[Al Ahram] Hundreds of Sudanese protested in the city of ad-Damir on Sunday, demanding the government do more to help villagers whose homes were flooded by an electricity-generating dam, witnesses said.
Witnesses said up to 1,200 protesters gathered outside a government office in ad-Damir, capital of River Nile state, to call on authorities to provide more assistance for people displaced by the Merowe dam.
"The people want the fulfilment of their rights," the protesters chanted, a variation of a slogan often used by demonstrators in "Arab Spring" countries.
The protesters also called for the resignation of the electricity and dams minister.
The $2-billion, Chinese-built Merowe dam was completed in 2009 with the aim of doubling Sudan's electricity supply. The 1,250-megawatt project displaced tens of thousands of people and has long been a source of controversy.
Villagers have clashed with authorities over the dam in the past, though most have now accepted government compensation and moved.
Ezzedin Jafar, a front man for displaced people in the Manaseer area, 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Khartoum, said demonstrators had started a sit-in and would move the protest to Khartoum if their demands were not answered.
"We've tried to meet with officials in the federal government and the state government, but they've refused to respond to us," he said by telephone.
Jafar said about 12,000 people in the area were still affected by the dam, about 9,000 of them living in the open. Police and local government officials were not immediately available for comment.
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The Washington Post reports the shells, which Libya had filled with mustard gas, were discovered in recent weeks at two sights in central Libya. The Post cites unnamed US and Libyan officials.
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Weak tea here. The Iranians had learned to manufacture these things for the Iran Iraq war, where Iraq started using chemical weapons on Iran.
That they had some unfilled shells left over and then got rid of them by selling them to Libya is more like proof that they wanted to get rid of the things.
It was the Libyans who filled them up with the nasty. Who sold them the precursor chemicals? Germans? Probably. Those are the people who need to get a spanking.
JERUSALEM: Israels ambassador to Cairo has traveled to Egypt for the first time since he and his staff were evacuated from the country in September after protesters stormed the Israeli embassy, a Foreign Ministry official said on Sunday.
Playing down the significance of Yitzhak Levanons trip, the official, who asked not to be identified, said the ambassador went to Egypt on Saturday for farewell meetings with foreign and Egyptian diplomats before his retirement.
Israels embassy in a high-rise building in Cairo has remained unoccupied since protesters broke in two months ago, trapping Israeli security guards inside until they were rescued by Egyptian troops. The incident followed the killing in August of five Egyptian security guards by Israeli soldiers pursuing militants who had ambushed and killed eight Israelis along the Israeli-Egyptian border.
The Israeli official said the new ambassador to Cairo, Yaakov Amitai, was expected to travel to the Egyptian capital in December to present his credentials, but the embassy would not be staffed or resume normal activity until acceptable security arrangements were in place.
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[Dawn] A senior Bangladeshi official on Sunday urged Pakistain to formally apologize for alleged atrocities and acts of genocide committed by the Pak military during the independence war in 1971.
Foreign Affairs Minister Dipu Moni made the demand in a meeting with Pakistain's new envoy to Bangladesh, a statement released by the ministry said.
Aided by India, Bangladesh, then the eastern wing of Pakistain, won its independence in 1971 after a nine-month war.
Bangladesh says Pak soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed an estimated 3 million people, raped about 200,000 women and forced millions to flee their homes. Pakistain has disputed the allegations.
According to the statement, Moni "sought Pakistain's understanding and recognition of Bangladesh's position on resolving the outstanding issues including an expression of formal apology from Pakistain for the genocide and atrocities committed by the Pak military in 1971."
It said Moni also wanted to settle the issues of division of assets and war reparations.
Moni said that resolving these long-standing issues was important to maintaining good relations with Pakistain.
"Early resolution of the outstanding issues would enable the existing friendly relations between Bangladesh and Pakistain to make a great leap forward and create a wider space for cooperation," the statement quoted Moni as saying.
The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has initiated a move to try Bangladeshi collaborators who allegedly helped the Pak military. A special tribunal has been formed to conduct the trials.
Five top leaders of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, are currently behind bars, pending trial for their alleged role as collaborators.
Two other men from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which is led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... , are in jail on similar charges. All of them have denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! Jamaat-e-Islami openly campaigned against breaking away from Pakistain during the 1971 war. The international community has called on the government to ensure that the tribunal is free and impartial.
New York-based Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... has praised the government for establishing the tribunal, but called for changes, including allowing the accused to question its impartiality, which current law prohibits.
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Mexico's top cop Attorney General Marisela Morales has requested the extradition of six people suspected of providing guns to narco mobs. She told the Mexico's lower house of Congress last Wednesday three of the suspects are in Texas and three are in Caliphornia. Morales did not mention the gun walking operation known as Fast and Furious nor did she name the individual suspects. But, according to the Latin American Herald Tribune, "One of the requests involves three people believed to have acquired a large number of weapons under the Fast and Furious program."
Morales has been under pressure from politicians to "punish those responsible" in the U.S for an ATF Phoenix program that supplied high-powered weapons to some of the most vicious killers on the planet. The number of Mexican citizens killed with guns purchased under the ATF operation could number in the thousands, according to Chihuahua state prosecutor Patricia Gonzalez.
Wonder if they'll get to the point of demanding the extradition of Eric Holder...
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If it would cover up the conspiracy, I imagine the administration would be all in favor of extradition, on the condition that none of them are allowed to speak to the press.
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The only technicality to avoid such an extradition would be upon conviction in the US of the crime then a denial to the request due to Constitutional 'double jeopardy' civil rights protection. Otherwise, start preparing the paperwork. I'm sure some sort of deal could be worked out by those identified for the crimes who'd rather do time in selected American detention facilities rather than a Mexican prison. You know, like naming names and full telling of facts, dates, and places, predicated with the proviso that any misrepresentation terminates the deal.
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The sad thing is that the Att'y General is probably talking about the individual gun shop owners who sold the weapons under ATF pressure, not the ATF agents or their supervisors.
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Rambler is right: they will turn out to be Class 3 FFL holders. 'Cause that's how the Mexican government rolls, baby!
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We have writers at work. We can help. My sister is a lawyer. Pro bono.
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The only technicality to avoid such an extradition would be upon conviction in the US of the crime then a denial to the request due to Constitutional 'double jeopardy' civil rights protection.
Negatory.
1, the prohibition against double jeopardy applies only after an acquittal.
2, separate sovereigns doctrine permits other jurisdictions to prosecute even after an acquittal (e.g., the feds can try a person even after an acquittal in state court).
3, nothing in the Constitution is binding on foreign governments.
4, nothing pisses off foreign governments like Americans' assumption that it is.
5, the US is obligated to comply with duly ratified extradition treaties, which are presumed to be Constitutional until a US court rules otherwise.
That said, I agree that the Mexican AG appears to be going after the FFL dealers, and that is bullshit.
The Defense Ministry officially announced plans to purchase stealth bombers capable of avoiding radar detection to counter the threat of North Korea's so-called asymmetrical warfare capabilities. Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin told reporters on Tuesday the ministry will push for a stealth fighter acquisition project as part of the ongoing F-X fighter program.
The third phase of the F-X program envisages buying 60 high-performance fighters such as the F-15K from the U.S. from around 2015. The Air Force wanted the third phase to start this year, but budget pressure and Cheong Wa Dae's resistance to hasty implementation of an acquisition program worth trillions of won have led to delays.
It received a fresh spur last year when North Korea's military provocations became more unpredictable, China unveiled its home-grown J-20 stealth fighter jet and Japan announced plans to buy Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jets.
The Air Force, Defense Ministry and Cheong Wa Dae now reportedly agree the purchase needs to be speeded up. The Air Force decided to launch the third phase of the F-X program next year and start buying stealth aircraft around 2015, since the country's F-4 Phantom and F-5 fighter jets are aging fast.
The stealth fighters would allow the Air Force to launch air raids on strategic targets on its own without the support of the U.S. Forces Korea.
Currently, the U.S. F-22 is seen as the world's best stealth fighter, but its overseas sale is banned until 2015. As a result, the F-35, another model whose performance is a little inferior to the F-22's, is mentioned as a potential candidate. Boeing's F-15SE Silent Eagle and Eurofighter's Typhoon are also possible candidates. But the Silent Eagle is only an adapted version of the F-15 with some stealth functions and the Typhoon was not developed as a full-blown stealth fighter in the first place, making the F-35 the preferred option.
However, development of the F-35 keeps has been delayed and the price is expected to keep rising and exceed US$100 million.
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Potential buyers like the F35's advanced tech but love the F-15E's payload.
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Something worthy of an ROK investment would be the secret installation of 16" naval guns, emplaced like coastal artillery, but concealed inside fake buildings on the northern edge of Seoul.
The idea would be rapid and effective counter-battery fire against the Nork guns, that would neutralize or destroy several of their mountain emplaced guns simultaneously. 16" rounds would rattle the heck out of the entire side of the mountain, even dug in granite.
Such guns, inside a thick, reinforced, concrete shell would be close to invulnerable. Nork artillery, on the Soviet model, solely uses Target Reference Points for its fires, and they are almost incapable of lifting and shifting their fires.
In effect, it would be like broadsides from an Iowa class battleship.
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After reading this + related Artics around the Net, my gut is telling me that the SOKOR's covert intent is to SELL/GIVE THIS STEALTH TECH TO NORTH KOREA, as hedge agz domination by China???
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In an INTER-KOREAN MIL CONFLICT, Beijing wont care iff the DPRK is damaged as long as the ROK + US Milfors stay behind the DMZ, + NOT attempt to enter into the North.
In addition, many CHINA MILBLOGGERS support PLA intervention in any war between the two Koreas, TO INCLUDE FORMAL CHIN ANNEXATION OF NORTH KOREA, iff it means keeping the "devil" US below the DMZ, or better yet leaving the Korean Peninsula in its entirety. THEY ARE CONFIDENT THAT, AS IN THE FIRST KOREAN WAR 1950-1953, CHINA CAN ONCE AGAIN STONEWALL OR DEFEAT US + UN FORCES DESPITE ANY TECH INFERIORITY.
h/t Gates of Vienna
More than 250,000 residents out of a total population of one million in Brussels have Muslim roots, according to a study carried out by the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and published in the Belgian media Friday. And the rest are EUro bureaucrats and their support.
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The movie, The Last Days of Man on Earth (1973), loosely based on the Michael Moorcock novel The Final Programme, featured a collapsing Europe, with the suggestion of a haphazard nuclear war in the background, as the world spiraled into chaos. In a way it built on the dystopian future London seen in A Clockwork Orange, except from the point of view of a wealthy scientist.
I mention it because, just in passing, overheard on a radio broadcast was an apology from NATO, for having accidentally dropped an armed nuclear bomb on Brussels. Memorable, more than anything else, because of the general indifference of the characters to the event.
"It's a pity about Brussels... So, how's business?"
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"A person who believes in nothing believes it's all good, will believe in anything." Definition of the multi-culturalist. The end result is darkness.
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Over in NE Asia ...
* WAFF > SOUTH KOREAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY GROWING. Steady rise in inquiries + conversions - current Muslim community in the ROk numbered at 200,000.
[Dawn] The Chief of the Pakistain Moslem League (PML-N) Mian Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... said that the present government is the most corrupt in the history of Pakistain and that the ministers are only making money.
He was speaking to a large gathering at Faisalabad. Nawaz Sharif also said that he was saddened to see the country's situation.
"We are among the last in South Asia," he added.
Nawaz Sharif stressed on President Zardari to launch an inquiry into the alleged memo to Mike Mullen.
He said that if Zardari will not start any inquiry he will go to the Supreme Court on the behalf of all four provinces over the issue.
He also criticised Prime Minister Gilani for praising the US government after the operation against the late Osama bin Laden. ... who sleeps with the fishes... Nawaz Sharif said that Kashmire is an issue of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and security. Criticising the agencies he said that they should stop their interference in the political affairs of Pakistain.
Thousands of peoples welcomed Mian Nawaz Sharif, the head of the N League. Earlier, Chaudhary Nisar Ali, Javed Hashmi, Sanaullah Zahri, Saad Rafiq, Pir Sabir Shah and other leaders addressed the gathering.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali said that ISI is a national organization and that the army is defamed when it personally held on to power.
Talking about the assets of Nawaz Sharif, he said that Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... should contact the Supreme Court on the issue of assets.
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New sanctions announced by Clinton place Irans Central Bank between cross-hairs, building on already-existing American restrictions against doing business with Tehran.
Despite American insistence that it is working together with UN Security Council members and IAEA leaders to formulate a united front against Iran, Washington teamed up with London and Ottawa to announce tough new measures Monday targeting Tehrans financial sector.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced Monday afternoon a series of new sanctions against Tehran, focusing on Irans money-raising activities. The sanctions place Irans Central Bank between the cross-hairs, building on already-existing American restrictions against doing business with Tehran, and targeting companies that support Iranian petrochemical and nuclear initiatives.
Geithner declared the Central Bank of Iran to be a primary money laundering concern, a step short of official sanctions that would require the United States to cut off access to any foreign institution that does business with the bank. That more drastic step would have presented serious problems for US business if states such as China and Russia fail, as they are expected, to cut off ties with Tehran. The new category would simply warn off foreign governments and companies from dealing with Iranian institutions.
Clinton phoned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday evening to brief him on the sanctions the US decided to level against Iran.
[An Nahar] The "time has come" to deal with Iran, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday, refusing to rule out military action to curb the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions.
Barak, speaking on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS program, indicated that Israel's patience was wearing thin -- and provided an ominous response when asked about the growing speculation of an Israeli military strike.
"I don't think that that is a subject for public discussion," he said. "But I can tell you that the IAEA report has a sobering impact on many in the world, leaders as well as the publics, and people understand that the time has come."
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency published a report on November 8 saying there was "credible" information that Iran was carrying out "activities relevant to the development of a nuclear bomb."
On Friday the IAEA's board passed a resolution condemning Iran's nuclear activities, but stopped short of reporting Tehran to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and issuing no deadline for compliance.
"People understand now that Iran is determined to reach nuclear weapons," said Barak. There is "no other possible or conceivable explanation for what they have been actually doing. And that should be stopped."
The IAEA report -- based on "broadly, credible" intelligence, its own information and some input from Iran itself -- said that Iran had examined how to fit out a Shahab 3 missile, with a range capable of reaching Israel, with a nuclear warhead.
Tehran rejected the report "baseless," denies it is seeking nuclear weapons and maintains its nuclear activities are for civilian energy purposes.
Washington, Gay Paree and London however jumped on the report as justification to increase pressure on Iran, already under four rounds of Security Council sanctions and additional U.S. and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... restrictions.
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As said times before, Iran will stay or prefer to stay on the strategic = Diplomatic, Media defensive AMAP ALAP - in its mind, the burden is on the US + Israel, etc. to unilaterally strike or attack Iran where Iran will then be able to blame them for inter-state war, to includ proxy/surrogate terrorism, breaking out.
EVEN GIVEN THE "OBAMA DOCTRINE", THE US IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY TO GET A UNSC MANDATE FOR MILSTRIKE + WAR AGZ IRAN FOR A LONG L-O-N-G TIME TO COME YET.
In sum, it comes down to
> IRAN OR THE USA DOING SOMETHING XTREMELY STUPID ACT = REAX.
> DOMESTIC "REGIME CHANGE" [anti-Govt revolution] IN TEHRAN.
> The US engages in some kind of so-called "FALSE FLAG" OPERATION where Iran + only Iran gets the blame.
Moud + Mullahs are willing to tippy-toe in high heels on a thin tightrope iff it means the success of Iran's NucProgs + LT agendum.
ISRAEL CAN CERTAINLY ATTACK IRAN, BUT ONLY THE US = US-NATO OR UN COALITION CAN ATTACK AS WELL AS INVADE, OCCUPY IRAN.
Pragmatically, iff Israel has now decided absolutely that "time is of the essence" agz Iran, IMO means Tel Aviv must induce POTUS Bammer to do an Option #3 = "False Flag" ASAP AMAP within 6-8 months or less [Dec 2011 < = Aug 2012], AS I DON'T THINK ISRAEL DESIRES TO WAIT UNTIL THE BAMMER WINS OR LOSES HIS RE-ELECTION.
Israel is not just fighting agz time agz any de facto, physically real Iran NucBomb, BUT ALSO THE KNOWLEDGE + LEARNING CURVE(S) THAT IRAN WILL ACQUIRE + USE TO REPAIR OR REPLACE THOSE NUC ASSETS DAMAGED OR DESTROYED VEE LR AIR, MISSLE [Commando?]MILSTRIKE.
Knowledge gained = rarely lost save in the most extreme or difficult circumstances. IOW, ONCE IRAN "HAS THE BOMB", IT "HAS THE BOMB" EVEN IFF THE US, ISRAEL PHYSICALLY DESTROY WHAT ONE OR FEW IT ORIGINALLY HAD.
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I still wish that Israel could have stage managed a nuclear disaster in Iran, to convince the average Iranian on the street that nuclear anything is not right for them. Ideally, that they would as a people be as repulsed by nuclear weapons as were the Japanese after the war.
It would exchange a few thousand lives for tens of thousands of lives.
[An Nahar] Iran is ready to cooperate "further" with the U.N. atomic energy watchdog if it "balances its approach" to the Islamic republic, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Sunday, according to the ISNA news agency.
"We are prepared to cooperate with the agency more than ever, if the (U.N.) agency balances its approach and complies with its statutes and the safeguard agreements," Salehi was quoted as saying.
"If that is the case, we are prepared to cooperate much the same as before and even further with the agency," he said.
The conditional offer was made after a vote Friday by the board of the U.N. watchdog, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, calling for more cooperation from Iran on its nuclear program.
The vote followed a November 8 IAEA report that strongly suggested Iran -- despite its repeated denials -- was researching nuclear weapons under cover of its civilian atomic activities.
The IAEA resolution -- worded to pass muster with Iran's allies Russia and China -- notably stopped short of sending the matter to the U.N. Security Council.
Instead, it said it was "essential for Iran and the Agency to intensify their dialogue" and called on Tehran "to comply fully and without delay with its obligations under relevant resolutions of the U.N. Security Council."
It gave no deadline for those demands to be met, but said IAEA head Yukiya Amano would report to the board in March on Tehran's implementation of the resolution.
Amano said last Thursday he had proposed sending a high-level team to Iran to "clarify the issues" in the IAEA report, and asked Tehran "to engage substantively with the agency without delay."
The U.N. Security Council has already imposed four sets of sanctions on Iran to pressure it to halt its nuclear activities.
Iran's deputy chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri, said, according to the website of Iran's state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, that Washington had "failed" in a bid to again have the IAEA refer Iran's nuclear program to the Security Council.
Iran's representative at the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, was quoted by the ISNA news agency Saturday as saying Iran had already invited IAEA officials to visit to discuss questions raised in the report.
"The director general's announcement that the agency is now ready to send a team of inspectors must be studied again and the result will be announced after that," he said.
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[An Nahar] Former premier Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. on Sunday said that Prime Minister Najib Miqati would only resign when he "feels his boss is about to fall."
Asked by a Twitter user on whether he would ally with Miqati in the 2013 polls if the premier resigned over possible inability to secure the funding of the Special Tribunal for Leb by his government, Hariri said: "No."
"If Miqati resigns, it will be only, AND ONLY, because he feels his boss is about to fall," Hariri tweeted in English.
"Justice will prevail, (the) tribunal has begun its work and soon we will see the criminals behind bars," Hariri said.
He denied that he was "waiting for the (Syrian) regime to fall" in order to return to Leb, noting that he will return to the country "sooner than later."
Asked how would the March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... camp respond if Hizbullah Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... "took Leb to war to protect Syria or Iran," Hariri said: "That's called suicide and I doubt he will."
Asked whether he believed Hizbullah and its allies would resort to military action against fellow Lebanese to "support the Syrian regime," the former premier said: "No i don't think so and if they do they will be committing suicide."
He also noted that Miqati's government would "help" embattled Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... in the event of a foreign military intervention in Syria.
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Director of Iran Space Agency Hamid Fazeli announced on Saturday that the Islamic Republic plans to build a civil satellite launch center, MNA reported. The center will be established with the cooperation of the Defense Ministry, he told IRNA.
The most suitable location to build the center is the southeastern area of the country since its population is not high and is close to the Indian Ocean, Fazeli added.
Don't worry, we'll find it...
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Is this like sending the fleet to the US Atlantic coast? The "hey notice me, I'm important too" ploy?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Al Ahram] Hundreds of Sudanese protested in the city of ad-Damir on Sunday, demanding the government do more to help villagers whose homes were flooded by an electricity-generating dam, witnesses said.
[Dawn] A senior Bangladeshi official on Sunday urged Pakistain to formally apologize for alleged atrocities and acts of genocide committed by the Pak military during the independence war in 1971.
Khaleda Zia
Mexico's top cop Attorney General Marisela Morales has requested the extradition of six people suspected of providing guns to 
Nawaz Sharif
Iran is ready to cooperate "further" with the U.N. atomic energy watchdog if it "balances its approach" to the Islamic republic, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Sunday, according to the ISNA news agency.
Najib Miqati
Director of Iran Space Agency Hamid Fazeli announced on Saturday that the Islamic Republic plans to build a civil satellite launch center, MNA reported. The center will be established with the cooperation of the Defense Ministry, he told IRNA.
