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Why Yemen has come undone - CNN.com - 0 views
17 years after war - Yugoslavia again protesting NATO - Workers World - 0 views
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Home » Global » 17 years after war — Yugoslavia again protesting NATO 17 years after war — Yugoslavia again protesting NATO By Heather Cottin posted on March 22, 2016 Share On March 24, 1999, the U.S. led its European NATO allies in a 78-day bombing campaign targeting
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Serbia in order to destroy Yugoslavia, the last socialist country holding out in Europe. NATO planes bombed hospitals, factories, schools, trains, television stations, bridges and homes, killing thousands of Yugoslavs.
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n 2000, the same NATO forces destabilized what remained of Yugoslavia — the republics of Serbia and Montenegr
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Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls - 0 views
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fundamental violation of women’s and girls’ rights
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50% or highe
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This is such a controversial topic. I saw a reference to it recently (was it possibly something that was brought up in the Bill Maher/Ben Affleck dust-up?) that pointed out that the practice is almost unheard of outside of central and northeastern Africa, with a few small pockets in Iraq and the Gulf.
ICSR Insight - Offering Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq a Way Out / ICSR - 0 views
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Boris Johnson proposed that all the British fighters in Syria should be presumed guilty unless proven innocent
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dangerous and counterproductive proposal
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increase — rather than diminish — the terrorist threat to [Britain] .
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This was an article (originally published by the Independent, however, I found it on their website via my first article from the BBC) by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence of London. The article suggests, allowing fighters to return home safely and enroll in a De-radicalization program would be more beneficial than current policies of severe punishment (prison, stripping of citizenship, etc.). The authors contend current repercussions for fighters returning to their home countries leave them trapped and isolated and prison sentences often lead to further radicalization. Overall this article really captured my attention in its non-conventional proposal for governments to handle these situations.
The Mysterious Case of David Drugeon - 0 views
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Three weeks ago, McClatchy made worldwide headlines with a remarkable scoop: recent U.S. missile strikes on Al-Qa'ida forces in Syria, the so-called Khorasan Group, explicitly targeted a French national who was a defector from his country's intelligence services. Citing unnamed European intelligence officials, the article provided considerable detail, though it did not name this mystery...
US drone base evacuated in Yemen - 7NEWS Denver TheDenverChannel.com - 0 views
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US drone base evacuated in Yemen
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