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In the summer of 2007, as the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party galloped towards an absolute majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, a bureaucrat in the outgoing regime took a bet on the fourth-time Chief Minister’s career trajectory. “You...
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Although Zimbabwe’s internal political situation has improved marginally, the millions of Zimbabweans who have fled the country’s economic collapse continue to...
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Ugandan government allegedly turned a blind eye as Rwandan Hutu rebels drafted fighters from refugee camps in the country, a new UN report says.
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From the busy and bucolic scene in this Punjab province village, it is hard to tell that Pakistan is in the throes of a national sugar crisis. Fields of tall green cane...
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Dressed in a pink cotton tracksuit, Corporal Innocent Rakundo looks an unlikely member of the FDLR, one of Africa’s most feared rebel armies. He fiddles with a pen as...
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Thousands of soldiers have been deployed across Honduras to oversee a controversial election which will cement the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya.
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The Brazilian minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the...
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Thousands of Britons who have sold properties in Spain stand to win millions of pounds in compensation after the European Court of Justice ruled that they had been...
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I believe that yesterday I was pretty successful in proving that Jordanians DO have some degree of humor (despite the grumpy faces they are best known for :) ). And...
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Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.
Gordon Brown followed...
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Rescuers have recovered the body of the last victim a gas explosion in a southwestern China coal mine, bringing the death toll to 10, state-run media reported on...
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s party-guy private life has dominated Italy’s public discourse for more than six months. But his alleged dalliances with...
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Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Darfur into a killing ground in...
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Police say a mob in Guatemala burned to death two men and a woman suspected of killing a local bus driver.
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I think one has to qualify as an idiot before becoming a leader of a communist country......the Castro brothers in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, are 3 of many...
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An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing at least 39 people and injuring scores of others, emergency officials...
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A ferry packed with people going home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked at a terminal in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 15 dead and scores...
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In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three other powers that Tehran...
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After President Obama raised tariffs on Chinese tires - in a pander to the unions - after not long ago warning against protectionism, a senior White House trade...
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One of the most widely known Middle Eastern films (in the West) in recent years is the Arabic-language Israeli drama “The Syrian Bride”. The film chronicles...
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Fundamentalist Islamic authorities in Sudan inflicted the physical punishment of 50 lashes on a teenage Christian girl for dressing ‘indecently’ in public. The...
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What has Rahul Gandhi, the projected future Prime Minister of India has unleashed on the poor Dalits of Uttar Pradesh, granted his heart was in the right place and his...
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An elderly Dalit woman was burnt alive allegedly by three members of an upper caste community over a dispute on fetching water from a village hand pump.
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“Dalits are seen to pollute higher caste people if they come in touch with them, hence the ‘untouchables,’” the group says on its Web site....
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In India who is the messiah of the Dalits? The Bahujan Samajwadi Party leader Ms. Mayawati undoubtedly has a greater support base among Dalits of North India but...
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Gandhi called the untouchables Harijans and Mayawati, Uttar Pradesh chief minister, has lived up to the expectations of her community, considered untouchable just some...
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National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities has backed the demand for extending reservation benefits to Dalit converts to Christianity and Islam.
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The Nation today bid farewell to India’s real Son of Soil, former President and extraordinary human being Shri KR Narayanan who passed away yesterday. His mortal...
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