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Israel: Immediately Release Palestinian Hunger Striker Samer Al-Barq, Hassan Safadi and Prisoner Akram Rikhawi

William Nicholas Gomes asks Israel to consider the declining condition, and political complexity of the Palestinian hunger strikers.

(SALEM) - Palestinian prisoners are held in custody in large numbers, without charges or evidence by Israeli occupation forces.

Three of these prisoners are engaging in a ongoing hunger strike in protest of ongoing confinement that direct conflicts with international law.

Syrian Atrocity: Bodies of Postal Workers Thrown from Roof

SHOCKING VIDEO: VIEW WITH DISCRETION

(DAMASCUS) - A horrific amateur video appeared on YouTube, apparently showing an atrocity against public service workers in Syria.

The footage displays a crowd of people callously throwing the bodies of slain postal workers from a post office rooftop.

NISS Rearrests Rudwan Dawod Before he Leaves Court Premises

An Oregon resident, Rudwan has been detained since July 3.

(KHARTOUM) - Shortly after his release, the NISS re-arrested Rudwan Dawod, an Oregon resident, and rearrested him. He's now in their custody in danger of further torture.

Rudwan has been detained since July 3. He has been subject to torture and abuse during his detention and he was threatened repeatedly to be assassinated.

14 August to be Observed as a Black Day in Balochistan

“It is the responsibility of Britain and all those powers [that created Pakistan] to rectify their historical mistake and support the Baloch struggle for their freedom...” - BNF

(OCCUPIED Balochistan) - The Baloch National Front (BNF) has announces it will observe 14 August, Pakistan’s Independence Day, as a Black Day in Balochistan.

14 August is a Black Day in the region because the British and other international powers had established an unnatural state on this day, engaged in terrorizing Baloch people, other oppressed nations and peace loving countries of world since its existence.

India: Sexual Assault by the Central Reserve Police Force in Odisha

William Gomes contacts the National Human Rights Commission over sex abuse by police in the Bargarh district in Odisha of India.

(SALEM) - Members of the Central Reserve Police Force in India are accused of sexually assaulting local females and now the reports include police coercing sex crime victims.

In one case, police would only accept a report about the incident after nearly 150 local gathered in protest.

Update on Weekend Shooting Involving Two Police Officers and Suspect

All three were injured During Saturday night shooting in Benton County.

(CORVALLIS, OR) - Police are continuing their investigation into Saturday night's shooting of a Benton County Sheriff's Office sergeant, a Salem Police Department corporal, and an adult male.

The shooting followed an attempt to elude law enforcement about 2 miles north of Adair Park just south of the Benton/Polk County line.

Man Dies in Jet Ski Accident on Willamette River

News release from the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

(SALEM) - On Sunday, August 12 at approx 7:43pm, the Polk County Marine Patrol unit was notified of a boating accident Â3/4 mile up river from Wallace Marine Park involving a person being towed on an inner-tube behind a jet-ski.

The operator of the Jet-Ski (Salinas, Alejandro) was pulling his brother (Salinas, Enrique) behind a Honda Jet-Ski when they made a wide turn to head back towards Wallace Marine Park.

The Terrible Legacy of Agent Orange

Forty years after war ended, Washington begins decontamination of worst-affected areas in Vietnam

(DA NANG, Viet Nam AOAG) - Tran Thi Hoan, 26, studied medicine only to be told that she couldn’t become a doctor because of a war fought 20 years before she was born.

The ostensible reason was that she had no legs or left hand, but the main reason, and the cause of so much misery blighting the lives of millions of other Vietnamese, is the 20 million gallons of Agent Orange sprayed in her country by US forces in the Sixties.

Myanmar Government Translator and His Distortions of Words in Broad Daylight

The genocide against Rohingyas was instigated and facilitated by the government and extremist Rakhine Buddhists.

(RANGOON, Myanmar) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his group visited Arakan state on 10^th August 2012 to observe the vulnerable situation resulted from the genocides against not only Rohingya Muslims but also other Muslims in the state.

Regardless of race or religion, they made donations not only to Rohingya Muslims but also to Rakhine Buddhists.

Border Coal Battles Continue

Denouncing the latest fatalities as constituting “industrial homicide,” Mexico’s National Miners Union said it would pursue criminal charges against AHMSA.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Mexican and U.S. opponents of a planned new open surface coal mine on the Texas-Tamaulipas border rallied August 10 on an international bridge between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.