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Fury as West Bank building goes on
June 25, 2009Original source: Tel Aviv stands accused of deception by claiming settlement construction in the occupied territories is only continuing to cater for growing families already living there. Palestinian presidential aide Yasser Abed Rabbo of the Palestine...
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Do the Geneva Conventions still stand up?
June 25, 2009DAKAR, 23 June 2009 (IRIN) - One hundred fifty years ago the battle of Solferino left 40,000 soldiers and civilians either wounded or killed. With too few doctors on hand, Swiss civilian Henry Dunant helped villagers...
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‘Near-daily atrocities’ have sparked Somali refugee crisis
June 11, 2009Original source: The UN refugee agency has said that more than 100,000 Somalis have fled near-daily atrocities including rape, the shelling of civilian areas and general fighting since May. A series of civil wars and the...
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Red Cross says US bombs hit civilians in Afghanistan
May 8, 2009Women and children were among the victims of a US air raid in Afghanistan, the Red Cross have confirmed. The International Committee of the Red Cross reported on Wednesday that its officials had seen women and...
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Protesters hold second day’s march on Wall Street
April 5, 2009Thousands of protesters marched in Manhattan for the second day in a row on Wall Street today, to call for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for more government aid for struggling...
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