Palestinians read a sign on the gate of the United Nations distribution center at the Jabalia refugee camp. The camp was established after the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict for 35,000 refugees who had fled from villages in southern Palestine.
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A eighty-four year old man in Northern Nigeria has prompted anger from Muslims, even receiving death threats, for having 86 wives. Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reports from Bida, where Mohammed Bello has caused huge controversy.
A Zimbabwean holds a newly issued fifty million dollar note. The country is in a severe economic and political crisis, with official inflation figures at over 100,000 percent. The new note is worth the equivalent of three loaves of bread.
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This film examines the life and death of Steve Biko, following his death in custody.
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." These words testify to the passion, courage, and keen insight that made him one of the most powerful figures in the struggle against apartheid.
Reporter Ramita-Navai travels through India exposing the horrific plight of the country's millions of Dalits: literally "the broken people".
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August 20, 2007: Dhaka-University (DU) erupts in violence as army men beat students. The army-personnel mercilessly beat 3 DU-students & humiliated a teacher over a petty-dispute concerning comments passed by spectators watching a soccer match on the university ground.
August 30, 2007: General-Moeen imposes curfew in all major cities; warns tough action against trouble makers; all universities closed for indefinite period.
Background
The army sneaked into power on January 11, 2007, through a bloodless-coup.
Via Bangladesh-Blogger
Residents in the Gaza-Strip are facing the closure of the territory's only power plant as Israel continues a shutdown of its border crossings. "There is no fuel coming in and we have no reserves," Kanaan Abeid, deputy chairman of the Palestinian Energy Authority in the Gaza Strip, said.
However, Arye-Mekel, the Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, said that supplies of petrol used in cars, as well as diesel, had been halted but not essential-fuel.
The UN organisation supporting Palestinian refugees, warned that the shortages would drastically affect hospitals and water facilities. "The logic of this defies basic humanitarian standards," Christopher Gunness, UNRWA spokesman, said.
Via Al-Jazeera
The ultra-orthodox anti-Zionist group, Neturei Karta, on Thursday condemned "the recent Zionist terrorist massacre" in Gaza.
The statement read, "Anti-Zionist Jews condemn the Zionists in no uncertain terms for their violent and bloodthirsty behavior."
"We cannot understand why great world powers seem to give the Zionists a free hand to commit such crimes against the indigenous Palestinian people from the comfort of their F-16 fighter jets, helicopter gun ships and Merkava tanks."
It went on to call on "great world powers" to "restore the rights of the Palestinians throughout historic Palestine."
The statement concluded: "Zionism is doomed!
Via Jerusalem-Post
The UN agency for Palestinian-refugees on Friday appealed to Israel to lift its lockdown of Gaza and open crossings into the impoverished territory where most of the residents depend on food aid.
"It is imperative that these crossings are opened so that the dire situation in Gaza does not deteriorate further, inflicting further misery on one and half million people" who live there, Christopher Gunness, the spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), told AFP.
Two Palestinians, including a woman, were killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza on Thursday. More than two dozen people have now been killed in the three days of military action. Al Jazeera's David Chater reports from Jerusalem.
Abdur Rahim Green talks about Islam and Democracy.
Born in Dar-es-salaam in Tanzania to British parents, Green's father, Gavin-Green, was a colonial-administrator in the then extant British-Empire.
Whilst in Britain his father got a job in 1976 working for Barclays-Bank International and was subsequently sent to Cairo, Egypt, to set up a branch.
His study of the Qur'an attracted him to Islam, and he-embraced Islam in 1988.
"She was kept in jail for the convenience of the investigation, because if she was given to her mother; she might not have been found for the court hearing," said Jesmin Ara Rosy, of the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association.
"Whenever I went to the jail, she cried and begged me to take her out. I met the judge four times to ask for her release," Rosy told AFP.
The girl was finally sent to a shelter on Tuesday, she added, after the head of the army, General Moeen U. Ahmed, intervened.
Via Inquirer.net
