The daughter of a detained human rights activist in Bahrain began a hunger strike on Monday, calling on the authorities to release her father and other members of her family who have been arrested.
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The Lede: Bahrain Activist Starts Hunger Strike
Amid widening alarm about Japan’s nuclear crisis, the authorities reached for ever more desperate methods on Thursday.
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U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High;’ Sees Japan Nuclear Crisis Worsening
Business networking site LinkedIn says it is back online in China, a day after access was blocked by the authorities there.
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LinkedIn service resumes in China
Cairo – As the authorities and protesters struggle to grasp the see-sawing initiative in Egypt’s 15-day-old revolt, the government of Hosni Mubarak unveiled new pledges of reform on Tuesday, but demonstrators crammed anew into Tahrir Square in ever greater numbers to reject anything less than the president’s immediate ouster. read more
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Egypt Details Reforms as Protest Takes on New Life
Cairo — Members of the Muslim Brotherhood joined other opposition groups meeting with Vice President Omar Suleiman on Sunday in what seemed a significant departure in the nation’s uprising and political history. The Brotherhood is an outlawed Islamist organization often depicted by the authorities as committed to the overthrow of the secular order in the heart of the Middle East. Official attitudes toward it here have swung between outright repression and reluctant tolerance. But it has remained Egypt’s biggest opposition force against the autocratic rule of President Hosni Mubarak. read more
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Muslim Brotherhood Join Egypt Talks as Mubarak Allies Make Concessions
A Pakistani court orders the authorities not to release a US citizen who killed two men in Lahore last week and moves to stop him leaving the country.
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Pakistan blocks US man’s release
A woman who the authorities believe took a 3-week-old baby girl from Harlem Hospital 23 years ago was arrested on federal kidnapping charges in Bridgeport, Conn.
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Woman Is Arrested in Kidnap Case
A 27-year-old police officer was shot and killed by a man he had stopped for routine questioning, the authorities said.
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New Jersey Police Officer Is Shot Dead During an Encounter With a Pedestrian
A man called the police after using a pillow to smother his elderly mother, who survived for 24 hours before she died, the authorities said.
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Brooklyn Man Held in Mother’s Death
One teacher and 23 students were released unharmed after about five hours, the authorities said.
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Gunman Releases Wisconsin Students
The privately-funded investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is at risk of running out of cash, her parents say as they urge the authorities to review the case.
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McCann inquiry ‘short of funds’
Rastafarian solicitor says he was persecuted by the authorities
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Racism or justice?
A day-long curfew is imposed by the authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir to foil a protest march called by a hardline separatist group.
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Kashmir separatist calls protest
A prominent human rights lawyer in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh, is detained by the authorities on security charges.
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Iran opposition lawyer detained
The secrecy surrounding counter-terrorism operations increases mistrust of the authorities and fuels conspiracy theories, a think tank suggests.
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Terror strategy ‘fuels mistrust’
U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High;’ Sees Japan Nuclear Crisis Worsening
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