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19.May
oil rig
May 19th, 2014

Anti-Chinese sentiment boils over in Vietnam

EDITOR:Vanessa Ellingham

Anti-Chinese riots broke out in Vietnam last week over long-standing territorial disputes, with two Chinese killed and 140 injured when Chinese businesses were attacked.

Today two Chinese passenger ships arrived in Vung Ang port to evacuate those fearing for their safety.

The protests, which are rare in communist Vietnam, are over a Chinese oil rig which is drilling in disputed sea space. The vietnamese government claims that there are also Chinese warships in the same area.

Another three vessels are on their way to Vietnam to collect fearful Chinese, according to Xinhua news agency, which reports that around 3000 people have already left the country.

290 people were flown back to China on Sunday on a special chartered flight, while 16 critically injured Chinese were taken by medical flight.

16.May
sudanese-christian-women-praying
May 16th, 2014
Freedom of religion under threat in Sudan as woman is sentenced to hanging
EDITOR:Vanessa Ellingham
A woman has been sentenced to hang in Sudan after she married a Christian man from South Sudan. Charged with apostasy, or the abandonment of one's [...]
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15.May
torture
May 15th, 2014
Thirty years after the ground-breaking UN Convention Against Torture was adopted, more than a hundred states continue to torture
EDITOR:Murat Suner
Thirty years after the ground-breaking UN Convention Against Torture was adopted, more than a hundred states continue to torture. Amnesty [...]
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14.May
turkey
May 14th, 2014
Turkish mine explosion kills more than 200 people
EDITOR:Vanessa Ellingham
Rescuers in Soma, Turkey, are fighting to reach trapped miners after a power explosion set off a fire yesterday, which is still blazing today. The [...]
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13.May
camille lepage french photojournalist
May 13th, 2014
Photojournalist Camille Lepage killed in Central African Republic
EDITOR:Murat Suner
The French photojournalist Camille Lepage has been killed at the age of 26 in the Central African Republic. AP reports her body was discovered by [...]
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12.May
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May 12th, 2014
Human Rights Watch: Killer robots should be banned
EDITOR:fairplanet
Killer robots, or fully autonomous lethal weapons, should be banned because they have the ability to hinder basic human rights, according to a new report by [...]
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08.May
South Sudan Celebrates Independence
May 08th, 2014
Sudanese citizens endure terrible violence on both sides
EDITOR:Vanessa Ellingham
Amnesty International has released a damning report on South Sudan, revealing the extent of the suffering as citizens endure terrible violence at the hands of parties on both sides of [...]
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07.May
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May 07th, 2014
Nigeria: Bring back our girls
EDITOR:Vanessa Ellingham
Nigerians find themselves in an increasingly infuriating situation, as their government struggles to show any serious sign of rescuing the more than 276 schoolgirls who were abducted from their school more than three weeks [...]
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06.May
CAR
May 06th, 2014
Ethnic cleansing in the CAR
EDITOR:fairplanet
The New York Times editorial today reports that sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims in the Central African Republic has erupted into a campaign of [...]
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05.May
al jazeera
May 05th, 2014
Egyptian judge wishes reporters a happy World Press Freedom Day then refuses their bail
EDITOR:Vanessa Ellingham
The three al-Jazeera journalists who have been held in an Egyptian prison since December had the seventh session of their trial on Friday, coinciding [...]
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