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December 2005:
Bolivia's new president visits Cuba in its first trip abroad
(BBC News)
The Spanish government expels Equatorial Guinea freedom fighter
(BBC News)
Russia quadruples the price of gas for Ukraine
(BBC News)
Another scandal for Berlusconi
(New York Times)
Muslim intolerance in Denmark
(BBC News)
The Jack Abramoff scandal
(Wikipedia)
The Jack Abramoff scandal
(Washington Post)
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Zapatero's Spain
(Harvard Univ)
Honor killings in Pakistan
(Yahoo News)
Biggest emitters of carbon dioxide
(BBC News)
French anti-Americanism
(Economist)
Palestinian militants step up rocket attacks after Israel withdraws from Gaza
(BBC News)
War between Chad and Sudan
(BBC News)
The USA asks for Egypt to release political dissident Ayman Nour
(BBC News)
Oil for food scandal
(Washington Times)
A Dutch businessman convicted for selling chemicals to Saddam
(BBC News)
Japan calls China a military threat
(New York Times)
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2005 elections around the world
(Election Guide)
Saddam's scientists set free
(BBC News)
Literacy falls in the USA
(New York Times)
Chad accuses Sudan of a rebel raid that killed more than 100 people
(BBC News)
Change in USA policy towards Iraqi insurgents
(Asia Times)
Iraqi elections
(BBC News)
Hamas wins municipal elections in Palestine
(BBC News)
Iraqi elections
(BBC News)
Iraqi civilians who died in the civil war
(BBC News)
Islamic Nigerians forbid women to use taxis
(BBC News)
Iraqi elections
(BBC News)
Syria kills in Lebanon
(Washington Post)
Electoral campaign in Iraq
(New York Times)
Electoral campaign in Iraq
(BBC News)
Muslims riot in Australia
(New York Times)
Opinion poll in Iraq
(Time Magazine)
Opinion poll in Iraq
(Monsters and Critics)
Lebanese anti-Syrian politician Gibran Tueni killed by a car bomb
(BBC News)
Former chancellor Schroeder is hired by a Russian company that he helped sell a pipeline to Germany
(BBC News)
European Union likely to miss the Kyoto target
(BBC News)
Energy consumption and carbon-dioxide emissions in the G7
(EIA)
Poland Was Main CIA Detention Base in Europe
(New York Times)
Little progress in Afghanistan
(Washington Post)
The Montreal conference on global warming
(Times)
The Montreal conference on global warming
(Mail and Guardian)
Prodromes of a new ice age?
(21st Century Science)
The source of the fake Al Qaeda-Iraq link
(New York Times)
Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter's anti-American rant
(Spiegel)
Islamic success in Egypt's first multi-party elections
(BBC News)
Russia accuses international charities of spying
(BBC News)
Russia sells "defense" missiles to Iran
(BBC News)
USA Congress approves further tax cuts, thus increasing the national deficit
(Washington Post)
Syria kills Islamic terrorists
(BBC News)
USA criticizes rigged elections in Egypt
(BBC News)
Hong Kong protests for democracy
(ABC News)
Hong Kong protests for democracy
(Christian Science Monitor)
Hong Kong protests for democracy
(BBC News)
Iraq coalition casualties
(Icasualties)
Romania accepts USA military base
(CNN)
Proliferation of insurgent groups in the Sunni triangle
(New York Times)
First elections in Dubai
(BBC News)
Torture still widespread in China
(BBC News)
Torture still widespread in China
(New York Times)
Torture still widespread in China
(Guardian)
Torture still widespread in China
(International Herald Tribune)
Torture still widespread in China
(Reuters)
November 2005:
Islamic terrorism in Bangladesh
(BBC News)
100 tonnes of toxic material accidentally contaminate rivers in China and Russia
(Asia News)
Spain's Zapatero arms Venezuela's Chavez
(BBC News)
War crimesin Iraq
(Guardian)
Six million children die of hunger every year
(FAO)
Most democratic countries in the Middle East
A Chinese dam in Brazil
The APEC meeting
Super-solar plants in California
Murtha demands USA withdrawal from Iraq
China restoring the memory of Hu Yaobang
Russia mediates between Iran and the USA
Inqtel, the CIA's financial arm
Coalition casualties in Iraq
Dick Cheney and the oil lobby
Bill Clinton calls the invasion of Iraq "a big mistake"
Muslims attack Catholics in Pakistan
Failure at the meeting of Muslim nations
Debunking a story of USA atrocities in Iraq
Record profits by oil companies
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Report by the House of Lords on global warming
Report by the House of Lords on global warming
The Kyoto protocol will hurt European economies
(BBC)
Iraq's president Jalal Talabani implores Italy to keep its troops
(CNN)
Carter on Bush
(CNN)
Italians older, poorer and unhappier
(Corriere della Sera)
Chinese billionaires
(BBC News)
Riots in France
(New York Times)
October 2005:
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Worldwide press freedom index
(Reporters without Borders)
Wars' Death Rate
(Human Security Report)
Doing Business in 2005
(World Bank)
September 2005:
Hamas caused the massacre of Palestinians in Jabaliya
(Ramattan)
China's deserts are expanding
(Earth Policy)
Hamas' big blunder
(Jewish Week)
Iran's foreign policy
(Christian Science Monitor)
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Global Competitiveness Report 2005-2006
(World Economic Forum)
Tom DeLay charged with conspiracy
(New York Times)
India votes to refer Iran to the UN security council over its nuclear program
(BBC News)
Saudi women are happy of their condition
(New York Times)
Legal and illegal immigration to the USA
(New York Times)
Venezuelan satellite tv Telesur
(BBC News)
Violent crime declines in the USA
(CNN)
The new Beijing regime increases repression
(New York Times)
Iran has the largest percentage of opium addicts
(Washington Post)
Syria tries to escape punishment for murder in Lebanon
(Washington Post)
The difference between Afghanistan and Iraq
(International Herald Tribune)
NASA to return to the Moon
(New York Times)
Tyco executives sentences to prison
(New York Times)
North Korea surrenders nuclear weapons
(BBC)
North Korea surrenders nuclear weapons
(BBC)
German elections
(BBC)
German elections
(BBC)
Chavez at the United Nations
(Arab News)
Chavez on USA television
(CNN)
Reforms at the United Nations
(Deutsche Welle)
NATO to increase troops in Afghanistan
(Deutsche Welle)
The Taliban kill people who register to vote
(CNN)
The USA is losing its advantage in higher education
(CNN)
Trends in education around the developed world
(OECD)
Economic outlook for Britain, Germany and France
(Telegraph)
Iraqi president estimates two years of stay for USA troops
(USA Today)
Mubarak declared winner of the Egyptian elections
(BBC News)
Hayes on the Saddam Hussein-Osama connection
(Frontpage)
No cause of death for Arafat
(BBC News)
Arafat's cousin killed by Palestinians
(BBC News)
Yahoo helps the Beijing government arrest dissidents
(BBC News)
The Oil for food scandal
(BBC News)
Egyptian elections
(BBC News)
August 2005:
Al Qaeda claims responsibility for the London bombings
(CNN)
Poverty increases in the USA
(Washington Post)
Sunni Arab Iraqis on the constitution
(Seattle Times)
Sunni Arab Iraqis on elections
(Khaleej Times)
Gasoline prices around the world
(CNN)
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World Population Prospects
(United Nations)
Iran's bomb-grade uranium was not made in Iran
(Washington Post)
Syria's version of the facts
(Bahrein Tribune)
Clinton warned about Osama in 1996
(New York Times)
Sadr City a success for coalition troops
(Post Gazette)
Mayors of USA cities endorse the Kyoto protocol
(U.S. Mayors)
Paul Sperry's "Infiltration", or how moderate Muslims support Islamic terrorists
(Blogcritics)
Paul Sperry's "Infiltration", or how moderate Muslims support Islamic terrorists
(Book Service)
(WND)
An interview with Paul Sperry
(Front Page Magazine)
A documentary on North Korea
(New York Times)
The saga of the Russian submarine saved by the British
(Mosnews)
USA trade deficit posts another record
(Washington Post)
Hizb Ut-Tahrir: the real face of Islam
(Hizb Ut-Tahriri)
Pakistan launches its first cruise missile
(BBC News)
Bush signs a pork-barrel transportation bill
(Washington Post)
Able Danger
(New York Times)
Boom of immigration into the USA
(Scientific American)
50 soldiers killed in Nepal
(BBC News)
A 2000 USA report already lists the 2001 terrorists as terrorists
(New York Times)
General Motors leads in China's car market
(New York Times)
Benon Sevan accused of taking bribes on the oil-for-food program
(BBC News)
Protestant churches in the USA preparing to boycott Israel
(New York Times)
Aaron Glantz's articles from Iraq
(Aaron Glantz)
Congress approves 300 billion dollars of additional national debt
(Washington Post)
new York Times reporter Judith Miller in jail
(Washington Post)
Conservative Iranian judge shot dead
(BBC News)
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A guide to Islamic schools
(Muhajabah)
Iran far from making a nuclear bomb
(Washington Post)
The terrorist attacks in Egypt
(Egypt Elections)
July 2005:
A USA tv station interviews the most wanted terrorist in Russia
(BBC News)
Pakistan expels foreign Islamic students
(BBC News)
China supports Zimbabwe's dictator
(BBC News)
Talks resume between North Korea and the USA
(BBC News)
Condy Rice in Lebanon
(BBC News)
Musharraf's speech to the nation
(BBC News)
Outlawing indirect incitement
(Register)
China floats its currency
(BBC News)
China's missile build-up
(BBC News)
France reintroduces border controls
(BBC News)
Father of terrorist praises terrorist attacks
(CNN)
25,000 civilians killed in Iraq in two years
(BBC News)
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Survey of Muslim opinions
(Pew Center)
June 2005:
US Senate approves CAFTA
(Financial Times)
Campaign to brainwash the French public on the European Union
(BBC News)
Iter
(New York Times)
Iter
(BBC News)
Iraq has the highest growth rate in the world
(Exxun)
Indians are the most avid readers in the world
(BBC News)
USA stops Israeli arms sale to China
(Washington Post)
Americans favor staying in Iraq
(Washington Post)
China's quest for energy sources
(New York Times)
Opinion of the USA slightly improved in the world but still mostly negative
(Pew Center)
China more popular than the USA in Europe
(BBC News)
French prisons
(Le Monde Diplomatique)
French prisons
(Student BMJ)
Europe increases carbon dioxide emissions
(BBC News)
Corruption scandal in Brazil
(BBC News)
Opposition wins elections in Lebanon
(BBC News)
Record negative approval ratings for Bush
(New York Times)
North Korea accepts to resume talks
(New York Times)
Annan implicated in scandal
(New York Times)
Palestinians reinstate death penalty
(BBC News)
G8 countries to alleviate world poverty
(BBC News)
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The number of millionaires in the United States grew nearly 10 percent in 2004
(CNN)
Afghanistan's first woman governor
(BBC News)
Academies of Science urge action on climate change
(MSNBC)
The USA accuses Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar of engaging in slavery
(BBC News)
European members that hold referendums to approve the EU constitution
(BBC News)
Rumsfeld rebukes China on its rearmament program
(New York Times)
Opposition wins elections in Lebanon's first free elections
(BBC News)
May 2005:
Iraq asks multinational force to stay
(Washington Post)
Villepin appointed prime minister in France
(BBC News)
France votes no to the European Constitution
(BBC News)
Germany approves European Constitution without a referendum
(BBC News)
China supports Uzbekistan's crackdown on protesters
(BBC News)
Amnesty International accuses USA of excusing torture
(BBC News)
Italy slides into recession
(BBC News)
Torture of prisoners by the USA in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
Life conditions in Iraq plummeted
(BBC News)
European politicians expelled from Cuba
(BBC News)
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Desire for Democracy in Muslim World
(Pew Center)
The future of nuclear power
(MIT)
Galloway, Pasqua and Zhirinovsky accused of the oil-for-food scandal
(CNN)
Africa posts biggest economic growth in years
(BBC News)
Space weapons for the USA
(New York Times)
The USA arrests an anti-Castro terrorist who used to work for the CIA
(New York Times)
Kuwait grants women the right to vote and run in elections
(BBC News)
Russian politicians and businessmen profited from the oil-for-food program
(Washington Post)
Gender gap in the world
(World Economic Forum)
Israel stops Jewish terrorists
(BBC News)
Nobel Prizes in Physics
(Stanford)
Palestinian president to visit Washington
(New York Times)
Environmentalists support nuclear power
(New York Times)
Some Sunnis ready to abandon insurgency
(New York Times)
Afghanistan president Karzai on the anti-American riots
(BBC News)
Afghanistan president Karzai on the anti-American riots
(New York Times)
Uprising in Uzbekistan
(BBC News)
Uprising in Uzbekistan
(BBC News)
Henri de Grossouvre on the alliance between France, Germany and Russia
(His own book)
Europe threatens sanctions against Iran
(BBC News)
The USA sends terror suspects to Egypt for interrogation
(New York Times)
Gulf states discussing unified currency and free trade with USA
(CNN)
Bush denounces Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe
(BBC News)
First USA rock concert in Cuba
(BBC News)
Bombs in Burma
(BBC News)
USA protests the jailing of dissidents in Tunisia
(BBC News)
Russia tries to stop Bush from visiting the countries once invaded by the Soviet Union
(New York Times)
Fatah wins elections in Palestine defeating Hamas
(New York Times)
Russia denies occupying the Baltic states
(BBC News)
French unemployment hits five-year high
(BBC News)
Colombia arrests USA soldiers
(BBC News)
Abu Faraj al-Libbi is arrested in Pakistan
(BBC News)
Blair still trusted by the British public
(BBC News)
Journalists killed in Colombia
(BBC News)
The truth about Guantanamo
(Washington Post)
Japan opposes European sale of high-tech weapons to Beijing
(BBC News)
The legacy of American chemical weapons in Vietnam
(BBC News)
The UN nuclear conference
(BBC News)
Warren Buffett on the American economy
(CNN)
Turkey approves USA use of military base for Iraqi operations
(Dawn)
Syria to restore relations with Iraq
(Dawn)
April 2005:
Another mass grave found in Iraq
(Arab News)
German unemployment reaches the level of 1933
(BBC News)
Zarqawi aide calls for attacks on Vatican, White House
(Times of Oman)
Usa sells Israel bombs that could hit Iran
(BBC News)
Putin makes first visit of a Russian leader to Israel
(Voice of America)
Syrian troops leave Lebanon
(BBC News)
Ayman Nour branded "cowardly Egyptian agent of America"
(New York Times)
Putin's speech
(New York Times)
Israelis poisoned Palestian farmland
(BBC News)
Afghan warlord arrested
(BBC News)
Wealth in the EU and the USA
(Timbro, Sweden)
Putin praises the USA on Iraq
(Interfax)
Putin to visit Israel
(Reuters)
Putin misses the SOviet Union
(CBC)
Putin misses the SOviet Union
(BBC News)
The Asia-Africa summit
(BBC News)
Antactic Ice melting around the world
(BBC News)
Condy Rice in Eastern Europe
(New York Times)
Condy Rice calls for regime change in Belarus
(Christian Science Monitor)
Condy Rice calls for regime change in Belarus
(Interfax)
Venezuela arrests Colombian soldiers
(BBC News)
The decline of the Catholic Church in Europe
(New York Times)
Israel unilaterally deciding its own borders
(New York Times)
Italy returns obelisk that Mussolini stole from Ethiopia
(BBC News)
Argentine officer convicted in Spain for crimes committed in Argentina
(BBC News)
History has begun to speak in favor of the Bush doctrine
(Time Magazine)
Oil boom masks the economic weakness of the Middle East
(Gulf Daily)
Iraqi militias could defeat insurgents according to president Talabani
(BBC News)
Beijing restrains anti-Japanese demonstrations
(BBC News)
Kofi Annan accuses the USA and Britain of the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal
(BBC News)
Thousands of Egyptian students demonstrate across Egypt
(Al Jazeera)
Beijing provoking Japan on oil drilling
(BBC News)
Afghanistan asks the USA for long-term military protection
(BBC News)
Beijing threatens Japan
(BBC News)
Corruption in Canada's Liberal Party
(CNN)
Iraqi president backs USA liberation troops
(Japn)
Tom DeLay threatens judges
(Houston Chronicle)
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Israeli businessman Asher Karni sold nuclear technology to Pakistan and India in 2002
(New York Times)
Deadly Angola virus
(New York Times)
Shia leader Ibrahim Jaafari named prime minister of Iraq
(New York Times)
The Pope
(SMH)
Jordan's King Abdullah appoints academic Adnan Badran to form a government to push forward a reform agenda
(News Intl)
Iraq names a Kurd for president, Jalal Talabani
(BBC News)
Islamic militants attack the passengers of the Kashmiri bus
(BBC News)
More scandals for Tom DeLay
(New York Times)
Iraq's parliament reaches an agreement
(New York Times)
Dignitaries to attend the funeral of John Paul II
(CBS News)
Record year for death penalty
(Amnesty International)
March 2005:
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Berlin historian Rainer Karlsch claims that the Nazis conducted three nuclear weapons tests in 1944 and 1945
(Spiegel)
Mugabe wins rigged elections in Zimbabwe
(BBC News)
Children are starving in Iraq
(BBC News)
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
(Millennium Assessment)
Europe accepts Wolfowitz at the World Bank
(BBC News)
Syria vows to pull out of Lebanon before elections
(BBC News)
A deadly ebola-like virus kills dozens of people in Angola
(BBC News)
Japanese anger at French decision to arm Beijing
(BBC News)
USA sells fighter planes to Pakistan
(BBC News)
Bush's approval rating collapses because of a medical case
(Voice of America)
Ordinary Iraqis fight insurgents in Baghdad
(WN)
Annan's son was bribed by a Swiss company
(Al Jazeera)
Al Jazeera accuses USA of using the war on terrorism to control the world's oil reserves
(Al Jazeera)
The Arab League offers peace with Israel and anti-terrorismo
(BBC News)
French trial against Chirac associates
(BBC News)
The USA federal government interferes in state decisions
(BBC News)
Sharon violates terms of peace roadmap
(BBC News)
Bomb in Qatar
(BBC News)
Bomb in Pakistan
(BBC News)
Forbes estimates Fidel Castro is one of the richest men in the world
(Caribbean Net News)
Summit between Russia, France, Germany, Spain
(BBC News)
Ukrainian arms dealers sold cruise missiles to Iran and Beijing
(BBC News)
USA sells a nuclear plant to India
(New York Times)
Dutchman sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein
(BBC News)
Nepal on the edge
(BBC News)
Corruption rampant in Iraq
(BBC News)
Bush appoints Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank
(BBC News)
Bush appoints John Bolton to the United Nations
(Taipei Times)
Niall Ferguson's "Colossus"
(USA Today)
The USA importing pollution from abroad
(USA Today)
Egypt frees top dissident Ayman Nour, leader of the Party of Tomorrow
(BBC News)
USA opens up to Iran
(BBC News)
Pakistan confesses it sold nuclear technology to Iran
(BBC News)
Human development from 1820 to 1998
(ECO)
The Bush doctrine is creating democracy in the Middle East
(Time Magazine)
140 Syrian intellectuals call upon the Syrian government to end the occupation of Lebanon
(Times Online)
140 Syrian intellectuals call upon the Syrian government to end the occupation of Lebanon
(Brookes News)
The first opposition paper in Egypt
(BBC News)
Beijing threatens to invade Taiwan
(CNN)
Venezuela and Iran to sign friendship treaty
(CNN)
Iraqi civilians are frequently killed at USA checkpoints
(New York Times)
Anti-Muslim bias grows in Europe
(BBC News)
Beijing wants the USA to negotiate unilaterally with North Korea
(New York Times)
Protest for women's rights
(BBC News)
Italian hostage shot by USA troops
(CNN)
Italian hostage shot by USA troops
(New York Times)
Totalitarian China/Beijing determined to invade democratic China/Taipei
(CNN)
European research lacking competitive edge
(Nature)
Popular will against Bush
(New York Times)
Indonesia's fundamentalist cleric Abu Bakar Baasyir convicted for the 2002 Bali bombings
(BBC News)
Palestinians execute Palestinians
(Israel National News)
Lebanese opposition demands Syria's withdrawal
(BBC News)
Germany's unemployment reaches record
(BBC News)
Hong Kong's chief executive Tung Chee-hwa resigns
(BBC News)
February 2005:
Iran admits trying to acquire nuclear weapons from Pakistan
(New York Times)
Lebanese government resigns amid massive street demonstrations
(New York Times)
Lebanese government resigns amid massive street demonstrations
(BBC News)
Continuing demonstrations against Syria in Lebanon
(BBC News)
Syria on the verge of collapse
(Australian)
Blair planned the Iraqi war one year before it started
(Al Jazeera)
Syria hands over one of Iraq's most wanted terrorists
(BBC News)
Syria under pressure in Lebanon
(BBC News)
Israel blames Syria for bombing
(BBC News)
Democratic reform in Egypt
(New York Times)
Democratic reform in Egypt
(BBC News)
brahim al-Jaafari
(Guardian)
Lebanon government to resign
(BBC News)
Global chilling
(BBC News)
Lebanese protest against Syria
(UNECE)
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Eastern Europe grows three times faster than Western Europe
(BBC News)
Europe promises to help the USA on Iraq
(BBC News)
Australia increases troops in Iraq
(BBC News)
George W Bush, drug addict and alcoholic
(CNN)
Bush's warning to Russia
(New York Times)
Former president Lozana of Bolivia charged with genocide because protesters were shot by the police
(BBC News)
Beijing has become the world's biggest consumer
(BBC News)
Earliest Homo Sapiens from 200,000 years ago
(New York Times)
The Kyoto Protocol is adopted by 141 countries
(BBC News)
Judith Miller's blunders on Iraq
(New York Metro)
Judith Miller's blunders on Iraq
(Counterpunch Monitor)
Anti-Americanism in Turkey
(Christian Science Monitor)
Success of Iraqi elections
(Times)
Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, winner of the Iraqi elections
(Boston Herald)
Brazil and Venezuela sign trade deals
(BBC News)
Abbas declares war against Israel over
(New York Times)
A former Lebanese prime minister opposed to Syrian occupation is killed by a car bomb
(New York Times)
A former Lebanese prime minister opposed to Syrian occupation is killed by a car bomb
(Al Jazeera)
Results of Iraqi elections
(New York Times)
Results of Iraqi elections
(BBC News)
Maoist civil war in Nepal
(BBC News)
Chinese and Russian reactions to North Korea's nuclear stance
(BBC News)
Protests against Putin's welfare reforms in Russia
(BBC News)
Islamic fundamentalists threaten African peacekeeping troops in Somalia
(BBC News)
Free municipal elections in Saudi Arabia
(BBC News)
France and Ivory Coast
(French Watch)
Rafsanjani's interview on USA-Iran relationships
(USA Today)
Condy Rice tells Israel to sign peace with Palestine
(BBC News)
Energy production, trade and consumption
(USA Census)
World energy consumption and carbon dioxide production
(MIT)
Energy consumption in the USA
(USA Congress)
January 2005:
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Anglosaxon economies growing faster than Eurozone and Japanese economies
(Financial Times)
Liberte, egalite, absurdite
(New York Times)
Palestinian demography
(Israeli Insider)
Michael Moore wins public-opinion prize
(BBC News)
Lukashenko, Europe's last dictator
(BBC News)
Jordan boosting support for Iraqi elections
(BBC News)
Israel keeps killing Palestinians
(BBC News)
Sex work in Asia
(World Health Organization)
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