鈥淲e are human beings, why are we ignored?鈥, a Tamil refugee inside the Christmas Island detention centre told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on the night of January 28.
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Politicians and newspapers love to revere a war hero from Afghanistan. It鈥檚 strange, then, that they haven鈥檛 got round to Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton, the British soldier who has been arrested for addressing an anti-war protest in October.
The recent murder of Nitin Garg highlighted continuing violence against Indian students. It has led some to ask 鈥淚s Australia a racist country?鈥 and put others on the defensive about Australia鈥檚 racist image.
On June 10, 2006, the commander of US-run Guantanamo Bay military camp, Rear Admiral Harry Harris, said three detainees, Salah Al-Aslami, Yasser Talal al-Zahrani and Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, had committed suicide the night before in an act of 鈥渁symmetrical warfare鈥.
A nightclub in Singapore held an event on January 16 encouraging women to have their breast size judged in exchange for alcohol. Material for the event titled Fill my Cups invited women to 鈥渟tep right up to the Boobie Booth and flaunt what you鈥檝e got鈥.
Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, a January 6 AFP article said. It quoted an Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) report, which said more than 1050 people under 18 years of age were killed in 2009 alone.
A global temperature rise of 2掳 Celsius 鈥 the target set at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December 鈥 is a death sentence for Tuvalu.
On January 13, Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 US network FoxNews claimed that while the US 鈥渨as leading [the] international relief effort in Haiti鈥, Cuba was 鈥渃onspicuously absent from the roster of helping hands鈥.
As debate over the travel ban on US citizens visiting Cuba continues in the US Congress, many US citizens remain afraid of visiting their largest Caribbean neighbour.
The article below is abridged from Aporea.org. It has been translated by Kiraz Janicke.
On December 16, the Victorian state government passed the Summary Offences and Control of Weapons Acts Amendment Bill 2009.
On January 14, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Google had removed links to Encyclopedia Dramatica, a user-editable, 鈥渟atirical鈥 website that uses the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia.
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