• Bolivian President Agrees to Confidence
  Vote
• Taliban and Northwest Pakistan
  Authority Negotiate Cease-Fire
• Obama Gains Valuable Super Delegates
• ARAMARK Employees in Houston Strike
• Immigrants Win in Restaurant Sexual Harassment Claim

Bolivian President Agrees to Confidence
Vote

Bolivia will hold a national vote of
confidence for President Evo Morales. Nine regional governors are
also in danger of losing their office.Diletta Varlese reports from La
Paz.

In three months Bolivians will decide
if they are satisfied with the left-leaning Morales administration,
or if Parliament has to call for early national election. The
Senator's Chamber, where Morales' party is in a one-seat minority,
called for the vote. Last December President Morales proposed this
solution as a possible remedy to the central government's internal
crisis. Four regions of the country were reclaiming their autonomy.
At that time, the lower chamber and national electoral court approved
the vote, but the process was suspended Today President Morales has
pledged to ratify Parliament's decision. For FSRN I'm Diletta
Varlese, in La Paz, Bolivia

Taliban and Northwest Pakistan
Authority Negotiate Cease-Fire

After days of escalating violence, the
government of the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan and the
Taliban have agreed to a cease-fire in the volatile Swat valley.
From Pakistan, Rahmanullah reports.

Both Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan, and
a member of the government's negotiating team have confirmed the
temporary cease-fire. Khan says the Taliban wants peace and the
institution of Islamic law. Provincial minister Wajid Ali Khan says
both the Taliban and government will uphold the cease-fire until
peace talks conclude. "The Taliban will not attack
security forces, police, government buildings and schools. The
government forces will also not lunch any operation against the
Taliban during the cease-fire. Both parties will soon meet to discuss
further the peace talks." Just hours before the cease-fire was
reached, a police officer was killed and four others wounded in a
remote-controlled bomb blast in the Swat valley. Another Taliban
spokesman told FSRN that if the government violated the agreement,
attacks would continue against security forces in the area. For Free
Speech Radio News, this is Rahmanullah in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Obama Gains Valuable Super Delegates

Democratic Presidential Candidate
Barack Obama has closed the gap with Hillary Clinton in the Super
Delegate count. The tally is so close now that some news
organizations, including ABC News, report he is in the lead. Obama's
count is helped by a new endorsement by Oregon Representative Peter
Defazio and a switch in support from former Clinton supporter, New
Jersey Representative Donald Payne.

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