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Allies at odds over Somalia
The US and its main ally in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, are pursuing contradictory policies when it comes to dealing with Somalia's Islamist movements. While Addis Ababa is pursuing its traditional unaccommodationist and at times hostile policy towards these groups, Washington is encouraging all those Islamist movements that are interested in renouncing.. More -
Bangladesh restores Facebook access
Authorities in Bangladesh have lifted the ban on Facebook, the social networking website. The website had been blocked a week earlierover caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and "obnoxious" images of Bangladeshi leaders. The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC)ordered the country's international Internet gateway providers.. More -
Israel accused of sexual child-abuse
An international children's rights charity has said it has evidence that Palestinian children held in Israeli custody have been subjected to sexual abuse in an effort to extract confessions from them. The Geneva-based Defense for Children International (DCI) has collected 100 sworn affidavits from Palestinian children who said they were mistreated.. More -
Iraqi orphans face uncertain future
The Iraqi government says that there are 3.5 million orphans in Iraq; the UN estimate is around one million. Noor Abdul-Rassoul Ali, of the Iraqi Orphan Foundation, estimates that there are about five million orphans. Whatever the true number, the children of war face an uncertain future, Zeina Khodr, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Baghdad, says,.. More -
Pakistani civilians suffer from displacement over army attacks
Pakistan suffered the highest number of internally displaced people in 2009 due to Pakistan's army attacks on civilian regions where Pakistani Taliban is powerful, a United Nations study showed on Monday. The number of internally displaced people worldwide reached 27.1 million individuals in 2009, the highest number since records began in the mid 1990s,.. More -
Expelled from home and native land but not from history
When asked for a definition of "peace" during a CBC interview, Canadian scientist, educator and renowned activist Ursula Franklin stated: "Peace is not just the absence of war. It is the presence of justice and the absence of fear." This simple definition helps explain why there is still no peace in Palestine. The man-made Palestinian.. More -
‘US troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan’
The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan. New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Bush Administration had developed advanced.. More -
New Israeli illegal settlement in East Jerusalem
The Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, approved the construction of 14 units in Maaleh David outpost, which is a new settlement neighborhood planned to be built in Ras Amoud Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli Peace Now Movement issued a press release stating that the new settlement will include 104 units and.. More -
Poverty 'widespread' in E Jerusalem
A majority of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, including three out of four children, live in poverty, an Israeli rights group has said. In a report released on Monday, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Acri) accused Israel of neglect and discrimination in its policies. Despite the conditions, only 10 per cent of East Jerusalem's 300,000 Palestinian.. More -
Reckless private security companies anger Afghans
Private Afghan security guards protecting NATO supply convoys in southern Kandahar province regularly fire wildly into villages they pass, U.S. and Afghan officials say. The guards shoot into the villages to intimidate any potential fighters, the officials say, but also cause the kind of civilian casualties. "Especially as they go through the.. More -
Report details torture at secret Baghdad prison
The torture of Iraqi detainees at a secret prison in Baghdad was far more systematic and brutal than initially reported, Human Rights Watch reported on Tuesday. The existence of the prison, which housed mostly Sunni Arab prisoners, has created a political furor in Iraq, prompted government denials and fanned sectarian tensions. “Abu Ghraib.. More -
Pakistani military holding thousands of detainees
Pakistani officials and human rights advocates are expressing concern today about the large number of detainees being held in extralegal detention by Pakistan’s military in the tribal areas. According to reports, most of the thousands of detainees have been held for nearly a year and have been given no access to lawyers or family. They have not.. More -
Hundreds of Iraqis "tortured" in newly revealed secret prison
A secret prison has reportedly been discovered in Iraq under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, where many were routinely tortured, a report said. The prison emerged as Human rights officials learned of the facility in March from family members searching for missing relatives. "Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared.. More -
Somalis caught in the crossfire
In a refugee camp in northern Kenya, a 14-year-old Somali boy recounts the moment that his entire family were killed in Mogadishu. "When I came home from the duksi [Qur'anic school] I found our house had been hit," he says. "My mother and father were killed. I think my four brothers were killed as well - I saw pieces of their hands.. More -
The 'Obama doctrine': kill, don't detain
George Bush left a big problem in the shape of Guantánamo. The solution? Don't capture 'bad guys', assassinate by drone. In 2001, Charles Krauthammer first coined the phrase "Bush Doctrine", which would later become associated most significantly with the legal anomaly known as pre-emptive strike. Understanding the doctrine with hindsight.. More
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