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3 hrs ago | Telegraph.co.uk

Graphic pictures: Woman hangs herself on fish hooks in Paris shark protest

A woman pierced her skin with giant fish hooks and hung herself from the ceiling of a boutique in Paris on Thursday in a radical protest at the threat of extinction facing the world's sharks.

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Related Topix: Animal Rights

8 hrs ago | Austin American-Statesman

Mideast neighbors take note of Iran's female protesters

For two weeks last month, Marcelle George watched with amazement as legions of Iranian women, most wearing black, full-length Islamic garments, defiantly protested Iran's leadership.

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Related Topix: Iran, World News, Middle East, Johns Hopkins University, Opinion

12 hrs ago | AllAfrica.com

Congo-Kinshasa: Secret Police Accused of Torture

Rights groups say they have received many reports of intelligence agents abusing detainees.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila

16 hrs ago | CNN

Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran

Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.

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Related Topix: Iran, World News, Middle East, Social Software, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

21 hrs ago | Canada.com

Canada's commercial seal hunt protested on nation's birthday

One of the biggest celebrities on Parliament Hill Wednesday capitalized on the opportunity to speak out against Canada's seal hunt.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Toronto News.Net

Damning report slams Israel, Hamas over civilian deaths, destruction

Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new report published this week.

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Related Topix: Israel, Middle East, World News, Amnesty International, Charitable Organizations

News24

US wants more reforms in Zim

Harare - Outgoing US ambassador to Zimbabwe James D McGee promised more United States support for the country's political and economic recovery on Friday but said democratic reforms needed to be in place first.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe

News.com.au

Iran hangs 20 drug traffickers

IRAN hanged 20 drug traffickers today, official media reported, days after putting to death 12 other convicted criminals.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Iran, World News,

The Progressive | Peace and social ju...

This July 4th, let's be true to our principles

It's the Fourth of July in America, and a U.S. citizen sits in solitary confinement in New York - and he hasn't even been convicted of a crime.

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Related Topix: Prison, Federal Prisons, Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

PR-inside.com

Italian lawmakers pass controversial security law

Italy's parliament has given final approval to legislation that allows unarmed citizen patrols and imposes tough measures aimed at fighting illegal immigration and boosting security on the streets.

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Related Topix: Europe, Italy, World News, Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, Prison, Amnesty International, Charitable Organizations

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Weekday Magazine - Azerbaijan

Watchdog Says Rights Abuses Block N. Caucasus Stability

Amnesty International has said stability could return to Russia's North Caucasus only if human rights violations were thoroughly investigated.

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Deseret News

Passengers still in Israeli custody

Most members of a group of foreign peace activists seized at sea by the Israeli navy remained in custody Friday, three days after their failed attempt to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, relatives and supporters said.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Prison

Rocky Mount Telegram

Myanmar's frustrated generation looks abroad

**ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, JULY 4** In this June 3, 2009 photo, a Myanmar woman student passes by a sign of the University of Yangon which can be barely seen due to tree branches that overhang it from outside.

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Related Topix: Burma, Southeast Asia, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi

Staunton News Leader

Two views of judicial activism

The critics of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have called her an activist and criticized her for using 'empathy' to judge cases.

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Related Topix: US News, Sonia Sotomayor

Penticton Herald

Justice Department delays release of report on CIA detention, interrogation until late August

The Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public.

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Related Topix: US Politics, George Bush, US News, W., 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

News.com.au

Six hanged in jail, two spared

IRAN has hanged six people for murder, but the lives of two others due to be executed at the same time were spared by the families of their victims, an Iranian newspaper reported today.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

WTOL-TV Toledo

Amnesty accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza

Israel and Hamas are both denouncing an Amnesty International report on the recent war in Gaza as unbalanced.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories

EDGEchicago.com News Feed

Will Gay Iranians Come Out of the Revolt Better --or Worse?

Ever since the Iranian Revolution empowered a socially conservative theocracy led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, the country has been a difficult place for gays, lesbians and transgender people to call home.

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Related Topix: Iran, World News, Middle East, Gay/Lesbian, Transgendered

Reuters

Obama's climate leadership faces test at G8 forum

U.S. President Barack Obama, buoyed by a domestic victory on climate policy, faces his first foreign test on the issue next week at a forum that could boost the chances of reaching a U.N. global warming pact this year.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Global Warming

Bellingham Herald

Judicial activism? You bet

As one who is critical of racial preferences, I'm surprised to find myself disappointed in the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, a case involving a group of mostly white firefighters in New Haven, Conn.

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Related Topix: US News, New Haven, CT, New Haven Metro, African-American

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