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Daily News Roundup – 18 September 2012
Europe Mark Duggan “give loaded gun” before police shooting A loaded handgun was given to Mark Duggan 15 minutes before he was shot dead by police in Tottenham last year – the incident over which a protest was held tha...
Russia’s Internet Censorship “Experiment”
A Russian federal region is about to embark on an “experimental” project aimed at censoring the internet. A joint effort by the Kostroma regional government and an NGO called the League of Safe Internet, it is similar in sp...
The role of the media in Jessica Lal’s murder case
With the advent of media in every sphere of human life, even the last bastion of protection from prying eyes – the judiciary – seems to have fallen. Trial by media made famous, or infamous, by the O.J. Simpson murde...
This Woman Marched Thousands Of Kilometers Across Pakistan For Her Brother And Balochistan’s Missing People
Disappearances are not uncommon in Balochistan, where Baloch nationalists are fighting an armed resistance against the Pakistani state. Yet, the tale of “missing people” in Pakistan’s largest province remains one of th...
Hooked on the War on Drugs
For thirty years, the global cocaine empire was controlled from the heart of Colombia’s streets. Led by the so-called “Kings of Cocaine”, the most notorious drug cartels in history dominated every level of the country’s...
Dependency On Russian Gas Makes The EU Impotent
The crisis in Ukraine has put the EU on high alert not only because of the prospect of war on its border, but also because the conflict between Ukraine and Russia threatens energy security in the rest of the continent as 30 per...
