http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/29/anti_mining_activists_killed_in_el Anti-Mining Activists Killed in El Salvado For the second time in a week, a prominent anti-mining activist has been assassinated in El Salvador. On Saturday, thirty-two-year-old Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto was shot dead near her home. One of her children was also injured in the shooting. Sorto was an active member of the Cabañas [...]
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Anti-Mining Activists Killed in El Salvado
January 1, 2010Iran’s Mousavi Ready to Die for Opposition Cause
January 1, 2010Published on Friday, January 1, 2010 by Agence France Presse Iran’s Mousavi Ready to Die for Opposition Cause TEHRAN – Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said on Friday that he was ready to sacrifice his life in his campaign to have the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad overturned. A demonstrator, backdropped by [...]
Iraq ‘to Appeal Blackwater Verdict’
January 1, 2010Published on Friday, January 1, 2010 by Al Jazeera English Iraq ‘to Appeal Blackwater Verdict’ The Iraqi government will push to appeal a US court ruling dismissing charges of murder against five security guards of the private Blackwater firm, an official has told Al Jazeera. Saad al-Muttalibi, an adviser to the Iraqi council of ministers, said [...]
