were routinely underpaid and overlooked for promotion. Lawyers want to upgrade the initial lawsuit - launched by six women working for Wal-Mart in California - into a class action, meaning all equivalent cases will be treated in one blanket judgement.
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