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"By function of this blockade, 1.5 million Palestinian men, women and children have been forcibly deprived of their most basic human rights for months. This is in direct contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law. It must end now."
Navi Pillay
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was calling for an immediate end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

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Travel
  • UN Security Council imposes sanctions against Somalia
  • Southwest Airlines appoints two to board
  • Blogs focused on cheap eats serve an expanding niche
  • U.S. history museum opens after overhaul

    National
  • Brazil rejects US interference in South American Defence Council
  • Bush plans meeting with Olmert
  • Pakistan summons US envoy, protests drone attacks
  • two Clintons for the price of one!

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