Oops, this one might actually take all of 2 minutes to read. In this case, as the Arab League talks and talks, people are dying. We can only intervene to aid those who have been harmed by offering medical help. We can also try to assist the UN.
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]]> Kano witnessed the worst series of suicide bombings, bombs blasts and gun battles on Jan. 20. After the attacks in Kano more than 200 members of the group were arrested, though 80 percent of those arrested are believed to be foreign nationals.
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]]> The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) have warned that South Sudan is facing a food crisis and that immediate action is needed to stave off a disaster.
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]]> A community of Guarani Indians in Brazil has spoken of its ‘fear, despair and deep pain’, after being served with an eviction order requiring it to leave its land.
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]]> Tell the Panamanian Government to respect the rights of the Ngobe People.
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]]> Egypt's ruling generals are playing a risky game of brinksmanship by cracking down on American nonprofit groups that promote democracy, threatening a relationship with Washington that has brought the military billions of dollars in aid over the past three
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]]> Bachelet spoke at a conference in New York on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of U.N. Women which was launched last year to promote women’s participation in all aspects of life and end violence against women.
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]]> President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives resigned on Tuesday after weeks of protests erupted into a police mutiny, leaving the man widely credited with bringing democracy to the paradise islands accused of being as dictatorial as his predecessor.
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]]> If you are a transgender person in Sweden wanting to change your legal gender, you are forced to undergo surgery that will render you permanently infertile and unable to have children in the future.
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]]> From the bottom of my heart, I want to send my son to school but we have so many expenses ... We struggle to put food on our table,' one mother says

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]]> We are deeply concerned about the recent coup that forced Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed from office and is currently keeping him under house arrest.
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]]> Write to your Senators and ask them to cosponsor Senate Resolution 356. This resolution mourns the death of Tibetans who have self-immolated, calls for China to open Tibetan areas to journalists, diplomats and international organization and asks for an..
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]]> Russia’s decision to block a resolution condemning Assad regime is both morally repugnant and diplomatically short-sighted. The “river of history” cannot be stopped, and Syrians and the Arab world at large will remember Moscow's stance.
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]]> The phenomenon that is the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is, short of a palace coup, becoming the main actor in a revolution that is growing nastier by the day.
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]]> Between 2006 and 2008, over 300 people in the Mt. Elgon region of Kenya completely disappeared.To this day, nothing has been done to investigate or find out what happened to these innocent people
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]]> The fracas that engulfed the country's prime minister during Aboriginal protests on Australia Day speaks volumes about a society still coming to terms with its past
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]]> Medecins Sans Frontiers and AWARE Uganda Team Up to Prevent Maternal and Infant Deaths
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]]> Police say they have arrested an Arab man on suspicion of using dating websites to lure three women from Latin American countries and forcing them to work as prostitutes.
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]]> Activists in Syria say government security forces this morning launched a fresh bombardment of the central city Homs, with at least 12 people killed.
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]]> About 35,000 Jews living in Iran have equal rights & this has been for thousands of years. "We" are told, Jews are treated badly in Iran. Propaganda! A lie. Lies conjured up by Israel's GR$$DY leaders. The politics of Zionism! DECEIT IS THE WORLDS ENEMY!
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]]> If the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world.
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]]> Activist Omar Shakir, speaking by telephone from Homs, said he heard hundreds of missiles strike the area. Rockets crashing into neighborhoods and whole buildings collapsed on top of residents.
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]]> Slavery in Mauritania is not what most people envision when they hear the word. There are no slave markets; people are not bought and sold (although they may be lent out or rented). Most slaves are domestic workers, caught in a social phenomenon dating ba
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]]> Is the world on the verge of another massive global financial collapse? Yes....!
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]]> More than 200 people were reported killed in Syria, hours before the U.N. Security Council was scheduled to meet and likely vote on a draft resolution intended to pressure the government there to end its months-long crackdown on demonstrators, diplomats
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]]> France has held firm in its opposition to Monsanto's genetically modified MON 810 maize - and the agri-chemical multinational has admitted defeat.
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]]> A national survey of vulnerable households shows that 5.4 million people face food insecurity across Niger.
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]]> American and other coalition forces in Afghanistan are being killed in increasing numbers by the very Afghan soldiers they fight alongside and train, in attacks motivated by deep-seated animosity.
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]]> Several campaigners for the abolition of slavery in Mauritania were arrested on 15 January 2012, with all those detained being members of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement, an NGO in Mauritania.
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]]> On one side, amid the foothills of southern Lebanon, is Hizbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia militia that is busily stockpiling thousands of missiles in readiness for the next round of hostilities against its sworn enemy, Israel.

On the other side stand
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]]> NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations said Friday that conditions in Somalia have improved enough to downgrade the country's famine, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region..
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]]> As the murder of journalists is becoming increasingly common in Somalia, the government must do more to protect them as no one deserves to live in fear or die for simply informing the public of what is happening Iin their country
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]]> A broad spectrum of U.S.-based anti-imperialist and anti-war organizations, including the IAC, agreed on a Jan. 17 conference call to hold coordinated protests across the country on Saturday, Feb. 4.
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]]> A man has been charged with sex slavery and trafficking offences, after police rescued three Thai women from brothels in Sydney's south-west overnight.

Five brothels were raided last night in Guildford, Cabramatta, Casula and Canley
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]]> a kind of slavery practiced hundreds of years ago, and now existing nowhere else in the world. Slavery, which has been a significant part of Mauritanian culture for centuries, survives here in a primitive, tribal form.
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]]> BABY DOC Duvalier ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986. According to Amnesty International, during his rule he committed alleged crimes against humanity Tell the government of Haiti that this is unacceptable as Duvalier must be held accountable
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]]> Prince William begins his six-week deployment in the Falkland Islands today. Argentines aren't ready to give up their claim to what they call the Malvinas just yet.


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]]> Journalists are barred from Tibet as tensions rise.
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]]> Tell the government of Ethiopia that these restrictions are ridiculous and completely unacceptable. Tell them to reverse this harmful law and allow human rights organizations to operate freely
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]]> Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird threw Canada's support behind the tough negotiating stance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech in Jerusalem — one day after Mr. Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed each other..
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More than 500,000 Black African Haratin are still considered to be held as slaves in Mauritania.
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]]> The United States and NATO want to end their combat mission in Afghanistan next year, transitioning primarily to a training role in which Afghan security forces will take the lead, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday
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]]> A number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights advocates are raising concerns about Canadian air travel regulations that appears to exclude transgender passengers from flying.
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]]> Mani, a photojournalist with Le Monde, was in Homs, Syria on Jan. 26 when he finds out about a massacre of a local family. Rebels lead him past enemy territory to see the bodies of the victims, including several young children.
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]]> Thirty-five Ethiopian Christians may be thrown out of the country after police raided a private prayer meeting in Jeddah in the run-up to Christmas.
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]]> This week BASF announced that it is moving its GMOs out of Europe. Will the English-speaking media lose its nerve and write about it? Based on past experience, my wager goes to the habitual policy of silence, and I expect that the news will continue all
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]]> A woman in north-eastern Afghanistan has been arrested for allegedly strangling her daughter-in-law for giving birth to a third daughter.
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]]> In New Zealand, people accused of murder are allowed to defend their actions by claiming they thought the person was homosexual and coming at them with a sexual advance. It's called the "gay panic" defense and it has helped many offenders avoid punishmen
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]]> Three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world's poor.
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