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Turkey Indicts Israeli Generals Over 2010 Gaza Flotilla Incident

People listen to Bulent Yildirim, head of pro-Islaic group of IHH that organized the Gaza Flotilla, by a banner depicting the faces of the nine men killed, displayed on the Mavi Marmara ship. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) (Mint Press)— A Turkish court has indicted four former Israeli generals for their alleged roles in orchestrating the 2010 raid of […]

Martin Michaels
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People listen to Bulent Yildirim, head of pro-Islaic group of IHH that organized the Gaza Flotilla, by a banner depicting the faces of the nine men killed, displayed on the Mavi Marmara ship. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

(Mint Press)— A Turkish court has indicted four former Israeli generals for their alleged roles in orchestrating the 2010 raid of the Mavi Marmara or Gaza Freedom Flotilla-- a Turkish aid ship sailing to the blockaded Gaza strip. The four generals were given life sentences following the commando raid that left 9 civilians dead and several dozen

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Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala

Oscar Alfredo Ramírez Castañeda holds an album containing photos of Lt. Oscar Ovidio Ramírez Ramos at the back door of his home in Framingham, Mass., on May 13, 2012. (Matthew Healey for ProPublica) By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, Fundación MEPI With reporting from Habiba Nosheen, Special to ProPublica, and Brian Reed, This American Life   […]

Sebastian Rotella
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Oscar Alfredo Ramírez Castañeda holds an album containing photos of Lt. Oscar Ovidio Ramírez Ramos at the back door of his home in Framingham, Mass., on May 13, 2012. (Matthew Healey for ProPublica)

By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, Fundación MEPI With reporting from Habiba Nosheen, Special to ProPublica, and Brian Reed, This American Life   Chapter 1: 'You Don't Know Me' The call from Guatemala put Oscar on edge. Prosecutors came looking for you, relatives in his rural hometown told him. Big shots from Guatemala

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UN Criticized In Sudan After Children Left Unimmunised

One of the lucky ones: Save the Children’s vaccination programme in Southern Sudan. NGOs and  medical teams are deeply concerned that vaccinations from common childhood diseases are not getting to thousands of vulnerable young children who have fled to the Nuba mountains in Sudan. The few doctors left working in the area are critical of […]

Maeve McClenaghan
بواسطة Maeve McClenaghan
One of the lucky ones: Save the Children’s vaccination programme in Southern Sudan.

NGOs and  medical teams are deeply concerned that vaccinations from common childhood diseases are not getting to thousands of vulnerable young children who have fled to the Nuba mountains in Sudan. The few doctors left working in the area are critical of the UN after vaccine supplies dried up nearly a year ago. They now fear the largely refugee

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NJ Muslims Angry Over NYPD Surveillance Findings

Imam Mustafa El-Amin holds a Quran that he plans to give to New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa at a meeting with religious leaders in Trenton, N.J., Thursday, May 24, 2012. Following a three-month review, Gov. Chris Christie's administration said Thursday that New York City police did not violate New Jersey laws when they […]

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Imam Mustafa El-Amin holds a Quran that he plans to give to New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa at a meeting with religious leaders in Trenton, N.J., Thursday, May 24, 2012. Following a three-month review, Gov. Chris Christie's administration said Thursday that New York City police did not violate New Jersey laws when they conducted surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups, rejecting demands by Muslim leaders for a formal investigation and a clampdown on cross-border police operations. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found that New York City police did not violate any laws in its surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups in New Jersey. Several mosque leaders who attended a meeting Thursday with Attorney General

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Higher Enrichment Uranium At Iranian Site

World powers negotiators arrive at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Negotiators from the U.S. and five other world powers sat down Wednesday with a team of Iranian diplomats to try to hammer out specific goals in the years-long impasse over Tehran's nuclear program.(AP Photo/Mohammed Ameen, Pool) The U.N. atomic agency […]

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World powers negotiators arrive at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Negotiators from the U.S. and five other world powers sat down Wednesday with a team of Iranian diplomats to try to hammer out specific goals in the years-long impasse over Tehran's nuclear program.(AP Photo/Mohammed Ameen, Pool)

The U.N. atomic agency has found evidence at an underground bunker in Iran that could mean the country has moved closer to producing the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles, diplomats said Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency has found traces of uranium enriched up to 27 percent at Iran's Fordo enrichment plant, the

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Fire Damage Raises Questions About Sub’s Future

Smoke rises from a dry dock as fire crews respond Wednesday, May 23, 2012 to a fire on the USS Miami SSN 755 submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on an island in Kittery, Maine. Four people were injured. (AP Photo/The Herald, Ionna Raptis) Even before the Navy completed its first damage assessment, the severity […]

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Smoke rises from a dry dock as fire crews respond Wednesday, May 23, 2012 to a fire on the USS Miami SSN 755 submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on an island in Kittery, Maine. Four people were injured. (AP Photo/The Herald, Ionna Raptis)

Even before the Navy completed its first damage assessment, the severity of a fire that swept through a nuclear-powered submarine in dry dock at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard triggered questions about whether the USS Miami can be salvaged. The USS Miami's nuclear propulsion was spared from the intense blaze but some forward compartments including

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