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    May 14, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  1. Iraq still operating secret torture site, rights group says

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    A 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....
  2. May 8, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. 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 Tuesday.
    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

  4. May 8, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  5. Red Cross pleads for $27 million more for Syria crisis

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    Hoping 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....
  6. Mar 6, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  7. Turkish leader calls for immediate humanitarian corridors in Syria

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    Turkey'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....
  8. Mar 7, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  9. Aid workers enter besieged Syrian neighborhood, find it abandoned

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    After 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...
  10. Mar 8, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. 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?
    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

  12. Mar 21, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. 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.
    "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

  14. Apr 4, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  15. U.S. must join mine ban convention, land mine survivor says

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    When 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...
  16. Apr 3, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  17. Red Cross chief presses for more aid access, cease-fire in Syria

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    Red 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....
  18. Apr 4, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  19. Red Crescent center torched in Homs, Syria

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    A Red Crescent distribution center was burned Wednesday morning in the embattled Syrian city of Homs, the government and a Red Cross official said....
  20. Apr 6, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  21. Seven facts for Turkmenistan's 'Week of Health and Happiness'

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    Turkmenistan, 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...
  22. Feb 24, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  23. Evacuation effort underway in Homs, Syria

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    A 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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The International Committee of the Red Cross suspended operations in two of Pakistan's largest cities and announced it would review its presence in the South Asian country after the brutal murder of Khalil Rasjed Dale, one of its workers who had been kidnapped in January
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