" Indian gay rights supporters have taken to the streets of Calcutta, Bangalore and New Delhi to call for an end to discrimination and push for greater acceptance. While small groups have marched...
" STUDENTS and teachers clashed with police in Chile to protest an education Bill they say doesn't go far enough to bring equal access to schooling for the poor even with a Government flush with copper dollars. About a thousand students marched shoulder to shoulder in the...
Tibetans have been protesting everywhere before the arrival of Olympic torch and they have been doing so almost daily in front of the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu.
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Hundreds of Tibetan exiles calling for...
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Protests over rising food prices have lead to violence and instability in Somalia, leaving at least two dead. In just a few weeks, prices for basic food items have risen more than 50 percent in some cases."MOGADISHU,...
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"Hundreds of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) staff marched on London streets today to protest the closure of their office and fears workplace deaths and injuries will increase. Members of Public and Commercial Services (PCS) and Prospect unions fear more people will die and...
"BEIJING — New violence has broken out in a volatile Tibetan region of western China, leaving eight people dead, an overseas Tibet activist group said Friday. China's official Xinhua News Agency said a...
"New violence has broken out in a volatile Tibetan region of western China, leaving eight people dead, an overseas Tibet activist group says. China's official Xinhua News Agency said a government official was...
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New violence is being reported in a Tibetan region of western China, leaving at least 8 people dead. Apparently police opened fire on hundreds of buddhist monks and people who had marched on government offices to...
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Rather than ending rocket attacks, I'm beginning to wonder if Israel's lockdown of Gaza is more likely to create more attacks. Going without medications, bread, gas, fuel, and medical care is more likely to create anger than reconciliation."Gaza City awoke Monday to shuttered...
Just as they were coming home for a break too, this is a shame."One Canadian soldier was killed yesterday and four others were injured as their convoy was heading back from the front lines for a long-awaited New...
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Anti-government leaders call for Philippine president Gloria Macapal-Arroyo's resignation amidst allegations of graft and corruption--and the never ending issue of vote rigging in the 2004 presidential...
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"Oaxaca Remembers Brad Will
October 29th, 2007 · No Comments
As many as 20,000 people gathered in Oaxaca City on Saturday this weekend to remember Brad Will, the American journalist shot dead a year ago.
The...
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"Burmese authorities again opened fire on anti-government protesters today after raiding monasteries and rounding up hundreds of monks overnight in an attempt to crush the demonstrations.
Eyewitnesses said one man fell to the ground in Rangoon after police fired at a crowd of...
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Most likely the most unoffensive group of religious orders in the world, some (National Geographic Historical Accounts) who say the Buddist Monk Order in India found Jesus wandering their land and cared for him till...
Matthias Kuntzel brings us this chilling scene of Iranian military tactics during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988::"During the Iran-Iraq War, the Ayatollah Khomeini imported 500,000 small plastic keys from Taiwan. The...
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