BANGKOK: Thailand is in a frenzy over a video showing Thai army soldiers having sex with a woman. The anger grew this week after the government reported the woman was autistic. A number of women’s rights activists and groups are demanding that the government prosecute the soldiers for possible rape, arguing that the woman may [...]
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CAIRO: US President Barak Obama issued a videotaped statement that warned progress made by the Sudan and South Sudan was now “at risk of unraveling” and urged the two nations to step back from the brink. “You still have a chance to avoid being dragged back into war, which only leads to one place: more [...]
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CAIRO: The Republic of South Sudan’s military arm, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), claims to have captured enemy combatants in the ongoing border skirmishes with the Sudan, and declared them prisoners of war (POW). The two nations are fighting over the oil producing town of Heglig, which is on the border. On Sunday 15 [...]
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CAIRO: Hundreds of students hailing from Sudan’s western region of Darfur demonstrated in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Wednesday against the killing of one of their colleagues at the hands of the security authorities. The victim, named Abdel-Hakim Isa, was a student at Omdurman Islamic University and he was affiliated to the Darfur rebel [...]
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CAIRO: A Yemeni man buried his little daughter alive but she was saved by police after villagers quickly reported the macabre incident. A stunning two-minute film carried by YouTube and other websites showed a Yemeni police officer pulled the baby alive out of her grave as she was shown crying and covered with earth. A [...]
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CAIRO: “Lend Your Leg” is a campaign that encourages people worldwide to roll up a pant leg or sleeve to stop the damage landmines still cause while showing solidarity with all survivors of landmines and other explosive remnants of war. Watch and share the video! BM
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YouTube has selected IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) to be a member of its first official YouTube Next Cause class for leading nonprofit organizations. From thousands of eligible organizations, YouTube selected IFAW and 19 others to participate in the launch of its Next Cause program based on the organizations’ commitment to using YouTube, [...]
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DUBAI: Gay rights activists in the United Arab Emirates have reported that Youtube has removed a “Gay Cure” video after LGBT activists pressed the video share website to take it down over the past few weeks. A number members of the largely incognito LGBT community in Dubai told Bikyamasr.com that the move “was a step [...]
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DUBAI: A new video emerged in the United Arab Emirates that shows gay men being “cured” of homosexuality. The video, disseminated across social networks has left many in the country questioning the rights of the LGBT community and their struggle to gain full citizenship in an open manner. The 6-minute “tutorial” entitled “Be Yourself” has [...]
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New Delhi (dpa) – India’s government has ordered a probe into a video showing semi-naked tribal women allegedly dancing for food, news reports said Thursday. The video of the Jarawas, who inhabit the Andamans archipelago, was released by The Observer, a London-based newspaper, with a report that detailed the exploitation of the tribe by tourist [...]
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Intelsat announced new contracts with customers utilizing Intelsat’s premier African video distribution satellite neighborhoods and broadband capacity yesterday. According to a press release by the company, Intelsat’s history of providing a reliable communications infrastructure to Africa over the past 40 years has resulted in many firsts on the continent. “From introducing direct-to-home (DTH) platforms, to [...]
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LONDON: Animal rights groups and environmental advocates are facing the heavy hand of the state in Finland after the government is targeting them as “terrorists.” Award-winning journalist and author Will Potter has reveled in a recent article that undercover animal activists are being prosecuted for filming inside the cruelty-laden factory farms in the Northern European [...]
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The Egyptian authorities should suspend members of the army and the security forces responsible for abusing detainees, Amnesty International said today after a video was published showing officers beating and torturing detainees. The video, which was allegedly filmed at a police station in the El-Daqahliya governorate north of Cairo and published on YouTube, shows three [...]
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CAIRO: A new video admitted as evidence at the North Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday revealed security forces using live ammunition against protesters from the rooftop of the interior ministry. In the video, plainclothes security officials are seen using live fire to kill demonstrators during Egypt’s 18 days of protests that ousted former President Hosni [...]
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A new video published by Australia’s The Age revealed further animal cruelty in the live export trade from Australia to Southeast Asia and the Middle East. It comes less than one month after large protests in Australia called on the government to end the practice of live exports to both regions. The government backed away [...]
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Morocco’s growing broadband network and an increase in competition for video as political stability takes hold in the country have put it at the forefront for regional investment, Pyramid Research said over the weekend in a recent report. “Whether it be VOIP providers, broadband Internet repackaging, or pay-TV installers, the smaller companies will be called [...]
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A video from Egypt has emerged online that has outraged animal lovers and activists alike. The video, posted on youtube.com, in violation of the website’s standards and ethics, shows two young Egyptian boys torturing a small dog and then throwing it off the roof of a building to its death. It is the first such [...]
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