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...After the war, Hizballah launched a campaign to topple the current American-supported Lebanese government, which it accuses of collaborating with Israel to destroy Hizballah's existence as a state within the Lebanese state. But the Hizballah-led opposition campaign has stalled - they've been stuck in protest tent camps in downtown Beirut for the last eight months - in part because many Lebanese resent the fact that Hizballah unilaterally sparked a war that ended with almost 2,000 dead and billions of dollars in damage...
...boycott was proposed earlier this summer by University and College Union, which represents 120,000 British professors and other academics, as a means to protest the Jewish state's human rights record. The proposal will be voted on by the union's membership in the coming months...
...dynamic, confident giant. For many human-rights activists around the world, however--for whom Tiananmen is a word signifying more than a square in the middle of Beijing--China's Olympic dream is nothing to celebrate. So the one-year mark before the Games has seen an outpouring of protest as much as of pageantry. On the Great Wall, a massive banner that read ONE WORLD, ONE DREAM, FREE TIBET 2008, was unfurled by half a dozen supporters of Tibetan independence. Outside the Beijing Olympic organizing committee's quarters, officials from Reporters Without Borders called for the release of imprisoned...
They renamed the mosque Lal Masjid - that is, the Red Mosque - after the seminary in Islamabad where dozens of radical young students died last month in a military raid ordered by President Pervez Musharraf. "We took over the mosque [to protest] against Islamabad's action against the religious seminaries," declared Usman, a young man wearing a balaclava, when I visited last week. I could feel the anger in his brown eyes...
...visible steps to address the faction's longstanding concerns, which revolve mainly around the fate of Sunni detainees held by the government and a lack of services in Sunni areas of the country. In the spring, six other ministers loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr abandoned Maliki's government in protest over the Prime Minister's refusal to take a stronger stance against the presence of American forces in Iraq...