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Thousands protest against Togolese government in Lome


Press TV
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:49 UTC
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Togolese opposition supporters hold a demonstration in the capital, Lome, August 22, 2012.
housands of opposition activists have held a demonstration in the Togolese capital, Lome, to protest against President Faure Gnassingbe's government.

The demonstration started in Lome's Be Kpota neighborhood and ended peacefully near a city beach on Saturday.

However, the opposition coalition Let's Save Togo said over 100 protesters were wounded and 125 others were detained during similar demonstrations on Tuesday and Wednesday, when security forces fired tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd.

In response, the demonstrators threw rocks at the security forces and burnt tires.

Protesters have been campaigning for a delay in parliamentary elections to allow reforms to first take place in the West African nation.
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Crusader

How Are US Religious Fundamentalists Any Different Than Middle Eastern Ones?

Shirin Sadeghi
Truthout
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:57 UTC
Congressman Todd Akin
© Dan Gill / The New York Times
Congressman Todd Akin.

In the American media, the news from Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan and elsewhere generally runs along the same themes: scary, violent and religious nutsos. But isn't it time the US media and the American public agreed that America isn't much different? America has just as many religious fundamentalists and nut jobs, and they are making public statements just as often - if not more often - than the religious fundies elsewhere.

Are we to believe that a fundamentalist in a suit is less scary than a fundamentalist in a beard, even if both are spouting hatred against women?

Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin's recent comments about how women can't become pregnant from what he called "legitimate rape" was just the latest in a long line of pronouncements from American leaders with strong religious backgrounds who believe they are an authority on women's needs and health. Akin is no different than the numerous Iranian clerics who've said such ridiculous things as women who have extramarital sex "cause earthquakes," or the Egyptian cleric who first said that a husband and wife cannot be completely naked while having sex. (This was then modified by scholars, and it was agreed that the most important thing is that no one look at the vagina at the scene of the sex act.) Or the fatwa after fatwa about men and women working together, schooling together and all the rest (sounds a lot like segregation, doesn't it America?).
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Che Guevara

Immigrants Hold Demonstration in Greece Against Racism


Press TV
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:45 UTC
Thousands of immigrants have held a demonstration in Greece's capital city of Athens to protest against racism in the country, Press TV reports.
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On Friday, more than 5,000 demonstrators marched to parliament, carrying banners reading "No Islamophobia" and "Neo Nazis out!" in one of the biggest anti-racism demonstrations in Athens in recent years.

Greece is a main entrance for Asian and African migrant workers trying to enter the European Union. They face increasing hostility as the country, which has been at the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis, is experiencing its fifth year of recession, while harsh austerity measures have left about half a million people without jobs.

In recent months, there has been a sharp rise in tensions between immigrants and Greek citizens.

On Thursday, police arrested hundreds of undocumented migrant workers in the western city of Corinth and put them in a former army camp.
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Illinois Police Say Teen Held Captive 2 Years Escapes


Google
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC
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© The Associated Press/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, J.B. Forbes
Members of the Madison County tactical response team take a two-year-old child to a waiting ambulance Thursday evening, Aug. 23, 2012 in Washington Park, Ill.
Washington Park, Illinois - A teenage girl reported missing more than two years ago escaped from a home in southwestern Illinois where she said she was held captive and repeatedly sexually assaulted, police said Thursday.

Police in Washington Park, a village next to East St. Louis, said the girl reported that she was raped by her captor, got pregnant and had a baby.

In April 2010, St. Louis, Mo., police listed the girl as a missing or runaway juvenile. She was 15 when she disappeared.

She escaped from the home in Washington Park earlier this week and went to police, saying her child was still in the house.

About two dozen members of a SWAT team wearing helmets and body armor swarmed the home Thursday afternoon with their assault rifles drawn. They recovered the child and arrested a 24-year-old man.
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Crusader

Crosses chopped down: 'Anti-church hysteria' spreads across Russia


RT
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC
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Still from the video by Arkhangelsk eparchy
Several Orthodox Christian crosses have been chopped down in different parts of Russia. The incidents come after the Femen movement attacked a cross in Kiev to protest the sentence of the punk band Pussy Riot, who received two years in prison.

­The incidents occurred overnight. Crosses have been taken down in the Chelyabinsk region, Urals and Archangelsk region, northern Russia.

By the time police arrived at the scenes the vandals had already left. Authorities have launched an investigation into both cases.

The Arkhangelsk cross was erected in the memory of the victims of political repressions, said a local priest, Hegumen Feodosy.

He also said that in recent years the monastery, situated across the street from the cross, has seen two arson attacks and a number of other acts of vandalism.
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Pistol

Seven-Year-Old Connecticut Boy Accidentally Shoots 52-Year-Old Neighbor In Chest


CBS News New York
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:24 UTC
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Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury
Prospect, Connecticut - Connecticut police said that a seven-year-old boy accidentally shot his adult neighbor in the chest using the man's own handgun.

The homeowner, identified as Joseph Delucia, was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury for treatment. Police said that his gunshot wound is non-life threatening and his condition appears to be stable.

Authorities did not immediately release information on how the boy got hold of the gun and circumstances related to the shooting at the Summit Road home.

State police continue to investigate the incident.

Source: The Associated Press
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2 Injured after Small Plane Crash-Lands in California


Boston.com
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC
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© The Associated Press/Mike Meadows
Los Angeles firefighter paramedics assist an injured passenger after his plane crashed Saturday Aug. 25, 2012 near Whiteman Airport in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles - Authorities say a small plane has crash-landed in a business district in Southern California's San Fernando Valley, striking two cars and injuring the two people on board.

Nobody on the ground was hurt.

Los Angeles Police Officer Norma Eisenman says the plane went down just before noon Saturday in the Pacoima area, not far from Whiteman Airport.

Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott says one person on board was seriously hurt and the other suffered moderate injuries.

Scott says the plane went down between two buildings in a business district. Two vehicles and an awning on one building were damaged.

There was no fire, but fuel leaked from the crashed plane.

Investigators weren't immediately sure whether the plane had originated at Whiteman Airport.

Source: The Associated Press
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Sheeple

Grizzly mauls hiker to death at Denali National Park

Miguel Llanos
NBC News
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:53 UTC
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A backpacker hiking inside Denali National Park was killed by a grizzly bear after a violent struggle, the park said in a statement Saturday. The death was the first fatal bear mauling inside the huge park in Alaska.

Rangers discovered the body after three day-hikers found a backpack, as well as torn clothing and blood, along the Toklat River on Friday afternoon, the park stated.

The rangers arrived at the site Friday night but were unable to immediately recover the remains due to the presence of at least one bear in the area and the approaching darkness.

All hiking in the area was banned until further notice.

The park estimates that some 12 grizzlies have been residing in the area this summer.

Besides recovering the remains, park rangers were also trying to locate the predatory bear.

Denali in June saw the tragic deaths of four Japanese climbers swept up by an avalanche on Mount McKinley.
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Rajasthan Panchayat Bans Use of Mobile by Girls


IANS
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:57 UTC
Girl with Phone
© IBN Live
Jaipur - After girls in a village in Uttar Pradesh were banned from using mobile phones about a month ago, now a village panchayat in Rajasthan has prohibited minor girls from carrying mobiles and has directed them to cover their heads when going out of home.

The village council has also ordered minor boys not to play music on their mobile phones.

The restrictions have been imposed in Kishorpura village near Udaipurwati town of Jhunjhunu district, some 200 km from Jaipur.

"The panchayat recently held a general meeting in which village elders expressed the view that mobile phones were spoiling girls," Kishorpura sarpanch (council head) Bimla Meena said.

Following the meeting, the elders decided to impose a ban on the use of mobile phones by minor girls from the village.

"The minor girls have been asked not to use and carry mobile phones. They have also been directed to wear proper clothes. They will have to keep their heads covered with stole. It would make them look decent," Meena added.
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Handcuffs

Police shoot man who held hostage at Lakewood credit union


KING5 News
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:48 UTC
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Police shot a man who showed up with a hostage and a weapon at the Washington State Employees Credit Union in Lakewood.

Police say this was a domestic situation, but it's not known if the domestic dispute was with an employee of the credit union or a customer.

Police had the opportunity to take a shot to protect the hostage. The man was shot and was taken to a local hospital.

Nobody else was hurt.

It's not known how many people were inside the credit union at 9540 Bridgeport Way SW [Lakewood, WA]. Police planned to bus them to the police department.
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