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  Gibson report: British role in al-Qa’ida renditions exposed   Nigel Morris Deputy Political Editor MI6 agents in Afghanistan were told they were not obliged to intervene if they witnessed suspected terrorists being harmed by their American captors, an official inquiry into allegations Britain was complicit in torture has disclosed. …

  Yusuf Alli – Cii News | 20 December 2013/16 Safar 1435   MONDAY China’s official state news agency said a clash between police and locals in the country’s northwestern region of Xinjiang was an organised and premeditated attack by a small “terrorist” group. The incident left 16 people dead …

The festive season is usually a time when people rush to do last minute shopping, but is also the time when consumers are most susceptible to banking scammers. According to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) CEO Kalyani Pillay, most people tended to be less cautious during this …

  by redressonline.com Source: redressonline.com   Another day and another boycott of the apartheid state of Israel. As has been widely reported, on 15 December the American Studies Association (ASA), which has more than 5,000 members, joined a growing movement to boycott Israel in protest at its treatment of the …

  The biggest emergency in the UN’s history Syrians ‘forced to eat cats and dogs’ to survive the war as three-quarters of population of 22 million will need aid to survive next year Patrick Cockburn Monday 16 December 2013 As Syrian society teeters on the edge of final collapse after …

15 Dec 2013  Organizers of annual Islamic congregation said they would not allow the use of tobacco and polythene in the premises. Just like every year, around one million Muslims from worldwide countries have flocked to the Indian central city of Bhopal to mark the annual Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima, the …

  By Ann Jones 16 December, 2013 TomDispatch.com Congress surely meant to do the right thing when, in the fall of 2008, it passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA). The law was designed to protect kids worldwide from being forced to fight the wars of Big Men. From then …

  by pri.org Source: pri.org Muslimvillage   By: pri.org   Source: http://www.pri.org/   Roughly half of the city’s 40,000-odd cabbies are Muslims who hail from countries all over the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere — and a great number of the drivers are observant, praying five times a day. Which raises the …

By Countercurrents.org With Inputs From Eva Bartlett Of In Gaza Blog 16 December, 2013   Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced because of severe flooding. (Eyad Al Baba / APA images) According to the United Nations, over 10,000 Palestinians were displaced after a rare winter storm and torrential …

Israel destroyed 30 Palestinian properties in occupied territory, displacing families for second time in two weeks. The United Nations has condemned Israel’s demolition of 30 Palestinian properties in the occupied West Bank, saying it displaced families for the second time in less than two weeks. “I am concerned about the …