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Month: June 2023

First UN investigator at US detention center at Guantanamo says detainees face cruel treatment

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said Monday the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.” The investigator, Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, said at a news

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Clock ticking for West Virginia to select leadership for opioid money distribution

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia is finalizing the leadership for a newly created foundation tasked with distributing the lion’s share of the more than $1 billion in opioid lawsuit-settlement money. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said the state has hired the Arlington, Virginia-based search firm DRiWaterstone Human Capital to find

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