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Ahmadinejad gets cabinet boost » Iranian legislators have approved most of the cabinet nominees proposed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, including Iran's first female minister and a man linked to the bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina.Parliament on Thursday rejected only three of Ahmadinejad's proposed new 21-member cabinet, signalling only a limited setback for the president as he enters his second term.Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's new defence minister, received overwhelming backing from the parliament, garnering 227 out...
Protest against Israeli-built wall » Hundreds of people marched against the wall in northern Tulkarem last this week, including the Governor and members of the World Council of Churches.The nonviolent message was strong at the demonstration began at the Municipality Building with the General Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees for Social Action and to the Resist the Wall in the forefront.Several foreign supporters were also accompanying the action that includes a month-long sit-in to the west of the town along the Wall.This was...
Honduras Bars Diplomats as Political Crisis Grows » In a sign of rising tension, the government issued a decree Sunday that banned unauthorized gatherings and allowed the authorities to shut down broadcasters and arrest anyone deemed to pose a threat to their lives and that of others.The diplomats were members of an advance team planning a visit of foreign ministers from member countries to try to negotiate an end to the political crisis here. The organization had been invited by the de facto government to hold talks here, then disinvited, and in...
Free Palestine: born here, DAM (palestinian hip hop) » Palestinian rap group DAM, Da Arab MC's created this music video about the life of Palestinians in Israel. They're from Lod, a town between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, so they're Palestinians with Israeli citizenship (often called "Israeli Arabs"). They usually rap in Arabic, but they made a Hebrew version of this song with a music video to get their message out to the majority of Israelis who don't speak Arabic.
Gambia: Jammeh Threatens to Kill Human Rights Defenders » Activists have launched a campaign to have the headquarters of a top African human rights body moved from the Gambia after the country's president reportedly threatened to kill human rights defenders.The online Gambian news service, Freedom Newspaper, reported this week that President Yahya Jammeh had said in a television broadcast that he would kill "anyone who wants to destablise this country."The newspaper said Jammeh's "exact words" in a television broadcast had been: "If you think that you ...
Moldova unrest: protests sweep Chisinau » Most of the protesters on the streets of Chisinau were students who say they see no future if Communists keep their hold on the ex-Soviet state of four million people.
Dissidents' wives protest outside Cuban prison » Female relatives of jailed political dissidents held an unprecedented protest outside Cuban prisons, angry that the island's communist government has not met its pledge to release 11 political prisoners.Meanwhile, some 50 political dissidents were briefly arrested late Thursday and early Friday in different parts of the country to prevent protests on International Human Rights Day, said rights leader Elizardo Sanchez. "These are preventive detentions, lasting just a few hours, but stillunaccepta...
Greek workers strike as government tightens belt » Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greek workers were holding a one-day strike Wednesday to protest government efforts to stave off a financial crisis.Thousands of public-sector workers and their supporters began the 24-hour walkout at 9 a.m. (2 a.m. ET), though local media said workers at Athens' main international airport began their strike at midnight.Government offices, courts and schools were closed, though public transportation largely continued to operate.The umbrella civil servants trade union ADED...
Uganda: Opposition Considering Peaceful Political Action » The political temperature is clearly rising in Kampala. At the core of the matter is the opposition reform proposals that have largely been ignored and passed over by an NRM-dominated Parliament. A constitutional amendment to reinstate term limits has been blocked from being tabled. The much-awaited debate on the Public Accounts Committee report on the Chogm funds scandal has also been blocked, much to the chagrin of the PAC members themselves, but perhaps more of the MPs that see their cherishe...
Want Health Care? Go Door to Door or You Won't Get It » On May 26 I wrote The Summer of Shove Begins, at a time when pundits and bloggers alike were gnashing teeth over whether US President Barack Obama was overreaching in his now successful agenda to have Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor confirmed by early August and to have a health care bill ready in September.I suggested, as I pretty much always do, that readers ignore the chattering up above and watch the ground game down below and that will decide how the story goes: “the real history will...