tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40897978779756878452024-10-24T09:00:17.835-07:00Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busyBuya Khatibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06247065166515327438noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4089797877975687845.post-54575946108780962422013-08-12T01:04:00.000-07:002013-08-12T01:07:24.496-07:00

Buddhist mob attacks Sri Lankan mosque, 12 injured - A Buddhist mob attacked a mosque in Sri Lanka's capital and at least 12 people were injured, the latest in a series of attacks on the minority Muslim community by members of the Buddhist majority. A mob of Buddhists, who are mainly ethnic Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, threw stones at a three-storey mosque and nearby houses in a central Colombo

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Indonesia temple blast protests violence against Myanmar Muslims - A small bomb exploded at a Buddhist temple in Indonesia's capital, slightly injuring three people, in protest against violence against Rohingya Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, a government official said.The device was detonated late on Sunday at the entrance of the Ekayana temple in West Jakarta as people were praying

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Berlusconi defends Mussolini for backing Hitler — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi praised Benito Mussolini for "having done good" despite the Fascist dictator's anti-Jewish laws, immediately sparking expressions of outrage as Europe on Sunday held Holocaust remembrances. Berlusconi also defended Mussolini for allying himself with Hitler, saying he likely reasoned that it would be

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Berlusconi defends Mussolini, draws outrage from political left - Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi triggered outrage from Italy's political left on Sunday with comments defending fascist wartime leader Benito Mussolini at a ceremony commemorating victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Speaking at the margins of the event in Milan, Berlusconi said Mussolini had been wrong to follow Nazi

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Holocaust victims mourned at Auschwitz and beyond — Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again. Events took place at sites including Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former death camp where Hitler's Germany killed at least 1.1 million

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French weekly publishes 'Life of Mohammed' cartoons - A French weekly published Wednesday a comic book biography of the Prophet Mohammed that it says is a well-researched work by a Franco-Tunisian sociologist. Charlie Hebdo's offices were firebombed in 2011 after it published cartoons of the prophet. A French satirical magazine, whose offices were fire-bombed after it published cartoons

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How to Explain Mayan Doomsday to Your Kids — With doomsday rumors making the rounds online and likely at the water cooler, those who aren't in the know — that a Mayan apocalypse on Dec. 21 has no scientific basis — may be understandably freaked out. That group would include kids, who often can't distinguish TV advertisements from their favorite animated shows. That's where the U.S.

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Jewish groups struggle for Holocaust restitution - — More than 67 years after the Holocaust, Jirina Novakova refuses to give up her battle to regain property confiscated from her family. Her hopes got a boost two years ago when 43 countries vowed at a Prague conference to back global guidelines for the restitution of property confiscated from Jews during World War II to their rightful owners

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Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale — The single line of Napoleon's secret code told Paris of his desperate, last order against the Russians: "At three o'clock in the morning, on the 22nd I am going to blow up the Kremlin." By the time Paris received the letter three days later, the Russian czar's seat of power was in flames and the diminished French army was in retreat. Its

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Female military members sue to serve in combat — Four female service members filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Pentagon's ban on women serving in combat, hoping the move will add pressure to drop the policy just as officials are gauging the effect that lifting the prohibition will have on morale. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, is the second one this year over the

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Strong European support for Palestinian statehood move - A Palestinian bid for indirect U.N. recognition of statehood received vows of support from more than a dozen European nations as of Wednesday, and diplomats said this backing may deter Israel from harsh retaliation against the Palestinian Authority for seeking to upgrade its U.N. status. A Palestinian resolution on Thursday that would

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Key players, positions on Palestinian statehood - The vote is largely symbolic, the outcome nearly assured: The Palestinians and Israelis are closely watching the evolving positions of a few key countries in Thursday's U.N. General Assembly resolution to raise the Palestinians' status from a U.N. observer to a nonmember observer state. The measure only requires a majority and is all but certain

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Bangladeshis protest after fire that killed 112 — Thousands of Bangladeshi workers blocked the streets of a Dhaka suburb Monday, throwing stones at factories and smashing vehicles, as they demanded justice for 112 people killed in a garment-factory fire that highlighted unsafe conditions in an industry rushing to produce for major retailers around the world. Some 200 factories were closed for

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Uruguay plan to let gov't sell marijuana — Uruguay's national government said Wednesday it hopes to fight a growing crime problem by selling marijuana to citizens registered to buy it, and will send a bill to Congress that would make it the first country in the world to do so. Under the plan, only the government would be allowed to sell marijuana and only to adults who register on a

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Israel's Iron Dome Has Intercepted More Than 150 Rockets - Israel said that it will install a fifth "Iron Dome" battery before the end of the year, adding another installation to the country's missile defense system, which has proven itself this week, intercepting more than 150 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. The missile defense system, which can identify enemy rockets, determine if they

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Obama:`We Are Fully Supportive of Israel’s Right to Defend Itself’ — President Obama today fully backed Israel’s right to defend itself and warned that the escalating violence in the Middle East threatens the prospect for a lasting peace process. Speaking at a joint press conference with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Obama called for an end to the firing of missiles into Israel by

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Israeli Airstrike Kills Top Islamic Jihad Commander - An Israeli strike on a Gaza City high-rise today has killed one of the top militant leaders of Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian militant group said. The second strike in two days on the downtown Gaza City building that houses the Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa, has killed Ramez Harb, who is a leading figure in Al Quds Brigades militant wing,

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Urgent collective international action needed to protect the Rohingya -- We express our serious concern that the most brutal violence is now reoccurring in Arakan; and we strongly condemn the ongoing mass killing, burning and destruction of Muslim villages and rape of their women. Scores of terrorized villagers fleeing in boats have reportedly been drowned; and many dead bodes are now

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No humanitarian aids to Rohingya moslem's community in Maungdaw - - No humanitarian aids are allowed to distribute to Rohingya community in Maungdaw since June after riot, according to a politician from Maungdaw. at Saturday (10/11). "The government is not allowed International NGOs – UNHCR and WFP- to distribute aids to Rohingya community in Maungdaw, where these NGOs were distributing

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Obama’s double win - Barack Obama re-elected, with this second term extended his historic feat of 2008, as America’s first mixed race president. He was born in Hawaii, of a Kenyan father – an economist – one of the country’s first foreign African students, and a white mother, from Wichita, Kansas. That was in 1961. His mother was later married a second time, to an Indonesian, and young

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White House mulls how to strike over Libya attack — The White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to strike militant targets from Libya to Mali — if investigators can find the al-Qaida-linked group responsible for the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya. But officials say the administration,

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Still Calling for End to Child Marriages in Yemen - Widespread child marriage jeopardizes Yemeni girls’ access to education, harms their health, and keeps them second-class citizens, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government of Yemen should set 18 as the minimum age for marriage to improve girls’ opportunities and protect their human rights. The 54-page report, “‘How

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Child marriage a scourge for millions of girls - Child marriage, which steals the innocence of millions of girls worldwide and often condemns them to lives of poverty, ignorance and poor health, is one of the biggest obstacles to development, rights groups say. A girl under the age of 18 is married every three seconds – that’s 10 million each year – often without her consent and sometimes to

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One in five Americans reports no religious affiliation, study says - One-fifth of U.S. adults say they are not part of a traditional religious denomination, new data from the Pew Research Center show, evidence of an unprecedented reshuffling of Americans’ spiritual identities that is shaking up fields from charity to politics. But despite their nickname, the “nones” are far from godless. Many

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Philippines, Muslim rebels agree on peace pact — The Philippine government and the country's largest Muslim rebel group have reached a preliminary peace deal that is a major breakthrough toward ending a decades-long insurgency that killed tens of thousands and held back development in the south. Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said the "framework agreement" calling for an autonomous

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