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Turkey's religious bent
In his Blowback, "My party is good for Turkey," Egemen Bagis does what can only be described as a hatchet job on Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Bagis, who is a foreign policy...Tags: Government, Robert Ellis, Eyewear, Hamas, Justice and Rights
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Another disaster brews in Darfur
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan — Wells at this giant Darfur refugee camp are drying up. Women wait as long as three days for water, using jerrycans to save their places in perpetual lines that snake around pumps. A year ago, residents could fill a 5-...Tags: Water Restrictions, Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School, Agriculture
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Rape as genocide in Darfur
People hear the word "genocide" and think of 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust or the estimated 800,000 mostly Tutsis slaughtered in Rwanda. They do not imagine that rape can be so well planned and done on such a mass scale as to...Tags: Massacres, Rape, Wars and Interventions, Sex Crimes, International Relations
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Clooney's aid org gives half million for Darfur
George Clooney's humanitarian organization has donated $500,000 to a U.N. food aid agency to supply flights in Sudan's Darfur region, the agency said Thursday.
The Rome-based World Food Program said the donation came from Not On Our Watch. The group...Tags: Death, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Wars and Interventions, Brad Pitt
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The Darfur deception
The Sept. 29 killing of 10 African Union peacekeepers in south Darfur by a splinter faction of one of the main anti-Sudanese government insurgent groups was shocking -- but especially so to those who have only followed the Darfur tragedy through the...Tags: European Union, Massacres, Lou Gehrig, Wars and Interventions, Genocide
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... and why he should stay home
President Bush's announcement that he will attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics came in the wake of brutal crackdowns in Tibet and during a week when seven peacekeepers were murdered in the Darfur region of Sudan, where China continues to...Tags: Government, Beijing (China), Justice and Rights, Angela Merkel, Gordon Brown
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Uganda's conflict spreads to Congo, where LRA rebels massacre villagers
The rebels targeted churches on Christmas Day.
Men were killed first, often stripped of shirts and pants, and then bound with their arms behind their backs. Rather than waste bullets, the attackers hacked victims in the back of the neck with machetes...Tags: Religious Festivals, Massacres, Hospitals and Clinics, Air and Space Accidents, Wars and Interventions
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Mia Farrow launches fund for Darfur
Associated Press WriterActress Mia Farrow launched a fund to support survivors of the fighting in Sudan's Darfur region Sunday, and said that the jailing of a British teacher in the African nation showed the cruelty of its leadership. "This is the first genocide of the 21st...Tags: Death, International Organizations, Mia Farrow, Massacres, Hate Crimes
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Letters to the editor
LAX snafu hints at larger problem Re "Customs blamed for clog at LAX," Aug. 14 In 40 years of studying computer reliability, I have not seen more apparent incompetence than the 10-hour search for "a faulty hardware switch" at LAX on Aug. 11. Fault-...Tags: Entertainment, Science and Technology, Finance, Personal Service, Sam Brownback
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Official undone by tight trouser crackdown
A senior official in South Sudan who ordered a crackdown on young women wearing tight trousers has been sacked, officials said Saturday. Police arrested scores of women -- many on their way home from church -- in the capital Juba last week on charges...Tags: Government, Juvenile Delinquency, Gang Activity, Crimes, Heads of State
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In Darfur, another obstacle to peace
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTULUS, Sudan — Three years after it was burned to the ground, the village of Tulus in Darfur is springing back to life. Corn and sesame sprout from fertile fields. Children play around newly built huts. Smoke from cooking fires once again rises...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Wars and Interventions, Human Rights Watch, Armed Forces, Death
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About this report
This article is based on more than 35 interviews and hundreds of documents, including thousands of pages of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant descriptions, tax forms and lists of endowment holdings as of 2005, the most recent data available. It also...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Companies and Corporations
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