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Violence breaks out in Venezuela
Fighting broke out in Caracas as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused a US government-funded nonprofit organization of funding opposition groups....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:39pm PDT
Tel Aviv Bomb Kills One, Israel Assassinates 4 Palestinians
"An anonymous spokesman for the group said it was carried out to avenge 'crimes committed by Israeli occupation forces' in the West Bank town of Nablus.."...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 3:20pm PDT
Impoverished and unloved: Poverty Among Arabs and Ultra-Orthodox In Israel
There are two groups in Israel that seem to be quite different from one another but in fact are quite similar. The beginning of the resemblance - even the identity - between them is statistical, as emerges from figures that the Bank of Israel published last week: 47 percent of the ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are poor; 47.6 of the Arabs ("the non-Jews") are poor. There are no other groups in Israel in which the percentage of poor people is as high as in these two groups - not the i...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 3:07pm PDT
Jewish Activist From San Francisco Denied Entry Into Israel
JERUSALEM - A Jewish American was denied entry to Israel because she belongs to a pro-Palestinian group, her lawyer said Sunday — a rare case of a Jew banned from the Jewish state....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 2:52pm PDT
Afghanistan bomb blast claims many lives
An explosion has rocked the western Afghan city of Herat killing at least five and injuring 34 others, according to officials....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 2:03pm PDT
Kabul’s Colonel Kurtz
Nick Meo delves into the murky world of Afghanistan’s freelance soldiers of fortune...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 11:00am PDT
Afghanistan acknowledges need for further election delay
KABUL: Afghanistan’s electoral commission said Saturday it was necessary to delay parliamentary polls, put off until next year amid shaky security, as it prepared for landmark presidential elections in October.
Election officials said Friday that the already-delayed parliamentary vote would be put off again until April to allow more time for voter registration, the disarming of militia and the strengthening of Afghan security forces....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:58am PDT
Nablus: When does it stop?
Arjan El Fassed writing from Nablus, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 10 July 2004...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:54am PDT
Sharon orders work on fence to continue, rejects ICJ ruling
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered construction work on the West Bank separation fence to continue on Sunday, thus rejecting Friday's ruling by the International Court of Justice at The Hague that parts of the barrier are illegal....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:53am PDT
Arafat hints Israel planted Tel Aviv bomb
Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has condemned Sunday's deadly bomb attack in Tel Aviv but suggested that it was an act of provocation carried out by the Israelis....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:51am PDT
Caricom/Haiti relations again on tenterhooks
New tensions emerged yesterday between the Caribbean Community and Haiti's interim government in the face of Gerard Latortue's seeming rejection of a set of the conditions Caricom leaders say his administration must fulfil if it wants to take Haiti's seat in the Community....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:45am PDT
Conflicting signals on Haiti ahead of Caricom's team visit
THERE are conflicting signals on "engagement" with the interim Haitian regime ahead of a fact-finding mission to Port-au-Prince tomorrow by a five-member team of Caribbean Community Foreign Ministers....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:43am PDT
Israeli soldiers abduct teenage Palestinian girls
Israeli Occupation Soldiers "Arrest" Two 15-Year Old Palestinian Girls Aseel Al-Hendi and Majd Al Kokhen, in Nablus...
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 11:46pm PDT
Those Who Move Clouds
Thanks to the artists involved in this presentation....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:17pm PDT
Pakistan being pressed to capture Osama to help Bush win
Washington: The White House has intensified pressure on the Pakistani government to capture Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahri and Mullah Mohammed Omar in time for President Bush to recoup his sagging popularity and be re-elected....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 5:23pm PDT
Friday sermons thrash Allawi
Muslim leaders in Iraq were united at Friday prayers in their rage against the country's new sovereign government, accusing the interim prime minister of colluding with US-led foreign forces....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 11:18am PDT
Israeli forces kill seven Palestinians and destroys 40 homes in Gaza
On Thursday morning, 8 July 2004, Israeli occupying forces, continuing a wide scale offensive on the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun which started on the 28 June 2004, killed 7 Palestinians, including a woman. Thus, the number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of this offensive has mounted to 13, including 3 children and one woman. In addition, dozens of Palestinians have been wounded and at least 1400 donums of agricultural land have been razed. Also this morning, Israeli tr...
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 11:03am PDT
The Case of Sami al-Arian
We take a look at the case of Palestinian Professor Sami al-Arian, who has been imprisoned for over a year and is awaiting trial on charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder. We speak with his attorney Linda Moreno....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:53am PDT
Felon Disenfranchisement: Purging the Minority Vote
As the 2004 election nears, we take a look at how former felons - many of them African American Democrats - were wrongly included on a Florida state list of voters to be purged. We speak with an attorney with the ACLU who threatened to sue the state, a Florida elections supervisor who has publicly refused to purge voters based on the potential felons list and the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging felon disenfranchisement statutes in New York State....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:52am PDT
July Surprise: Is Bush Pressuring Pakistan to Capture Bin Laden During DNC?
An article in The New Republic charges that the Bush administration may be pressuring Pakistan to deliver a so-called "High Value Target" before November - ideally at the height of the Democratic National Convention. We speak with the reporter who broke the story....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:52am PDT