Today 70 Saudi activists launched a two-day hunger strike via Facebook to protest the detention of 11 human rights activists who have been held in Saudi Arabia for months - some for almost two years - without charge. Operating under...
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Quake lakes risk "slurry tsunami"
China's scramble to drain the rapidity-rising quake lake at Tangjiashan before it can burst is a nerve-jangling race against time.
Some 1.3 million people are threatened by...
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Eleven elderly people accused of being witches have been burned to death by a mob in the west of kenya, police say.
A security operation has been launched to hunt down villagers suspected of killing them in Kisii...
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Ethiopian millions 'risk hunger'
By Martin Plaut
Africa analyst, BBC News
Six million children in Ethiopia are at risk of acute malnutrition following the failure of rains, the UN children's agency, UNICEF, has...
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Oil painting "originated in East"
by Vincent Dowd
BBC News
Painting with oils was taking place in what is now Afghanistan centuries before such techniques were known to Europeans, researchers say.
French-based scientists have been investigating cave paintings at the...
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Xiang Xiao Wen is a student who survived the earthquake in China's Sichuan province. Like thousands of others, she is now living in a tent in the hard-hit city of Mianyang.
We are now sleeping in a...
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The economic success of the Asian giant has made us forget worker exploitation and the disregard for minimum safety requirements in the workplaceChina is pursuing the Western model without stopping to think,...
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Six months after protests in Burma ended in a military crackdown, people describe the atmosphere in the country and tjeir fears for the future.Reporter, Nay Pyi TawLife has been hard as ever. No change or hope has...
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By Charles HavilandBBC News, KathmanduPolice in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu have arrested several hundred Tibetan exiles. The Tibetans, members of the refugee community, were demonstrating near Chinese...
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The California Senate's Public Safety Committee has taken a historic steptoward ending the practice of sentencing youth to die in prison by passing a reform bill, Human Rights Watch said today.The commitee voted 3...
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In many parts of the world people have the right not to be poisoned!
The right to have clean water is closely related to the right of safe living, safe health, safe food, safe working, safe families.
What to say...
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Jose' Bove best known for actions against the MacDonaldization of food is a farmer and unionist.
His statement has to do with the decisions taken at the level of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the state...
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China increasingly more African and Taiwan increasingly more Chinese.
The "soft power" of China who has necessity to obtain raw materials from Africa, spreads to other countries such as South Africa, Angola,...
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" I went to the mountains where I found my people under rocksI went to Fasher where I found my people under sacksI went to Nyala where I found my people under treesI went to Jeneina where I found my people in...
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