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Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - The Egyptian authorities should immediately drop the apparently politically motivated charges against two leading human rights defenders and a blogger, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...

Source: UNICEF PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 21 May 2010 – Over 100 young voices rise in harmony to affirm a common sentiment. "Sa ki pa nan espas n'ap voye yo ale," they sing in Haitian Creole. "Those that do not belong in this space should be out of this place."

Source: Reuters * Death toll rises to 30 * Victims trapped under debris as shops collapse (Updates death toll) BAGHDAD, May 21 (Reuters) - A minivan packed with explosives blew up at a crowded market in Iraq ...

Source: Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) - The Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) slaughtered 96 civilians and abducted dozens more between January and early April 2010 in a brutal killing campaign in northeastern ...

Source: Reuters * First five endangered rhinos repatriated * Rhinos were rescued in 1960s from rampant poaching By Tom Kirkwood SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania, May 21 (Reuters) - Conservationists flew the ...

Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - A month-old gusher of oil into the Gulf of Mexico off the U.S. coast has resisted efforts by BP Plc <BP.L> to plug it up, and the Obama administration is under ...