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Vladimir Putin Picked as World's Most Influential Person
World  (tags: Putin, Russia )

Melva
- 86 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The Russian prime minister, who recently sparked an international crisis and enraged the US and European Union with Russia's military intervention in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, replaces last year's chart-topper Rupert Murdoch.
Bristol Palin's Child: Young, Black Man Claims Paternity
World  (tags: Palin, BristolPalin, Paternity, VicePresident, GOPNominee )

Mary
- 85 days ago - nowpublic.com
A young, black Los Angeles man named Kevin has come forward to claim paternity of Bristol Palin's unborn child by way of video. Kevin claims that his uncle works on the Alaska pipeline, and he got to know Bristol "quite well" over the summer . . .
HUMAN TRAFFICKING-Today's Slave Trade
World  (tags: HumanRights, children, slavery, thai, crime, ethics, government, usa, world, society )

Dana
- 205 days ago - fbi.gov
A Western man negotiating for a young Thai girl (far right), who clutches the arm of her trafficker. After settling on a price, the man left with the girl, and the trafficker left with her payment.
Anti-Slavery International - Take Action on Forced Labor and Exploitation of Domestic Workers in the Philippines
World  (tags: girls, woman.Philippines, slavery )

Kelli
- 204 days ago - antislavery.org
Domestic workers in the Philippines, the vast majority of whom are women and girls, are not given the same protections as other workers under labor laws and work in other people's homes hidden from public view. This leaves them particularly vulnerable to
Myanmar Puts Vote Before Aid Effort
World  (tags: )


- 205 days ago - english.aljazeera.net
Voting has begun in Myanmar in a controverial referendum pushed by the government despite international appeals for the rulering military to focus on recovery efforts after last weekend's devastating cyclone.
Losing Palestine
World  (tags: world, middle-east, israel, palestine )


- 205 days ago - english.aljazeera.net
Al Jazeera spoke to Middle Eastern youth on their views of the founding of Israel, the issue of an independent Palestinian nation, the state of the region 60 years after conflict broke out, and why the ideals of Arab nationalism have failed
Human Trafficking
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, slavery, slave trade, humans, crime, children, ethics )

Dana
- 205 days ago - fbi.gov
It's sad but true: here in this country, people are being bought, sold, and smuggled. They are trapped in lives of misery--often beaten, starved, and forced to work as prostitutes or to take grueling jobs as migrant workers with little or no pay
From the Jewish Untouchables in Europe to the Palestinian Untouchables in Israel - Media Monitors Network (MMN)
World  (tags: humanrights, freedoms, middle-east, violence, society, palestine )

Birdy
- 287 days ago - usa.mediamonitors.net
Mahatma Gandhi, November 1938 "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified
Kenyan Police 'Kill 10 Protesters'
World  (tags: africa, corruption, death, elections, government, HumanRights, politics, violence, world )

Brendan
- 318 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Police in Kenya shot 10 people dead today as protests against the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki continued, reports said.
 
 
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