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The Right to Housing for Internally Displaced Haitians
While the eyes of the world are on Haiti’s illegitimate elections and the return of the deposed dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, about 1.5 million displaced earthquake survivors continue to live …
Human Rights Watch Report: Is Diplomacy a Fig Leaf for Inaction?
During his presidential campaign, then-senator Barack Obama emphasized negotiations rather than military action. The Republicans ridiculed his focus on diplomacy as naive. "Strong countries and strong presidents meet and …
Arizona Sues Feds for Not Being Tough Enough on Immigration
Arizona is sick of being a defendant in lawsuit after lawsuit challenging the state’s harsh anti-immigration policies. On Thursday Gov.
Bomb and Rocket Attack on Police Headquarters in South Afghanistan Stirs Panic
Kabul, Afghanistan — Four would-be suicide bombers attacked police headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing at least 19 people, most of them police officers, in …
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Unrest in Algeria Put Down by Police
Algiers — Algerian demonstrators, inspired by popular protests in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East, protested in the capital, Algiers, on Saturday before security forces moved in to …
Obama Assertion: FBI Can Get Phone Records Without Oversight
Washington — The Obama administration's Justice Department has asserted that the FBI can obtain telephone records of international calls made from the U.S. without any formal legal process or …
Joy Erupts, Now for Change
Cairo - The reaction across Egypt was explosive. The anger that had been simmering for decades and boiled over during 18 consecutive days of protests, was transformed by a …
Vision: Across the Country, People Are Rising Up to Fight for Change
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.” -The late people’s historian Howard …
President Obama’s Remarks on the Egyptian Revolution (Video)
TRANSCRIPT: THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those …