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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  19 hours ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Telangana issue: TRS chief to go on indefinite hunger strike

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Medak (Andhra Pradesh), Nov 29 (ANI): The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president, K Chandrashekhar Rao, will begin a fast unto death on Sunday at Siddipet in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh, pressing for statehood to Telangana region.The TRS described this as a do-or-die battle to achieve the long pending demand ...
  2 days ago

• Banned Hindu outfit chief wants talks with Malaysian PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kuala Lumpur, Nov 26 (IANS) The banned Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) has proposed a dialogue with the Malaysian government to discuss the future of the estimated 1.8 million ethnic Indians in the country.It wants to talk to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak who, since taking office in April, has released five top ...
  4 days ago

• Bigg Boss3, Ep 50 Rohit & Vindu nominated

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Mumbai, Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) It was the nomination Monday and Vindu and Rohit were nominated in this episode. Bigg Boss played with the sentiments of the Bigg Boss housemates as they waited and waited for the nominations to begin, but Bigg Boss didn’t announce the nomination process at all, in the morning. All ...
  6 days ago

• Mumbai Bats for Manipur as Sharmila’s Hunger Strike Enters 10th Year

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 157
  Mumbai, Nov 22 : Over 70 activists, owing allegiance to the Committee for Release of Binayak Sen, on Saturday demonstrated against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that has been in operation in Manipur since 1980. The protest also marked the beginning of the 10th year of Irom Chanu Sharmila’s hunger ...
  1 week ago

• “Sahrawi Gandhi” on hunger strike at Spanish airport

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Nairobi, Nov 19(ANI): Sahrawi human rights-defender and political activist Aminatou Haidar, considered by her supporters as the ‘Sahrawi Gandhi’, has gone on a hunger strike at a Spanish airport after being expelled over her refusal to accept Moroccan nationality.Haidar was detained at the airport in Western ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Saharan Gandhi’ on hunger strike at Spanish airport

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Lanzarote (Spain), Nov 16 (DPA) The prominent Western Saharan human rights activist Aminatou Haidar has launched a hunger strike at a Spanish airport, accusing Morocco and Spain of preventing her from entering Western Sahara, local Saharan representatives said Monday.Dubbed the “Saharan Gandhi,” Haidar defends the ...
  1 week ago

• Sumatra hunger strike: the last recourse for a forest community

  
  The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — Authority: 498
  Here in Riau, Indonesia, signs of the struggle to save the last of Sumatra’s forest is everywhere. Daily, the papers cover stories of timber and oil palm companies destroying forests, engaging in corruption, driving land conflicts, sponsoring violence, and marginalizing indigenous peoples. Today, on the way to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• UN food chief stages hunger strike ahead of summit (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 177
  AP – The U.N. food chief says he was chilly but otherwise slept OK after his first night on a hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of the world’s hungry ahead of next week’s U.N See the rest here:  (AP)"> (AP)">UN food chief stages hunger strike ahead of summit (AP)
  2 weeks ago

• UN food chief stages hunger strike ahead of summit (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 177
  AP – The U.N. food chief says he was chilly but otherwise slept OK after his first night on a hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of the world’s hungry ahead of next week’s U.N. Original post:  (AP)"> (AP)">UN food chief stages hunger strike ahead of summit (AP)
  2 weeks ago

• Farmers on hunger strike in Orissa

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kalahandi (Orissa), Nov 12 (ANI): Farmers in Kalahandi District have gone on an indefinite hunger strike today, demanding compensation for crop damage. Scores of farmers assembled at the Block office and met officials to highlight their demands.Paddy crops over thousands of hectares have been damaged by cash worm ...
  2 weeks ago

• Coptic Blogger in Egypt Threatens Hunger Strike

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 137
  Authorities deny Christian’s application for release.ISTANBUL, November 9 (CDN) — A Coptic Christian blogger in Egypt held in prison for more than a year without charge said today he will go on a hunger strike unless authorities grant his next application for release.Hani Nazeer, a 28-year-old high school social ...
  2 weeks ago

• "We got nothing"

  
  The Pensive Quill — Authority: 411
  Today The Pensive Quill carries an article by guest writer, blanketman Thomas Dixie Elliott on the topic of the 1981 hunger strike"We got nothing" by Thomas Dixie ElliottThis is an unedited version of what was carried in the Irish NewsI often look back to the time I spent on the blanket protest and feel privileged ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate Justice Fast (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 613
  The Climate Justice Fast began on November 6th as an international hunger strike to demand effective and justice action on climate change at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.  Participants will refrain from eating food and drink only water for extended intervals and in some cases until the summit this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scottish Tax Payers ‘Pay-into’ Norwegian Owned Fish Farm Profits

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Investigations into the shot seal incident, reported by a family of four holidaying on the west coast and covered by ForArgyll, has revealed some interesting facts. One of which is that every tax payer in Argyll, indeed Scotland, is actually helping to boost fish farm profits - that’s fish farms owned [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Tamil women begin new hunger strike off Indonesian coast

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Merak (Java, Indonesia), Nov.9 (ANI): Ten women among a group of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia have begun another hunger strike.The move comes after the spokesman for the Tamils, known as Alex, confessed he was once a member of a violent gang in Canada and was jailed ...
  2 weeks ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hunger strike to stop global warming!

  
  The RiotACT — Authority: 148
  In what appears to be an unearthed Monty python skit, Mr Paul Connor of Canberra is on a hunger strike and insisting that he’ll only drink water from now until an agreement is struck at global climate talks in Copenhagen starting on December 7.“We’re only making one guarantee – that is we’ll stop fasting if ...
  3 weeks ago

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