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Newly arrived Syrian refugees wait as Turkish soldiers walk by in a camp, in Boynuyogun, Turkey, Tuesday, June 14, 2011. Over 7 million refugees in 2012: UN Wed 19 Jun 2013
Zee Media Bureau United Nations: At least 7.6 million people were forced to become refugees in 2012 reportedly highest since 1994. Syria crisis played an... (photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda) Zeenews
Africa   Photos   Refugees   Syria   Wikipedia: Refugee
People protesting in the streets of Rio de Janeiro Brazil protests continue as authorities scramble to respond Wed 19 Jun 2013
President warned against being 'on wrong side of history' amid demonstrations about high costs, poor services and World Cup Brazilians gather at the city hall in São... (photo: ABr / Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil) The Guardian
Brazil Protests   Photos   Protests   Sao Paulo   Wikipedia: 2013 protests in Brazil
Standing People at Taksim Square Turks Embrace Silent Protests Tue 18 Jun 2013
VOA News Turkish anti-government demonstrators adopted a new type of protest Tuesday - silence. Hundreds of people joined performance artist Erdem Gunduz, who stood still... (photo: AP / Petr David Josek) Voa News
Photos   Protests   Taksim Protests   Turkey   Wikipedia: Timeline of the 2013 protests in Turkey
Gujarat riot From Molotov Cocktails to Just Plain Cocktails Tue 18 Jun 2013
My first time in India, on a service trip, we took the last five days of our three week journey to interview survivors of the 2002 Gujarat riots that left thousands dead... (photo: AP / Manish Swarup) Huffington Post
Gujarat   India   Photos   Protests   Wikipedia: 2002 Gujarat violence
People chatting to each other in a slum area in the city of India Slum removal scheme tweaked to make it more effective Tue 18 Jun 2013
New Delhi, June 18: The Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), billed as the government’s most ambitious scheme for ridding the country of slums, is to be tweaked by changing the norms... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) The Siasat Daily
Delhi   Funding   Photos   Property   Wikipedia: Slum
In this photo released by the Israeli government Press office, Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, meets with U.S President Barack Obama in Washington, Sunday, March 4, 2012. Shimon Peres says peace will be achieved in his lifetime Tue 18 Jun 2013
The Israeli president, weeks away from his 90th birthday, tells the Telegraph why he is optimistic about a deal between Israel and the Palestinians. 560 315... (photo: AP / Moshe Milner, GPO, HO) The Daily Telegraph
Israel   Middle East   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
INDIA STREET CHILD BEGGER NAP AT BURDWAN IN EASTERN INDIA ---- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds? Tue 18 Jun 2013
Every 15 seconds a child dies of hunger, says a campaign by charities urging G8 leaders to pledge more aid for the world's poorest families - or every 10 seconds,... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) BBC News
Children   Food   Photos   Poverty   Wikipedia: Hunger   Children
Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Cry, The Beloved Continent Mon 17 Jun 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear." -Alan Paton Instead of "Cry, the... (photo: AP) WorldNews.com
Africa   Democracy   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Human rights in Africa
In this photo, reviewed by a US Department of Defense official, detainees stand together at a fence, one holding Islamic prayer beads, at Camp Delta prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. An attorney for a Guantan US selects lawyer for 'closing' Guantanamo Mon 17 Jun 2013
The US State Department is expected to announce the appointment of Washington lawyer Cliff Sloan to oversee the closure of the controversial Guantanamo detention... (photo: AP/Brennan Linsley) Al Jazeera
Detention   Guantanamo   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni waves to neighbors after leaving her apartment complex where she was under house arrest in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, June 14, 2013. Venezuelan authorities on Friday freed the judge who arrested in 2009 after then-President Hugo Chavez objected to one of her rulings, and who became a cause celebre for the opposition and international human rights groups. Magistrate Maria Lourdes Afiuni who cross Venezuela's Hugo Chavez freed Sun 16 Jun 2013
Venezuelan authorities freed a judge who was arrested in 2009 after then-president Hugo Chavez objected to one of her rulings. Her case became a cause célèbre for the... (photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos) South China Morning Post
Caracas   Lawmaker   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Detention of Maria Lourdes Afiuni
The Hotel Polana, a magnificent colonial building. It is vital to Maputo and Mozambique's tourism. The central area of Maputo corresponds to a planned city with square blocks and wide avenues, Big wealth gap and corruption scar Mozambique Sat 15 Jun 2013
Parts of the capital reflect the lives of the super-rich, corruption is a big concern, and 55% of people live below the poverty line In Maputo, the capital of Mozambique,... (photo: Creative Commons / F Mira) The Guardian
Corruption   Mozambique   Photos   Poverty   Wikipedia: Mozambique
In this Monday Oct. 31, 2011 photo, Venezuelan Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni sits in her apartment while under house arrest in Caracas, Venezuela. Afiuni infuriated President Hugo Chavez when she ordered the release of an imprisoned banker who was charged with flouting the country's currency exchange controls. A day after her arrest nearly two years ago, Chavez demanded on national television that she face 30 years in prison. Now under house arrest, she is barred by a court order from speaking to the news media and instead uses Twitter to air her protests, calling herself a "judge kidnapped by order of Chavez." Venezuela ends house arrest of Judge Maria Afiuni Sat 15 Jun 2013
The Venezuelan authorities have ended the house arrest of a judge held on corruption charges since 2009. A lawyer for Maria Lourdes Afiuni said a court in Caracas... (photo: AP / Fernando Llano) BBC News
Corruption   Human Rights   Photos   Venezuela   Wikipedia: Detention of Maria Lourdes Afiuni
Pedestrians are reflected on an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. Markets Live: Stocks break shackles Fri 14 Jun 2013
3:24pm: Meanwhile, the local market is firing on all cylinders. If the ASX200 holds on to its current gains it'll be the biggest jump since last July. Upvotes:1... (photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi) Canberra Times
ASX200   Markets   Photos   Stock Exchange   Wikipedia: S&P/ASX 200
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, attends the burial of Deputy President John Nkomo, at the Heroes Acre, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Monday, Jan, 21, 2013. Nkomo died of cancer aged 79. Mugabe who addressed mourners at the funeral called on Zimbabweans to be united and for peace to prevail in the country ahead of elections set for sometime this year. Zimbabwe Sets Short Timetable for Elections Thu 13 Jun 2013
JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwe's next election will be held on July 31, the country's longtime president, Robert G. Mugabe, announced in a presidential decree on... (photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Elections   Photos   Robert Mugabe   Wikipedia: Zimbabwean general election, 2013   Zimbabwe
In this photo taken on a government-organized tour for the media, destroyed Syrian armored vehicles and police riots gear is seen inside a damaged Syrian police headquarters compound which was attacked by an explosion, in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, on Friday Feb. 10, 2012. UN study indicates at least 93,000 people killed in Syria conflict Thu 13 Jun 2013
GENEVA, June 13 (Xinhua) -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced Thursday an updated list of 92,901 documented cases of individuals... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi) CNTV
Human Rights   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian conflict peace proposals
File - A Syrian boy holds a bird in his hand that he said was injured in a government airstrike hit the neighborhood of Ansari, in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. Thousands of children killed in Syria, UN study says Thu 13 Jun 2013
Thousands of children have been killed in the Syria uprising since March 2011, according to a new global UN report on children and armed conflict. Calling the toll... (photo: AP / Abdullah al-Yassin) BBC News
Human Rights   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
File - JTF-Guantanamo guards escort a detainee to the detainee hospital located adjacent to Camp Four, Dec. 27. Military doctors urged to refuse force-feeding at Guantanamo Thu 13 Jun 2013
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. military doctors should refuse orders to force-feed hunger strikers at the Guantanamo detention camp because it... (photo: US Navy / Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Billings) Chicago Tribune
Guantanamo   Human Rights   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Entrance to the Şişli station of the Istanbul Metro in front of Istanbul Cevahir, Europe's largest shopping mall. Construction works of the Istanbul Metro (M2) began in 1992 and the first completed section between Taksim and 4. Levent entered service on 16 September 2000 Taksim Square is not Tahrir Square Wed 12 Jun 2013
The unrest in Istanbul's Taksim Square and Gezi Park has been underway for almost two weeks now. Initially an environmentalist protest against the Istanbul... (photo: Creative Commons / Danbury) Al Jazeera
Photos   Protests   Tahrir Square   Taksim Square   Turkey   Wikipedia: Tahrir Square   Wikipedia: Taksim Square
Russian opposition protesters some holding portraits of political prisoners shout anti-Putin slogans as they march through a street next to the Kremlin in Moscow on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Thousands of Russian opposition activists are marching through Moscow decrying President Vladimir Putin's authoritarian rule and calling for the release of people they consider political prisoners. Wednesday's march is in support of 27 people who face charges related to a protest that turned violent on the eve of Putin's inauguration more than a year ago. The banner reads liberty to the captives on May 6! for our and your freedom! Russian protesters march as Putin seeks firmer political footing Wed 12 Jun 2013
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Russians marched through Moscow demanding Vladimir Putin resign on Wednesday, as the president took the helm of a loyalist movement... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko) The Star
Moscow   Photos   Politics   Protests   Wikipedia: 2011–13 Russian protests
In this Friday, April 6, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard during fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Reports of 'massacre' in eastern Syria Wed 12 Jun 2013
Syrian rebels have attacked a village in the country's east, killing dozens of Shias, mostly pro-government fighters, activists said. On Wednesday, a Syrian government... (photo: AP) Al Jazeera
Massacre   Photos   Syria   Violence   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
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