According to a report from BBC News, Israeli troops shot and killed a 12-year-old boy during a protest against the barrier being erected in Nilin. Although soldiers shot at other protestors with rubber bullets, injuring up to 18 people, the boy was the only person hit by a live bullet. The Palestine Solidarity Project clarifies […]
Egypt Shuts Down Iranian TV Station
Posted by Marwa Rakha to Global Voices Online On July 24th, Maggie Michael reported: Egyptian authorities shut down the Cairo office of an Iranian TV network, a security official said Thursday, as the two nations spar over a film that justifies the killing of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic militants. Blogger Dina Ayoub […]
Seeking Justice in Afghanistan
Posted by Joshua Foust to Global Voices Online Despite its reputation for a very conservative brand of Islam, Afghanistan is deeply torn. Before the recent decades of war, the country was more known for its mystical Sufism that attracted crowds of hippies and tourists than anything else; the Soviet War helped entrench a more fundamentalist […]
Jerusalem Suffers Copycat Bulldozer Attack
Posted by Maya Norton to Global Voices Online Breaking news in the Israeli mainstream news and blogosphere reports that a man driving a bulldozer ploughed down the streets of Jerusalem in a mad rampage, mimicking the tractor attack of 20 days past. An estimated 24 people were wounded and three killed when armed civilian […]
‘Selective Journalism’ in Latest Bulldozer Attack Coverage
Posted by Jillian York to Global Voices Online Following a second bulldozer attack by a Palestinian civilian in less than a month (Global Voices covered the first one here), Palestinian bloggers are frustrated by how local and international media has covered both events, and ignored more universally significant issues in the country. Desertpeace repeats the […]
Eric Tavulares Killed Lauren Aljubouri a-la Natural Born Killers
18 year-old Eric Tavulares killed his girlfriend Lauren Aljubouri in a half-sleep state he told police. Some say the fact that Eric Tavulares had seen the violent movie Natural Born Killers 10-20 times, including the night of the killing, that made him roll over in his bed and strangle Lauren Aljubouri to death. He is being […]
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