February 2012
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A video titled “Candombe and Llamadas - Carnaval Uruguay,” with video footage of the parades and photos by Flickr user Adriana Cabrera Esteve. - Uruguay: Scenes From the Longest Carnival in the World
Feb 29th
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Thailand: Facebook Blamed for Teen Pregnancies →
Feb 29th
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Vote for the Most Influential African Thinker...
Who is the most influential African thinker alive? Africa is a Country blog wants readers to vote for one influential African thinker from a list of 12 candidates. Who gets your vote? Samir Amin, academic, activist, Senegal/Egypt Jean and John Comaroff, academics, South Africa/United States Chinua Achebe, writer, Nigeria Mahmood Mamdani, academic, Uganda Mamdouh Habashi, academic,...
Feb 29th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Iranian News Agency “Improves” Oscar Speech by...
Iranians are overjoyed with the news that Asghar Farhadi’s film “A Separation”was awarded an Oscar for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards in Hollywood on February 26, 2012. It is the first Iranian film to win an Oscar. Farhadi’s speech attracted even more attention after Fars News, a semi-official news agency of Iran added their own words to the transcript. In his...
Feb 28th
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'The Video the Colombian Government Doesn't Want... →
Feb 24th
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Syria: Shock and Disbelief Over Murder of... →
Feb 22nd
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'Love Letter to a Soldier' - West Papua's... →
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China: Migratory Birds Poisoned and Served at... →
Feb 13th
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Feb 11th
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Russia: “Anti-Gay Propaganda Bill” Passes Second... →
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Check out the trailer for the 2011 human rights documentary festival FreedomFilmFest. Find out more
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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ListenThe last flight of Hungarian state airline since...
Feb 8th
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Cuban Bloggers on SOPA, Culture and the... →
Feb 7th
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Controversial Kyrgyz ex-presidential candidate... →
Feb 4th
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rferl: Take a look at Radio Svoboda’s Irinia Lagunina’s experience being one of the first journalists to visit Sarajevo in 1993.  Watch the video on RFE/RL’s website.  This year will mark 20 years since the start of the siege of Sarajevo, which lasted 1,425 days and killed and wounded thousands of people. RFE/RL’s Russian Service broadcaster Irina Lagunina was one of the first Russian...
Feb 4th
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Is Chinese Businesswoman Wu Ying's Death Sentence... →
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25% of exiled African journalists are from... →
Feb 2nd
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The ‘Born on December 31st’ documentary by Priscila Padilla exposes a human rights violation the Wayuu indigenous group of Colombia have been under. Many of their national IDs, mass produced to get important votes in election periods, state they were all born on the same date and feature offensive made-up names; which they were unable to notice because Spanish is not their native...
Feb 2nd
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