DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 8 JULY 2012

Latin America Mexican public voice protest over Presidential election results A non-partisan protest has erupted throughout Mexico City over concerns that the newly elected President Enrique Nieto was elected under unfair condi...
by Tom Dunbar
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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 31 AUGUST 2012

Africa & Middle East UN due to meet over Syria refugee crisis The United Nations Security Council is due to meet with Turkey to discuss the refugee crisis instigated by what is now being described as a civil war. Turkey is ...
by Tom Dunbar
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Daily News Roundup – 16 October 2012

  Europe McKinnon extradition blocked by UK government British Home Secretary Theresa May has announced today that hacker Gary McKinnon, who admits accessing US government computers, will not be extradited to the United States...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 5 December 2012

  Africa Mali crisis: Tuareg rebels in talks with government Government officials in Mali have held the first direct talks with rebel groups that seized the north of the country after a coup earlier this year.  The Burkina Fa...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Giants, Hackers, Trolls: Where Mythology and Online Activism Meet

Netizens have come to know a “troll” as ”someone who posts a deliberately provocative message” to fuel an argument online. That these inflammatory net users were labeled as “trolls” was no accident. The original m...
by Global Voices
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Mexico’s Growing Human Trafficking Scene

In one Mexican farm alone, Bioparques de Occidente in Jalisco (BO), more than 250 workers were rescued from slavery circumstances.
by Carlos Arturo
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Daily News Roundup – 1 August 2012

  Europe Scheme launches in UK to prompt lending  The Funding for Lending initiative, a new scheme to prompt banks and other lenders to make more money available to homeowners and businesses, has come into operation in th...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 29 August 2012

  Europe Rich should pay more tax – Nick Clegg Nick Clegg, the leader of Britain’s junior coalition party and deputy prime minister, has suggested in an interview with the Guardian newspaper that the rich should be asked t...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 17 September 2012

  Worldwide Muslim protests at anti-Islam film escalate across the Islamic world Fresh protests, involving thousands of Muslims worldwide, are taking place over an amateur anti-Islam video produced by private citizens in t...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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