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Nqobile Khumalo’s Murderer Given Fifteen Years In Jail
05/31/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The man who raped and murdered Nqobile Khumalo earlier this month has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison by the Ntuzuma Magistrates Court. On 8 May, her ex-boyfriend confessed to murdering her because he refused to accept that Khumalo was a lesbian and that she would never take him back. [...]
Food Prices Rising Everywhere
05-31-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell “Everywhere” does not just mean Maine to California. Food price increases are an international crisis. The increases in the prices of staples are mentioned as one of the causes for the uprisings in the Middle East. Oxfam is not something Americans are overly familiar with. It is an international confederation working in [...]
Egyptian Banker Arrested In New York For Sex Attack On Maid
05-31-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, chairman of the board of El-Mex Salnes Co., a state-owned salt manufacturing company, and former chairman of three of Egypt’s largest banks is facing charges in New York for sexually abusing a maid at The Pierre, a luxury hotel. He is the second international figure arrested [...]
South African Ambassador To Uganda Guilty Of Hate Speech
05-31-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell The South African Human Rights Commission won a hate speech case against Jon Qwelane over an anti-gay newspaper column he wrote before he was appointed S.A.’s ambassador to Uganda. According to the Johannesburg Star Tribune, Commission spokesman Vincent Moaga said the ruling concerned a column headlined “Call Me Names, But [...]
EU MEP And Development Commissioner Speak Out Against Homophobia In Africa and the Caribbean
05/30/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire EU development commissioner Andris Piebalgs as well as his predecessor and current Liberal Belgian MEP Louis Michel have both spoken out against homophobia at a meeting of EU, African and Caribbean politicans. Michel has built a name for himself in Africa during his five years in charge of disbursing EU aid [...]
Chilean President Begins Push For Domestic Partnerships
05/30/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire While the world did not end when Argentina became one of the few South American nations to legalize same-sex marriage, Chile has been reluctant to follow suit. Still, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has said that he wants Congress to legalize a certain amount of civil unions in that nation in order [...]
Brits Up The Ante In Libya
05-30-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Ever since the NATO began military and government sites in and around Tripoli, Col Moammar Qaddafi has said that the attacks were designed to kill him. Now, he may be right. British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the British planes flying in the NATO mission will be carrying [...]
Israeli Soldiers Confront Jewish Worshipers In West Bank
05-30-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell The city of Nablus in the West Bank is home to a pair of highly important Biblical shrines, the Well of Jacob and the Tomb of Joseph, he of the Coat of Many Colors who was sold into slavery and became Vizier of Egypt. When a famine overtook Israel, Joseph [...]
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