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US Muslims call on Obama for change
As the US city of Philadelphia prepares for its most closely watched political primary in generations one significant part of the population seems to have already picked their man. Muslim-American community leaders, activists and voters in the city of brotherly love, as Philadelphia is known, say Barack Obama is by far their preferred candidate. Philadelphi.. More -
Iraq: State of instability
Despite US generals' asserting that the so-called "surge" strategy in Baghdad is working, Iraq has witnessed the deadliest attacks against civilians in months. Dozens were killed across the country in apparent suicide attacks using techniques similar to those during 2006 and 2007 when Iraq appeared on the edge of a sectarian war. Confrontations between.. More -
Top Bush aides pushed for Guantánamo torture
America’s most senior general was “hoodwinked” by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques of terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners, the Guardian revealed. General Richard Myers,.. More -
Sarajevo's siege mentality
During the brutal conflict in the Balkans in the 1990s, the Bosnian capital Sarajevo was besieged by Serb forces for nearly four years. As part of the Veterans series Al Jazeera visited the now peaceful city and found reminders of the country's violent past are never far away. Ismet Godinjak is a rare thing in Bosnia - an Olympic and European champion. .. More -
Bangladesh children toil to survive
It was a routine raid by Bangladeshi police on a textile factory in a shadowy suburb of the capital, Dhaka. But the raid was not because employees there included a "workforce" of girls as young as 10-year olds. It was because the factory was operating illegally. The girls work for 12 hours a day, six days a week, for just 70 US cents a day. They.. More -
Israel accused of using torture
Israel is using psychological torture against Palestinian suspects, in part by insinuating that their families will be hurt if they do not co-operate, according to a report by a human rights group. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel made the allegation on Sunday in an 86-page report that examined six cases over the past year. It.. More -
Rwanda: Living with genocide
As part of its special series on Veterans, Al Jazeera visited Rwanda and found that survivors of the country's brutal genocide are struggling to overcome their experience. Eugenie is one of the few survivors from the attack. She says she only survived because her body was so badly mutilated her assailants left her for dead. The majority of the.. More -
US lawmakers invested in Iraq, Afghanistan wars
U.S. lawmakers have a financial interest in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a review of their accounts has revealed. Members of Congress invested nearly 196 million dollars of their own money in companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars a day from Pentagon contracts to provide goods and services to U.S. armed forces, say.. More -
Gaza’s crushed childhoods and scars that never heal
Ayman is a soft-spoken 14-year-old boy in Jabalia City, Gaza. His family is poor, and his parents have already sold almost all their furniture to pay for food and schooling for their children. Recently, after collecting a government food handout, Ayman’s father, who has been unemployed since March 2006, had to sell the milk to pay for the journey.. More -
Landmines in Pakistan ruin lives, leave hundreds dead
Palvasha Ahmed and her two younger sisters know all too well the risks posed by landmines. “Our cousin, Maryum Ahmed, 19, was injured by a landmine nearly a year ago in her village in South Waziristan. She lost her right foot and now goes around on a crutch. No one will marry her,” the 17-year old said in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Pakistan’.. More -
Refugees fear return to Afghanistan
The countdown has begun for Afghan refugees to vacate the Jalozai camp, 35 km east of this border city in Pakistan. An estimated 88,000-registered refugees, many of whom have lived in Pakistan for close to three decades, have been told to leave. Pakistani authorities said bulldozers will flatten the makeshift, mud-plastered homes in Jalozai after Apr... More -
Where are the Iraqis in the Iraq war?
Five years after the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, mainstream media is once more making the topic an object of intense scrutiny. The costs and implications of the war are endlessly covered from all possible angles, with one notable exception — the cost to the Iraqi people themselves. Through all the special coverage and exclusive reports,.. More -
McCain's spiritual guide: Destroy Islam
Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a "war" against what he called the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of destroying it. On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal.. More -
Somalia: The world's forgotten crisis
Forty humanitarian agencies have warned of an impending catastrophe in Somalia unless urgent action is taken. A million Somalis have left their homes because of insecurity and hunger, while a further 20,000 flee the capital Mogadishu every month, they say. Over the past year Mogadishu has been rocked by almost daily violence between fighters and.. More -
Donors accused of failing Afghans
Some $10bn in aid promised to Afghanistan has still to be delivered, aid organisation Oxfam has said. It also finds that two-thirds of aid is not spent through the government and 40% goes back to donor countries in consultant fees and expatriate pay. Oxfam says the prospects for peace in Afghanistan are being undermined because what has been donated.. More
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