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May Aung San Suu Kyi`s Light Shine on Tel Aviv and onto Berlin

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Hours before her anticipated release scores of supporters gathered near the home of Nobel Peace Prize laureate pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hoping to see her in her first few minutes of freedom after seven years of house detention under Myanmar's ruling generals.

Aung San Suu Kyi swept to victory in the 1990 election by a landslide on top of the National League for Democracy party, but the military refused to hand over power and clamped down on opponents.

Linking Successful Gay Activism with the Sex Worker`s Fight for Justice

Supporting reform for improved working conditions for sex-trade workers carries a major social stigma.

(VICTORA, B.C.) - Wondering who’s at the helm of the sex worker’s rights movement in British Columbia? Well, at least one of its effective movers and shakers is, without a doubt, Jody Paterson.

Long-time BC award winning journalist, defender of street people, university lecturer par excellence and now—a visible ally of the gay community.

Gilad Atzmon: More Than Just a Musician

(LONDON) - Few students currently at University of London will remember Gilad Atzmon’s gig at SOAS in 2006.

His performance was exemplary, as all of his live performances are. Four years later, Atzmon is still gigging, still writing and still pushing the boundaries of thought and expression.

Meeting on Cluster Munitions Opens in Laos, the World`s Most Affected Country

Between 1964 and 1973, the United States dropped more than 270 million cluster munitions over Laos. An estimated 80 million cluster munitions that did not explode on impact are scattered in rice fields, waterways and on roads...

(VIENTIANE, Laos) - Laos is more contaminated by cluster munitions than any other country in the world.

Violence and Hope in Ciudad Juárez, México

Another writer specializing in the subject will now be featured on Salem-News.com.

(CIUDAD JUAREZ) - Salem-News.com welcomes the Professor Guillermo Cervantes Ph.D. of El Paso, Texas to our team of writers.

He is the author of Ciudad Juárez 2008 - 2010 A photographic testimony of our pain, and a tireless advocate for peace in the border region dividing the U.S. and Mexico.

Adolph Hitler And 17 Of His Children Are Alive & Well

“Sadly, those victims were themselves victimized..." - Manhattan District Attorney Preet Bharara

(CLEVELAND) - Claims Conference employees are among 17 people who have been charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York with participating in a $42.5 million fraud at the organization.

The Claims Conference distributes more than $400 million per year from the German government to victims of Nazism.

Biden is Not Taking it Personally

According to Netanyahu, the U.N. is “distort[ing] historical facts” by refusing to acknowledge the 4,000-year biblically-verified Jewish connection with sites that happen to be located in occupied Palestine.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - I sometimes worry about Philip J. Crowley, assistant secretary for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Public Affairs and emcee of the department’s Daily Press Briefings.

Do his work habits adversely affect his behavior outside the office?

Yacht Reportedly Captured Near Somalia

The yacht SY Choizil went missing off Bajuni Island of Koyaama at the Southern coast of Somalia.

(NAIROBI, Kenya) - As of today, at least 28 foreign vessels plus one barge are kept in Somali hands against the will of their owners, while at least 508 hostages or captives - including an elderly British yachting couple and the 5 new hostages from Somaliland.

Now information released by Ecoterra Intl. indicates that a report of a captured yacht, has been confirmed; though it leaves a number of questions.

Wake up and Dream

(LONDON) - Our latest poetry by Mamoon Alabbasi is a thoughtful look at this life and the world around us; life and death intermingled with technological advancement so intense that it threatens the world's very existence.

Mamoon grew up in Iraq and he knows what it is like to feat what the next moment will bring, yet it isn't generally the feared Dictator that men like this fear, all too often it is the deathly threat of the U.S. military...

Rock Star Russian Vladimir Putin Goes Formula One Racing

(CHICAGO) - He's stared down Siberian tigers, faced a snarling polar bear, stood toe-to-fin with a killer whale, and rides shirtless on horseback across the rugged, frozen Russian tundra...

And now Russian 'rock star' Vladimir Putin has squeezed himself into the driver's seat of a lemon-yellow Renault Formula One race car and burned up the track at over 150mph.