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28.12.2009, 08:34
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A year after Israel's devastating operation in Gaza, Palestinians are mourning its victims. The war claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, according to human rights groups on both sides, and 13 Israelis.
25.10.2010, 23:45
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Two Israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing after being convicted of using a Palestinian child as a human shield during the Gaza war.
28.04.2009, 19:22
Driving your neighbours mad by listening to loud music can result in you being kicked out and your flat going under the hammer, which happened to a DJ in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region in the Urals.
05.10.2009, 16:05
The Stalin era was a blow for Russia, so both external and internal issues raise concerns over using the death penalty in the country, believes Alla Glinchikova from the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements.
10.06.2010, 23:00
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Hungarian lawmakers have passed a bill equating Communist era crimes to the Holocaust and banned denying it under threat of imprisonment.
17.05.2010, 18:53
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In what is seen as a politically motivated gesture, the European Court of Human Rights has delivered its verdict in the case of Vasily Kononov versus Latvia.
14.07.2009, 20:47
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A specific national plan of action should be created and countries should exchange information to combat human trafficking, said Alberto Andreani of the International Organization for Migration.
16.07.2010, 20:29
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Finland rejected cooperation with Russia to protect the rights of children from mixed marriages. Russia’s children’s rights ombudsman, Pavel Astakhov, called the Finn’s decision “a serious blunder of international law.”
09.11.2009, 18:29
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Secret routes, fake IDs, risking freedom and even their lives – despite all this, illegal Palestinian workers flow to Israel in search for jobs they have no chance of finding at home.
23.12.2009, 20:51
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Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the 2003 arrest of former Yukos executive Platon Lebedev was illegal on procedural grounds and must be annulled. The decision will have no impact on his imprisonment, however.
Published: 21 November, 2009, 03:18
Edited: 21 November, 2009, 08:09
Texas nationalists are urging Governor Rick Perry to take action to stop the US federal government from sending illegal immigrants to the Lone Star State.
