Interview with Iranian Woman Activist Azadeh Faramarziha (Payvand Iran News)
I am 29 years old. I have a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theater and work with Sahneh (Scene) Magazine, which focuses on developments in theater.
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`Comfort Women,' Exploited Maids Show Slavery's Face in Photos (Bloomberg)
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Ten wrinkled faces peer out from inside their picture frames. They seem ordinary photo subjects -- until you read the caption. These were Korean ``comfort women'' during World War II: sex slaves to the Japanese military, raped for years in camps. Only one of them ever married.
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Catastrophe on Horizon for Camp Ashraf Refugees (Middle East Times)
By HON. DAVID KILGOUR, J.D. TIME RUNNING OUT -- There are terrible examples of what can happen when the international community fails to protect vulnerable groups. Ashraf must not be added to this “list of shame.”
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Tainted Cadbury chocolate found in Hong Kong (PhysOrg)
(AP) -- Hong Kong said Sunday it found two Cadbury chocolate products contained considerably more of the industrial chemical melamine than the city's legal limit in a growing scandal over tainted food made in China.
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A DIRECTOR'S CUT: Hollywood Director Cyrus Nowrasteh Brings Fereidoune Sahabjam's Best Selling Novel To The Screen (Payvand Iran News)
The Hollywood mobilization of Iranian film community in reminding us of the tragic fate of Soraya M. as well as the principles for which the Stop Child Executions campaign has been launched in recent years are only a reminder of the ever-growing concern of the Iranian Diaspora in regard to Human Rights violations in their homeland. -Darius KADIVAR
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Loud and Proud Mizrachi Voices (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
On the last night before her family would flee Libya in 1967, Gina Bublil Waldman recalls that she had to choose between taking her only warm sweater or a photo album with the words "Souvenir of Libya" on the cover.
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Give me money or I'll sue for rape, woman tells Iranian student (GMA News)
QUEZON CITY, Philippines - An Iranian college student complained to police that he was being harassed by a woman whom he met through Internet and had sex with when they met in in this central Metro Manila city recently.
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Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
Craig Crawford, CQ - How did anyone think the public would get behind something sold as a bailout of Wall Street multi-millionaires? Make it a bailout of homeowners, and you would have something that could pass in Congress.
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Iran's crime rate drops during month of Ramadan (Payvand Iran News)
There has been a 32 percent decline in homicides so far during Ramadan, and the overall crime rate has dropped, too, Deputy Police Commander Hossein Zolfaqari told reporters recently. The homicide rate in Iran is six murders per day, he added. -MNA
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Offscreen (American Journalism Review)
The war in Afghanistan has heated up significantly, even eclipsing Iraq as far as danger to American soldiers is concerned. But you’d never know it from the meager coverage by many news organizations.
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