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England`s Savage Treatment of an Immigrant Family

Racism in the UK: family terrorized over jailed children. Mainstream press ignores substantial case.

(SALEM) - A Wood Green Crown Court case in North London may be one of the ugliest debacles in a 'court of law' that I have ever heard of.

Chiwar and Gloria Musa moved to the UK, only to be greeted by a nightmare. An unfounded allegation led to their children being yanked from the household as if the family had no rights at all.

No Party Politics - No Elections

SO, SF is not included in Tiran Alles's new party, as its only a “remission of the balance sentences to be served by the above prisoner.”

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka) - "I might not be able to contest and vote, but still I can do politics," Fonseka, 61, told Reuters on Tuesday in a telephone interview from his home outside the capital, Colombo.

"I can educate the people, I can talk to people and have meetings," he said. (quote from Reuters – on line 23 May)

Racism Mars Spring for Many Foreigners and Palestinians in Lebanon

Discrimination and endemic racist practices are mainly directed against foreign female domestic workers who work as maids and nannies for Lebanese families

(BEIRUT Al-Manar) - As many visitors to Lebanon can attest, some Lebanese have the rather charming habit of asking them, “Do you love Lebanon?”

One assumes they actually mean to inquire if the visitor likes Lebanon and is enjoying their visit.

UN`s Capitulation of Policy to Feltman Unanswered, Sri Lanka Question Not Taken

Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky used to work at Reuters, as he's at times proudly said. But on Tuesday he functioned as a blocker of press questions.

(UNITED NATIONS) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is on the verge of handing over the UN's Middle East policy to Jeffrey Feltman.

On Tuesday Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky refused to respond to Press questions about whether this conflation harms or helps the UN.

Sri Lanka`s Missing Thousands

Three years after a debilitating civil war, people continue to disappear.

(HONG KONG) - Three years after the government of Sri Lanka declared an end to decades of civil conflict with separatist rebels, thousands of people are still missing, according to the United Nations and Sri Lankan activists.

Even in the wake of this tragedy, more continue to disappear.

Egypt`s Presidential Elections: A Revolution at the Crossroads (Video)

Documentary revisits Egyptian uprising; Tahrir square; the toppling of a dictator and explores the arduous road to democracy and the daunting challenges that await the country.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - It was not at all an easy job when I looked back at what happened in Egypt during the last 16 months.

Violent political storms gripped the country and turmoil ensued, so hard to put it in words...

Taking Notes Banned from Court

Calling All Media Professionals Interested in Fair Trials...

(LONDON) - Following a directive by his senior colleague, Sir Nicholas Wall, the President of the Family Division, Judge Patrick issued yesterday a ‘blanket ban’ on reporting.

This includes the internet, on the Musa case[1] – a criminal trial scheduled to last 4 weeks in Wood Green Court.

Vicky the Dealer and Me

Why did so many Britons hate Queen Victoria?

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - I hate being Scottish. We're the lowest of the low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization.

Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers.

LJP President Paswan Backs Call for UN Referendum

The LJP leader, while talking to media, said what happened in the island was not only war crimes but a systematic and intentional crime of genocide.

(CHENNAI, India TamilNet) - Ram Vilas Paswan, the president of Lok Janshakthi Party from the state of Bihar and a former Indian minister, took part in a candlelight vigil Sunday.

They signed on the list of the signature campaign calling for UN referendum among Eezham Tamils to assert their political destiny.

Poverty is Tearing the Middle Class Apart, in the Hell of the `New Poor`

Any of us can fall into extreme poverty.

(MADRID, Spain) - About 3,000 “new poor” arrived to Caritas Spain in 2010.

Most of them families who went from lassitude to homelessness in the wake of endless unemployment caused by the economic crisis. Most of the cases seen were families, about 74%.