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Palestinians in West Bank's Area C suffer in limbo
MALEH, West Bank — In remote Palestinian villages of the northern Jordan Valley, children read by gas lamp, and water must be purchased from miles away, even when electricity lines and water pipes to Israeli settlements run directly past their...
Tags: Israeli Settlements, European Union, Politics, Palestinian National Authority, National Government
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You name it, Eric Garcetti has done it
In exactly one week, Los Angeles will wake up with a newly elected mayor. The lucky leader of 4 million restless campers with cracked sidewalks could be Wendy Greuel, the business-suited Valley kid who worked for Mayor Tom Bradley and President...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Politics, London School of Economics, Teaching and Learning, England
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Press Freedom Day: Where reporters and their work are threatened
Friday marks World Press Freedom Day, first declared by the United Nations two decades ago as a day to nurture the freedom of journalists -- or to remind the world of where it falls short. Rights groups pointed to several spots on the globe where...
Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Politics, Freedom of the Press, Human Rights, Benigno Aquino III
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Death of jailed Indian in Pakistan causes furor
The death of an Indian prisoner attacked behind bars in Pakistan set off an uproar Thursday, as protests erupted and the Indian government demanded justice in the politically sensitive case. Sarabjit Singh had spent more than two decades in Pakistani...
Tags: Politics, National Government, Pakistan, Human Rights, India
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Activists urge Obama to speak out on Mexico's human rights record
MEXICO CITY -- Activists are attempting to spotlight human rights issues during President Obama's visit this week to Mexico, urging him to publicly condemn what they describe as Mexico’s abysmal record of torture, killings and forced...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Politics, Barack Obama, National Government, U.S. Military
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Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits
WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...
Tags: Politics, Nigeria, Antonin Scalia, Lawyers, Litigation
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Album skewering Margaret Thatcher to be reissued on April 17
After former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was pilloried following her death last week with a campaign in England to vault the song “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead” to the top of the nation’s pop chart, an English satirist is...
Tags: Social Media, Mick Jagger, Twitter, Inc., England, Entertainment
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Turkish pianist convicted of insulting religion through tweets
A famed Turkish pianist was convicted Monday of insulting religion after sending a string of tweets deemed denigrating to Islam. Fazil Say was handed a suspended prison sentence of 10 months, according to news reports, stoking concerns in Turkey and...
Tags: Crimes, Politics, European Union, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Freedom of the Press
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Saudi Arabia denies reports of paralysis sentence
Saudi Arabia denied reports that a young man had been sentenced to paralysis, a punishment that human rights groups had excoriated as a form of torture. “This is untrue,” the Justice Ministry said Monday on its Twitter account, according...Tags: Politics, Twitter, Inc., Human Rights, Saudi Arabia, Punishment
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Two Americans killed in air crash in Afghanistan
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two U.S. troops died in eastern Afghanistan after their aircraft crashed Tuesday, military officials said. The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force said the cause of the crash, which took place in a field, is under...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Politics, Emergency Incidents, Human Rights, Afghanistan
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African refugees kidnapped, brutalized in Sinai, report says
One of the men said he could not pay -- and so they decided to make an example of him. The kidnappers stripped the Ethiopian man and violated him, an Eritrean refugee who survived his ordeal in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula told Amnesty International. They...Tags: Politics, Criminals, Human Rights, United Nations, Refugee
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Power of global arms treaty hinges on next steps, activists say
A new United Nations pact to regulate the global weapons trade was cheered by human rights and humanitarian groups, but its power will depend on how stringently it is followed. Like many international agreements, the arms trade treaty does not have a...
Tags: Treaties, European Union, Politics, Human Rights, United Nations
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