Madrid riot police have cleared Plaza de Neptune of protesters, with about 200 officers securing the surrounding blocks. At least 60 people have been injured and 26 arrested as police used batons and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. Local emergency services have confirmed that at least 60 people, including eight policemen, were injured in [...]
Spain: Madrid Police Fire Rubber Bullets As Thousands Surround Congress
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Egypt’s Gaza Policy: Time For Change Is Now – OpEd
By Ramzy Baroud If the new Egyptian leadership thinks it is possible to achieve lasting reconciliation between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah within the current political climate, it is likely to be disappointed. In the case of Gaza, the government of Mohamed Morsi should in fact pursue sensible policies free from the protracted and [...]
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Another Success: All IDPs Resettled In North Sri Lanka – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge Sri Lanka’s success story comes after suffering 3 decades of terrorism, loss of close to 80,000 lives, rejection of numerous local and international bids of ceasefires and peace talks, refusal to stop killings of innocent civilians, continuance of child conscription to finally decide on a military solution to ending the conflict. It [...]
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India: Protest Against Takeover Of Church-Run Leprosy Center Land
More than 500 people protested against the Karnataka government’s decision to take back most of the land of an archdiocese-run leprosy center in Bangalore. The demonstrators, most of them leprosy and HIV patients, gathered at the Town Hall in the city yesterday to register their protest. The government had on Sept. 21 decided to take [...]
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Violence Against Anti-Islam Film Flares Against Christians In Pakistan
While the global media turns attention to the furious Islamic backlash to a controversial film, the ever worsening violence and killings rendered against Pakistan’s Christian community continues to go ignored. The latest attack in the Mardan district saw St. Paul’s Lutheran Church burnt to the ground along with the homes of Christian families. The mob, [...]
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Baiting Muslims And Islam As A Fundamental Principle Of The Republic? – OpEd
By Dr. Reza Pankhurst The deliberate provocation goes on. Charlie Hebdo published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad in what will be considered by Muslims worldwide as a further gratuitous affront to Islam. The magazine has previous form in incitement, when last year it printed offensive cartoons ridiculing Islam while then announcing that its edition would [...]
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Judge Orders Arrest Of Google’s Operations President In Brazil
A judge has ordered the arrest of the president of Google’s operations in Brazil for failure to remove You Tube videos that attacked a mayoral candidate, according to The Associated Press. The order to arrest Fabio Jose Silva Coelho was issued by Judge Flavio Peren of Mato Grosso do Sul state. It was prompted by [...]
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IMF Chief Lagarde Sees Gloomy Global Outlook
The United States and Europe need to speed key political decisions to help keep the weakening global economy from sinking under high debt and unemployment, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said, according to The Washington Post. The ongoing crisis in Europe, U.S. fiscal problems and a developing slowdown in Asia are threatening even [...]
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Pakistan: US Drone Strike Kills Senior Al Qaeda Leader
(RFE/RL) – A senior Al-Qaeda figure and at least four other suspected Islamist militants have been reported killed in a U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan. Intelligence officials speaking on condition of anonymity and Taliban sources confirmed that Abu Kasha al-Iraqi, said to be a high-ranking Al-Qaeda planner and facilitator, was killed late on September [...]
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China Seeks To Mend Fences In Sea Dispute – Analysis
By Parameswaran Ponnudurai As Beijing flexes its muscles over its territorial dispute with Japan in the East China Sea, it is mending fences with Southeast Asian nations after a spate of tensions in the contested South China Sea. Following much prodding and diplomacy, China appears to be showing some flexibility in its approach towards drawing [...]
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Mexico: Body Of Killed Drug Cartel Leader Stolen
The body of the slain leader of the Zetas drug cartel has been stolen from a funeral parlour by an armed group after he was killed in a shootout with authorities in northern Mexico, a state prosecutor said, according to AFP. The Mexican navy, which conducted the operation against the Zetas leader, said fingerprints and [...]
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Spain’s Red Cross Appeals For Donations Amid Economic Crisis
The Red Cross is to make its first ever public appeal in Spain to help those affected by the economic crisis, according to BBC News. It will ask Spanish people to donate money to help 300,000 of the most vulnerable people. Before the crisis, it mainly helped immigrants but, with one in four adults out [...]
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Hindu Temple Breaking Ground In “Sin City” Of Las Vegas
A new Hindu temple, Sri Sri Radha-Govinda Temple, is coming up in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA), also known as “Sin City”. “Groundbreaking and blessing of the site” ceremony of this Temple will be held on October 14, which will include bhumi puja (earth worship), kirtan (sacred chant), fire yajna, etc. Meanwhile, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, [...]
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Number Of Americans Who Don’t Identify With Any Religion Grows At Rapid Pace
The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum, which noted that one-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentages ever in Pew [...]
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No Religious Identity Is A Bad Omen – OpEd
In the last five years, Americans who are unaffiliated with any religion has grown from approximately 15% to 20%, the largest single block of which are young people under 30 (one-third of young people fall into this category). But the atheists have nothing to celebrate: only 6% of Americans identify themselves as atheist or agnostic, [...]
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Shooting To Kill Immigrants On The Mexican Border – OpEd
Sometimes it takes a small tragedy to call attention to expose a much bigger one. The small tragedy happened when Nicholas Ivie, a US Border Patrol agent, was shot dead on a dark night in rough terrain along the border with Mexico in Arizona, a state that has been obsessing about illegal border crossers coming [...]
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Egypt: Morsi Pardons Uprising Detainees
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi decided on Monday to pardon all those arrested during the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak last year and until June 2012, when he came to power. In a decree published on his official Facebook page, the president announced amnesty for acts “committed to support the revolution and achieve its objectives in [...]
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Iran Takes Step To Appease Nuclear Critics
Iran says the conversion of its highly enriched uranium into powder for its medical research reactor, as documented by UN monitors, is a “serious and concrete confidence-building measure.” Tehran has converted one-third of its highly enriched uranium into powder used as fuel for its medical research reactor. Experts confirm that reversing such a process is [...]
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Germany’s Merkel Receives Hostile Reception in Greece
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Greece the sacrifices it makes toward cutting spending will pay off, an unpopular message to tens of thousands who protested her visit to the country. Merkel made her remarks after meeting Tuesday with conservative Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Athens. Her five-hour stop in Greece was her first visit [...]
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NATO To Defend Turkey Against Syria; Ankara Moves F-16s To Border
NATO has promised to back Ankara in its escalating conflict with Syria, as Turkey adds 25 new F-16 fighter jets to its border protection force. It follows days of retaliation from Turkey after Syrian shells started coming over the border last month. “We have all the necessary plans in place to protect and defend Turkey [...]
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