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... said that Serbia had made some progress by adopting a declaration that condemns the crimes committed in Srebrenica. "Recognition of a crime is difficult matter and can take decades," Trifunovic said. "We ...
... decades. These public entities look, by contrast, completely unable to respond to the challenges caused by the complex political, social and cultural changes brought about by the third millennium. The ...
... different from two decades ago. Professor Jonathan Jansen, the first black rector of the historically white Free State university, said: "It's going to take a Mandela II if we're going to claw our way ...
... square. The June 12 presidential election, which secured President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, sparked Iran's worst unrest since the Islamic revolution three decades ago and exposed deep divisions ...
... scathing about the international community's policies towards Cuba. The decades-old US economic embargo gave Havana a pretext to crack down on dissenters as US-backed saboteurs, it said, and should be ...
TEHRAN -- Five months after a disputed presidential election spawned the largest anti-government demonstrations here in three decades, Iran's opposition movement appears rudderless and divided, with protesters ...
... that we have reached our limit of tolerance, a limit to the abuse that we have been subjected to for decades.  We say enough is enough."   As the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, ...
... than a decade. In 1984, after all pretenses at a civilian presidency had fallen by the wayside and a military general had been appointed president, massive protests and a general strike finally helped ...
... prohibiting consecutive terms were part of 1995 constitutional reforms aimed at balancing power between government branches. After 43 years under the rule of the Somoza family dynasty and another decade ...
... of a decade or more of grass roots democratic organization in Poland (Solidarity), Czechoslovakia (Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution) and, of particular consequence for Berlin, by Neues Forum, that ...
... Merkel said. "Freedom must be fought for. Freedom must be defended time and again." Uwe Kross, a 65-year-old retiree, fought back tears as he recalled watching the drama unfold two decades ago, hours after ...
... by the driver, who was able to recall the exact dates of the 1977 demonstrations, Al Khamissi wondered what “the end” actually was. Perhaps the end was the decades-long interregnum in street protests ...
... After two uprisings in two decades, they seem largely indifferent to his quixotic call for a third. His message is a hard sell: Khatib, 35, is a modern-day Gandhi in a culture that enshrines the language ...
... vote, after two decades in power. One wonders whether we should congratulate the president on his massive victory, or offer him expressions of sympathy because his share of the votes slipped below 90 percent ...
15. Burma: Suu Kyi 'can play a role'
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... the community should also include the United States. The junta has kept Ms Suu Kyi under house arrest for most of the past two decades after her National League for Democracy swept elections in 1990 but ...
16. Egypt's Brotherhood is knocking
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... organization with terrorist ties determined to impose strict Islamic law across Egypt. The group says it renounced violence decades ago, and its real threat to the ruling party is its appeal to the educated ...
... ZANU-PF is encouraging people to re-examine the political prospects. After 29 years of effective single-party rule and a decade of calamitous economic decline, the slow collapse of ZANU-PF shows Zimbabweans ...
... Alvarez, was sentenced to 25 years in jail for his role in the military regime's assaults on political opponents. Cycles of history, however, are never as nice and round as they initially look. Two decades ...
... room or in shacks. Algiers has a heavy security presence due to ongoing skirmishes between armed groups and government forces. 'Alarm bell' After more than a decade of conflict between security forces ...
... more than a decade - ousted Zelaya as he pushed forward plans to hold a public-consultation on whether to change the constitution. The military expelled him from power by force and he spent almost three ...
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Iranian women lead the protests » Ordinary women in long black chadors and head scarves - both young and old - are performing extraordinary acts of bravery in Iran today. Women are at the forefront of these nonviolent demonstrations violently suppressed by the government-backed militias (known as Basij). It took the brutal death of Neda Agha Soltan in Tehran on June 20 during a street protest to bring the role of women in this post-election crisis to light. Today, 62 percent of all Iranian university students are women, rates...
Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon » Every Friday, Mohammed Khatib's forces assemble for battle with the Israeli army and gather their weapons: a bullhorn, banners - and a fierce belief that peaceful protest can bring about a Palestinian state.A few hundred strong, they march to the Israeli barrier that separates the tiny farming community of Bilin from much of its land. They chant and shout. A few teenagers throw stones. Khatib helped launch the weekly ritual five years ago in an attempt to "re-brand" a Palestinian struggle often ...
Fishermen protest Fuel Prices » Riot police armed with shields and batons charged hundreds of protesting fishermen outside European Union headquarters Wednesday after a demonstration over high fuel prices turned violent.Protesters hurled flares, firecrackers and rocks at police beyond razor-wire barricades. They also fired flare guns at the EU headquarters building. As they retreated down the main boulevard through Brussels' European Union district, protesters broke into EU buildings, smashing windows and dragging out flags ...
Salvadorian groups march to support Zelaya » SAN SALVADOR, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Several Salvadorian organizations and some Hondurans on Wednesday marched in San Salvador , capital of El Salvador, demanding the reinstatement of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. The demonstrators, organized by The Solidarity Network for the Human Rights' Sovereignty and Return of Democracy in Honduras, marched along the main streets of San Salvador, calling for the return of democracy in Honduras.
Koreans Rally Against U.S. Beef Imports » Thousands of South Korean cattle farmers held a rally against the import of U.S. beef yesterday. Their agriculture ministry announced that it would relax import regulations. STORY:South Korea's beef industry has denounced the import of U.S. beef. Thousands of stock raisers rally in front of the agricultural ministry in Gwacheon, Seoul. They are afraid for their industry since Washington agreed to improve its safety standards by toughening animal feed regulations. That op...
Iranian students protest student detention »   In a major demonstration in Tehran on Tuesday, more than 1,000 students chanted, "Death to dictator," "Ahmadinejad is like [Augusto] Pinochet, but Iran would never be another Chile" and "Free the jailed students," on the Polytechnic (Ami Kabir) University. Their protest came after the mullahs' judiciary announced last week that the three detained students from the school have each been sentenced to around two years in jail on charges of insulting the authorities. Th...
Electoral Fraud Proved in Honduras » While most international news organizations took obedient dictation of the Honduras coup regime's claims of more than 62 percent voter participation in the November 29 "elections," authentic journalist Jesse Freeston did what real reporters are supposed to do: He went directly to the source, asked questions, took notes, and videotaped the evidence.Freeston today publishes this bombshell report, above, on The Real News that documents definitively that Honduras electoral officials knowingly lied a...
Russia still a threat, says Czech revolutionary » THE dissident playwright who led Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution has used its 20-year anniversary to warn his country that Russia is still a threat despite the demise of the Soviet Union.Vaclav Havel, 73, who played a pivotal role in overcoming communist rule in 1989, said the Russian Government had mastered the art of manipulating its population while maintaining a facade of democracy.''The era of dictatorships and totalitarian systems has not ended at all,'' he said. ''It requires [from us]...
Second Vermont Republic movement holds mock funeral » If any New Yorker were to become the theoretician for a new secessionist movement, it figured to be Kirkpatrick Sale.Mr. Sale, 70, was a campus rabble-rouser at Cornell in the 1950s long before Berkeley made being one fashionable, a model for a character in Richard Fariña’s classic ’60s novel, “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me,” a writer who worked briefly with his college pal Thomas Pynchon on a musical called “Minstral Island.” For half a century, he’s written mor...
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.