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Daily News Roundup – 24 October 2012
Africa Equatorial Guinean human rights lawyer ‘missing’ Fabian Nsue Nguema, a top human rights lawyer in Equatorial Guinea, has gone missing. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said he was last known to have visited a jail on Mo...
Extreme Poverty Set to Vanish by 2028?
“Statisticians are kind of bewildered by this,” but…”extreme poverty” — that is, the number of people around the world living on less than $1.25 a day, counting inflation — is “on a trend...
A Simple Experiment Exposes People’s Views on Domestic Abuse
On the surface, most of us all acknowledge that domestic abuse is bad and cruel and something that needs to be dealt with. Most of us agree that anyone who commits horrible acts of violence against women should be stopped and p...
Cyber Attack Downs Mozambique’s @Verdade News Site On Election Day
@Verdade, a Mozambican weekly newspaper and Global Voices partner, was the victim of a massive cyber attack on Oct. 15, 2014, when Mozambican general elections took place last week. The attack began on the eve of the electi...
The Papal Contenders
“He that hath knowledge spareth his words” (Proverbs 17:27) He that hath knowledge spareth his words indeed, a proverb which in light of the recent shock announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s unorthodox resignation seems mo...
The ‘Innocence of Muslims’ is a trap we must overcome
This week, anger has turned flags into flames and spilt blood in the streets of Sanaa, Benghazi, Cairo and Tehran over a cheap, cowardly trap, set with the one aim of inspiring violence. And it has. But now it is time that we s...
