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99 Afghan Taliban Give up Fighting, Blast Rocks Kabul

A total of 80 armed militants give up fighting and handed over their weapons to government in the northern Baghlan Province on Sunday, provincial governor Sultan Mohammad Abadi said.

(KABUL Xinhua) - A total of 99 Taliban militants gave up fighting in the northern and western parts of Afghanistan over the weekend, while the militants organized a suicide attack in the capital city Kabul, injuring at least six police personnel.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in Afghan capital Kabul, killing himself and injuring six others on Sunday, police said.

Stolen Innocence

Child trafficking is happening here.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Right now, more than 5 million children around the world are trapped in misery by traffickers – forced to work without pay in factories or on farms, in prostitution or pornography, or as beggars on the streets.

Even right here in the United States. In all 50 states. Childhood innocence is being stolen on our watch.

Conscientious Objector Omar Saad Sentenced to Prison for the Third Time for His Refusal to Join the Israeli Army

Omar is a young guy belonging to the Palestinian Arab Druze community.

(TEL AVIV New Profile) - Omar Saad, 18 years old from Mghar, a village in the Galil, arrived, Monday 13.1.2014, to the Induction Base in Tal Hashomer where he declared his refusal to serve in the Israeli Army. Omar was sentenced to 20 days of imprisonment for his refusal, in the military prison No. 6 near Atlit.

Omar is a young guy belonging to the Palestinian Arab Druze community. This community, in contrast to Arab society in large, was the target of a decision by Prime Minister Ben Gurion in 1956 that forced them to serve in the Israeli army.

Much Needed Donations Repel The Danger Of Saint Joseph Hospice`s Closure

Seeing the rising urgency among the donors of the hospice and their demands for more donating options, Lucy O’Donoghue-Friends of the Hospice Coordinator announced that a paypal account has been set up facilitating the donors.

(RAWALPINDI) - The Saint Joseph’s Hospice, Rawalpindi had been running low of funds to the verge of closure. The expenses of running this charitable institution working exceeded far beyond funds available past few months so much so that the administration had announced possible closure of the Hospice.

In this regard, Sister Walsh was determined to keep the hospice running said: I will fight to keep the hospice open, as closing seems too painful an option.

A Petition from the Campaign to
Tell Musicians: Don`t Entertain Apartheid Israel!

Sign the Petition to Musicians invited to play the Red Sea Jazz Festival.

(TEL AVIV) - The Red Sea Jazz Festival is a bi-yearly event in Israel's city of Eilat. The festival could have been a festival to celebrate the free spirit of Jazz music, and this beautiful tradition of oppressed minorities.

Instead, it is a government event of propaganda, which uses Jazz music as a tool for whitewashing military occupation, apartheid and oppression of the Palestinian people...

Let Rohingya Fill Up the Ethnicity by Rohingya in Myanmar Census 2014

Burma Times: Don’t confuse Rohingya Muslim with Rakhine Muslim!

(RANGOON) - Another horrible step to tactfully operate to implement the remained genocidal procedures against Rohingya—method 2014: de-Rohingya by policy of Rakhinized Muslim.

“Politically, the forced registration of Rohingya Muslim as Rakhine Muslim by Burmese genocidal government led by President Thein Sein for upcoming national census that would be carried out from 30 March to 10 April is another horrible genocidal step to utterly eradicate Rohingya. The main intention behind the forced Rakhinized Muslim instead of Rohingya Muslim is nothing except de-Rohingya Muslim”

Discrimination in United Arab Emirates with TB Patients and NOT TB (Zero TB) People

Brutal law of deportation on an assumption based T.B scar in United Arab Emirates.

(NEW DELHI) - My name is Charanjeet Singh, an Indian national.

In March 2013, I received employment in a law firm in D.I.F.C. (Dubai International Financial Centre), when I appeared for medical test at al Muhaisna medical centre (A part of Dubai D.H.A i.e (Dubai Health Authority), suspected that i have old T.B scar and I was deported immediately without giving me, a right to appeal.

Oral Argument for Oregon Youths` Climate Change Case Heard at University of Oregon School of Law

On Thursday, these young plaintiffs will get to hear what the Oregon Court of Appeals thinks of their alleged rights and of the State’s position that they don’t have a right to have their case heard.

(EUGENE) - This Thursday, two Eugene youths’ climate change case (Chenaik v. Kitzhaber) will be argued before the Oregon Court of Appeals in their hometown at the University of Oregon School of Law.

The lawsuit was filed against Governor Kitzhaber and the State of Oregon for failing to protect essential natural resources, including state waters, coast lines, and the atmosphere, as required under the Public Trust Doctrine.

A reprise: the final financial solution...
It`s Time We Shot The Messengers

Give a man a spade and he'll plant a seed. Give him a horse and plow and he'll plant a crop. Give him a tractor and he'll drive to the nearest liquor store - Peace Corps Handbook

(DAYTONA BEACH) - We're living in a cuckoo's nest that would have baffled Ken Kesey. Consider just three items at the top of our agenda.

(1) Astronomical military spending at a time when there's nobody left in the world big enough to fight us, (2) the health care farce, which makes us the most expensive, least effective (at least #47) and largest laughingstock in the world, and finally, (3) the triumph of corporate governance in Washington, which is icing the decline and fall of both capitalism and democracy in one fell swoop.

Hindus Disappointed with Pope for Ignoring Roma Apartheid

Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, argued that Pope should recognize, acknowledge and affirm the Roma as children of God who deserved to be treated like all other people—as equals.

(RENO) - Hindus are disappointed by finding no mention to apartheid conditions faced by 15-million European Roma (Gypsies) in Pope Francis’s annual traditional speech to over 180 accredited diplomats at Vatican on January 13.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, stressed that as love and compassion for the helpless was the hallmark of religious ethics, Pope Francis needed to openly embrace Roma cause.