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Syria: Intense shelling by government is reported in Aleppo
BEIRUT – Residents of a Kurdish neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo fled Sunday under intense government shelling estimated at three shells per minute, activists said. The bombardment on the Sheikh Maqsood district came two days after...Tags: Free Syrian Army, Petroleum Industry, Wars and Interventions, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Government
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King's Easter epistle on civil disobedience
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s decision to violate an injunction forbidding him to pray, sing or march in public in Birmingham, Ala. On Good Friday 1963 (which fell on April 12 that year), King led a march from...
Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Laws, Religious Festivals, Crime, Law and Justice
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20 dead in Scud missile attack in Syria, activists say
BEIRUT -- At least 20 people were killed Friday by a blast in a northern Syrian town, according to opposition activists who said the attack was carried out using a Scud missile. The missile landed in a populated neighborhood of Hretaan, injuring 50...
Tags: Weaponry, Emergency Incidents, Pakistan, Politics, Explosions
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Syrian rebels claim to shoot down Iranian plane at airport
BEIRUT -- Syrian rebels claimed Thursday they downed an Iranian plane that was landing at Damascus Airport and suspected of carrying weapons and ammunition for the Syrian government. The statement came as about a dozen students at Damascus University&...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Rebellions, Islam, Wars and Interventions, Air and Space Accidents
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Bahrain: 21 medics cleared in closely watched case
A Bahraini court on Thursday cleared 21 medics who had been convicted in connection with protests against the government, a victory for rights activists in the closely watched case. The exonerated doctors, nurses and other medical personnel were among...
Tags: Bahrain, Islam, Justice and Rights, The New York Times, Crime, Law and Justice
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Clinic offering abortions set to open in Wichita next week
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA new women's clinic that offers abortion services is set to open in Wichita next week. The clinic is in the same building that was once run by slain abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. The founder of the Southwind Women's Center tells Eyewitness News...Tags: Social Issues, George Tiller, Hospitals and Clinics, Abortion, Abortion Issue
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Syrian civil war enters third year
ANTAKYA, Turkey -- Large protests marking the two-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising were held across the country Friday as the opposition vowed to continue its fight to topple President Bashar Assad. As the fighting entered a third year, there...
Tags: European Union, Interior Policy, Argentina, Wars and Interventions, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Seattle judge orders release of two activists held for contempt
SEATTLE—Two activists jailed for refusing to cooperate in a federal grand jury investigation of anarchists in the Pacific Northwest were scheduled to be released from prison Thursday after a judge ruled there was little chance they would change...
Tags: Philosophy, Wars and Interventions, Prisons, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Egyptian liberals, Islamists join in denouncing violence
CAIRO -- Egypt's young revolutionaries organized a rare gathering Thursday for deeply divided Islamist and liberal political parties to denounce the violence and unrest that have threatened the nation’s stability and economy. The meeting came...
Tags: Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed Morsi, Islam, Egypt, Elections
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U.S. activist says he was locked in cell for nine months in Vietnam
L.A. NOWFor nine months, Nguyen Quoc Quan was held in a 9-by-9 foot cell in Ho Chi Minh City, his only company a government monitor assigned to watch his every move. The American democracy activist had no contact with the outside...... -
Allentown City Council -- not quite pepper-spray worthy. Yet.
Valley 610I have to admit, ever since I read a Star-Ledger story about police pepper-spraying citizens in Newark council chambers, I’ve been secretly hoping it will happen on my beat. Wednesday’s Allentown City Council meeting wasn’t quite that... -
Many Occupy protesters well-off, white and educated, study says
The 99% may have been a little above-average. A sampling of Occupy Wall Street supporters in May showed that the anti-corporate protest movement was disproportionately wealthy and educated, according to a study published Tuesday by the City University...
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Politics, Protest, Manhattan (New York City), New York City
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