The demonstrations are claims that security forces killed at least 25 people in Homs and five Talbisseh thousands of people singing to overthrow the Syrian regime took to the streets of the third largest city in the country for mass burials, activists denied any U.S. role in the survey. Human rights groups say security forces killed at least 25 in Homs on Sunday night despite protests erupted President Bashar al-Assad offers reforms in an attempt to quell the unrest. Another five people were killed Sunday night in the nearby city of Talbisseh, and there were unconfirmed reports of four killed in Latakia, rights activists said. Residents of Homs and Talbisseh news agencies said the city is tense following the funerals of at least 8 of the victims. The wounded were denied medical treatment for fear of being arrested, they said, while reports suggest one sitting was being staged. Despite a reduction in the level of violence during protests on Friday and promise to lift emergency laws in the week, protesters turned out on Sunday for the day of independence from Syria, which commemorates the departure of the last French soldier in 1946. Protests also took place in ... The Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty rules over a restive Shiite majority who have long complained of poverty Bahrain has the smallest population of any Arab state, but their special problems out as a test case for peaceful reform in a region more volatile by the riots in Egypt and Tunisia. As the unrest in the kingdom of the small Gulf island entered its second day, the key question is whether the calls for change would be limited or join a more radical phase. King Hamad conciliatory tone suggested that recognizes the gravity of the crisis. Bahrain distinction is that the Sunni Muslim Al Khalifa dynasty rules over a restive Shiite majority that has long complained about poverty and discrimination for employment and housing. The population has grown from 750,000 to over a million in a few years, with the Shiites in the top jobs decline, while a large number of non-Bahraini Sunnis are naturalized. This sectarian division puts Bahrain on a regional fault, with a strong bearish Shi'ite Iran in the Gulf in a country that is also home to the U.S. fleet 5 and a key ally of Washington. The Saudis, with its Shiite majority in the ... There has been mounting concern among some members of the Club's first line with respect to the relationship between its founder, Vaughan Smith ** ** ** ** and Julian Assange of Wikileaks. Now Smith has invited interested members to tomorrow afternoon "open forum" to discuss the issue. Begin with a conversation between Smith and John Owen ** **, president of the club's board of directors. Smith will explain the decision making process following the club's involvement with Assange. He spent two months of work from the club before his arrest in early December. He faces extradition to Spain. When he was denied bail because he had Assange homeless, Smith offered his house in Norfolk as an address to ensure Assange bail. He has been living there since it was released. However, some journalists who attend the first-line Club have become uncomfortable with support from Smith to Assange, claiming that raises questions about transparency and neutrality of club commitments. Smith said in an open letter to members on 7 December, the day Assange provided an address for bail, so we felt it important to back the co-founder WikiLeaks:> "In the face a concerted attempt to shut it ... Despite the plea for unity, leading south Khartoum seems resigned to the choice of secession in the referendum and offered their support during his last visit to southern Sudan before the referendum on independence on Sunday, President Omar al-Bashir promised voters that he would "congratulate and celebrate with you" if they choose secession. Amid intense security, Bashir was greeted warmly today in the southern capital, Juba, by its chairman, Salva Kiir. The leader of Khartoum put a blue mantle over her traditional dress as a sign of respect. His convoy left the airport, passing by hundreds of people who occupy the south of Sudan and the flag waving placards with an outline of an open hand - the symbol that means the gap in the ballot. The message was surprisingly friendly - Bashir is despised by many here - but it was also clear: "Bye bye." In Kiir's presidential palace, Bashir made a final plea to voters to choose the south of the unit, but seems resigned to an alternative outcome, which pledged to uphold. "The imposition of unity by force does not work," he said. "We want unity between the north and south, but this does not oppose the will of the people of the south." An overwhelming vote for secession is a near-certainty, the largest division of Africa ... a former oil tycoon from a long list of opponents to fall ill of the mark relentless Russian leader Vladimir Putin's policy of revenge today claimed another prominent victim with the guilty verdict against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oil tycoon who dared to oppose former Kremlin strongman. I would never be any other result. In Russia today, Putin challenge is like being in front of a tank. Either out of the way or wait - sooner or later - to be flattened. Anything else is, Putin is ruthless, relentless and ruthless when it comes to perceived enemies. In this, continues a tradition of leadership in Russia for some time, and the public seems to like him to obtain approval rating of 70% or higher. However, the length (and depth) to which the former KGB spy appears ready to go have fueled complaints, as published by Wikileaks, which Russia has become a corrupt "mafia state" under his tutelage. An early example of revenge as an instrument of politics came in 1999 when Putin, then a person appointed largely unknown by President Boris Yeltsin took Yuri Skuratov, powerful prosecutor general of Russia. Putin and the then Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin held a ...
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References:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/18/syria-protest-funerals-homs-talbisseh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/bahrain-stress-sectarian-lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jan/18/julian-assange-media-events-conferences
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/04/bashir-south-sudan-independence-vote
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/27/mikhail-khodorkovsky-vladimir-putin
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Syrian protesters call for end to the regime in the mass burials of Bahrain's neighbors are nervous as stress tells along sectarian lines to discuss Frontline Club founder Julian Assange support Albasha Omar visits southern Sudan before independence vote Mikhail Khodorkovsky's latest victim of political revenge Vladimir Putin
