— Mail and Guardian reports: “Uganda to outlaw female circumcision”
— “Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country’s eastern region, the president said in a statement on Friday.”
— “Last year, the United Nations passed a resolution that called female genital mutilation a violation of the rights of women and said it constituted ‘irreparable, irreversible abuse'”
Day: July 3, 2009
UK: “Proud racist” Neil MacGregor undergoes psychiatric tests to evaluate fitness for trial in mosque bomb threat
(UK) Psychiatric Tests for mosque bomb threat man – Neil MacGregor
— “The court heard that the e-mail read: I’m a proud racist and National Front member.'”