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Bassam Eid is the founder and director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) based in east Jerusalem. It’s a thankless job and he’s between a rock and a hard place—if he criticizes the PA, he gets accused of “collaboration”...
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A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Seoul
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Peshawar
A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Asuncion
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Mexico City
Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
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AP, Jakarta
The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
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AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
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AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...
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AP, Kabul
President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...
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AP, Paris
The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
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Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on Thursday welcomed what he said was a change of US policy towards his Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip and said he...
made popular Jun 26 2009
Key Arab nations have kept silent about Iran’s political upheaval, possibly reluctant to antagonize the powerful nation that sponsors such militant groups as...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Hamas has foiled an attempt by Palestinian militants to attack former U.S. president Jimmy Carter during his visit to the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian source told news...
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Egypt is making unprecedented efforts to persuade Hamas and Fatah to sign a reconciliation agreement by July 7, 2009, Palestinian sources told Ynet Saturday. The...
made popular Jun 13 2009
Different events occurring in the same physical moment affect different people differently.
While last February fire reigned in Victoria, Australia, happy dwellers...
made popular Jun 4 2009
AP, Madrid
A Spanish judge said Monday he will continue to investigate seven current and former Israeli officials over an air force bombing in Gaza in 2002 that killed a suspected...
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AP, Gaza City
Hundreds of Palestinian patients have been trapped in the Gaza Strip, unable to travel abroad for crucial treatment for cancer and other diseases, because of political...
made popular Apr 28 2009
AP, London
An attempt by the leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas to make an unprecedented video link address to British lawmakers failed Wednesday following a technical...
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AP, London
It promises to be one of the British Parliament’s more controversial question and answer sessions.
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AP, Ramallah
Environmental hazards in the Gaza Strip, such as sewage contamination, have intensified since Israel’s recent war on Hamas there because even basic infrastructure...
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AP, London
Britain says it will review all weapons exports to Israel following the country’s recent war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
made popular Apr 21 2009
AP, Ramallah
Environmental hazards in the Gaza Strip, such as sewage contamination, have intensfied since Israel’s recent war on Hamas there because even basic infrastructure...
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AP, Ramallah
Gunmen with suspected links to Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 Palestinians and wounded dozens in attacks on political opponents and alleged...
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AP, Geneva
The Palestinian human rights debate has taken a new turn with the appointment of Richard Goldstone, a Jew with close ties to Israel, to head a U.N. investigation into...
made popular Apr 18 2009
One of the most prominent feuds in the Middle East is between Saudi Arabia and the tiny natural gas-rich nation of Qatar. Saudi Arabia does not look to kindly on those...
made popular Apr 18 2009
U.S. courts allow American so sue foreign defendants. I am all for that, by the standards should be universal.
[Their] are Americans who went to Israel and came home...
made popular Apr 17 2009
Just because one is critical, nay even anti, Israel and find its assault against Gaza to be a massacre that constitutes war crimes; does not mean that Hamas should get...
made popular Apr 17 2009
AP, Jerusalem
An Israeli government official says Israel is “very unlikely” to cooperate with a U.N. probe into whether Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the...
made popular Apr 15 2009
A Gazan doctor was just been nominated for the Noble Peace Prize.
Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish lost three of his daughters during Israel’s most recent assault on...
made popular Apr 8 2009
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Palestinian women attend a protest held by the Islamic Jihad movement calling for the release of prisoners jailed in Israel, outside the International Red Cross office in Gaza City, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. An opening of Gaza’s blockaded borders,...
