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Turkey's Guilty Conscience

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Christian Caryl - Oct. 13 (Special Report) - One of the world's thorniest historical conflicts is on the verge of being solved. But long-term peace between Turkey and Armenia might be as hard to achieve as a lasting Middle East truce.

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Decline of a tribe: and then there were five

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By The Huffington Post News Editors - Oct. 12 (News Report) - They are the last survivors: all that's left of a once-vibrant civilisation which created its own religion and language, and gave special names to everything from the creatures of the rainforest to the stars of the night sky. Just five people represent the entire remaining population of the Akuntsu, an ancient Amazonian tribe which a generation ago boasted several hundred members, but has been destroyed by a tragic mixture of hostility and neglect.

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Sudan's simmering struggle

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Times - By Austin Bay - Oct. 03 (Special Report) - The "third civil war" would be as vicious as the last, but given current political conditions, it could rapidly expand beyond Sudan and become a regional war involving several other impoverished, fragile states in East Africa - a war of the poor creating greater poverty and anarchy.

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Darfur rebels accuse Sudan army of attacks

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Sep. 18 (News Report) - Darfur rebels accused Sudanese government forces of attacking their positions on Thursday and Friday, weeks after a senior peacekeeper said the region was no longer in a state of war. The reports came after a period of relative calm in the region, where more than six years of fighting has driven an estimated 2.7 million from their homes. Commanders from an arm of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) told Reuters Sudan's army, backed up by allied militias, launched ground and air attacks on their positions in territory around the North Darfur area of Korma.

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Israel Authorizes 455 New Settlement Units

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - Sep. 07 (News) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has authorized the construction of more than 450 new housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank, his ministry said in a statement on Monday.

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New Facebook iPhone App ’Pretty Much Done’

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By MG Siegler - Aug. 08 (News Report) - As one of the most popular applications on Apple’s popular iPhone platform, a lot of users are eagerly awaiting the next version of the app. And that wait is almost over.

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Symbol of Unhealed Congo - Male Rape Victims

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Aug. 05 (News Report) - For years, the thickly forested hills and clear, deep lakes of eastern Congo have been a reservoir of atrocities. Now, it seems, there is another growing problem: men raping men. According to Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, United Nations officials and several Congolese aid organizations, the number of men who have been raped has risen sharply in recent months, a consequence of joint Congo-Rwanda military operations against rebels that have uncapped an appalling level of violence against civilians.

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Uighur leader says 10,000 went missing in one night

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Chisa Fujioka - Jul. 30 (News Report) - "The nearly 10,000 (Uighur) people who were at the protest, they disappeared from Urumqi in one night," Kadeer told a news conference in Tokyo through an interpreter. "If they are dead, where are their bodies? If they are detained, where are they?"

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The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Alexander Zaitchik - Jul. 08 (Investigative Report) - the time is nigh to accept that a massive culling of the human race is around the corner.

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Government asks to dismiss Geronimo lawsuit

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Associated Press - June 21, 2009 4:35 PM ET - Jun. 21 (News Report) - NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo, whose remains were purported to be stolen by members of a secret society at Yale University.

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Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Gregor MacLennan, Amy Goodman - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed by the police this weekend.

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The Storm Widens

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Dahr Jamail - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Just days after the aforementioned detention, Iraqi forces arrested two more Sahwa guards in the al-Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, which is controlled by their forces. In an article for Truthout last week, I voiced my concerns of these government attacks against Sahwa forces spreading. I am surprised at the rapidity at which this is occurring now, as this trend, if it continues, appears almost certain to spark a dramatic flare of sectarian violence in the capital city.

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The silence surrounding Sri Lanka

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Arundhati Roy - Mar. 31 (News Report) - THE HORROR that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it. There is almost no reporting in the international press - or in the mainstream media in India, where I live - about what is happening. From the little information that is filtering through, it looks as though the Sri Lankan government is using the propaganda of "the war on terror" as a fig leaf to dismantle any semblance of democracy in the country and commit unspeakable crimes against the Tamil people.

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Iraqi Army Turns on 'Sons of Iraq'

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Leila Fadel - Mar. 30 (News Report) - The U.S.-backed Iraqi government has struck against the “Sons of Iraq,” Sunni paramilitary fighters who have taken U.S. money to turn against al-Qaeda in Iraq and who now believe they are being betrayed as the Americans prepare to withdraw.

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Death Squad Leader Was Top Cia Agent

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sundayherald.com - By Gabriel Ronay - Mar. 22 (News Report) - THE LATE President Milosevic's secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States' top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92. The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia's murderous DB Secret Police, was regularly informing his CIA handlers of the thinking in Milosevic's inner circle has shocked the region.

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As Chinese Troops Seal off Tibet, Dalai Lama Warns Tibetan Identity 'Near Extinction'

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Antoaneta Bezlova - Mar. 13 (News Report) - In the run-up to the anniversary, Beijing launched a blitz propaganda campaign designed to drum up support for its policies of heavy investment and tight political control in Tibet. An exhibit showcasing the "democratic reforms" brought by China into Tibet opened at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing on Feb. 24, while the China Central Television (CCTV) aired a three-part documentary featuring Tibet’s evolution from "autocracy to democracy," according to the People’s Daily.

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An Arrest Warrant for al-Bashir, Could Bush Be Next?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - The court's decision grimly spelled out the suffering of the people of Darfur, a history full of murder, torture, rape, pillage and deliberate attacks on civilians. Could the ICC's decision set a precedent?

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A Handy Guide To What the Hell Just Happened in Darfur

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

humanitarianrelief.change.org - By Michael Kleinman - Mar. 05 (News Report) - Exciting past few days in Darfur-land, if by excitement you mean the very real possibility of millions of people suddenly starving. A quick guide to what happened, and what it means.

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Serbian spy's trial lifts cloak on his CIA alliance

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Greg Miller - Mar. 01 (News Report) - At night, when the lawns are empty and the lamps along the walking paths are the only source of light, Topcider Park on the outskirts of Belgrade is a perfect meeting place for spies. It was here in 1992, as the former Yugoslavia was erupting in ethnic violence, that a wary CIA agent made his way toward the park's gazebo and shook hands with a Serbian intelligence officer.

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Prosecutor Barred From Discussing Her Own Book

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Katie Paul - Feb. 28 (Special Report) - There is a certain irony, then, in the fact that this fearless law-enforcement legend has been barred from speaking a word about her own book. "Madame Prosecutor" created a sensation when it was first released in Italian last year, largely due to the passage about the alleged Albanian atrocities.

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Israel blocks pasta shipment to Gaza, and tensions boil

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Dion Nissenbaum - Feb. 25 (News Report) - The macaroni standoff drew the attention of U.S. lawmakers who made a rare trip last week to the Gaza Strip. "Is someone going to kill you with a piece of macaroni?" Rep. Brian Baird, a Washington state Democrat who joined Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison in visiting Gaza, reportedly said after hearing about the aid restrictions. Along with macaroni, Israel has prevented aid groups that are helping Gaza from sending in everything from paper and crayons to tomato paste and lentils. As international donors prepare to meet next week in Egypt to discuss a massive, coordinated global rebuilding initiative, Israel is making it clear that it will block any projects that could help Hamas.

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Suspend military aid to Israel, Amnesty urges Obama after detailing US weapons used in Gaza

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Rory McCarthy - Feb. 23 (News Report) - In a report released today, Amnesty International detailed the weapons used and called for an immediate arms embargo on Israel and all Palestinian armed groups. It called on the Obama administration to suspend military aid to Israel. The human rights group said that those arming both sides in the conflict "will have been well aware of a pattern of repeated misuse of weapons by both parties and must therefore take responsibility for the violations perpetrated".

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French acknowledge role in Holocaust

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Verena Von Derschau - Feb. 16 (News Report) - Nearly 70 years ago, the Vichy government helped deport some 76,000 people from Nazi-occupied France to concentration camps. Fewer than 3,000 returned alive.

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Children 'paying price of Gaza war'

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Children are bearing the brunt of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has said. More than 300 children have been killed and hundreds more wounded in Israel's aerial and ground assault, Ann Veneman, Unicef's executive director, said in a statement released on Wedneday.

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Israel shells hospital, UN compound

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Officials said that a building of the UN relief agency in Gaza had been hit by Israeli shells and set ablaze. "They are phosphorus fires so they are extremely difficult to put out because if you put water on it, it will just generate toxic fumes and do nothing to stop the burning," John Ging, the director of UN relief operations, said. "This is going to burn down the entire warehouse ... thousands and thousands of tonnes of food, medical supplies and other emergency assistance are there." Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said he was "outraged" by the attack on the UN compound and demanded an explanation as he met Israeli officials in Tel Aviv.

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