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Israeli-besieged Gaza's Christians look to tunnels for Christmas gifts PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 05:46
GAZA CITY - This year Santa had to ditch his sleigh in Egypt and crawl through a smuggling tunnel to bring a little Christmas joy to the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip.
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Egypt sexual harassment hits "savage" levels PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 02:45
Egypt's deputy parliament speaker said women needed a law to protect them from sexual harassment which had reached "savage" levels in the country, Al-Destour newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Child soldiers on the rise in Yemen PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 14 December 2009 05:51

SANAA - The huge poster hanging in the press conference shows a Yemeni boy dressed in a traditional brown robe, holding a detonator in one hand, while with the other he lifts his gown to reveal packages strapped to his legs.

Read more... [Child soldiers on the rise in Yemen]
 

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Torture systematic in Egypt 'police state' PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jailan Zayan - CAIRO   
Friday, 04 December 2009 03:02

Egypt has become a police state where citizens receive no protection from torture, human rights groups said in a report published on Thursday.

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In Cairo, out of slum into joblessness PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 04 December 2009 00:56
CAIRO - When government workmen came in a truck to take Ahmed Mohamed’s furniture to his new home just outside Cairo, the 32-year-old fisherman was overjoyed: His dream of quitting the slum where he had lived for years seemed to be coming true.
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Nearly third of Egyptian children malnourished PDF Print E-mail
Written by watan   
Friday, 06 November 2009 02:48
CAIRO- Despite a number of positive economic indicators, Egypt has a hunger problem: Nearly a third of all children are malnourished, according to a new report compiled by the Ministry of Health and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
Last Updated on Friday, 06 November 2009 18:51
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'Goldstone' headscarves in Gaza PDF Print E-mail
Written by watan   
Wednesday, 04 November 2009 04:07
South African Judge Richard Goldstone's name may be infamous in Israel, but in the Gaza Strip it is sewn onto souvenir Palestinian headscarves in honour of his war inquiry.
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Enemy within: rape in US military ranks PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 30 October 2009 00:17
NEW YORK - As with suicides, the rate of sexual assaults within the US military now exceeds that of the general population.
Last Updated on Friday, 30 October 2009 19:20
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Thousands of Iraqi refugees seek resettlement in West PDF Print E-mail
Written by watan   
Friday, 30 October 2009 00:10

DAMASCUS - Iraqi refugee Leila Johanna Isho is determined to make this her last year in Syria. “Most of our family is scattered across Europe and I have a cousin in Canada so we don’t mind where we move, but we have to move because life is becoming t [ … ]

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Turkey airs a series on Israel's massacres in Gaza (Video) PDF Print E-mail
Written by watan   
Sunday, 18 October 2009 06:08

Turkey's state-run TRT television is screening a series showing Israeli occupation troops murdering Palestinian children during last winter’s Gaza war.

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Arab Spring takes toll on tourism in Jordan

  Pro-democracy revolts across the Arab world are taking their toll on tourism in cash-strapped Jordan, where revenues from the key source of hard currency earnings have dropped by 16 percent ...

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Learn Coexistence from Muslims: UK Bishop

 A UK bishop urged Christians to learn coexistence from the Muslim minority in British cities where a rich diversity of immigrant communities that exceeds the number of Christian exist, the ...

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Arab American Forum Marred by Discord Over Song

 “Oh my homeland, when will I see you free… When the land is watered with the blood of martyrs and the brave… And all the people shout: Freedom to ...

Davin Hutchins*

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Young Mechanics in Gaza dream of joining world's Formula race

  Happiness appeared on the face of the 20-year old Gaza young man Osama Othmani as he switched on the engine of a racing car he made with his colleague with ...

Hamada Hattab, Osama Radi

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Jailed rape victim in UAE sues consulate

 A QUEENSLAND woman who was jailed in the United Arab Emirates claims she was not properly advised by an Australian consular official after she said that she had been drugged an...

Sophie Elsworth

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Occupation's 44th year: A Doctor's Visit to Gaza

 At the Erez Checkpoint, as I was standing in front of the concrete walls and the enormous iron doors that exemplify the severe blockade policy imposed on the people of ...

Dr. Rafik Masalha

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An Illegal and Counterproductive Assassination

YASIR QADHI

 ANWAR AL-AWLAKI, the Yemeni-American cleric who was killed Friday in a C.I.A. drone attack in Yemen, appears to be the first United States citizen that our government has publicly targeted for ...

Netanyahu's Lie: "I Already Gave at the Office"

James Zogby

 Back when I was in Catholic elementary school and in the Boy Scouts, we would often be enlisted to participate in fund-raising drives that had us going door-to-door in our ...

Hopes and Fears Ten Years After

Hesham Hassaballa

 I was a bit sleepy as I walked into the resident physician lounge. I was just finishing up my overnight duties, and I was preparing to discuss the patients with ...

Let’s Cancel 9/11

Tom Engelhardt

 Let’s bag it.  I’m talking about the tenth anniversary ceremonies for 9/11, and everything that goes with them: the solemn reading of the names of the ...

For the Love of Israel: Congresswoman’s Misguided War on the UN

Ramzy Baroud

 From an Israeli point of view, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the ideal American politician. Although many in the US government aspire to her level of commitment to Israel, few can ...

US Republicans drift to the right

Dr James J Zogby

 The contest has begun to determine who will be the Republican candidate to square off against President Obama in 2012 national ...

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