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Muslim group warns 'South Park' creators could face violent retribution for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2010 4:32 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

TIME article -- School Bullying Prevention: Teach Empathy at Young Age

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 11:10 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Iranian cleric: "women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes"

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Oklahoma tea parties and lawmakers envision militia: "to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty"

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2010 6:52 PM | Add Comment

13-year-old Yemeni bride dies of internal bleeding, "injuries to her genitals four days after a family-arranged marriage"

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2010 2:26 AM | Add Comment

President Obama questions Sarah Palin's nuclear acumen

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2010 2:10 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an Afghan woman and girl approach soldiers from the U.S. Army's 20th Battalion, in Kandahar, Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:38 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Photo: US Marines feed a stray puppy in northern Marjah, Helmand province in Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2010 12:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2010 1:03 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Rep. Randy Neugebauer "apologizes for 'baby killer' remark during health care debate, but turns moment into a campaign fundraiser"

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2010 12:58 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Late Mass. monk Ly Van Aggadipo's poems recall Khmer Rouge horrors; one Cambodian refugee says "I think my own children don't believe what we went through to get here"

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Stop this insanity -- Tea party protesters shout racial and gay slurs at Rep. John Lewis and Rep. Barney Frank

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2010 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Book makes new claims about Anne Frank; Bergen Belsen survivor Berthe Meijer says Frank distracted younger children from horrors of Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2010 3:28 AM | Add Comment

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," once center of dispute, for sale

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:19 AM | Add Comment

Women and girls (as young as 2 years old) are often rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:13 AM | Add Comment

Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2010 6:20 PM | Add Comment

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care: "And I think now, isn't that ironic?"

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2010 3:17 PM | Add Comment

Gendercide in Asia: Massive rise in abortion of female fetuses

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Painting: "Witch Hill," or "The Salem Martyr" -- Oil painting by New York artist Thomas Slatterwhite Noble, 1869

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Important: Report on Marines' water at Camp Lejeune omitted cancer causing chemical benzene. The environmental contamination is extreme!

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:35 PM | Add Comment

US refuses to cancel Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 12:50 AM | Add Comment

Dramatic images of World Trade Center collapse on 9/11 released for first time

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 1:46 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Human Trafficking Report: American children, immigrants forced into slavery, sex trade in Ohio

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 1:33 AM | Add Comment

Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons at each other in latest clash over whale hunting

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2010 4:01 AM | Add Comment

Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 2:01 PM | Add Comment

Saudi Arabia's human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Anti-whaling ship Bob Barker collides with Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru No. 3 in Antarctic waters

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a US army helicopter flies over the stepped Ziggurat temple, which dates back to 2113 BC, in the ancient city of Ur

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2010 2:42 AM | Add Comment

14-year-old Reginald Earnshaw confirmed as UK's youngest WWII death

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 2:48 PM | Add Comment

Shoshana Johnson, the nation's first female black POW (captured along with Jessica Lynch), speaks out

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2010 6:13 PM | Add Comment

'Dogs of war' saving lives in Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2010 11:35 AM | Add Comment

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 12:56 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

TIME article -- Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Incredible photos from Iran as reform protesters clash with police, who are accused of firing on the demonstrators

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:18 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Skin whitening cream finds new popularity among Palestinian women

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:14 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a U.S. Marine from Camp Lejeune lights up a cigarette during an operation at dusk in Helmand Province

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 3:25 AM | Add Comment

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Afghan children, refugees in Pakistan, play in their neighborhood of Rawalpindi

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 4:06 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "The Healers" by Laurence Binyon

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:33 PM | Add Comment

Harassment across Arab world drives women inside

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:48 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Diplomatic furore from Israel as British court issues arrest warrant for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over Gaza War

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:14 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Uganda parliament outlaws female genital mutilation

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:54 PM | Add Comment

968 detained at climate rally urging bold pact

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Protesters damage UC Berkeley chancellor Birgeneau's home; demonstrations at many schools against state funding cuts

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:18 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate

Posted by kluciole at 12/11/2009 6:25 PM | Add Comment

Nobel-winning Obama defends war in call for peace

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2009 2:08 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a dog survives the Baghdad bomb blast while chained to the Finance Ministry, but its owner is killed

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2009 8:34 PM | Add Comment

WWII vet returns art book he stole from Hitler's home

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2009 8:28 PM | Add Comment

Iran says will show no mercy to opposition protesters

Posted by kluciole at 12/8/2009 4:47 PM | Add Comment

Pearl Harbor attack remembered 68 years later

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:40 PM | Add Comment

Swedish store pulls plug on N. Korean jeans

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:22 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Iran bans foreign media cover as student rally nears

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:20 PM | Add Comment

Germany still paying off reparations following WWI -- more than 90 years on

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2009 11:12 AM | Add Comment

Iran whistleblower, 26-year-old Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, died from drug-laced salad

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2009 11:05 AM | Add Comment

10,000 East African albinos in hiding after killings; folk belief holds that "albino body parts have magical powers"

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:13 PM | Add Comment

Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 9:47 PM | Add Comment

Iranian authorities confiscate Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's medal; clerics start taking control of schools

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 6:29 PM | Add Comment

Photo: skeletons of Japanese World War II casualties dug up in northern Phillippines; they will be cremated and the ashes flown back to Japan

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:36 PM | Add Comment

AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony; George Krimsky tried to help Stalin's grandson Josef Alliluyev contact his mother in the U.S. (and possibly defect)

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:12 PM | Add Comment

Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2009 3:23 PM | Add Comment

New literary star Marie NDiaye takes on France's old guard; she is the author of "Trois femmes puissantes" ("Three Powerful Women")

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2009 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Report: Chinese who complain to government risk being kidnapped

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

MIA bomb-sniffing dog found in Afghanistan after 14 months

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 1:08 AM | Add Comment

Happy Veteran's Day... Photo: President Obama at Arlington National Cemetery

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2009 9:49 AM | Add Comment

Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2009 2:32 PM | Add Comment

Student Mahmoud Vahidnia hailed a hero as he takes on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei -- but some ask "was it all a set up?"

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2009 2:13 PM | Add Comment

To defang Taliban, some look to private schools: "the quality of public education is deteriorating day by day... when there's a vacuum of quality, someone will fill it"

Posted by kluciole at 11/7/2009 2:06 PM | Add Comment

International human rights group says Iran covered up rape of detainees

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2009 5:42 PM | Add Comment

Genetic tests for UK asylum seekers draw criticism

Posted by kluciole at 11/5/2009 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Our thoughts and best wishes are with the families at Fort Hood

Posted by kluciole at 11/5/2009 5:35 PM | Add Comment

Clinton: US wants Israel settlement halt 'forever'

Posted by kluciole at 11/4/2009 1:25 PM | Add Comment

Human trafficking for the "flesh trade" targets Natives: young Aboriginal women used as a sex commodity in cities across Canada (average age of girls trafficked is 7-12 years old)

Posted by kluciole at 11/4/2009 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Cpl Casey Liffrig leaps for cover as Taliban fighters ambush U.S. soldiers during a patrol in the Pech Valley in Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 11/3/2009 5:38 PM | Add Comment

Battle over face veil brewing in Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:21 AM | Add Comment

"Which hand do you want to lose first?" The inspiring story of Mariatu Kamara, who survived Sierra Leone's war

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 8:50 PM | Add Comment

Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall -- how Germany has healed the scars

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 10:44 AM | Add Comment

Ending the silence on 'honour killing' -- those who have escaped violence are speaking out to break the code of silence

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2009 8:39 AM | Add Comment

Women Marines want a chance outside the Afghan wire

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2009 12:02 AM | Add Comment

"Miracle" baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body "verses from the Koran appear and fade every few days," gives hope in Russian Muslim south

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 7:26 AM | Add Comment

100,000 women sign petition saying they're offended by Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's sexist behavior

Posted by kluciole at 10/22/2009 1:14 PM | Add Comment

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea from Uighur inmates in Guantanamo Bay prison to be freed in the United States

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2009 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Churches denounce African children as "witches" -- one child pleads, "Please stop the pastors who hurt us... I believe in God and God knows I am not a witch"

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2009 1:54 AM | Add Comment

Movie: Natasha Arthy's film "Fighter" (2007, Denmark). I really liked this film! I think the descriptions do not reveal the depth of the rich character/culture relations in this movie. Great action as well.

Posted by kluciole at 10/17/2009 5:12 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

U.N. rights body considers condemning Israel on Gaza

Posted by kluciole at 10/15/2009 9:09 AM | Add Comment

Diné (Navajo) Nation mourns passing of Code Talker Willard Varnell Oliver

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2009 10:24 PM | Add Comment

Experts warn glaciers in Indian Kashmir are melting

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 10:21 PM | Add Comment

Court rules against Stalin's grandson in libel suit

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 10:17 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 11:18 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Big Bang scientist working at the Large Hadron Collider "admits plotting Al Qaeda atrocity"

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 11:13 PM | Add Comment

Stalin's grandson sues newspaper for libel; claims the Novaya Gazeta "falsely claimed he was a mass murderer"

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 12:04 AM | Add Comment

Nobel Peace Prize may return to activist roots. UPDATE: In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 11:55 PM | Add Comment

Israeli foreign minister: "No chance for peace deal anytime soon"

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 3:34 AM | Add Comment

Iran closes three newspapers

Posted by kluciole at 10/6/2009 1:41 AM | Add Comment

"Olympian dreams and favela realities collide in Rio de Janeiro -- the documentary Dancing With the Devil depicts what's at stake if the city fails to get its act together"

Posted by kluciole at 10/5/2009 2:52 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment
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