2018年9月10日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News


Amid debate on prison reform, rising voices from the inside

Posted: 10 Sep 2018 01:15 PM PDT

Amid debate on prison reform, rising voices from the insideDebate over criminal justice reform in the United States in recent years has tackled everything from the death penalty to bail reform to restoring voting rights after a prisoner has completed their sentence. Over the past three weeks, prisoners in more than a dozen states have tried to change that. Hunger strikes took place from California, Washington, and Texas.


In China, a great leap in corporate governance

Posted: 10 Sep 2018 12:35 PM PDT

In China, a great leap in corporate governanceOn Monday, China's wealthiest individual, Jack Ma of tech giant Alibaba, announced his successor at the company he founded 19 years ago. Notably, in a country where 70 to 80 percent of private enterprises are still family run, Mr. Ma did not name a family member.


A bold bid in the Middle East to rewrite the diplomatic rulebook

Posted: 10 Sep 2018 12:13 PM PDT

A bold bid in the Middle East to rewrite the diplomatic rulebookFull details of the Trump administration's Middle East peace policy have yet to be announced, but its driving principle is not in doubt: that because past administrations haven't delivered Israeli-Palestinian peace, it's time to rewrite the diplomatic rulebook. Leading the effort, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has targeted the main obstacles as Palestinian demands for sovereignty over the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Old City, and a "right of return" for the roughly 5 million descendants of refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Since Israel holds the land on which a Palestinian state would be established, recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital was seen as an important carrot in a negotiating process sure to require compromise on both sides.


Indian territory again? An old Oklahoma murder case spotlights tribal sovereignty

Posted: 10 Sep 2018 11:13 AM PDT

Indian territory again? An old Oklahoma murder case spotlights tribal sovereigntyThis lonely roadside ditch is where Mr. Jacobs died one night in August 1999 after being stabbed and beaten by Patrick Murphy. Murphy's appeal took a while, as capital cases do, and his defenders tried to stay the verdict on grounds of mental incompetency as well as faulty trial procedures and execution protocols in Oklahoma. Murphy is Native American, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the fourth-largest tribe in the United States.


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