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On Friday Israel deployed some 2,500 police and soldiers throughout Jerusalem's Old City, as a quartet of world powers, including the US, EU, Russia and the UN, called on the Jewish state to halt settlement expansion in East Jerusalem.
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On Saturday, March 20, the Thai opposition group Democracy Against Dictatorship (aka UDD or "red-shirts") is staging a march through the capital of Bangkok. In anticipation of potential violence and confrontations between UDD and Thai government security forces, the U.S. Embassy - Bangkok has issued this Warden Message to "urge U.S. citizens to avoid the areas of demonstrations and to exercise caution if within the vicinity of any demonstrations."
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An El Salvadorian police officer was wounded Thursday when a bomb exploded outside the Rio Lempa Hydroelectric Power Plant Executive Commission's office in San Salvador. Police officials described the officer's wounds as "slight" and said little damage was done to the buildings.
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RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service reported (link below) Thursday (3/18) that a man identifying himself as a Chechen militant said in a telephone call that "Russia's most wanted man -- Islamist insurgent leader Doku Umarov -- has been killed."
The caller claims that Umarov died in a shootout on March 10 near Arshty, close to the Chechnya/Ingushetia border.
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Earlier this month we had this post about accusations that the Ethiopian government is jamming the Amharic language shortwave band broadcasts of Voice of America and Germany's Deutsche-Welle.
Well, on Thursday Prime Minister Meles Zenawi all but admitted that his government was behind the VOA broadcast interruption. He said that what listeners experienced might have been testing of jamming technology. Meles also compared VOA Amharic Service to Radio Mille Collines, which broadcast hate messages blamed for inciting the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
In response Voice of America Director Danforth Austin issued a statement Thursday saying, "any comparison of VOA programming to the genocidal broadcasts of Rwanda's Radio Mille Collines is incorrect and unfortunate."
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David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty in court Thursday to a dozen federal terrorism charges, and admitted that he participated in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, as well as later planning an attack against a Danish newspaper cartoonist.
Headley further admitted to having longstanding ties to the Pakistan terrorist group, Lashkar e Tayyiba (LeT), which is believed responsible for the Mumbai attacks.
As part of his plea deal, Headley is expected to continue cooperating with authorities, and will have to testify in foreign judicial proceedings should he be told to do so.
For more on Headley and his guilty plea, check out this Chicago Sun-Times article and the U.S. Justice Department release.
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Indications are that Iran plans to start the first reactor at the Bushehr nuclear power plant this summer, as both Atomstroyexport, the Russian firm building the facility, and Russian President Vladimir Putin have said so.
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RIA Novosti - "The launch date has been postponed many times over financial and technical problems and amid Iranian claims that Russia was reluctant to finish the facility due to UN sanctions and suspicions over the covert nuclear weapons program."
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The Sri Lankan government is allegedly conducting surveillance on certain journalists and activists. The revelation came to light two weeks ago when a website published a leaked government document with the names of 35 journalists, activists and lawyers who have been critical of the government.
While the BBC reports the office of Sri Lanka's president has denied the existence of the list, groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are calling for the government to end its "witch hunt" of journalists and non-governmental organizations.
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The HALO Corporation has teamed with a group of faith based and disaster focused organizations -- including the Harvard Medical School Disaster Medicine Doctors and Fellows, and the Boston Childrens Foundation -- to establish a relief effort for Haiti on the isle of La Gonave, where many victims displaced by the catastrophic Port-au-Prince earthquake are migrating. For more on this effort and to read about how you can help, visit The HALO Corporation website here.
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