IEBC will not issue regular updates on presidential poll results – Chiloba
Palestinians: Abbas’s Security Doubletalk by Bassam Tawil
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So, who is taking Abbas’s threats to suspend security cooperation with Israel seriously? Not Israel, not the Americans, and certainly not many Palestinians. Abbas is caught between two bad places — both of his very own making. On the one hand, he knows that security cooperation with Israel is his only insurance policy to remain in power and alive. On the other hand, Abbas is acutely aware of his status among many Palestinians, who would be more than happy to replace him with someone more… to their taste.
U.S. Abuses Its Mandate to Spread Democracy and Freedom in Iran
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Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah was fired, he believes, for refusing to produce a report painting Israel in an evil light, while defending Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at the NGO Human Rights Watch. Instructed by duty editor Keyvan Hosseini to do a story on Israel’s denial of a work visa for Shakir (which ultimately it granted), Yazdanpanah objected that the topic was irrelevant to the station’s audience and unrelated to Radio Farda‘s mission — “to inform people about the corruption and human rights violations in Iran.”
Hero Imams by Khadija Khan
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More than 60 Islamic leaders and imams — from France, Belgium, Britain, Tunisia, and of different Islamic faiths — in a move that may be unprecedented, are touring Europe to denounce Islamic terrorism and to pay homage to the victims of terror in Europe by visiting many of the sites of terror attacks The idea seems to have shaken extremists to the core. They have been sending these imams death threats.
Handy way to pay: US firm plans to fit employees with microchip implantsa