Ethnic group in Myanmar said to break cease-fire

Fighting reportedly broke out Thursday between an ethnic militia and government security forces in northeastern Myanmar, breaching a two-decade cease-fire.

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Strife shows ethnic tension China hopes to ignore

It started with some boys fighting over fireworks. It wound up as a clash between hundreds of villagers from two competing ethnic groups.

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Sidelined lawmaker watches Arabs, Jews drift apart

A few months ago, Nadia Hilou was an Arab lawmaker in a predominantly Jewish party, an adept political mover and a pragmatic voice for Arab-Jewish coexistence.

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Texas rep apologies for remarks on Asian names

A Texas lawmaker under fire for saying that Asian-American voters should adopt names that are "easier for Americans" has apologized for her remarks.

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Riots in Israel city highlight Arab-Jewish tension

For three decades, Azia Abu Ali, an Israeli Arab, would chat with her Jewish neighbors and sometimes visit their homes.

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Death toll now 49 in northeast India ethnic riots

Clashes between ethnic groups in India's remote northeast has left at least 49 people dead in four days including 19 killed on Monday, officials said.

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Georgians left in South Ossetia pressured to flee

Vinera Chebataryeva, a 70-year-old retired teacher, is one of a dwindling number of people with ethnic Georgian background left in South Ossetia. She said Wednesday she feels under increasing pressure to leave.

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Instead, the radio host was talking about the latest tempest -- a taco in a teapot.

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From the Toronto Star, via Associated Press. Here's the beginning portion of the article:

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With a sign from Dunganstown, Ireland, hanging in his U.S. Capitol office, a reminder of the famine-ravished farm where his ancestors began, Sen.

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Kinky video footage of a UN peace-keeping soldier pleasuring himself while on duty has sparked a furious ethnic row in war-torn Kosovo.

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another Iranian import people in Herat worry about — a copycat of the deadly street protests that erupted in Tehran after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in June.

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Kilmeade and two colleagues were discussing a study that, based on research done in Finland and Sweden, showed people who stay married are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's.

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Ethnic tensions taboo in China: highlights the Uighurs and the discrimination they face.

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Scientifically, are white people more intelligent than black people?

So I was reading an article I found from 2007 saying that Dr. James Watson, one of the world's most respected scientists, Nobel Prize Winner and DNA Pioneer has claimed that black people are less intelligent than white people.

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Ethnic Cleansing as a State Policy

By Nicola Nasser*

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This is another example of the continuing saga of racial and ethnic inequality amongs humans in this planet.

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They have some gorgeous pictures from brides around the world in traditional dress for their wedding days. It has comments with it and the pictures. It is interesting to see the traditions being carried out. Not all are in traditional dress. It is so cute.

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Robert Latham at New School Allowed Ethnic Albanian To Condone Genocide Against Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo Posted 3/2/2009 2:37 PM EST

United States : Robert Latham at New School Allowed Ethnic Albanian To Condone Genocide Against Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo Posted 3/2/2009 2:37 PM EST

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Ethnic media, like other news media, recognize that an informed populace will help keep government accountable. Armed with knowledge of current events and issues, the public can become wise participants in societal decision-making

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Anthony Prudhomme was slain by members of the Avenues, a Latino street gang. But he was not a rival gang member, or a police informant, or a drug dealer.

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Yet there was nothing really new about it. Rather, the murder was a manifestation of an increasingly common trend: Latino ethnic cleansing of African Americans from multiracial neighborhoods.

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Writer Michael Pollan, author of the best-seller "In Defense of Food," has gained a passionate following by encouraging us to change the way we think about food. But for his next project, he wants your help.

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Protest allegedly happened as president waved to crowds from an open-top car in the Iranian city of Urmia.

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Article by Tim Murray, fighting for freedom of speech in Canada. Similarity between Soviet style totalitarism and mordern Canadian situation with tolerance and multiculturalism.

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It happened & still happening

Since the end of the 20th Century, the nature of armed conflict in the world is dominated by internal conflicts with civilians making the majority of the casualties than inter-state warfare.

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Another report from the always-interesting Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: African Americans are more religious than other Americans, especially white non-Hispanics.

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Employees with foreign backgrounds working for a telemarketing company in Jönköping in central Sweden claim management encouraged them to change their names in order to increase sales.

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One of the harsh realities of the humanitarian field is that some crises capture public attention, while others do not. The patterns are rather rigid. Crises in Europe and the Middle East, especially Palestine, make headlines.

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"People are being caught in the crossfire, hospitals and ambulances have been hit by shelling and several aid workers have been injured while evacuating the wounded.

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Diversity Tips from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

by: Herndon L. Davis Intellectually we understand that the classic childhood Christmas story of a rejected-to-accepted red-nosed reindeer who manages to save the world from a potentially disastrous Christmas has a much deeper and substantial meaning.

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The leader of a statewide group of college Republicans has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on the Internet.

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