The Israeli “government research detailing the number of calories Palestinians in Gaza need to consume to avoid malnutrition”gives credence to the UN’s concern that “if the research reflected a policy intended to cap food imports, it went against humanitarian principles”:
“The clip, which has been viewed over 13 million times on YouTube since it was uploaded by an anonymous user in 2009, combines dramatic music with skewed population statistics to make claims about various European countries such as ‘In just 39 years France will be an Islamic republic’”:
The Roman Catholic boy who plead guilty to grand attacks “said he converted to Islam in 2005 and traveled to Somalia” for training and “returned in 2011 and carried out attacks after Kenya sent soldiers into Somalia. ‘If they killed some of our members in Somalia, I had to kill some civilians here. It was tit for tat,’ he told investigators”:
- Kenyan Christians Fear Former Brethren Are Attacking Churches (Christian Science Monitor)
- Official: Shot Pakistani Girl Is Moving Her Limbs (AP / abc News)
- Israel: Gaza Getting Missiles From Libyan War (AP / abc News)
- Egypt’s Islamist Revival Most Evident at the Grass Roots (Washington Post)
Mr Brahimi wants a truce over the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, which starts on 25 October, to “allow a political process to develop”:
“20 percent of the country’s 2 million Kurds were stripped of citizenship rights in 1962, effectively banning them from owning property or marrying. But in April last year, Assad restored these rights in a bid to win Kurdish support in the early days of the uprising. Many believe the” Syrian Kurds are trying to emulate Iraqi Kurds in seeking autonomy”:
- In Syria’s War, Long-repressed Minority Finds New Freedom (Christian Science Monitor)
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