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Watching the news these days has been one disturbing “task”. One man’s peaceful protest is turning into a government’s chance to abuse, torture and kill. I have to admit that I have been trying to not watch certain news reports due to the...
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Mugabe and his loyalists will use anything as an excuse to increase the number of armed security force members in the country, in the cities and town, as he attempts to...
made popular Mar 2 2011
As rival groups clashed in Egypt’s capital Wednesday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called violence against peaceful protesters “unacceptable” Mr....
made popular Feb 3 2011
Egyptian people have been complaining about police passiveness with regards to stopping looters from robbing museums, malls, banks… Oh wait a minute, actually,...
made popular Jan 31 2011
Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) — A day after the Tunisian president indicated that he wouldn’t run again, people peacefully took to the streets in tense North African...
made popular Jan 14 2011
Tunisia’s government has ordered the closure of all schools and universities until further notice, amid clashes between police and demonstrators protesting over...
made popular Jan 11 2011
The Tunisian government has said it will listen to protesters, after weeks of unrest over high unemployment and the cost of living left dozens of people dead and raised...
made popular Jan 10 2011
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Haiti’s cholera epidemic caused by weather, say scientists
made popular Nov 22 2010
UNITED NATIONS: The UN has rejected the charge that Nepali peacekeepers in Haiti brought cholera to the Caribbean nation which claimed more than 1,100...
made popular Nov 19 2010
A Southwest Florida woman who visited family in the disease-stricken Artibonite Valley of Haiti and a Haitian construction worker who lives in the eastern Dominican...
made popular Nov 18 2010
MEXICO CITY — Medical authorities in Haiti defended their decision Tuesday not to focus on finding the origins of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000...
made popular Nov 17 2010
The fasting month of Ramadan looks set to be one of curfews, protests and hardship for Muslims in Indian Kashmir, which is experiencing a wave of popular unrest...
made popular Aug 12 2010
Israeli raid on Freedom Flotilla has triggered a wave of protests in Pakistan. Political parties and different organisations have been condemning the Israeli action...
made popular Jun 3 2010
Over the lies and misrepresentations of this Turkish TV series.
When you cry “Foul!” at the misrepresentations in a TV series ostensibly produced by your own...
made popular Apr 7 2010
The proposed Museum of Tolerance has caused quite a furor in the Arab world, including some very cynical, discriminatory and inciting comments from a poster on this...
made popular Feb 18 2010
Noor Rashid, the Oxford student who shouted “Itbah al Yahud!” (Slaughter the Jews) is now claiming that he used a different expression, “Khaybar ya Yahud”...
made popular Feb 16 2010
This was one of the chants that hecklers used during a lecture by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon.
Whether you approve or Israel’s policies and...
made popular Feb 11 2010
Iran’s police chief on Friday warned opposition supporters not to use cell phones and e-mail messages to organize protest rallies against the government, saying...
made popular Jan 16 2010
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Hong Kong to demand full democracy in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Police said some 4,600 people took part...
made popular Jan 2 2010
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Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has said he is not afraid to die for the cause of reform.
It was his first comment since the death of his nephew and...
made popular Jan 1 2010
On Wednesday, progovernment militia attacked and beat students at a school in northeastern Iran. Since last Sunday’s massive protests nationwide, dozens of...
made popular Jan 1 2010
Chauffeured motorcycles now bill themselves as attractive alternatives to Paris’ full-size taxis and in-the-know travelers are using them.
This isn’t your...
made popular Dec 30 2009
It’s not enough for a few prominent, vocal Muslims to openly condemn the violence and terrorism perpetrated in the name of their religion, it will take masses to...
made popular Dec 30 2009
The 1979 Islamic Revolution did not happen over night. It was months of protest - and hundreds of dissidents crushed by the Shah. Using history as a framework, the...
made popular Dec 30 2009
Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the center of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites...
made popular Dec 28 2009
Maoist-led strikes are endangering Nepal’s peace process and the writing of a new constitution, ruling party leaders said as the former rebels vowed to continue...
made popular Dec 22 2009
At the height of Iran’s bloody civil unrest this year, a young doctor named Ramin Pourandarjani defied his superiors. He refused to sign death certificates at a...
made popular Dec 21 2009
A wave of strikes culminating on Thursdays pan-worker mobilisation has been the response to the scaremongering of the government amidst the worsening economic crisis...
made popular Dec 18 2009
When millions of Iranians took to the streets following June’s presidential elections, their main target was Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the hardline president they accused...
made popular Dec 15 2009
Tehran University students have been filing into their classes past giant posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and the stern slogans of the Islamic revolution for the last 30...
made popular Dec 12 2009
The presidents of the Mercosur trade bloc nations expressed their “most energetic condemnation” of the coup in Honduras and announced their “full...
made popular Dec 11 2009
Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Thursday as thousands of pro-government militiamen stormed the grounds of the country’s most prominent university...
made popular Dec 9 2009
Honduras’ president-elect said Tuesday he wants amnesty for ousted President Manuel Zelaya and for all of those involved in the June 28 coup that deposed...
made popular Dec 9 2009
Six months after Iran’s disputed presidential election the bloodied and battered opposition movement refuses to give up. On campuses across the country yesterday tens...
made popular Dec 8 2009
Riot police in Greece fired tear gas canisters at youths Monday during a second day of protests commemorating a teenager shot dead by police last year, an incident that...
made popular Dec 7 2009
His first impulse was to dismiss the ominous email as a prank, says a young Iranian-American named Koosha. It warned the 29-year-old engineering student that his...
made popular Dec 4 2009
In several cities across West Papua, Indonesia’s last frontier of separatist instability, hundreds of demonstrators raised the Morning Star independence flag Tuesday...
made popular Dec 3 2009
Honduras’ Congress ended hopes of reversing a coup that has isolated one of the poorest countries in the Americas, voting against reinstating ousted President...
made popular Dec 3 2009
Leaders from Latin America and former colonial powers Spain and Portugal say Honduras should reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya as a “fundamental...
made popular Dec 2 2009
Crossing all the limits of vandalism & barbarism, the cruel police violence which was demonstrated on November 27, 2009 in Sant Sri Asram ji Ashram palpitates the...
made popular Dec 1 2009
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Students and supporters of Nepal’s opposition political parties who are against Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s decision to fire army chief Rookmangud Katawal, protest on a street in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 3, 2009. Dahal fired Katawal Sunday,...
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