THE Huffington Post BLOG By Ali A. Rizvi Are you “pro-Israel” or “pro-Palestine”? It isn’t even noon yet as I write this, and I’ve already been accused of being both. These terms intrigue me because they directly speak to the doggedly tribal nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You don’t hear of too many other countries
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Sydney Morning Herald “It’s hard though when people do not have any money at all,”: Heather Hoist. Photo: Getty Images By AISHA DOW At least 25 delegates who attended Melbourne’s high-profile AIDS conference intend to seek asylum in Australia after failing to board their flights home last week. The men and women, who are mostly from African
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By BETHAN McKERNAN Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The numbers at the St. George Armenian Apostolic Church in Addis Ababa are not adding up. Church records show an average of two funerals a year, but a wedding only every three years and a baptism every five. “Some people don’t come to church vertically. Only horizontally,”
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BBC A Ugandan man who was seeking asylum in the US in 2010 because of Uganda’s stance towards homosexuality Some gay Ugandans have fled the country, saying they are being persecuted Uganda’s Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was passed by MPs in December
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BBC A Ugandan man who was seeking asylum in the US in 2010 because of Uganda’s stance towards homosexuality Some gay Ugandans have fled the country, saying they are being persecuted Uganda’s Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was passed by MPs in December
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NBC Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese mom who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, arrived Thursday in the U.S. after an international campaign to save her. Ibrahim, 27, landed at the Manchester, New Hampshire, airport shortly after 8 p.m. ET, with her husband, Daniel Wani, and their children, Martin and Maya,
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WHO Key facts Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%. EVD outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests. The virus is transmitted to people from wild
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Global Voices By Ellery Roberts Biddle Free Zone9 Tumblr collage. Images used with permission. Join Global Voices bloggers for a worldwide, multilingual tweetathon in support of the ten bloggers and journalists facing terrorism charges in Ethiopia. The Global Voices community and our network of allies are demanding justice for these men and women, all of whom have
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World Bulletin/News Desk Thousands of Muslims showed up in Addis Ababa early Monday for prayer of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. “This is time for hope and progress,” Ahmed Abdurahman, President of the Addis Ababa Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, told the congregation at the Addis Ababa stadium. He
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Pink News Nick Duffy The Facebook page for the National Organisation for Marriage is more popular with Ethiopians than Americans. The group, known for their views opposing rights for gay people and same-sex couples, have more followers from Addis Ababa than any US city. The statistic, revealed by Good as You, suggests that despite having 47,100
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