A sweeping new antiterrorism law from the government of President Gloria Maracapagal Arroyo has just come into effect in the Philippines. The "Law for Human Security" permits government forces to detain citizen suspects up to three days without formalizing charges, authorizes violent interrogations and the confiscation of the property of the suspect. According to the president it would be the final word for some dangerous groups like the Islamic radicals of Abu Sayaff (the sword of God in a local dialect) who operate in the South of the Philippines
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Two Bedouin villages of the Negev desert, Yatir and Um El Hiran, had been completely demolished by the Israeli Army and Israeli Police to make a way for new Jewish community villages. In a twist that can only be defined as perverted, hundreds of Bedouins, men, women and children were brutally left homeless in the freezing night of Monday 25 of June in a revival of 1956, when Bedouins were forced out of their original land. Dimitri Reider, an Israeli journalist, writes about their story
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03/22/2007 Afghanistan, war rages in Helmand
03/21/2007 Mastrogiacomo is free, the others aren't
03/18/2007 "Groundless news are dangerous"
03/16/2007 Mastrogiacomo, 'Positive signals'
03/15/2007 Daniele Mastrogiacomo breaks the silence
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03/09/2007 Afghanistan, Italian correspondent kidnapped