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| Hungarian Neo-Nazi: war on gypsies | |
| In Hungary, fascist groups are targeting Roma gypsies, but the government seems to turn a blind eye on the problem of ethnic minorities, and offers no protection for them. | |
| Date: 22 April 2009 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 769 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 5 | |
| Kurdish region riled by Iraq oil dispute - 22 Apr 09 | |
| Northern Iraq's oil-rich Kurdish region has signed dozens of oil contracts since the US-led invasion in 2003, but the regional government claims Baghdad is blocking it from honouring many of them - a claim Baghdad denies. Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston reports on the dispute from Zakho, near Iraq's border with Turkey. | |
| Date: 22 April 2009 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 753 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 4 | |
| Torture report 'links White House to Abu Ghraib' 22 Apr 09 | |
| Scott Horton, a human rights lawyer and writer on national security issues based in New York, tells Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi a new senate report links the White House to the abusive techniques used in US prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. | |
| Date: 22 April 2009 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 771 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 4.5 | |
| Sri Lankan civilians 'escape' rebel stronghold - 22 Apr 09 | |
| Sri Lanka's government has restricted access to the conflict zone where it is fighting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), making it impossible to verify claims of casualties made by both sides. But in an Al Jazeera exclusive, David Chater went on patrol with the Sri Lankan navy as it rescued civilians fleeing heavy fighting off the country's northeastern coast. He reports on what has been described as a | |
| Date: 22 April 2009 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 749 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| South Africa election reporter's diary - 22 Apr 09 | |
| Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton is reporting on South Africa's general elections. She sent this update from a local school in Soweto, Johannesburg in South Africa. | |
| Date: 22 April 2009 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 769 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Former Abu Ghraib commander on torture report 22 Apr 09 | |
| Janis Karpinski, the former commander of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison who was demoted in the wake of the revelations of abuse there, tells Al Jazeera about her reaction to a report that says senior Bush administration officials were involved in approving torture. | |
| Date: 22 April 2009 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 738 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Fox News or MSNBC More Fair on Torture Memos? | |
| Last week, when the American Civil Liberties Union (of which I am a proud member) got the Obama Administration to release four memos from the Bush Administration's Justice Department that described and purported to legally justify various torture techniques, the contrasting coverage on Fox News and MSNBC news commentary shows (e.g. | |
| Date: 22 April 2009 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 813 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 4.5 | |
| World's first 'climate refugees | |
| Environmentalists predict that climate change will affect more than 375 million people every year by 2015, due to natural disasters and rising sea levels. Thousands of people in Bangladesh are thought to be the world's first | |
| Date: 21 April 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 758 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| F*ck the Earth Day | |
| April 22nd is Earth Day but Old Coot Jack English has high hopes his new holiday sweeps the nation in a flash flood of plastic bags and edible rocks. Break.com Clip of the Day. | |
| Date: 21 April 2009 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 749 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 4 | |
| Vandana Shiva: Globalization's effect on food industry | |
| Vandana Shiva, an activist against globalization speaks about the effect globalization has on food industry and to people. | |
| Date: 21 April 2009 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 754 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 4.5 | |