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Earlier this week, Apple announced that it would pull an iPhone app published by a group of Palestinian activists calling for a third intifada (Arabic for uprising).
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A group of men have committed themselves to an unlikely way of challenging the violence that has swept Syria in recent months — pledging to marry women they have never met.
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The Fourth Amendment is weaker than it was 50 years ago, and this should worry everyone.
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The Pulitzer Prize winner says Obama’s actions “will have a chilling effect on the freedom of the press in the United States
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The news comes after more than 140,000 people in 175 countries joined an unprecedented Change.org campaign by leading global art institutions – including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, London’s Tate Modern and the Association of Art Museum Directors – calling for the artist’s immediate release.
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She was arrested and taken to jail by a police officer who first said she was “anti-police,” then claimed to feel “threatened” by her; and ultimately told her that he didn’t have to explain himself at all…
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A reporter talks about his illegal American dream.
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Activists Zainab Al-Khawaja, Asma Darwish and Sawsan Jawad were arrested at a sit-in last Wednesday at the United Nations House in Manama, Bahrain. The three women brought a letter addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging the international organization to take immediate action to ensure the release of all the political prisoners, the end of military trials on false charges, the investigation into the allegations of torture and accountability to those found guilty.
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Nine months after leading blogger and human rights activist Ali Abdulemam was arrested along with other political and human rights activists in Bahrain, a military court has sentenced him to 15 years in prison. The rest of activists face sentences that range from two years to life imprisonment,…
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The sudden rise in rape cases in Uttar Pradesh has shocked the country. Five cases were reported in the past 48 hours.
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