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Ahfook in Malaysia is lists blog posts in support of the two bloggers who are being sued by a newspaper. The newspaper claims that the two bloggers have defamed the newspaper and its employees in their posts. The list is being maintained by Duller blog and by 4896 blog.
Dr Hareega, an Arab doctor in the US, is finding it difficult to find a restroom (bathroom) in the clinic he works at.
“In the clinic I was looking for a restroom, couldn't find anythen I found a room next to me , looked like a bathroom from inside, with a label on the door, “Micturition Room”
I asked another resident next to me, “Does this mean this is a bathroom?”
He said, “Yes, but it's just a micturition room, defecation is not allowed :) ” he wrote.
Tel Avivian blogger Yohay Elam today attended a jamming session to make noise against forced prostitution.
“Hundreds of women are held against their will in central cities in Israel, and “employed” as prostitutes. The authorities know where they are, and don’t act to release them. The media usually ignores these cases,” he wrote.
Says Blog Politique du Senegal (Fr): “As predicted, tensions are rising [in Casamance] following the death of Diamacoune. The measliest local chief is going to develop ambitions as a future president and launch “operations” in order to demonstrate his ability to flex his muscle. The hostilities have only just begun.”
Leila reports on the first blogger to go on trial for blogging in Kazakhstan.
Josh Foust, writing at Registan.net, says that when Afghani women are left to their own devices, they prosper.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...