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European leaders oppose Trump travel ban, far right applauds

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European leaders oppose Trump travel ban, far right applauds AP The leaders of Britain and Germany joined other American allies Sunday in criticising President Donald Trump's US entry ban for people from

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Truth about Adivasis caught in the crossfire

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Truth about Adivasis caught in the crossfire Special Report “Physical beating is a very common thing.” Social activist and researcher Bela Bhatia’s face was pinched with pain as she spoke about the violence that is a reality in the lives of people in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. She spoke about how people can readily show you their bruises a

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Two Peoples Bound By Water : An Open Letter To Our Fellow Indians On Indus Water Treaty

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Over the last few months, there is an increasingly shrill demand coming from the hawkish ‘foreign policy advocates’ and the right wing war mongers that as a “fitting reply” to the tragic killing of 18 of our soldiers in the condemnable Uri attack on Sept.18, India should abrogate the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between the two countries, thereby ‘choking Pakistan&rsquo

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Drugs and Surging Violence — The Afghanistan Disaster

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Perhaps Donald Trump has a valid point about Mexico’s threat to the United States, because the 2016 US National Heroin Threat Assessment notes that «Mexican traffickers have taken a larger role in the US heroin market, increasing their heroin production and pushing into eastern US markets». The report points out that 10,574 Americans died of heroin ove

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Shock Doctrine at Work in India

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EXCESSES IN KASHMIR

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Excesses in Kashmir AN Indian rights group — the Concerned Citizens Collective — that includes individuals known for taking a position on the most dangerous issues in their country, came up with a strong statement on India-held Kashmir. Coming at the end of a four-day probe, during which group members met some 150 people of various ages and from all w

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Now in Bangladesh, Rohingya Muslims Describe Rape, Murder in Myanmar

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The Myanmar soldiers came in the morning, the young mother says. They set fire to the concrete-and-thatch homes, forcing the villagers to cluster together. When some of her neighbors tried to escape into the fields, they were shot. After that, she says, most people stopped running away. “They drove us out of our houses, men and women in separate lines, ordering us to keep our hand

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