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"Terrorist" Nuns

admin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:06:29 +0300

Joining protests against US President George W. Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, two American nuns finally found themselves on the country's terrorist watch list.

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"This term terrorist is a really serious accusation," Sister Ardeth Platte told The Washington Times on Friday, October 10.

Ardeth and Sister Carol Gilbert received letters from the Maryland State Police that they are placed on the terrorist watch list.

Drawing Gaza's battle lines

admin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:36:17 +0300

As violence continues between Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas, Artsworld meets a Gazan cartoonist trying to make a difference through her drawings.

Arrests over Afghan civilian deaths

admin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:28:54 +0300

Afghan police have arrested three men alleged to have provided "wrong information" which led to the deaths of scores of civilians in a US air raid.

More than 90 people, mostly women and children, were killed in the village of Azizabad in western Herat's Shindand district on August 22, according to the Afghan government.

Ukraine government on the verge of collapse

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:08:19 +0300

President Yushchenko accuses Prime Minister Tymoshenko of forging a pro-Russian alliance to curtail his powers

The shock waves from the Russian invasion of Georgia sparked a new crisis in Ukraine yesterday as the pro-Western Orange coalition fell apart in acrimony.

President Yushchenko accused his former ally, the Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, of forging a pro-Russian alliance to curtail his powers, claiming that a coup was under way a day before Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President, was due to visit Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.