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Posts Tagged ‘violence’
PM concerned over women’s security
February 1st, 2011 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday expressed concern at violence against women in various parts of the country and asked the state governments to step up efforts to protect them. “Most of the women in our country also do not have a voice,” Singh said in his inaugural address at the fourth Chief Ministers’ Conference on [...]
“Day of Rage” protesters burn news truck
January 25th, 2011 |
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Violence broke out in Lebanon as thousands of supporters of acting PM Saad Hariri gathered in Tripoli for what they had called a peaceful “day of rage” protest. Demonstrators attacked a truck belonging to the Al Jazeera news channel and set it on fire. Protesters also burned pictures of former prime minister Najib Mikati, a Hezbollah-backed candidate who is set to be nominated Tuesday to replace Mr. Hariri.
Martin Luther King Jr.: Stop the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Stop the Mugging of the Middle Class and Poor by the Wealthy
January 17th, 2011 |
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The Defense Department’s general counsel said that he believed Martin Luther King, Jr., might have supported the current wars: I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation’…
Violence against women: War’s overlooked victims
January 13th, 2011 |
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Rape is horrifyingly widespread in conflicts all around the world
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SHORTLY after the birth of her sixth child, Mathilde went with her baby into the fields to collect the harvest. She saw two men approaching, wearing what she says was the uniform of the FDLR, a Rwandan militia. Fleeing them she ran into another man, who beat her head with a metal bar. She fell to the ground with her baby and lay still. Perhaps thinking he had murdered her, the man went away. The other two came and raped her, then they left her for dead. …
Eddie Furlong Broke & Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges
January 13th, 2011 |
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Former child star Eddie Furlong is cash-strapped and prohibited from coming within 100 yards of his estranged wife. Furlong, who appears alongside Seth Rogan and Cameron Diaz in the new superhero comedy The Green Hornet, was arrested in Los Angeles Tuesday morning after violating a restraining order taken out by Rachael Bella Kneeland, who filed [...]
Third safe house opens in Belgrade
January 6th, 2011 |
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A third “safe house” – meant to provide shelter for victims of domestic violence – opened in Belgrade on Thursday. Director of Counseling Office Against Family Violence Vesna Stanojević and director of Radio-Television of Serbia Aleksandar Tijanić officially opened the premises.
Amber Portwood Arrested For Domestic Violence: “MTV Made Me Do It!â€
December 28th, 2010 |
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Amber Portwood, one of the stars of the smash MTV docu-series Teen Mom, was arrested Monday on dual charges of felony domestic violence. The arrest came after an exhaustive investigation be police in rural Indianan after Amber was recorded beating portly baby daddy Gary Shirley, 24, to a pulp in an episode that aired on [...]
Belarus election is followed by violence
December 20th, 2010 |
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Violent clashes between opposition supporters and police have followed the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. Photographers and cameramen were forced to the ground to stop them capturing the police beating of one opposition candidate, 64-year-old Vladimir Neklyayev.
83 indicted over gay parade violence
December 10th, 2010 |
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The investigation against 83 persons for causing violence during the Pride Parade is completed and the indictments were issued today. The Belgrade High Court has indicted 83 persons for violent behavior at a public gathering.
Britney ‘to take legal action over domestic violence reports’
December 2nd, 2010 |
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Britney Spears is set to take legal action over reports that her boyfriend had viciously beaten her, according to the star’s management. Star magazine first claimed that the troubled pop star had been abused by Jason Trawick, alleging he had given the singer a black eye and that he had cheated on her with a [...]
Britney Spears Domestic Violence Rumors False, Manager Says: Did Jason Trawick Beat Up Britney Spears?
December 1st, 2010 |
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Reps for “Toxic” singer Britney Spears are threatening legal action against the Goss Watchers who run RadarOnline.com after the website posted audio of a woman purported to be Spears confiding tales of domestic violence at the hands of boyfriend Jason Trawick. Larry Rudolph, Britney’s longtime manager, tells Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush that the voice on [...]
Violence in London over university fees
November 25th, 2010 |
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More than 30 people were arrested in London alone as protests against education cuts erupted across Britain. An estimated 130,000 people demonstrated in the capital against the government’s proposals to raise university fees.
“Teen Mom†Amber Portwood Charged With Felony Domestic Violence
November 18th, 2010 |
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We hope MTV reality stars have a contractual clause granting them access to a good lawyer! On Thursday, authorities in Anderson, Indiana slapped volatile Teen Mom star Amber Portwood with two felony counts and one misdemeanor for domestic violence and battery after the portly young mother attacked her now ex-boyfriend, Gary Shirlye, on national television. [...]
Gibson surrendered multiple weapons after domestic violence claim
November 13th, 2010 |
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Mel Gibson surrendered multiple weapons to LAPD after Oksana Grigorieva accused him of domestic violence. Information about the weapons is provided in an LAPD document called ‘Receipt of Property taken into custody’, reports TMZ.com. Judge Scott Gordon ordered Gibson to submit his weapons, after Oksana filed for a domestic violence restraining order. The order to [...]
Deadly clashes in raid on W. Sahara camp
November 9th, 2010 |
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It is some of the worst violence in years amid the longest-running territorial dispute in Africa. Several people have been killed in clashes in Western Sahara, as Moroccan security forces broke up a protest camp.
Church dignitary: Shame parade caused violence
October 22nd, 2010 |
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Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije has denied that his statements regarding what he called the shame parade contributed to violence.
He repeated that it had been explicitly said that the Church was against violence but that it needed to express its understanding of life.
Tadić on recent violence, EU integration
October 17th, 2010 |
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Boris Tadić has announced that the next attempt of hooligans to demolish the city will “meet an adequate response which will be more intensive if necessaryâ€.
Serbian President Boris Tadić told daily Politika that Serbia was a safe country and that it would not be governed by hooligans but by the government.
President addresses recent violence
October 16th, 2010 |
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President Boris Tadić has stated that hooligans will very soon be punished and that they will not halt Serbia’s EU integration process.
Tadić told Italian RAI TV that some of the hooligans would very soon stand trial.