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]]> None of McKinney's Congressional colleagues, nor those compatriots with
whom she was involved in the presidential race, have made a public
statement on her behalf since her capture on June 30.
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]]> North Korea has launched a series of missiles off its eastern coast. The missiles were fired over several hours beginning Saturday morning;a type of short-range Scud missile. No.Korea likes doing this on US holidays!

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]]> What is your response to Mark Regev, Israeli spokesperson, who said aid is free to pass into Gaza? No, that is wrong, we know it is not free. Our little boat was boarded by navy combat soldiers, they came in full riot gear when we were just 25 miles off
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]]> UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that Burma’s junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe rejected his initial request to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a rocky start to what he has called "a very tough mission" to win her freedom...
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]]> ...and below I reproduce four letters written by five of Mahmoud Abu Rideh’s six children, which should convince all but those with hearts made of stone that the government’s anti-terror policies have been nothing but a grave and profoundly disturbing,,,
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]]> Today, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian-born British resident with a British wife and six British children, has a hearing at the High Court in London to consider his request for internationally valid travel documents which would allow him to leave the cou
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]]> A nuclear weapons proliferation crisis is rapidly building in North Korea, Iran and beyond. But out of the spotlight, Global Zero, a new alliance of prominent diplomats, military and civic leaders, is beginning to persuade the nuclear powers that there
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]]> Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
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]]> Aid, trade suspended; OAS demands ousted president's return
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]]> Mahmoud Abu Rideh secured an important personal victory today, but everyone who believes that no one should be imprisoned or otherwise deprived of their liberty on the basis of secret evidence – and, essentially, on the whim of government ministers who...
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]]> Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary-General, asked the leader of Burmese junta to release the detained democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, today but was refused the chance to meet her in an unpromising start to an important two-day visit.
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]]> Schools torched. Classrooms hit with poison gas. Acid thrown in their faces. Girls risk life and limb to learn even as attacks by insurgents mount. You can help: The Afghan Women Empowerment Act would fund educational opportunities and keep them safe.
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]]> Free Aung San Suu Kyi! Free ALL political prisoners! Free Burma!
Democracy! Free elections!
If not NOW - WHEN???
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]]> Australian soldiers in Afghanistan will be able to give "honour payments" as cash to locals whose family members are killed or whose property is damaged because of Defence Force missions. Ooops, sorry, didn't mean to shoot your child. Have a few dollars!
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]]> Global Zero, a new alliance of prominent diplomats, military and civic leaders, is beginning to persuade the nuclear powers that there is only one answer to solve this crisis: THE ELIMINATION OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Presidents Obama and Medvedev are...
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]]> The Israeli right is moving U.S. perceptions of the I-P conflict to a tipping point. Among Americans -- and especially the Jewish community -- Israel had long enjoyed the moral high ground. But sentiment is shifting. Settlers/Netanyahu/crime, GUILTY!
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]]> Recent years have brought an explosion in neo-Nazi violence in Russia, spurring a wave of fear among minority and immigrant communities.Tell President Obama to raise the issue when he meets with President Medvedev next week at the U.S.-Russia Summit in Mo
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]]> )–Media watchdogs have condemned the sentencing of a Burmese journalist reporting on the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, and said that coverage of the trial is “very much biased” with reporters subject to intimidation.


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]]> One way to get to school...

Colombian Authorities should do something about this ASAP!!!!
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]]> Like a 5 star hotel.
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]]> Best Plans thwarted: It was all part of President Obama's attempt to present a softer side in the service of one of his chief foreign policy goals: dissuading Iran from building nuclear weapons
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]]> A young child was recovered alive from a Yemeni jet crash in the Indian Ocean.
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]]> RELEASE THE SPIRIT OF HUMANITY AND ALL ITS PASSENGERS IMMEDIATELY AND ALLOW ITS HUMANITARIAN MISSION TO GAZA TO PROCEED! END THE SIEGE OF GAZA NOW! Netanyahoo has gone too far but is stoppable. Sign the petition?
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]]> U.N. seeks funds, land to help Somalis who have fled to Kenya
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]]> An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea as it approached the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros in bad weather early on Tuesday
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]]> Last week millions marched peacefully to protest apparent election-rigging. Now a crackdown has killed scores and left hundreds arrested -- while the internet and media blackout and cyber-surveillance threatens to stop all Iranians communicating freely.
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]]> Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said it was "scandalous" that the report "completely ignored the detention of an Israeli hostage under absolute isolation for three years, and in breach of every elementary human right."
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]]> Israeli Occupation Forces have kidnapped 21 Human Rights workers aboard the Free Gaza boat, Spirit of Humanity, including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire & former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Please see share for emails, faxes, telephone numbers
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]]> By Tuesday, U.S. troops will hand over security to Iraqi soldiers and police still largely untested as an independent fighting force. Full story

Troop pullout stirs anxiety, pride in Iraq

Protests erupt after coup in Honduras | Video
Iranian
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]]> No K.criticized the U.S. Monday for positioning missile defense systems around Hawaii; calling the deployment part of a plot to attack the regime and saying it would bolster its nuclear arsenal in retaliation.

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]]> A hotline for journalists in danger

SOS Presse, a phone hotline for journalists - (33) 1 4777-7414 - is open every day round the clock
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]]> More evidence ,that the greatest terrorist threat in the west,comes from fascistic extremists.This Waffen SS worshipping,excuse for a human being,was caught allegedly carrying materials for making bombs.
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]]> DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world's largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in neighboring Kenya every day, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
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]]> The Iranian authorities must immediately release dozens of journalists arrested since 12 June and who are at risk of torture in detention, Amnesty International said today as it adopted all of them as prisoners of conscience.
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]]> Tuesday's deadline for American troops to leave Iraqi cities gives U.S. commanders a new focus: securing rural areas that they say insurgents are using as hide-outs to plan attacks
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]]> Shots were fired near the presidential palace in Honduras where protests erupted after the army ousted and exiled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War.
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]]> Amnesty International has condemned the move as “unacceptable and one that risks the lives of 90 indigenous families.”
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]]> The Cherry Hill pediatrician knew the Sudanese authorities would not allow him to bring home the drawings -- gifts from the children he treated at a camp for the hundreds of families displaced by the bloody conflict that plagued the African nation
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]]> BEIJING - In the five years since it was founded, the Yitong Law Firm has established itself as one of the country’s fiercest human rights advocates. It represented Hu Jia, the dissident who spoke out against the Tiananmen Square crackdown
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]]> MEXICO CITY — Investigators on Tuesday were searching for nine officials wanted in a day care fire that killed 47 children in northern Mexico, a day after nine others were arrested on negligent homicide charges.
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]]> KATHMANDU (AFP) — Nepalese police on Friday arrested 34 Tibetan exiles who tried to stage a demonstration near the Chinese border, witnesses said.
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]]> Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association today condemned the military junta for intimidating the press trying to cover recent national and international events, as a journalist was jailed for two years after being arrested...
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]]> Nothing and no-one comes out of Iran’s prisons. Iranians line up at the gates of the prison, looking for a name, searching for relatives of whom they have had no news.
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]]> The site's aim is to provide on-going news about developments in Venezuela, as well as to contextualize this news with in-depth analysis and background information. The site is targeted towards academics, journalists, intellectuals, investors, policy...
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]]> Europe is a relatively small continent, especially compared to Asia or Africa, but during the last five hundred years European countries have controlled a huge part of the world, including almost all of Africa and the Americas. The nature of this control
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]]> Change.Org. raises awarness about important issues and empowers people to -TAKE ACTION!-
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]]> Troops in Honduras have ousted the president and flown him out of the country after a power struggle over plans to change the constitution.

After arriving in Costa Rica, deposed President Manuel Zelaya said he had been kidnapped by soldiers in a "coup
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]]> Reporters Without Borders today condemned a three-year prison sentence against mountain guide Gonpo Tserang for sending texts and emails abroad.
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]]> Dharamsala, June 26: Tibetans exiles observed “International Day Against Torture” to ask China to “stop”, what they claim, prevalent and excessive use of torture in the network of prisons and detention centres across the Chinese-occupied Tibet...
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