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Mozambique (20.05.2013 07:48h): Medical Professionals Announce Strike
Screenshot from press conference video Medical professionals in Mozambique have announced they will strike. They consider that they were “humiliated, insulted and disdained” in their last meeting with government. This current strike follows a strike earlier this year by doctors. The video announcement is available with subtitles in English, and a number of languages. more… Written by Janet Gunter · comments 0 Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper [Link] [Cache]
Kevin Rothrock (19.05.2013 17:49h): Moscow Soccer Fans Clash with Police
Following Saturday's scoreless soccer game that catapulted Moscow's CSKA club to its fourth Russian Premier League title, the team's fans clashed with riot troops in downtown Moscow. Police detained 140 people [ru], later releasing all but two. Bloggers posted photos to LiveJournal here, here, and here [ru], alleging police brutality. Police “detain” a soccer fan, Moscow, 18 May 2013, photo by Sergey Danilov, posted to his LJ. Written by Kevin Rothrock · comments 0 Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper [Link] [Cache]
Elizabeth (17.05.2013 20:08h): Jorge Videla, Argentina's Ex-Military Leader, Dies in Jail
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina's former president, died on May 17, 2013, at the age of 87 in a jail cell where he was imprisoned. Videla ruled between 1976 and 1981, during Argentina's military dictatorship, a period marked by death that left thousands of people missing [es]. In 1983 the former dictator was judged and condemned to life-prison for crimes against humanity. In 2010 Videla was sentenced [es] to life in prison for the torture and shooting of 31 political prisoners, and in 2012 he was sentenced to another 50 years in jail for the kidnapping [es] of newborns during the ... [Link] [Cache]
Rezwan (15.05.2013 05:35h): Online Journalism In Nepal To Be Regulated
Online journalism and news portals are gaining popularity in Nepal as evident in Surath Giri's list of 20 online newspapers. However, according to reports, the Ministry of Information and Communications of Nepal has recently formed a five-member committee to register, regulate and manage online news. Written by Rezwan · comments 0 Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper [Link] [Cache]
Interview (13.05.2013 20:27h): Chadian Blogger and Journalist Expelled from Senegal to Guinea
[All links forward to French-language pages unless otherwise noted.] Senegalese authorities have expelled Chadian journalist and blogger Makaila Nguebla, an opponent of his country's President Idriss Déby [en] who has ruled Chad for more than two decades, to neighboring Guinea after refusing to grant him political refugee status. Nguebla, who was living in exile in Senegal's capital city of Dakar since 2005, was deported on May 8, 2013. He settled in Senegal after being arrested in Tunisia in 2005; thanks to international pressure, Tunisian authorities did not deport him back to Chad, as he explains in this YouTube video: Global ... [Link] [Cache]
Lee Yoo Eun (13.05.2013 07:15h): Anonymous Hacks North Korea Again
Hacker collective Anonymous appears to have launched another round of attacks on major North Korean websites over the weekend. A guideline on targets and tools of ‘Operation North Korea Second Project' was shared via Pastebin, North Korea tech explains in detail. Written by Lee Yoo Eun · comments 1 Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper [Link] [Cache]
Lee Yoo Eun (13.05.2013 06:28h): South Korean President's Spokesman Sacked Over Sexual Assault Allegations
The spokesman of the South Korean president, Yoon Chang-jung, was fired on May 10, 2013 over allegations that he sexually assaulted an embassy intern during the president’s high-profile trip to the United States. This unprecedented diplomatic fiasco stayed at the top of internet searches on major South Korean portals for two consecutive days and spawned heated discussions, even anger, on a variety of social networking sites. The case first broke on Missy USA, a community website for Korean women living in the US. A screen shot [ko] of one Missy USA's users crying out for help quickly spread online, and ... [Link] [Cache]
Qurratulain Zaman (12.05.2013 21:21h): Pakistanis Vote in Huge Numbers Despite Threats, Alleged Poll Rigging
This post is part of our Special Coverage Pakistan Votes 2013. Amid threats of terrorism and reports of rigging, determined voters in Pakistan turned out in high numbers, braving chaotic polling stations and long lines on May 11, 2013 to have their say in the country's first ever democratic transition of power. The final results are not yet tallied, but former two-time prime minster Nawaz Sharif and his Pakistan Muslim League-N PML-N is expected to win and form the government. The party's official Twitter account @pmln_org declared the victory: @pmln_org: PMLN Roshan Pakistan | Thanks to the Nation for Trusting ... [Link] [Cache]
Rezwan (11.05.2013 16:56h): Pakistan Election Updates and Results Online
Mehwish khan at ProPakistani compiles a list of sites which are providing live updates and results of the Pakistan general elections 2013. Written by Rezwan · comments 2 Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper [Link] [Cache]
Pantha Rahman Reza (11.05.2013 01:30h): Woman Rescued from Bangladesh Factory Rubble After 17 Days
The same day that the death toll of a nine-story factory collapse in Savar in the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka rose to 1,055, now the deadliest building collapse since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a female worker named Reshma Begum was found alive after being trapped in the rubble for 17 days. Begum worked on the building's second floor as a sewing operator. As the building collapsed, the 24-year-old was trapped in a mosque inside the basement and survived 416 hours there by breathing through a pipe and scavenging for biscuits in the rucksacks of dead colleagues. In ... [Link] [Cache]
Renata Avila (11.05.2013 01:28h): EfraÃn RÃos Montt Found Guilty of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Guatemalan de facto dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was declared guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. After organizing and fighting in courts for years, Guatemala's Ixil Maya indigenous achieved justice. The verdict was live-tweeted and streamed [es]. While Ríos Montt was declared guilty and sentenced to 80 years in prison, former Intelligence Director José Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez was declared innocent. Rios Montt ruled Guatemala from March 1982 to August 1983 during the country's 36-year civil war. As Xeni Jardin explains in BoingBoing: “The 86-year-old former General and head of state was charged with the crimes over a counterinsurgency campaign in ... [Link] [Cache]
Lee Yoo Eun (10.05.2013 04:38h): South Korean President's Spokesman Fired
South Korean President's press spokesman Yoon Chang-joong was relieved of his duty over allegation that he sexually assaulted a 21-year-old intern during President Park's visit to the United States which he accompanied. A community website for Korean women living in the U.S, Missy USA, first revealed the case and a screen capture of Missy USA's report [ko] has widely spread online. Written by Lee Yoo Eun · comments 1 Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper [Link] [Cache]
Kevin Rothrock (09.05.2013 00:52h): Police Raid Navalny's HQ in Kirov
At this very moment, Kirov police are searching [ru] Alexey Navalny's local headquarters, established to coordinate the blogger's public outreach in the city where he currently stands trial for embezzling roughly half a million dollars. The case has attracted international attention as the latest in a long series of politicized Russian judicial proceedings, including the trials of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, three members of Pussy Riot, and others. more… Written by Kevin Rothrock · comments 0 Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper [Link] [Cache]
Salman Latif (08.05.2013 23:48h): Politically Divided Pakistan Rallies Around Injured Imran Khan
This post is part of our Special Coverage Pakistan Votes 2013. Popular cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, whose hopeful campaign promise of a “New Pakistan” has drawn large crowds of young people and urban voters to his rallies ahead of the country's general elections, fractured three vertebrae and a rib after falling off a 15-feet high forklift just before a scheduled speech. Khan, who was at a rally in the city of Lahore, was immediately rushed to the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital. Within a few hours of being hospitalized, he regained consciousness and managed to make a powerful political speech to the ... [Link] [Cache]
Violeta Camarasa (08.05.2013 13:37h): Catalonia's Sovereignty Declaration Suspended
The Spanish Constitutional Court just suspended Catalonia's Declaration of Sovereignty, which the regional parliament of Catalonia approved by majority on 23 January, 2013. Amid rising tensions between Spain and Catalonia, the decision has generated strong reactions on offline and online media. Thanks to a diverse team of collaborators, the online Catalan-language publication Vilaweb [ca] offers the Declaration of Sovereignty in 50 languages. Written by Violeta Camarasa · comments 1 Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper [Link] [Cache]
Elizabeth (07.05.2013 20:30h): Gas Tanker Explosion in Mexico Leaves at Least 19 Dead
The explosion of a gas tanker has left at least 19 people dead and 36 injured, according to the latest reports. The blast occurred in Ecatepec de Morelos County State of Mexico early in the morning of May 7, 2013. Ecatepec is part of Greater Mexico City. Mexican newspaper El Universal [es], on its online version, was one of the first outlets to break the news: Una pipa que al parecer transportaba gas explotó la madrugada de hoy en el perímetro de la comunidad de San Pedro Xalostoc, lo que provocó un número indeterminado de heridos y muertos así como ... [Link] [Cache]
Jane Ellis (07.05.2013 13:43h): Congolese-Italian Woman Joins Italy's Cabinet
[All quotations are translated from the original French articles, except the Twitter quotes, which were originally Italian] Two months after the February 2013 Italian general election, Prime Minister Enrico Letta, selected by the President Giorgio Napolitano to create a consensus government, revealed the members of his team. Among the surprises was the nomination of Doctor Cecile Kyenge, specialist in Opthamology, as Minister of Integration. Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC , she is the first immigrant ever to accede to a ministerial position in Italy. News website oeildafrique.com described her [fr] as follows: Cecile Kyenge, member of the ... [Link] [Cache]
Andrey Tselikov (06.05.2013 22:34h): RuNet Speculates on Protest Rally Size, Again
Every Russian opposition rally and march attracts wild online speculation about the numbers of participants — both by observers and the participants themselves. This week's May 6 rally commemorating last year's event which ended in violence and arrests the so-called Bolotnaya prisoners was no exception. As usual, the estimates ranged widely even before the scheduled start of the rally at 7:00 PM. At 6:38 PM journalist Alina Grebneva tweeted [ru] that she thought there were 2.5 thousand people present. Just two minutes later she tweeted again [ru] that another journalist next to her estimated 5 or 6 thousand. Around the ... [Link] [Cache]
Tessa Houghton (06.05.2013 20:10h): Allegations of Election Fraud as Malaysia's Ruling Party Wins Again
Malaysians from all walks of life are currently in a state of outrage following the outcome of the nation's 13th General Election, which has been marred with what appears to be widespread and massive electoral fraud and gerrymandering. Many social media users are blacking out their Facebook and Twitter avatars and walking silently in malls dressed in black to protest what is being described as the ‘death of democracy’ in Malaysia. Both the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat PR/'The People's Pact' , and Bersih ‘Clean' , the national movement for free and fair elections, are refusing to accept the official result, ... [Link] [Cache]
VIDEO (03.05.2013 19:07h): Turkish Police Crack Down on May Day Protesters
Violent clashes between Turkish police and May Day protesters in Istanbul left 25 civilians and 22 police officers injured [tr], including one man who reportedly lost an eye due to a teargas canister and another 17-year-old girl with head injuries who was left in a coma for a short time. Thousands of people made their way on May 1, 2013 to the city's main Taksim Square, a symbolic location where gunmen opened fire on the crowds there during the May 1 protests in 1977, killing as many as 42 people. This year, the government banned any protests or celebration for ... [Link] [Cache]
Guatemala (03.05.2013 00:55h): State of Siege After Anti-Mining Protests
State of siege in San Rafael Mine in Guatemala. Photo shared by James Rodriguez in the MiMundo.org Facebook page more… Written by Silvia Viñas · comments 1 Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper [Link] [Cache]
Nicki Gorny (02.05.2013 21:42h): President Barack Obama visits Mexico and Costa Rica
On May 2, U.S. President Barack Obama began his trip through Mexico and Costa Rica with the intention of addressing vitally important themes for the region that include the expansion of commerce and economic and energy cooperation, as well as issues of security, immigration, government and control of illegal drug trafficking. With this visit, Obama completes his fourth visit on Mexican soil. President Obama's visit arrives at a time when the possibility of establishing migration reform that permits the legalization of more than 11 million undocumented immigrants is still being discussed in Washington. Therefore, before beginning his visit, the president ... [Link] [Cache]
Stratos Moraitis (02.05.2013 10:11h): Teargas and Water Cannons for Istanbul's Labor Day Protesters
Teargas enveloped Istanbul as demonstrators defiantly merged onto the city's symbolic Taksim Square, where they hold May Day protests every year. The government banned all events there this year, because the square is under construction. As protesters and police clashed they turned the 15 million strong metropolis into a war zone, leaving behind destroyed property and reportedly dozens of injured people. To get a grip on the increasing number of protesters, Turkey's police fortified their ranks with four planes full of officers transfered [tr] from other cities. Among the injured were four journalists and a teenage high school student who ... [Link] [Cache]
Lee Yoo Eun (01.05.2013 02:18h): South Korea Pulls Out of Joint Industrial Complex in North Korea
A nearly decade-old, jointly run industrial complex in North Korea, a place often referred as “last bastion of hope” [ko] for Korean reunification, is on the verge of a shutdown. The South Korean government has ordered the withdrawal of South Korean workers from the Kaesong Industrial Complex, almost emptying the park by April 29, 2013 and leaving only seven workers behind to negotiate unpaid wages for North Korean workers. The Kaesong Industrial Complex of North Korea is a special collaborative venture with South Korea which began operating in 2004. North Korea offers South Korean companies with cheap labor and inexpensive ... [Link] [Cache]
Kevin Rothrock (30.04.2013 06:52h): Pavel Durov, Russia's Zuckerberg, Fights for Control of His Creation
Something strange is happening with Vkontakte, Russia’s homegrown version of Facebook. In the last couple of months, the company’s founder and current head, Pavel Durov, has suffered three very public “kicks in the teeth,” one of which might even lead to criminal charges. The setup First, on March 27, 2013, there was Novaya Gazeta’s Andrei Kolesnikov, who published [ru] hacked emails supposedly written by Durov and former Vkontakte Press Secretary Vladislav Tsyplukhin, addressed to Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin’s former chief ideologist. In those emails, Durov and Tsyplukhin indicate Vkontakte’s secret cooperation with federal police to suppress the online organizing efforts ... [Link] [Cache]
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