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Berlanty is being persecuted by the illegal invader and occupier. (Photo: CNN/file)
By Stuart Littlewood – London
The dragged-out scandal of final-year Bethlehem student Berlanty Azzam's arrest and abduction - handcuffed and blindfolded – and subsequent dumping in Gaza in the middle of the night just weeks before [...]
Photo: Mark Davis/WTNH
(WTNH) – Jane Maher of moveon.org and an Oxford resident was among about 20 protesters outside the building that houses Senator Joe Lieberman’s office in Hartford Tuesday.
Photo: Mark Davis/WTNHOriginal post blogged on [...]
Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize only days after announcing an increase in troops in the ongoing US-led war in Afghanistan. (Pete Souza/White House Photo)
By Sayed Dhansay, The Electronic Intifada, 11 December 2009
United States President Barack Obama has just accepted the Nobel Peace Prize at [...]
The Erez crossing, where people from Gaza cross into Israel for medical treatment. Many say they have been pressed to become informants. Photograph: AP
Israeli security agents held a Palestinian patient for three weeks without charge, interrogated him repeatedly and offered access to hospital care if he [...]
Ma'aleh Levona settlement - photo by google Earth
By Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News
Illegal Israeli settlers escalated their protest against the Israeli government decision two week ago to freeze construction in illegal West Bank settlements.
On Monday morning scores of illegal Israeli settlers blocked a road' [...]
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After a five-year legal battle that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, Frank Ricci and 13 fellow firefighters moved one step closer to getting the promotions they were deprived of.
Ricci (at center in top photo) and 19 other mostly white firefighters sued the city [...] 
Photo M. Omer
By Mohammed Omer
Although ignored by much of the Western media, a battle which echoes the biblical story of David and Goliath is taking place in The Hague. In the modern-day version, young David is personified by a soft-spoken 15-year-old girl named Amira Alqerem. [...]
Armed with an incriminating photo, a band of blackmailers hustled $200,000 from a prominent New Haven attorney. They demanded more -- then Det. Robin Higgins and her "take-down team" stepped in.
Seeking help after a year of torment, the attorney came to Higgins in October. [...] 
The Nation
Taliban fighters in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. Reuters Photos
On October 29, 2001, while the Taliban's rule over Afghanistan was under assault, the regime's ambassador in Islamabad gave a chaotic press conference in front of several dozen reporters sitting on the grass. On [...]
Newtown police booking photo of Jason Bartlett.
Newtown (WTNH) – A Connecticut state representative faces multiple violations after he was pulled over by police in Newtown.
Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution.
[...]Today was Moustache Day, and Chion Wolf was snapping away. I shaved down my lower beard and then darkened the upper part with mascarca. Gerry showed us a picture of him, circa 1975. Chion shopped in a moustache on her picture of him from today. And now, you have things [...]
