The Lebanon Daily Star reported that Amnesty International urged the Israel government to cease demolishing homes of Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley. The Israel army claims buildings are being destroyed in a “closed military area” but the result has created fear among inhabitants that their not merely their homes but livestock and fields will […]

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A Canadian court has held in abeyance charges against two Muslim Canadian boys who were charged last year with participating in an alleged Muslim terrorist attempt to seize Parliament, hold politicians hostage and behead them one by one until the Canadian government agreed to evacuate its forces from Afghanistan. Canadian police initially arrested 14 adults […]

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Vice Premier Wu Yi told visiting American Secretary of Treasury Paulson that China would never be an economic threat to the United States. She argued that China has 1.3 billion people and although a few hundred million are entering the middle class, the vast majority of Chinese people live in rural areas where the economic […]

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New Prime Minister Gordon Brown of England urged the world to focus on dealing with issues of poverty, ill health and education because there was increasing evidence of an emerging world crisis. The goal of halving infant mortality by 2015 which was set several years ago will not be achieved until about 2050. Thousands of […]

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Mayors in areas of Turkey which include minorities such as Kurds or Arabs or Assyrians and Armenians are being arrested and threatened with jail because they allowed use of other languages in court proceedings or when people came to a government office to fill out applications. The Turkish government only wants Turkish used in government […]

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Researchers at the University of North Carolina uncovered evidence that child neglect rises substantially in families where on member has been deployed to serve in Iraq. They concluded child neglect was 42% higher when one spouse was absent fighting in Iraq than when both were home. Mothers were three times more likely to neglect a […]

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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will testify at the congressional hearing being held into the circumstances surrounding the death of Pat Tillman, the former football star who was accidentally killed by his comrades. The committee is attempting to determine if there was a deliberate plan to use Tillman’s death to stir up public support […]

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World wide attention focuses on the Middle East or events in Europe, but rarely is there much concern about what is happening in Africa. The country of the Congo is one example of how this avoidance of interest impacts people. The Congo is beset with an ongoing civil war resulting in thugs and gangs constantly […]

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Secretary of State Rice admitted the recent arms deals costing billions of dollars with Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Egypt, and Israel were aimed at thwarting the power of Iran which she claims is the main destabilizer of the region. Of course, Iran has just responded by signing an arms deal with Russia which provides […]

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The New Zealand Ministry of Health Family Violence program has introduced compulsory questioning of any woman brought into the emergency room in order to ascertain if she was the victim of family violence. The women are questioned in a room which has a curtain, the husband might well be on the other side, but women […]

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