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Iraq still operating secret torture site, rights group says
World NowA clandestine jail and alleged torture site under the control of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki continues to operate more than a year after the government ordered it shut down, Human Rights Watch claims in a report being released Tuesday.... -
In Syria, specter of civil war looms larger amid violence
BEIRUT — Violence in Syria has continued amid a cease-fire, increasing concern that the country is descending into a civil war that could have frightening implications beyond its border, United Nations envoy Kofi Annan told the Security Council on...Tags: Syria, Politics, Activism, Armed Conflicts, Kofi Annan
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Red Cross pleads for $27 million more for Syria crisis
World NowHoping to triple its budget to help the wounded and needy in Syria, the International Committee of the Red Cross is pleading for nearly $27 million more to address the ongoing crisis.... -
Turkish leader calls for immediate humanitarian corridors in Syria
World NowTurkey's prime minister called Tuesday for the immediate opening of paths to provide humanitarian aid in neighboring Syria, condemning the regime for its heavy hand against protesters.... -
Aid workers enter besieged Syrian neighborhood, find it abandoned
World NowAfter being barred from the former rebel stronghold of Baba Amr for five days, a Syrian Arab Red Crescent team entered the battered neighborhood to aid and evacuate the wounded. But by the time that the aid workers got into the neighborhood in the central... -
International Women's Day: World celebrates; we get Google Doodle
International Women's Day is today. How are you observing it, aside from perhaps noting the Google Doodle set up in its honor?
Maybe you're signing an online petition seeking gender equality in medical research. Or tweeting using the hashtag "#womensday"...Tags: Holidays, Afghanistan, Civil Rights, Abusive Behavior, Human Interest
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Remember, journalists: The facts matter
"If your mother says she loves you, check it out," goes the old journalists' adage. But when it comes to what writers recall in memoir and first-person reporting, it doesn't always happen.
Ira Glass, host of the public radio program "This American Life,"...Tags: Politics, Steve Jobs, Injuries and Wounds, Oprah Winfrey, United Nations
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U.S. must join mine ban convention, land mine survivor says
World NowWhen he was 13 years old, Firoz Ali Alizada lost both his legs to a land mine left over from an old war, trying to take a shortcut to school north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Sixteen years later, he is the campaign manager for the International Campaign to Ban... -
Red Cross chief presses for more aid access, cease-fire in Syria
World NowRed Cross chief Jakob Kellenberger was meeting with top Syrian officials in Damascus on Tuesday in a bid to get greater aid access to those wounded and displaced in the crisis-torn country and to press for a daily humanitarian cease-fire.... -
Red Crescent center torched in Homs, Syria
World NowA Red Crescent distribution center was burned Wednesday morning in the embattled Syrian city of Homs, the government and a Red Cross official said.... -
Seven facts for Turkmenistan's 'Week of Health and Happiness'
World NowTurkmenistan, one of the most repressive countries in the world, is marking the “Week of Health and Happiness” with a march up a five-mile concrete staircase and plays such as “The Era of Power is Illuminated by Happiness,” the... -
Evacuation effort underway in Homs, Syria
World NowA joint mission of the international Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has arrived in the battered Homs, Syria, neighborhood of Baba Amr, where opposition activists say weeks of shelling have killed scores and left much of the district in ruins....
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