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BBC NEWS | Europe | World hunger 'hits one billion' : "One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis, says the UN. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said the figure was a record high. Persistently high food prices have also contributed to the hunger crisis. The director general of the FAO said the level of hunger, one-sixth of the world's population, posed a 'serious risk' to world peace and security."

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Khamenei: Vote protests must end : "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has backed the outcome of the country's presidential elections and warned protests against it must stop. 'Street actions are being done to put pressure on leaders, but we will not bow in front of them,' he said in a sermon during Friday prayers at Tehran University. 'I want to tell everyone these [protests] must finish.'"

Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Afghan Al Jazeera producers held Two Al Jazeera employees have been detained in Afghanistan after being told by officials to report to the country's intelligence headquarters. Concern for the welfare of Qais Azimy and Hameedullah Shah was growing on Monday, a day after they arrived at the official building in Kabul, the capital. Azimy, a senior producer for Al Jazeera English, had travelled to the headquarters after being told to meet authorities for an interview, two days before campaigning for the country's presidential elections was due to begin. Shah, who works for the Al Jazeera Arabic television channel, was picked up from the network's bureau by two officers.

Iraq's New Death Squad : "As Hassan tells it, it was a quiet night on June 10, 2008, in Sadr City, Baghdad's poor Shiite district of more than 2 million people, when the helicopter appeared over his house and the front door exploded, nearly burning his sleeping youngest son. Before Hassan knew it, he was on the ground, hands bound and a bag over his head, with eight men pointing rifles at him, locked and loaded. At first he couldn't tell whether the men were Iraqis or Americans. He says he identified himself as a police sergeant, offering his ID before they took his pistol and knocked him to the ground. The men didn't move like any Iraqi forces he'd ever seen. They looked and spoke like his countrymen, but they were wearing American-style uniforms and carrying American weapons with night-vision scopes. They accused him of being a commander in the local militia, the Mahdi Army, before they dragged him off, telling his wife he was 'finished.' But before t...

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Al Jazeera English - Americas - Chadian released from Guantanamo : "A Chadian national held for more than seven years at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been released and sent to his home country. The US department of justice said Mohammad al-Qurani arrived in Chad on Thursday while a second released man from Iraq, Jawad Jabber Sadkhan, was sent home to Iraq on Wednesday. Al-Qurani, sometimes referred to as al-Gharani, was cleared of all charges by a US judge in January. He told Al Jazeera earlier this year that abuse of detainees in the prison had continued despite Barack Obama, the US president, being elected. The news comes after US media reported that Barack Obama, the US president, has all but abandoned efforts to resettle Guantanamo detainees cleared for release to live on US soil. It also comes after four Chinese Muslim Uighur detainees were resettled in the Caribbean island of Bermuda on Thursday, and after the tiny Pacific island of Palau said it would...

Oil and Indians Don't Mix : Information Clearing House - ICH : "June 12, 2009 'Information Clearing House' -- There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them. If the indigenous folk complain, well, just shoo-them away. Shoo-ing methods include: bulldozers, bullets, crooked politicians and fake land sales. But be aware. Lately the Natives are shoo-ing back. Last week, indigenous Peruvians seized an oil pumping station, grabbed the nine policemen guarding it and, say reports, executed them. This followed the government's murder of more than a dozen rainforest residents who had protested the seizure of their property for oil drilling. Again and again I see it in my line of work of investigating fraud. Here are a few pit-stops on the oily trail of tears: In the 1980s, Charles Koch was found to have pilfered about $3 worth of crude from Stanlee Ann...