• Some Question Timing of Financial Industry Overhaul
• Guest Workers Protest Modern Day Slavery They Experienced in the US
• Arab Summit Fails to Yield Real Answers
• Israel Removes Some Roadblocks as Rice Visits Region
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• Bhopal Tragedy Survivors Press For National Commission
  

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• Zimbawe Awaits Results
  
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The Arab Summit wrapped up in Syria Sunday with no tangible resolutions on key Arab issues. A divided Arab League made no real progress on the political crisis in Lebanon, and although a Damascus Declaration focused on Arab solidarity, Lebanon boycotted the summit altogether, accusing Syria of meddling in elections for Lebanon's president. FSRN's Oula Farawati has more.

A group of seventy skilled laborers from India are protesting in the nation's capitol this week. They say they were brought to the US for good jobs but were forced into inhumane working and living conditions. FSRN Correspondent Matt Laslo reports from Washington.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson detailed a new plan to re-regulate the financial industry. Congressional Democrats welcome the proposals but question the timing. Washington Editor Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.

Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli troops at the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus Sunday, the same day Israeli officials announced they would remove about nine percent of the roadblocks in the West Bank. During her visit to the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Israeli and Palestinian officials Sunday and Monday, assessing US-backed negotiations before President Bush's visit in May. FSRN's Ghassan Bannoura reports: