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Palestinian schoolchildren and their teachers face violent settler attacks and Israeli army movement restrictions in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
Via electronicintifada.net
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Peter Nicolaus, UNHCR representative in Afghanistan, said the international community had failed to help returnees find a means of earning a living and therefore reintegrating into society.
Via google.com
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This militarisation – and resistance to it – has taken place in the context of an ongoing series of struggles over resources. As the dispossessed indigenous communities have continued to demand corporate responsibility, environmental, economic and social justice and proper compensation, their protests have been met with murders, torture, rape, the burning of homes and property and an ever increasing military presence. The outcome is an intensely militarised region ‘secured’ by an unrestrained and unaccountable tripartite force, comprising the Nigerian military, multinational oil companies and local militias.
Via redpepper.org.uk
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Terrified residents cowered in their homes on Monday in Syria’s Homs, as army tanks fired shells, machineguns and mortars into their neighborhoods, and amateur video filmed by anti-government activists showed carnage in a city street.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Two mortars hit an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq just days after Baghdad extended a year-end deadline for the camp to be closed as the U.N. negotiated resettlement of 3,000 residents there, the Iraqi military said Sunday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in China sentenced on Monday a veteran dissident, Chen Xi, to 10 years in jail for subversion, his wife said – one of the heaviest sentences given for political charges since Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was jailed two years ago.
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BAGHDAD — The United Nations and the Iraqi government have signed an agreement to relocate several thousand Iranian exiles living in a camp in northeastern Iraq, the U.N.’s office in Baghdad announced Sunday.
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An exclusive investigation finds that pro-Israel activists, backed by an Islamophobic pro-Israel group and with the knowledge of the Israeli government, is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic…
Via electronicintifada.net
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In Tunisia, Big Brother goes by an alias: Ammar 404. Aided directly and indirectly by American and European suppliers, Ammar 404 took control of virtually all electronic communication in Tunisia and turned lives upside down – even changing the content of e-mails in transit.
Via bloomberg.com
