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Hindus Want Immediate End To Segregation Of Roma Pupils In Czech Republic

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Hindus want immediate end to reported continual and systematic ethnic segregation of Roma (Gypsy) children in Czech Republic which, they say, is blatant racism. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Roma children, like all Czech Republic children, should go to mainstream schools. This segregation resulting in inequality was [...]

Thousands Of Hamas Supporters Celebrate Anniversary In Hebron

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Years after Hamas stopped celebrating its anniversary in Hebron in the southern West Bank, around 6,000 supporters rallied Friday in the city center. The rally kicked off from al-Haras Mosque marching toward Ibn Rushd school. Supporters waved Hamas’ green flags, while a small number of demonstrators waved Palestinian flags. They chanted pro-Hamas slogans applauding the [...]

Syrian Students Condemn American Led Sanctions Currently Inflating Food Prices – OpEd

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“Who does that obnoxious woman think she is?” demanded a staffer who works in the Russian Embassy media office inside the vast windowless soviet style massive high walled compound which belongs to his country, here in Damascus. “Viktor” had been invited to our table, for lunch at the “Lady of Damascus” (“sitt a cham”) restaurant [...]

Media And Counter Terrorism Responses: Analysing The 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

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Well orchestrated and high profile symbolic terror strikes- 9/11 attacks in the United States, 7/7 terrorist strikes in the United Kingdom and 26/11 multiple terror attacks in Mumbai- have attracted enormous media attention with significant implications for counter terrorism response. Terror attacks are also about their explicit dramatic content. Their coverage by the news media [...]

Cambodia: Some Internet Cafés Ordered To Close‏

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) are concerned about online freedom in Cambodia as the Minister of Telecommunications, So Khun, signed a circular on November 16th, 2012, to regulate the use of Internet in the country. According to the decree issued by the ministry, Internet cafes cannot be located [...]

Bangladesh: Two Newspaper Photographers Beaten And Arrested By Police‏

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Reporters Without Borders condemn Friday an assault by police officers on two news photographers in Siddhirganj, on the outskirts of the capital, while they were covering a nationwide opposition protest on 11 December. Following the arrest of the photographers, who work for English-language dailies, fellow-journalists obtained their release by staging a sit-in outside the police [...]

Iran Dialogue Or US Diplomatic Detour? – OpEd

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By Ismail Salami It is very unfortunate to note that the United States has constantly sought to depict the Islamic Republic in the light of a tenacious nation resilient to any logic and dialogue whatsoever. Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has emphasized the Islamic Republic’s readiness to hold negotiations on the country’s nuclear energy [...]

Chavez Gradually Recovers – Minister

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who underwent a fourth cancer surgery in Cuba on Tuesday, has been slowly recovering, the country’s information and communications minister said on Saturday. “72 hours after the operation, doctors note that the patient responds well to post-surgery treatment,” Ernesto Villegas said He explained that Chavez was prescribed special therapy to deal [...]

Ongoing Turkey-Iran Clash Threatens Regional Stability – OpEd

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By Ali Bluwi The current clash between Turkey and Iran has promoted instability in the region as both use historical and political claims in Iraq as a means to wield influence. The pursuit of these claims and the policies it has generated have affected political and social stability in Iraq as each of these foreign [...]

Police: Mass Killing Shooter Forced His Way Into Connecticut School

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Police say the shooter in Friday’s mass killing at northeastern U.S. elementary school forced his way into the building before gunning down 20 young children and six adults. Police Lieutenant Paul Vance told reporters Saturday that 20-year-old Adam Lanza was not voluntarily let into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday. He did [...]

Egyptians Vote On Hotly Contested Sharia-Based Constitution

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Egyptians are voting on a disputed new constitution that has split the country in two and sparked deadly protests. Liberal opposition condemns the document as too Islamist, curtailing the rights of Egyptian minority groups. At least four people have been injured since the constitutional referendum kicked off in Egypt, says the country’s Health Ministry as [...]

Egypt: Early Referendum On Constitution‏

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Under the watchful eye of the oposition, voting for the referendum on the controversial draft constitution in Egypt began Saturday at 6:00 GMT (8:00 local). Some 51.3 million Egyptians are expected to say yes or no to a draft constitution that has deeply divided the country. Initially scheduled for one day, the vote will now [...]

Canada-Syria: White Dominions, Brown Colonies – OpEd

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France and Britain have begun to circle Syria like vultures (my apologies to vultures, who politely wait for their prey to die). They plan to save Syria from chemical bombs – a surreal replay of Suez 1956, where France and Britain cooked up a pretext to invade Egypt with the US posing as the more [...]

German Reforms Meet French Solidarity In New ‘Competitiveness Contracts’

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(EurActiv) — France’s François Hollande and Germany’s Angela Merkel broadly agreed on a roadmap for deepening the economic and monetary union (EMU) during a two-day summit, which ended in Brussels Friday. But they described new contractual schemes to support economic reforms in eurozone states in characteristically contrasting terms. Both leaders endorsed the objective of agreeing [...]

Egypt’s Mubarak Falls Again: Prison Shower Slip Causes Head Injury

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Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak, who is serving a life sentence, was injured when he slipped in a prison shower on Saturday, the official MENA news agency reported. The former president, who was sentenced in June 2 over the killings of protesters during the uprising that toppled him last year, was being treated for a [...]

At Least 11 Killed In Pakistan Airport Attack – Source

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An attack on an airport in the Pakistani city of Peshawar left at least 11 dead from heavy gun- and rocket fire on Saturday, a local source told RIA Novosti. The attackers fired several rockets at the premises of the Bacha Khan International Airport and then rammed the wall around the airport with a car [...]

Lieberman Resigns…for Now – OpEd

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Yesterday, the State prosecutor announced he would indict Avigdor Lieberman for the relatively minor crime of “breach of trust” for seeking to obtain information about the status of legal proceedings against him from an Israeli diplomat.  The prosecutor refused to indict Lieberman on the far more serious charges of bribery which involved his solicitation and [...]

The Difference Between Min Yingjun And Adam Lanza: A Knife And A Gun – OpEd

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Two deranged men go on rampages in two schools and in one case there are no deaths and few serious injuries and in the other, twenty-seven people die. When Min Yingjun went on the rampage at an elementary school in the Henan province village of Chengping on Friday morning, his attack would surely have been [...]

UK: Accountability Still Needed On Libya Case, Says HRW

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The UK government’s compensation to a Libyan dissident over its complicity in his torture and rendition provides some relief but does not absolve it of the duty to investigate. A criminal investigation into his claims and a wider public inquiry are both essential, Human Rights Watch said. “The UK’s payment to Sami Mostefa al-Saadi and [...]

US: Hillary Clinton Faints At Home, Suffers Concussion

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has suffered a concussion after fainting at home, according to the State Department. A statement Saturday from Philippe Reines, deputy assistant secretary of state, says that while suffering from a stomach virus, Clinton became dehydrated and fainted. Reines says she is recovering at home. At the recommendation of her [...]
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