US Journalist to Be Deported From Turkey

LONDON - Jake Hess, a U.S. freelance journalist who also wrote for IPS on Kurdish rights within Turkey, is to be deported following a government order. "I'm waiting to be sent back to the U.S," says Hess, who is a U.S. citizen. Jake Hess was taken into custody by...

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Israeli Claims Over Abused Journalist Challenged

with Mel Frykberg LONDON - Medical reports seen by IPS appear to confirm the testimony of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer of physical abuse at the hands of Israelis last month. Omer said he was physically and mentally abused at the Allenby crossing into Gaza...

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Amnesty: US Sets Standards, Fails to Meet Them

LONDON - The annual report of Amnesty International (AI) released Wednesday holds the United States responsible for setting world standards on human rights -- and then failing in that task. "As the world's most powerful state, the USA sets the standard for...

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UK: Once Again, Stop the War

LONDON - More than three years after London saw its biggest ever rally to prevent the war in Iraq, the group Stop the War is launching a new campaign to pull coalition forces out of Iraq. That rally in 2003 failed to stop the war, as the massively backed coalition had...

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Iraq: Little Brother Poses a Problem

LONDON (IPS) – The signs have been emerging thicker and faster of late that the British want to pull out of Iraq altogether, but on Friday a British general set a timeline, and Prime Minister Tony Blair as good as agreed. General Sir Richard Dannatt said in an...

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UK Officer: Afghanistan Policy ‘Barking Mad’

LONDON - There have been critics enough of the U.S.-led military actions under way in Afghanistan, but now military commanders too have begun to question just what they are doing in Afghanistan. Most prominently, an officer who was an aide to the British forces in...

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Watch That Box for al-Jazeera, and More

LONDON - The appearance of an English-language service from al-Jazeera television will mark more than expansion of a company; it will come as one of the biggest challenges yet to the dominance of Western news providers, academics say. "The forthcoming launch of...

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Report: Taliban Taking
Over Again

LONDON - The Taliban have regained control over the southern half of Afghanistan and their frontline is advancing daily, a group closely monitoring the Afghan situation said in a report Tuesday. The report on the reconstruction of Afghanistan marking the fifth...

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UK Foreign Policy Hangs Above Terror Threat

LONDON - The suspects in the bomb-plot case in Britain are a long way from being convicted, but Muslim leaders are blaming government policy for provoking youths to consider terrorist ways. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his ministers have flatly dismissed...

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UK Muslim Leaders Begin to Doubt the Plot

LONDON - Many Muslims in Britain are beginning to doubt the alleged plot to blow up aircraft flying to the United States from Britain. The arrest of 24 people last week was followed by the cancellation and diversion of hundreds of flights at British airports. The plot...

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