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Explosion kills 19 miners in Turkey

Burak, Ankara

A methane gas explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey killed 19 miners, federal officials said Friday. Three survivors were pulled from the mine after the explosion...

Trukey, Mine explosion, coal mine explosion

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Sarkozy is half right: all Europeans must understand the Swiss mistake

Nicholas, Liverpool

So Nicolas Sarkozy, responding to the minaret ban in Switzerland, admonishes us to practise our faiths with “humble discretion”. To be recommended humble...

Sarkozy, Swiss minaret ban, Muslims

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2010: A year With Any Hope For Zimbabweans?

Robb, Derby

Two weeks today is Christmas Day - and whilst it may not be celebrated completely around the world, it is the day that we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son...

2010, ZANU PF, Mugabe

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Palestinians fake cancer to flee blockaded Gaza

Nahum Y, Gaza

A healthy man in blockaded Gaza faked cancer, hoping the deadly disease would be his ticket out of the territory that has become an open-air prison for its 1.4 million...

Palestine, fake cancer, Fleeing Gaza

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Reid: Senate Health Care Deal Better Than The Public Option

Chad, Tempe

The public option may be dead, but Democrats have a stronger proposal on the table, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said at a press conference...

Hrry Reid, Obama health care, The Public Option

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Syria comes tough on Israel, gave ultimatum over Golan Heights

shihadeh, West bank

An Israeli soldier snatches some sleep after live-fire drills yesterday on the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. Syria warned Israel that it...

istael, Syria, Syria-israel dispute

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Obama will not rush Afghan troop drawdown

Shane, Kansas City

There will be no “precipitous drawdown” of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and U.S. troops could still be in the country for years to come, President Barack...

Obama, Afghanistan war, troop withdrawal

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Respite for Ugandan Women, Female Genital Mutilation criminalized

John, Kampala

PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM). The object of the Bill is to provide for legislation necessary for criminalising the...

fgm, female genital mutilation, sabiny

made popular 2 hr. ago

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UZMA- A Sad Tale- Consider her plight Mr. Asauddin Owaisi(M.P from Hyderabad)

Mary Pa, Secunderabad

Today is a glorious day. Or a wretched day but it is a day like any other day from dawn to dusk. Consider her plight. Her name is UZMA. An abandoned lady of Muslim...

UZMA, Taboo on women, In-Laws neglect

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15-20 Years More for Security Responsibility!

Ikramuddin Bahram, Peshawar

Welcoming 30,000 troops coupled with at least 7000 NATO forces, Afghanistan doesn’t appear at all ready for taking up the security responsibilities nor is the...

Pre-text, Opium Trade, Afghan National Army

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Princely states of India.

Abhilash Thadhni, Ahmedabad

Telengana, Bundelkhand, Gurkhaland, Bodoland, Kutch, there seems to be no end to the aspirations for statehood. I have a simple formula which will solve all such...

Telengana, statehood, states of india

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Britain Backs BDS (Secretly)

Marco Villa, Connecticut

Great Britain is reasonable for giving the world that awful state of Israel. It was British colonialism that sponsored a “Jewish homeland” in the early 20th...

BDS, ewish homeland, Palestine

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Do we need any law to protect women?

Virag Dhulia, Bangalore

Very recently, Anjali Sinha, a columnist with the Navbharat Times and a women’s rights activist wrote a column in Hindi, translated as “Is the Dowry law being...

men's rights, women's rights, feminists

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Obama: Undeserving

Marco Villa, Connecticut

It is not like the Noble has any credibility left. The prize has been awarded to terrorists in the past, including two in Israel: Begin and Rabin. And, yes,...

Barack Obama, Noble prize for peace, Nobel prize to Obama

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Saudi Arabian Boycott Fatwa Against Switzerland for Minaret Ban

Incognito, Boca Raton

Okay, first of all lets get one thing straight: banning Minaret’s is NOT banning Islam. It’s not as if Switzerland placed a ban on mosques or Muslims...

Saudi Arabia boycott of Switzerland, religious hypocrisy, ban on minarets

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Is Inflation a Policy to Solve Population Growth & Poverty

Shyam Jaiswal, new delhi, rairangpur, orissa

Is ‘inflation’ the policy to solve the problem like population growth and poverty? You know why I am asking such a silly question; this is because of our...

Inflation, Population, Population growth

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Russia Behind Norwegian Spiral

Marco Villa, Connecticut

So it was the Russians after all. Yesterday, the entire world was taken in by the incredibly Norway Spiral. A blue spiral in the sky giving way to a spinning white...

Russian missile tests, Missile gone astray, failed Missile test

made popular 5 hr. ago

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Qatari Sharia Court Takes Child From British Mum

Incognito, Boca Raton

As long as they are fit to be mothers, children belong with their mums, not with some relative who doesn’t have the child’s interests at heart. Obviously...

Rebecca Jones, abducted Boy Adam Jones, human rights violations

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Mini-Hariri "Reads"

Marco Villa, Connecticut

Meet Mini-Hariri (or Sa’ad Hariri), the prime minister of Lebanon who inherited his position after his late father was killed (probably by the Syrians) in 2005....

Mini-Hariri, Sa’ad Hariri, Hariri

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Anything as usual can never bring about a change.

Asokananda Prosad, kharagpur town

None knows what we are looking after the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change. It seems to be a serious political gambling. Hackers look haggard. Press plays...

Copenhagen summit, Copenhagen Conference, climate change

made popular 6 hr. ago

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