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Friday, 01 August 2008 17:06 |
 Coming from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, a group of American Muslim women are forming the country's first only-women law firm to dispel stereotypes about Muslim women. |
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Friday, 01 August 2008 17:01 |
 Relief groups and officials sounded the alarm over the fate of thousands of people made homeless by sectarian fighting in poverty-stricken areas of the north Lebanese port city.
“We are deeply concerned about families, many with lots of small children, who were already living in extreme poverty and who have now lost their homes or been displaced,” said Fatma Odaymat, a health officer with the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef). |
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Friday, 01 August 2008 16:59 |
 An Israeli army commander confessed to ordering a soldier to shoot a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian with a rubber-coated bullet, Israeli television news channel 10 reported.
The officer, named as Lieutenant Colonel Omri, told investigators: "I said jokingly to the soldier 'come on, shoot him with a rubber-coated bullet'," the private station said, citing a military report into the incident. |
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:49 |
 JERUSALEM - "I was married here, I had my five children here and I want to die here," says a defiant Fawzia al-Kurd, determined that illegal Jewish settlers will not drive her family from their home in Arab east Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in 1967. |
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:46 |
 RIYADH - Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a man working for the country's vice squad who is accused of having six wives, two more than allowed under Islamic law, a newspaper reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:42 |
 Four Jordanian prisoners released by Israel last year to complete their life sentence in the kingdom will be freed next month, a leading Islamist MP said.
The prisoners were sentenced to life in jail in Israel for killing two Israeli soldiers in November 1990, four years before the two neighbouring states signed a peace treaty. |
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:36 |
 By Diaa Hadid - NAALIN, West Bank
A Palestinian teen tracks Israeli troops with a video camera to document abuse of demonstrators.A community organizer tours West Bank villages with a PowerPoint presentation teaching the art of creative protest. |
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:28 |
 By: Debbie Menon*
A few things are quite obvious, which I think the world is ignoring! Based upon the history of Israeli-Palestinian relations over the past sixty years, it is apparent that Israel is not interested in Peace or sharing anything with Palestine or Palestinians. Their goal and they will settle for nothing less, than total victory and domination over Palestine and Palestinians. Talk of Peace is a ploy and meaningless. |
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:17 |
.jpg) By: Debbie Menon
I've been switching channels listening to the McCain vs. Obama debates.
They pit change vs. experience, fresh vs. tested, green vs. gray, one's inspiration and the other's heroism and of course as always flip-flop
vs. flip-flop. |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 23:03 |
 WASHINGTON - Amnesty International has set up a replica of a Guantanamo prison camp cell a stone's throw from the White House aiming to step up pressure on the US administration with its demonstration with a twist. |
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