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Sign Petition: Tell Congress to Help Afghan Girls
World  (tags: world, afghanistan, usa, war, troops, obama, politics, military, government, americans, girls, rights, freedoms, culture, family, education, health, food, protection, medicine, safety )

Tom
- 2 days ago - thehungersite.com
Schools torched. Classrooms hit with poison gas. Acid thrown in their faces. Girls risk life and limb to learn even as attacks by insurgents mount. You can help: The Afghan Women Empowerment Act would fund educational opportunities and keep them safe.
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Turmoil in Iran Stifling Obama's Outreach
World  (tags: iran, government, middle-east, usa, Obama, politics, world )

Cal
- 3 days ago - usatoday.com
Best Plans thwarted: It was all part of President Obama's attempt to present a softer side in the service of one of his chief foreign policy goals: dissuading Iran from building nuclear weapons
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TAKE ACTION! IRAN: BREAK THE BLACKOUT!
World  (tags: iran, politics, world, humanrights, violence, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Cal
- 5 days ago - secure.avaaz.org
Last week millions marched peacefully to protest apparent election-rigging. Now a crackdown has killed scores and left hundreds arrested -- while the internet and media blackout and cyber-surveillance threatens to stop all Iranians communicating freely.
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Jerusalem Blasts Red Cross for Report
World  (tags: middle-east, humanrights, interesting, politics, israel, world )

Cal
- 5 days ago - jpost.com
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said it was "scandalous" that the report "completely ignored the detention of an Israeli hostage under absolute isolation for three years, and in breach of every elementary human right."
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Troops Exit Iraq Cities, Fan Into Countryside
World  (tags: iraq, politics, world )

Cal
- 6 days ago - usatoday.com
Tuesday's deadline for American troops to leave Iraqi cities gives U.S. commanders a new focus: securing rural areas that they say insurgents are using as hide-outs to plan attacks
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Chaos Erupts After Honduras Coup
World  (tags: world, conflict, freedoms, government, politics, news )

Cal
- 6 days ago - reuters.com
Shots were fired near the presidential palace in Honduras where protests erupted after the army ousted and exiled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War.
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Paraguayuan Congress Risks Lives of 90 Indigenous Families
World  (tags: ethics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', world, politics )

Ana
- 6 days ago - amnesty.org
Amnesty International has condemned the move as "unacceptable and one that risks the lives of 90 indigenous families."
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Mousavi Reportedly Under House Arrest
World  (tags: government, Iran, Protests, politics, conflict, freedoms, HumanRights, corruption )

Dee
- 7 days ago - abcnews.go.com
The Web site gooya.com reports that opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi is under house arrest, although that claim couldn't be verified.
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Iranian Cleric Urges Executing Some Protesters
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', crime, corruption, conflict, iran, politics, terrorism, violence, war )

Ryvre
- 8 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices.
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Palestinians Want to Build Settlements
World  (tags: middle-east, humans, interesting, world, politics, israel, goodnews )

Cal
- 8 days ago - jpost.com
The last thing that Abu Mohammed al-Najjar wants is for Israel to succumb to US and European pressure and halt construction in the West Bank settlements.As far as the 58-year-old laborer is concerned, freezing the construction would be a disaster not only
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Hamas Leader Rejects "Freak" Israel Offer of State
World  (tags: Hamas, politics, middle-east, israel, palestine, war, world, violence, conflict )

Cal
- 9 days ago - reuters.com
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal denounced on Thursday an Israeli offer of a demilitarized Palestinian state as a "big prison" and said only armed struggle could restore Palestinian rights.
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Wife Fears for Safety of Detained Iranian Activist
World  (tags: world, government, iran, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, freedoms, politics, terrorism )

Cal
- 10 days ago - cnn.com
The wife of an Iranian pro-reformist activist detained as he tried to leave the country last week says she is "deeply concerned" for his safety.
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Will Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei Survive the Crisis
World  (tags: iran, middle-east, violence, world, government, politics )

Cal
- 10 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
For two decades, Khamenei's word has been law in Iran, where the supreme leader is considered God's representative on Earth. Today he is reviled, not revered, by thousands of supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi,
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Obama to Reinstate US Envoy to Syria
World  (tags: world, middle-east, politics, obama, usa )

Cal
- 11 days ago - jpost.com
US President Barack Obama has decided to reinstate a US ambassador to Syria after an absence of more than four years.
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Officials Charged in Mexico Nursery Fire
World  (tags: Mexico City, Mexican government, Day Care Fire, children, death, corruption, conflict, politics, responsibility, crime )

Dee
- 12 days ago - online.wsj.com
MEXICO CITY-Seven officials from the northern state of Sonora were detained on charges of negligent homicide, almost three weeks after a devastating fire at a day-care center which has claimed the lives of 47 children, Mexican officials said Monday.
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