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30 December 2011

India, UK: Killing of Indian Student in the UK Stirs Up Racism Debate

Written by Aparna Ray · Law, Youth

On Monday the 26th of December 2011, Anuj Bidve, a 23yr old Indian student from Pune, was shot dead at point blank range in Salford, Greater Manchester, UK. Netizens react to this incident, which has now been labelled as a 'hate crime'.

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16 December 2011

Armenia: The British Ambassador's Facebook Diplomacy

Written by Onnik Krikorian · International Relations, Politics

An interactive Question and Answer session on Facebook by the British Ambassador to Armenia highlighted both the potential for social media as a tool for engagement as well as some its deficiencies.

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1 December 2011

Global Voices Podcast: Technology that Empowers!

Written by Jamillah Knowles · Blogger Profiles, Global Voices Podcast

In this edition of the Global Voices podcast you can hear how women in Egypt are using technology to fight harassment, and what our Global Voices authors and editors got up to at the Mozilla Festival in London. We also mark World Aids Day by speaking to HIV/AIDS activists in Kenya and Egypt about the special work they do.

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30 November 2011

Iran: British Embassy in Tehran Attacked

Written by Fred Petrossian · Governance, Protest

On 29 November, a crowd of about 1,000 people demonstrated near the British embassy in Tehran after Britain cut all financial ties with Iran over concerns about its nuclear program. The gathering was peaceful, before some participants stormed the building.

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15 November 2011

Eurozone Crisis: Where Will the Economy Go?

Written by Evan Fleischer · Governance, International Relations

Economists would be hard pressed to forecast the future of Europe's bailouts and the consequences of the current financial crisis. While opinions differ, reactions abound online to try to make sense of what future awaits the Eurozone.

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27 October 2011

United Kingdom: At Age 77, a Life of Inspiration

Written by Paula Góes · 7 Billion Actions

Julie Kertesz started blogging and photographing at the age of 70. Now at 77, she has become a role-model to people of all ages who desire to lead full and active lives of learning and doing. Paula Góes reports.

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Updates about United Kingdom

30 November 2011

Farsi

Hamid Darvishi, a pro-regime student who was among those who raided UK compounds in Tehran, describes [Fa] police brutality toward the protesters: “Our wild brothers in police were beating us in our heads. A soldiers asked us how much we were paid to raid the compound here?”

• Hadi Nili

29 November 2011

Farsi

Somayeh Tohidlou, talks about the storming of British Embassy compounds by Iranian protesters. She writes [fa] in Friendfeed: “Are they wrong about the date? This is 2011, not 1979 [when protesters took the US embassy in Tehran] and the regime is 32 years old now, not new-born one.”

• Hadi Nili

Farsi

Amin Sabeti, blogger, linked to a picture which shows a man taking a poster of Pulp Fiction movie out of the UK embassy, wrote [Fa] in his Friendfeed page: “Look at this police! How strong he was reacting toward protestors!”

• Hadi Nili

23 November 2011

English

The Theory's short film Address Is Approximate features a desk toy who escapes the confines of the urban office in the only way he can, using a toy car and Google's Street View application to go on a road trip to the Pacific Coast.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

English

More than 200 fans of the long-running British science fiction show Doctor Who from 25 different countries sent in video clips and Tumblr user Kyle from the US put together a tribute to the show. It was inspired by this video of the Doctor Who cast dancing to 500 Miles by The Pretenders.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

27 October 2011

24 October 2011

French

Alain Gresh outlines in his post on Libya, “An Ambiguous Liberation” [fr], that Gaddafi's execution “puts an end to the possibility of a trial that would have shone light on the support given to Gaddafi by different countries, including France and Great Britain, since 2003.”

• Claire Ulrich

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