A new law banning ethnic studies programmes has gone into effect in the southwestern US state of Arizona. The state’s Latino community claim the law targets them and say similar programmes in African American, Asian and Native American studies are not affected. The law comes months after Arizona passed a controversial immigration enforcement law. Al Jazeera’s Franc Contreras reports from From Tucson, Arizona.
Continue reading …Protests are spreading across the Middle East, from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen, and the common thread in all of them is al-Jazeera, reports the New York Times . The Qatar-based news outlet has been aggressively reporting on all the unrest around the region, helping to shape a story of populist…
Continue reading …Russian scientists are racing against time to drill to an Antarctic lake that has been isolated from everything else on Earth for 15 million years. Lake Vostok is one of the biggest and deepest lakes on Earth, but its existence was only confirmed by satellite images in the ’90s. It…
Continue reading …Jon Stewart’s push to get Congress to pass a 9/11 first responders health care bill has won him a place on the board of the foundation building the 9/11 museum and memorial at Ground Zero. The foundation’s president hailed the Daily Show host’s passionate advocacy—which included devoting an entire…
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia’s president, says there have been no incidents of torture since he came to power in 2004. But Al Jazeera has heard evidence from several prisoners who claim they were abused while in police custody. Step Vaessen reports from the Indonesian capita, Jakarta.
Continue reading …Arizona Republicans introduced four bills yesterday aimed at denying US citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. The lawmakers hope to provoke a Supreme Court review of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof .” Lawmakers…
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‘Valley of the Wolves — Palestine’, the latest in a wildly popular series of action films, has been labeled anti-Semitic. In it three Turkish special forces operatives shoot their way through Jerusalem and the West Bank to avenge the real-life Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara ship last May, that left nine Turks dead. Al Jazeera’s Anita MacNaught reports from Istanbul, Turkey.
Continue reading …As what is expected to be the biggest day of protests yet looms, Egyptian authorities have blocked Internet traffic and deployed an elite special operations counterterrorism force. Users are reporting major disruptions to Internet and text messaging services, and Cairo appears to be completely offline, the Huffington Post reports.
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