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• Africa: 2012 Cup Semi-Finals Put West Africa in the Spotlight

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Three of the four teams remaining in the 2012 Cup of Nations at the time of writing [Tuesday 7 February, 2012] are from West Africa: Côte dIvoire, Mali and Ghana are set to play in the tournament semi-finals on Wednesday 8, 2012. Games will be played in Bata, Equatorial Guinea (Ghana) and at Libreville, Gabon (Mali ...
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• Mexico, USA: Journalist and Author Sam Quinones Starts Blogging

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Author and journalist Sam Quinones has started a blog about “Los Angeles, Mexico, migrants, culture, drugs, neighborhoods, border, and good storytelling.” You can also follow him on Twitter: @samquinones7. Written by Silvia Viñas · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter ...
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• Argentina: Musician Luis Alberto Spinetta Dies

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Luis Alberto Spinetta , “E l Flaco “, one of the most influential rock musicians in Argentina, died February 8 as a result of his illness. Spinetta had lung cancer, diagnosed in July, 2011. His condition became public when, towards the end of the year, he addressed his fans with an emotional letter [es] that ...
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• South Korea: Activist Indicted for Retweeting North Korean Messages

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  South Korean prosecutors indicted a photographer and freedom-of-speech activist last week on charges of violating national security law, for retweeting messages posted by an official North Korean government Twitter account. Despite the international medias widespread coverage , the case went seriously ...
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• Morocco: Busted for Posting Caricatures of the King on Facebook

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  On February 7, 2012, Walid Bahomane appeared before a court in the Moroccan capital Rabat. The 18-year-old is accused of “defaming Moroccos sacred values” by posting pictures and videos on Facebook mocking king Mohammed VI of Morocco. This isnt the first time a Moroccan internet user faces such charges. In 2008 ...
  2 days ago

• Yemen: Yemen S-Election!

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  This post is part of our special coverage Yemen Protests 2011 . Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadis campaign poster Yemens Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi who was unanimously nominated by parliament as the only presidential candidate for Yemens February 21 elections has kicked off his campaign. Ironically, its motto ...
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• Tunisia: Decision to Expel Syrian Ambassador Sparks Heated Debate

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  "Hafedh (father of Bashar Al Assad): May your soul be cursed", written on the door of the Syrian embassy in Tunis. Photograph shared by Facebook page "Union Des Admins Des Pages Tunisiennes" On February 1, Tunisia, the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring, has started procedures to expel the Syrian Ambassador in ...
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• France: The first Muslim public cemetery

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Hanan Ben Rhouma of Saphir News reports  [fr] that: “The first Muslim public cemetery in France was open in Strasbourg on Monday, February 6. In a sense, it is a unique cemetery of that kind because it is the first to be managed by local public authorities based on the   Alsace-Moselle Accord of 1801  [fr], ...
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• Italy: Volunia, a Serendipity-based Search Engine

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  On the blog Presse-citron, Jean-Marie Le Ray  wites about” Volunia ” [fr], the new search engine in 12 languages ​​invented by Professor Massimo Marchiori of the University of Padua (Italy) : “this is a new concept of navigation of our times I think a test, a laboratory of ideas , also with a prospective ...
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• Italy: More Protests Against Austerity and Information Deficit

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  This post is part of our special coverage Europe in Crisis . The many protest movements that followed the implementation of austerity measures in a number of European countries dealing with the sovereign debt crisis , should have taught us that when a national economy is left at the mercy of interest rates and ...
  3 days ago

• Russia: Day of Protests Divides Citizens

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Despite temperatures of -20 degrees, thousands of Russians went out to the streets to participate in election manifestations. Many, organised online, were protesting against the current election procedures and possible re-election of prime minister Vladimir Putin. Others, partly organised by pressure and bribes as ...
  5 days ago

• Ready, Steady, Feed the Island Birds

  
  Isle of Wight News: Island Pulse: — Authority: 123
  As temperatures on the Isle of Wight drop below freezing, wild birds will come to our gardens to find extra meals and will struggle to find their natural food supplies under heavy frost. Related News: Sylvester and Tweety Can Live Together Isle of Wight’s Birds Face Big Freeze Isle of Wight Big Garden ...
  6 days ago

• Cuba: Protest Against Hunger Strikers Death

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Pedazos de la Isla posts a video of dissidents protesting the death of political prisoner Wilman Villar Mendoza in a neighborhood of Guantanamo. Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · ...
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• St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Caring Diaspora

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  “Sometimes I have scant respect for Vincentians in the diaspora. They appear to be extremely critical of everything Vincentian, know whats best for us but provide little beyond chatter”: Abeni has found a notable exception to the rule. Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: Donate ...
  6 days ago

• Cuba: Nineteenth “No”

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  “For the 19th time Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has been denied an exit visa in order to travel abroad”: Havana Times reports. Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper
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• Trinidad & Tobago: Principal Charged with Child Cruelty

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Trinidad and Tobago News Blog reports that the school principal accused of “placing the head of two students in a toilet bowl at her school and flushing it” has been charged; Plain Talk comments on “the depravity required” to commit such an act: “Flush it to make a point, to send a message, humble and ...
  6 days ago

• Barbados, Guyana: “Fearless” Freddie

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Barbados Underground has been “following closely what is happening to the man we have dubbed the ‘Fearless Journalist’ Professor Freddie Kissoon,” adding: “The silence of regional media and governments is unacceptable on this matter.” Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: ...
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• Egypt: Storify on Port Said Clashes

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Greek blogger Asteris Masouras compiles a Storify round up of reactions and coverage following Wednesdays deadly Port Said clashes, which left more than 70 people dead in Egypt. Written by Amira Al Hussaini · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon ...
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• Israel: The Lie, The Truth and The Meme (of the Soldier and the Girl)

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  The photograph below, of a soldier stepping on a little girl, has been circulating on the social web for the past few days, claimed to be of an IDF soldier and a Palestinian girl. Wesley Muhammad who posted it claimed to have seen it on someone elses news feed with that caption, and wonders why it went viral from ...
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• Kuwait: Parliamentary Election Marred by Violence

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 668
  Today, 3 February, 2012, Kuwait will hold its parliamentary elections divided by five electoral districts, a system that was only passed in 2006 in response to blogger-led protests. At the beginning of December 2011, two year-long protests previous led to the replacement of Prime Minister Nasser Al-Mohammed with ...
  6 days ago

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