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The military’s intervention concerns human rights advocates who worry that such efforts could undermine attempts to bring it under civilian control or investigate charges of corruption.
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The researchers are taking shot at a measure in the Protect IP Act allowing the Justice Department to obtain court orders requiring American internet service providers to stop rendering the DNS for an infringing website under the .com, .org and .net domains.
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In the aftermath of the killing of an unarmed fisherman by Bahraini security forces, Shia cleric calls for calm resolve and peaceful resistance.
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In the classified US military files recently released by WikiLeaks, and identified as Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs), files relating to 765 of the 779…
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The man who was Hosni Mubarak’s Vice President and Egypt’s top spy is telling prosecutors that the aging dictator was aware that his security services…
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Israeli authorities forced Mahmoud Aramin to demolish his house in East Jerusalem Sunday, or risk having it destroyed by an Israeli bulldozer, which would have resulted in an exorbitant fine. The IMEMC is a media collective.
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A new report by SOMO in the Netherlands uncovers India’s Sumangali scheme, which employs children as young as 10, as one of the most exploitative labor conditions in the garment industry.
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