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Breaking News Fri, 12 Aug 2011
In this image made from amateur video released by Shams News Network and accessed via The Associated Press Television News on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011, shows a protest march in Hama Syria Friday Aug. 12, 2011.
Human Rights   Photos   Protests   Syria   Wikipedia: 2011 Syrian uprising  
 Al Jazeera 
Security forces fire on protests in Syria
| Security forces in Syria have again used deadly force to clamp down on protests as citizens gathered across the country for Friday prayers and to call for the end of President Bashar al-Assad's... (photo: AP / Shams News Network, via APTN)
In this photo taken on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, an Israeli protester sleeps in a protest tent encampment against the costs of living in Israel, in central Tel Aviv.
Israel   Mideast   Photos   Protest   Wikipedia: 2011 Israeli housing protests  
 DNA India 
Protest culture thrives in steamy Israeli summer
| At times, Tel Aviv's thriving protest encampment resembles an earnest debating society, at other moments it seems more like one huge street party, or a meandering music festival, or simply a sun... (photo: AP / Oded Balilty)
Mirwaiz Renews Unity Call  Kashmir Observer 
Mirwaiz Renews Unity Call
| Srinagar, Aug 11, KONS: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, on Thursday renewed his call for unity among the pro-freedom camp, saying the amalgam’s doors were ‘open for everyo... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Hurriyat Conference   Kashmir   Photos   Violence   Wikipedia: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq  
President Barack Obama talks with senior advisors in the Oval Office to discuss ongoing efforts in the debt limit and deficit reduction talks, Sunday, July 31, 2011.  Al Jazeera 
Obama's conservative pandering
| In mid-April, the House passed Paul Ryan's Budget Plan, complete with its provision to privatise Medicare. In late May, Democrat Kathy Hochul won an upset special election in upstate New York, winni... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
Economy   Photos   Politics   Washington   Wikipedia: United States debt-ceiling crisis  
Top Stories
In this photo taken on a government-organized tour villagers inspect one of the houses reportedly hit during a NATO airstrike a day earlier in the town of Majar, near Zlitan, Libya, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011. BBC News
What really happened in Libya's Zlitan?
The Libyan government has taken correspondents to Zlitan, to see the aftermath of a Nato strike that it says killed 85 civilians. Nato says it hit a military staging base... (photo: AP / Dario Lopez-Mills)
Libya   Nato   Photos   War   Wikipedia: 2011 Libyan civil war  
An anti-government protestor, center, shouts slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, April 16, 2011. Dozens of chiefs from Yemen's two largest and most powerful tribes called on the president to immediately step down and strip his son of control over security forces, as rival crowds of protesters took to the streets Friday. The Star
Saleh to look at restarting Yemeni peace plan
| RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to look at restarting a Gulf Arab initiative aimed at ending the country's violent political standoff ... (photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen)
Democracy   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011 Yemeni uprising   Yemen  
Chinese Avant-Garde artist Ai Weiwei is pictured at the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, northern Germany, on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. The Independent
How Ai Weiwei lost his voice
| It was just eight months ago that the dissident Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, told me that revolution was the only way to solve China's problems, and he felt change was in... (photo: AP / Focke Strangmann)
Artist   China   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Ai Weiwei  
In this photo taken on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, WWII veteran Melvin Tsosie, who came from Gallup, N.M., to Bend, Ore., for work, stands on a street corner in town, is homeless and can't find work in Bend, Ore. Bend now has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. WorldNews.com
U.S. Banks and Ruling Elites Are Still Starving Troops
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | Whereas Revolutionary soldier Joseph Martin wrote in the winter of 1777 at Valley Forge, "We were absolutely, literally ... (photo: AP / Don Ryan)
Homeless   Photos   Troops   US   Wikipedia: Veterans of Foreign Wars  
Dr. Lobsang Sangay with the spiritual leader of Tibet, H.H the Dalai Lama during his swearing-in ceremony of Dr. Lobsang Sangay as the 3rd directly elected Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration, in Dharamshala, India, on 8 August 2011 WorldNews.com
My long-cherished aspiration fulfilled, Says Dalai Lama
Article by: Tibetan Administration Media: Tibet Net, via WN.com | Dharamshala: - The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama Monday, (8th August 2011) said... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Democracy   Leadership   Photos   Politics   Tibet   Tibet  
Police officers of the United Nations Operation in Cte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) visit the Gendarmerie d'Abobo during the fact finding mission of the International Commission of Inquiry, investigating alleged abuses and rights violations following the 28 November 2010 presidential elections. CNN
Members of Gbagbo inner circle indicted
| Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- Twelve members of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo's inner circle have been indicted for crimes relating to the post-electoral cris... (photo: UN / Basile Zoma)
Crime   Election   Ivory Coast   Photos   Wikipedia: 20102011 Ivorian crisis  
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks during a meeting with a group of Afghan National Assembly members, at the Iranian presidency office in Tehran, Iran, Monday, July 25, 2011. Star Tribune
Ahmadinejad blasts UN Security Council for hypocrisy in its silence on Britain rioting
| TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday urged the U.N. Security Council to take action over the rioting in Britain, arguing it was hypocritical... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Crime   Iran   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: 2011 England riots  
Politics United Nations
- I Oppose the Credit-Rating Oligopoly
- The Victors Ate the Meat of Long Ago
- More Tax on Amazon Won't Help Customers
- Enter Rick Perry, Formidable Fund-Raiser
In this image made from amateur video released by Shams News Network and accessed via The Associated Press Television News on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011, shows a protest march in Hama Syria Friday Aug. 12, 2011.
Security forces fire on protests in Syria
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- Annan Commences Trials With CSKA Moscow
- Somalia, Dark Clouds and Silver-lining
- Schalke Agree Terms For Anthony Annan Move To Vitesse Arnhem
- Israel approves 1,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem
A Somali man from southern Somalia cuts tree branches to construct a makeshift shelter in refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday Aug. 11, 2011.
Somalia, Dark Clouds and Silver-lining
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Elections Education
- North Carolina Democrats admit voting twice for Barack Obama
- ODM's Aladwa Elected Nairobi Mayor
- Wakf elections: Sufi from Gulbarga dargah in city
- Bahrain Protests: Al Wefaq Plans Election Boycott
United Airlines
Merger brings more members to union
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- Brazilian city bans books that "induce homosexuality&qu;
- 'Fill the Bus' school supply donation drive in Durha
- APNewsBreak: $36M cut to SC education delayed
- �BJP trying to saffronise educational institutions�
Education Sector Further Threatened By Famine Exodus, UN Warns
Education Sector Further Threatened By Famine Exodus, UN Warns
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Human Rights Racism & Discrimination
- Security forces fire on protests in Syria
- 'Somalia has been through a famine before – but this t
- Syria unrest: US calls for wider sanctions
- Cruel choice in famine: Which child lives?
In this image made from amateur video released by Shams News Network and accessed via The Associated Press Television News on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011, shows a protest march in Hama Syria Friday Aug. 12, 2011.
Security forces fire on protests in Syria
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- Labor Dept. plans database to gauge discrimination by contra
- City OK's $140K offer for plaintiffs in discrimination s
- Feds eye new data tool to detect pay discrimination
- 'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan looks on at a press conference to announce the "Live Earth India" event in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. Mumbai will play host to the next Live Earth concert on December 7, with Jon Bon Jovi and major Bollywood movie stars teaming up to build awareness about climate change in one of the world's fastest growing economies, organizers said Thursday.
Big B denies discrimination in Bollywood
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Labor Affairs Societies
- Pressure on Julia Gillard and Labor as asylum boats keep com
- Labor Dept. plans database to gauge discrimination by contra
- USPS seeks to break labor agreements for 20% work force layo
- GAC Defies Labor Court
Donovan McNabb, Tony Romo, Warren Sapp at the final NFL Pro Bowl practice held at Lockhart Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - January 30, 2010
NFL retirees unhappy with labor settlement
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- Columbia-Greene Humane Society rescues puppies administered
- Republicans offer little hope to gay Americans during Iowa d
- 10th Annual "Up the River Cruise" to benefit the A
- Scientists Explore The Intersection Of Health, Society And M
Police officers question men during a routine stop and search operation on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 in Hackney, North London.
British police out in force to deter riots
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