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Zainab al-Khawaja, Bahraini Human-Rights Activist, Released From Prison

Her sister tells MintPress News that Zainab plans to continue protesting, putting her at risk of further detention.

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Bahraini pro-democracy activist Zainab al-Khawaja has been released from jail after serving nearly one year for multiple charges, including participating in an illegal gathering and insulting police, but the question that remains is what her future of activism will look like as she continues to face pressure to back down. “One year of prison is

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Video Surfaces Of Okla. Father Dying After Police Encounter

A night at the movies turns deadly after police are called on a woman who slapped her daughter.

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attribution: screenshot from video

A family’s night at the movies in Moore, Okla., took a fatal turn on Feb. 15. After police were called over a possible domestic disturbance involving a mother and daughter, the father had a confrontation with police that ended in his death. On Tuesday, Nair Rodriguez released a video of the incident that she recorded with her cell phone. That

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Va. Sheriff’s Office Holds Anti-Muslim Seminar

Though Virginia state officials washed their hands of the event, a county sheriff went ahead and held a conference hosted by a disgraced former FBI agent and well-known merchant of Islamic fear in America.

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John Guandolo

About 50 law enforcement personnel on Tuesday began an anti-Muslim seminar in rural Virginia headlined by controversial figure John Guandolo and hosted by the sheriff’s department. “Everything went smoothly,” Sheriff Scott Jenkins told The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg, Va., of the event entitled “Understanding and Investigating Jihadi

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Dead Bodies Collected In War-ravaged South Sudan Town

The strategic town of Bor has been fought over several times since a rebellion in December. Amid the filling of mass graves, estimates for the toll on civilians are only now coming to light.

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South Sudan violence

With a peace deal still elusive in war-racked South Sudan, small volunteer groups have combed the city of Bor for uncollected remains to be buried in mass graves, the U.N.’s humanitarian news agency, IRIN, reported Monday. Determining the exact number of those killed across South Sudan since fighting began is difficult, but in January, the

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UN Official ‘Disturbed And Shaken’ After Visit To Palestinian Camp In Syria

Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk camp south of Damascus are desperate for medical supplies and nutritional provisions.

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Mideast Syria

The head of the U.N.’s agency for Palestinian refugees visited the besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Yarmouk, a suburb just south of the Syrian capital, on Sunday, alerting diplomats and aid workers to the deteriorating situation for people remaining in the area. “I am deeply disturbed and shaken by what I observed today,” Filippo Grandi,

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Pussy Riot Tests Their Limits In Sochi, But Why?

Putin let the band members out of jail, but after traveling to the United States, they returned to Sochi to stage a protest. Was it a pointless stunt or a brilliant strategy to highlight the country’s brutality?

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A masked member of Pussy Riot

The all-female Russian band Pussy Riot is drawing attention to problems in the former Soviet country, but their trip to Sochi, which is currently hosting the Winter Olympics, raised a number of questions, the largest of which is simply: Why? By staging a public protest in Sochi, they pretty much got what they must have expected: a public beating

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Cameroon Becomes Vortex For Arms Trafficking In Troubled Region

Traffickers are using the country to funnel arms to Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants, but the weapons are having a regional impact, creating instability in several countries.

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A vehicle filled with people and heavy load, precedes a convoy of over 100 trucks arriving in the Central African Republic capital Bangui from Cameroon

Insecurity created by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which operates mostly in northern Nigeria, is having an impact across a wide swathe of countries in the region, according to reports. A spate of recent arms seizures and arrests of traffickers in Cameroon destined for neighboring Nigeria is reflecting the increasing instability being

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