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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold Palestinian flags as they attempt to reach the Israeli border but were blocked by Jordanian police, in Southern Souneh, Jordan Sunday, May 15, 2011.
photo: AP / Nader Daoud		 From Sirhan to Bin Laden: U.S. Was Warned about Nakba
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Even alleged terrorists have authentic grievances, obvious truths that cannot be denied in regards to state-sponsored terrorism. This ancient certainty was again revealed when Israeli soldiers shot and massacred over twenty Palestinian protesters and wounded hundreds more. Their crime was commemorating the Nakba, an event when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were killed or militarily forced to...
A Rwandan survivor of the 1994 Genocide prays over the bones of genocide victims at a mass grave in Nyamata, Rwanda Tuesday, April 6, 2004.
photo: AP / Sayyid Azim		 Rwanda general guilty of genocide
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Former Rwandan army chief Augustin Bizimungu has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide. The UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda also convicted ex-paramilitary police chief Augustin Ndindiliyimana but released him for time already served. Two other senior generals were each sentenced to 20 years in prison. Some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the 100-day genocide. Bizimungu and Ndindiliyimana...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, listens during a news conference, Thursday, Oct. 9 2008, in Washin IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on suicide watch in New York jail
The Australian
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed under a suicide watch in jail, while pressure mounted on him to resign and the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape...
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Tibetan activists lie on a hunger strike against blockade of the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province by Chinese forces, besides a portrait of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 12, 2011. Hunger strike over Kirti monastery standoff continues
The Examiner
There has been deep sadness among Buddhists here in Syracuse over the continued siege of monks at the Kirti monastery. And now the situation has become more troubling due to the ill health of Buddhist youth who have been protesting this situation...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a religious ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, July 10, 2010. Palestinian leader Abbas appeals for independence
BBC News
The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has made a fresh appeal for international recognition of an independent Palestinian state. Writing in The New York Times, Mr Abbas says that...
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A man is scanned for radiation exposure at a temporary scanning center for residents living close to the quake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Amid setbacks Japan keeps Fukushima shutdown target
The Guardian
By Shinichi Saoshiro and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO, May 17 (Reuters) - Japan's government is set to renew a pledge on Tuesday to bring the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant under control by January, despite revelations that three reactors were plunged...
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German Chancellor and chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats, CDU, Angela Merkel, speaks during a news conference after the party's weekly executive committee meeting in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 28, 2011. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has suffered a defeat in Sunday's state election after almost six decades in power there. The opposition anti-nuclear Greens could win their first-ever governorship in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
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Libyan soldiers fire salvo during funeral for nine of 11 clerics allegedly killed in a NATO airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, May 14, 2011.
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        Ornate statues of Hindu deities placed before the gigantic icy stalagamite believed to represent Lord Shiva in holy Amarnath cave, 145 kilometers southwest of Srinagar, Friday 16 July 2010. Hindus believe the cave to be an abode of the god Shiva. The annual Amarnath yatra (pilgrimage) will start from 15 July and will continue for 45 days. Authorities expect atleast 2 lac piligrims this year. Much before dawn, devotees braving sub-zero temperature, trekked through a trecherous route to reach the holy cave that is about 13,500 feet, above sea level.
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        INDIA-DIAREA-PATIENTS-BURDWAN-MEDICAL-COLLEGE-HOSPITALIndia Diarea Patients at Burdwan Medical College & Hospital in Eastern India ------ WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
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        Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif looks on at a press conference to promote her new film "Rajneeti" or Politics, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 20, 2010. The film is scheduled to be released on June 4.
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        Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan speaks during an interview in New York Thursday, April 14, 2005. Adored around the world but mostly unknown in the United States, the 62-year-old megastar has appeared in more than 150 films in Bollywood. (AP Photo/Grego