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Jan 6, 2012

WIKILEAKS News, Jan 06, 2012

Wikileaks Supporters Must Disclose Twitter Records
Technorati
A US District Judge in Alexandria Virginia will require Twitter to disclose account information of three Wikileaks supporters in support of a US investigation into the disclosure of secret government documents. Wired News reports Birgitta Jonsdottir, ...
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Technorati
WikiLeaks Supporters Lose Court Bid to Protect Twitter Records
Wired News
By Kim Zetter Three WikiLeaks supporters have lost their bid to protect their Twitter records from US investigators trying to prosecute the whistleblowing site over its publication of secret and sensitive government documents. ...
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Wired News
Palm Beach Sugar Barons Accused in WikiLeaks Cables of Trying to Sabotage US ...
Forbes
... barons Pepe and Alfy Fanjul, who lavish both the Republican and Democratic parties with millions in contributions, were accused of trying to sabotage US foreign policy and corrupting foreign politicians in diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks. ...
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Forbes
Wikileaks on Somalia - Public Reluctance, Private Insistence
Think Africa Press
Wikileaks cables concerning Somalia's civil war give an insight into the political players involved in this conflict. Wikileaks cables on Somalia document important and previously undisclosed sentiments expressed by members of the international ...
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Gupta, Wells Fargo, News Corp., Bayer, SK, J&J in Court News
BusinessWeek
Adds WikiLeaks in Lawsuits section, News Corp. in Trials and J&J in Verdicts.) Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Rajat Gupta, the former Procter & Gamble Co. director indicted last year for insider trading, illegally tipped now-convicted hedge fund manager Raj ...
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Anonymous Blitzkrieg: Hactivists declare war on Neo-Nazis
RT
Their website nazi-leaks.net makes it obvious the hactivists favor theWikileaks strategy. A statement alleged to be attributed to the Anonymous group announced the start of what it calls Operation Blitzkrieg, stating the goal of identifying "sites ...
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RT
Carlyon: Assange - Sinner or saint?
Adelaide Now
His Wikileaks revelations are unmatched for breadth, insight and embarrassment factor in international affairs. He has attained whole truths that the rest of us, as journalists, rarely do, through a rather brilliant pinch-and-publish philosophy. ...
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MORE ON THE STORY
RT
Their website nazi-leaks.net makes it obvious the hactivists favor the Wikileaksstrategy. Hang on a minute .... there is nothing wrong with Nazis. They are a political group in their respective countries which is a threat to the present Western ...
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Why social media couldn't predict the Iowa race
CNN
Editor's note: Micah Sifry is co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, a website that examines how technology is changing politics, and the author of "WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency." This commentary is part of a series of "Campaign Tech" ...
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Hackers hit ArcelorMittal's Belgian website
AFP
The hacker group has been involved in scores of hacking exploits including retaliatory attacks last year on companies perceived to be enemies of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Last month, Anonymous stole a trove of email addresses and credit card ...
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AFP
Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO
truthout
The scandal first arose in 2010 from documents released by WikiLeaks in the "Iraq War Logs." A November 2010 article at Ice News reported how a memo released by WikiLeaks described an inquiry by "a Danish Defence Ministry official" regarding "what ...
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The Outlook for the New Year
Kashmir Watch
Manning, a US soldier, is alleged to be the person who released to WikiLeaks the “Collateral Murder” video, which, in the words of Marjorie Cohn, “depicts US forces in an Apache helicopter killing 12 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists ...
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O2 starts building free London WiFi network
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more The intended capacity of the network has not been made clear beyond the company saying that “it will initially be rolled out in a ...
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Troublesome year for bookshops as sales falter
Sydney Morning Herald
The ''unauthorised autobiography'' by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,WikiLeaks against the World, proved something of a damp squib, selling only 5000 copies despite publicity after Assange pulled out of the deal, with the first draft published ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Symantec investigates possible leak of Norton AntiVirus source code
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more "As of now we start sharing with all our brothers and followers information from the Indian Military Intelligence servers," the ...
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Sweden recognises file-sharing religion
SBS
The country which gave the world the Pirate Bay and original Pirate Party, stored WikiLeaks data and took internet telephony mainstream (ie, Skype) has now officially recognised file-sharing as a religion. "Hopefully, this is one step towards the day ...
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SBS
Private security and 'the Israelites of Latin America'
Aljazeera.com
In a WikiLeaks cable from the US embassy in Bogota dated December 1, 2009, a rather unexpected entity joined the usual lineup of Latin America-based threats. The cable discusses the manoeuvres in Colombia of the Israeli firm Global Comprehensive ...
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Aljazeera.com
Alex's 2012 Tech Predictions
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
And after all was said and done, the biggest change that came out of the massiveWikiLeaks insider threat was to USB policy rather than foreign policy, though once again, information security made it to the headlines. The hacks that really matter were,...
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Nine hot technology startups to watch in 2012
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more That's because, in addition to being one of the most overused buzzwords in the history of tech, cloud computing used to be consigned ...
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Fortnum & Mason Christmas hampers still undelivered after IT glitch
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more A spokesperson for the company said: "Fortnum & Mason experienced severe issues with IT infrastructure that caused delays to some ...
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Aiming to occupy new political ground
Sydney Morning Herald
He places the seeds of the Occupy movement in the hands of WikiLeaks. ''I think the Occupy movement was an outgrowth of the Arab Spring and social discontent around the world,'' he wrote in an email. ''The WikiLeaksdocuments helped spark the unrest in ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Shopacheck loans customer data lost on large scale
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more Additionally, staff data was lost for a number of employees who started at the company before October. ...
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Ramnit worm goes after Facebook credentials
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more Researchers from Seculert discovered a command-and-control server for the worm and found that it had harvested some 45000 ...
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EU may bar purchases of Iranian oil
STLtoday.com
But the extent of the effort that the United States has gone to over the years to target the Iranian energy industry had been largely out of public view until the publication of classified State Department cables by the WikiLeaks website. ...
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National Savings website down
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more "We are currently experiencing intermittent difficulties with the website and we are working to resolve those issues as quickly as ...
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Top five all-time greatest whistle-blowers
London Loves Business
Whistle-blowing of this nature has been made cool in recent years by one Mr Julian Assange and his cacophony of Wikileaks whistle-blowing. But brave acts such as Woodford's have been highlighting corporate corruption for years. ...
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New year's CRM resolution: Going on a leads diet
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more While it's easy to state the cost of leads, the value of any specific lead is indeterminate. Ask the sales guys, and they'll say ...
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WhatsApp fixes flaws in mobile status update process
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more WhatsApp Messenger users can address messages to one another using their phone numbers. The app sends the messages over Wi-Fi or a ...
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How the US pressured Spain to adopt unpopular Web blocking law
Ars Technica
Thanks to WikiLeaks, we have the text of the diplomatic cable announcing the pressure tactics. We propose to tell the new government that Spain will appear on the Watch List if it does not do three things by October 2008. First, issue a [Government of ...
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Ars Technica
2011: Alberni Valley celebrates the highs and lows in Part II of year-end features
Alberni Valley News
The incident came to light as part of the infamous WikiLeaks release of military documents last year. New publisher Teresa Bird came from the North Island Gazette to join the team at the News after former News publisher John Tierney left for Victoria. ...
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Anonymous Blitzkrieg: Hactivists declare war on Neo-Nazis — RT
By RT
Activists of the Anonymous online hacker community have launched a web campaign against German neo-Nazi and other far-right sites. Their website nazi-leaks.net makes it obvious the hactivists favor the Wikileaks strategy.
News RSS : Today
2012-01-01 #WikiLeaks News: A New Year's Message; Updated ...
This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and ...
wlcentral.org/node/2406
WikiLeaks, Patents, Cyber-Attacks Lead Week's Security News ...
The government's case against Bradley Manning, Juniper's patent lawsuit against Palo Alto Networks and cyber-attacks were among this week's security ...
www.eweek.com/.../Wikileaks-Patents-CyberAttacks-Lead-We...
WikiLeaks Backers Lose Bid to Keep Twitter Data From US
5 (Bloomberg) -- Three WikiLeaks backers lost their bid to keep information on them collected from their Twitter Inc. accounts from being turned over to US ...
www.businessweek.com/.../wikileaks-backers-lose-bid-to-keep...
War News Updates: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Could Face ...
A News Aggregator That Covers The World's Major Wars And Conflicts. Military, Political, And Intelligence News Are Also Covered. Occasionally We Will Have ...
warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/.../wikileaks-founder-julian-ass...
Wikileaks: Fanjuls among 'sugar barons' who 'muscled' lawmakers ...
The cables read like a political thriller: In the Dominican Republic, a "small, powerful coterie of infuriated sugar barons" was trying to sabotage a top American ...
www.palmbeachpost.com/.../wikileaks-fanjuls-among-sugar-b...
Worthington: Wikileaks no threat | World | News | Toronto Sun
As 2011 draws to a close, the issue of WikiLeaks disclosures remains to be resolved — a breach of trust to some, the right to know to others.
www.torontosun.com/2011/.../worthington-wikileaks-no-threa...
WikiLeaks' Assange may face espionage charge in US | News.com.au
JULIAN Assange may face espionage charges in the US after prosecutors in the case of Private Bradley Manning revealed evidence of the WikiLeaks boss' ...
www.news.com.au/...in.../story-e6frfku0-1226230104550
The WikiLeaks Truck Is For Sale - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Aside from the field of blue-tarp-covered tents and the People's Library, one of the most iconic images of Occupy Wall Street's Zuccotti Park ...
news.yahoo.com/wikileaks-truck-sale-164847256.html
Daily Dot | WikiLeaks truck for sale
The Daily Dot: The Hometown Newspaper of the World Wide Web · News + Features... For sale: WikiLeaks Mobile Information Collection Unit. Published 1 day ...
www.dailydot.com/news/wikileaks-truck-for-sale/
Wikileaks truck News, Video and Gossip - Gawker
The Wikileaks Truck Is For Sale. ... Artist Clark Stoeckly has put his spoof " WikileaksMobile Collection Unit" on eBay to raise funds. The Wikileaks Truck has no ...
gawker.com/wikileaks-truck/
RAP NEWS 4 Wikileaks v The Pentagon - WWWAR on the Internet ...
RAP NEWS 4 Wikileaks v The Pentagon - WWWAR on the Internet ... news wikileaks,news wikileaks pentagon, news wikileaks wwwar, news wikileaks internet ...
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'WikiLeaks Truck' For Sale on eBay
Then there's the WikiLeaks Truck – best known as an emblem of activism. Online auctioneer eBay is offering what may be 2011's most newsworthy box van, ...
blogs.wsj.com/.../2012/.../wikileaks-truck-for-sale-on-ebay/?...
Wikileaks: Fanjuls among 'sugar barons' who ... - WikiLeaks News
News and Updates About Sensitive Files Leaked by WikiLeaks. RSS · Home ·WikiLeaks News · Occupy Wall Street · Video ...
wikilinksnews.com/.../wikileaks-fanjuls-among-sugar-barons-...
The Deceptions of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks ... - Right Side News
There is a direct connection between Wikilleaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. Ron Paul had praised Julian Assange for his patriotism.
www.rightsidenews.com/.../the-deceptions-of-julian-assange-w...
  
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UNITED NATIONS News, Jan 06, 2012

Suicide attack kills and wounds dozens in Damascus (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
RT
The Arab League committee will determine whether to continue the Syrian mission, or refer Damascus to the United Nations Security Council, a move which could give the green light for international intervention. Meanwhile, in a Thursday interview with ...
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PICTURES: Photo of the Day
National Journal
Rick Perry listens to Catcher Jones, 7, of Greenville, SC, as Jones tells him about his desire to become President of the United States and to become an Eagle Scout on Thursday on the USS Yorktown in Charleston, SC Dec. 7: New Jersey Gov. ...
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'Gentle, intelligent' man turned tyrant: photographer plans Pol Pot memorial
Sydney Morning Herald
''I took the photos of the Westerners but I did know who they were … we were not told names although Pol Pot wanted everything minutely documented,'' Nhem En says. The United Nations has spent more than $150 million putting five ageing Khmer Rouge ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
The Pergamon Museum
Inquirer.net
A friend from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization once told me that his organization's famous World Heritage List generally excludes museums. I suppose this may have to do with the fact that museums are very obviously ...
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Inquirer.net
Photographers take aim, Jolie's son shoots back
msnbc.com
After looking at the images, I paused for a moment to think about all the war-torn countries Jolie has set foot in as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations. It's not a stretch by any means to say she's seen first-hand the devastation wrought by ...
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(Photos courtesy VOM Nigeria)
Mission Network NEws (press release)
They've made a target of churches, as well as targeting the government--targeting police stations, and military establishments and recently, a United Nations building." Simply put, recent attacks were a warning shot across the bow. ...
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Syrian protesters hold a funeral procession in Homs
msnbc.com (blog)
They reportedly withdrew after the attack. There was no immediate word on casualties. Meanwhile, Qatar's prime minister said the monitors' mission in Syria had made "some mistakes" and that he was turning to the United Nations for help. ...
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Addis Ababa (Part One)
The Africa Report
It was being held at the United Nations Conference Centre and anyone entering was required to have photo identity following comprehensive security clearance. Not all the delegates identity cards had been issued, however, but bizarrely, some delegates ...
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Why Food Prices Have Become So Volatile
BullionVault
That grim marker has now been achieved: The above chart of LA County SNAP users echoes the FAO chart from the United Nations. Upward-moving volatility in energy is concurrent with wild swings in food prices and waves of people in need of public ...
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'Gentle, intelligent' man turned tyrant: photographer plans Pol Pot memorial
Collie Mail
''I took the photos of the Westerners but I did know who they were … we were not told names although Pol Pot wanted everything minutely documented,'' Nhem En says. TheUnited Nations has spent more than $150 million putting five ageing Khmer Rouge ...
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CENSORED NEWS: The Peaks: Indigenous Caravan to San Francisco
By brendanorrell@gmail.com
from Yerba Buena Park to the James R. Browning US Courthouse - 9th Circuit; 95 Seventh Street; San Francisco, CA. photo opportunity* 7:00 A.M. Sunrise Gathering and Ceremony at Yerba Buena Park ... “It is deplorable that the United States Forest Service would allow known endocrine disruptors to come into contact with our our children,” said Berta Benally, a grandmother traveling to California to witness the hearing. "At one point DDT, BPA and asbestos were all considered safe. ...
CENSORED NEWS
A handout picture from the official Syrian News Agency (SANA - RT
By RT
The Arab League committee will determine whether to continue the Syrian mission, or refer Damascus to the United Nations Security Council, a move which could give the green light for international intervention. Meanwhile, in a Thursday ...
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Explosion in Damascus Leaves 25 People Dead | Ya Libnan | World ...
By syh
Ya Libnan features frequently updated breaking news, world news, op-eds and features, live from Beirut, Lebanon. ... the Arab League in December. Many protesters have expressed anger that the mission had done little to stem the bloodshed, and the demonstrations were expected to call for the Arab League to shift responsibility for the monitoring of human rights violations to the United Nations. NYT. Syrian TV picturesshow the aftermath of a bomb explosion in Damascus on Friday ...
Ya Libnan
Suicide attack kills and wounds dozens in Damascus (VIDEO ...
By admin
However, most of the casualties are civilians, SANA news agency reports. A Syrian official, speaking on condition of ... Suicide attack kills and wounds dozens in Damascus (VIDEO, PHOTOS). Filed under: Russian News — Tags: ... The Arab League committee will determine whether to continue the Syrian mission, or refer Damascus to the United Nations Security Council, a move which could give the green light for international intervention. An image grab taken from Syrian state TV ...
Russian News From Russia
Secretary-General Interviewed by UN News ... - United Nations Photo
Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon is interviewed by journalists from the UN News Centre and UN Radio about his first term as Secretary-General of the United ...
webcast.unmultimedia.org/.../category:%22Secretary-General...
Philip's surgery interrupts royal holiday - UPI.com
Articles, Photos. Go. United Press International - News. ... Queen Elizabeth II addresses the United Nations. Prince Philip, the ... UPI Photo/Monika Graff. Related ...
www.upi.com/Top_News/.../UPI-83751324706734/
UN chief to focus on sustaining Arab Spring | ajc.com
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his second term as chief of the United ... National / World News 1:56 a.m. Saturday, December 31, 2011 ... FILE - In this May 4, 2011 file photo provided by the United Nations, U.N. ...
www.ajc.com/news/nation.../un-chief-to-focus-1282889.html
CENSORED NEWS: Mohawk Nation News 'Sky is not Falling'
MNN Mohawk Nation News Kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, .....(Photo: Native American and First Nation leaders united in DC against the ...
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/.../mohawk-nation-news-sky-is-not-fall...
Quotes from Rantburg - News, photos, topics, and quotes
... to take immediate action... and raise the issue with the United Nations ...where ... I want to share "Quotes from Rantburg - News, photos, topics, and quotes" via ...
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Picture: 8.6% unemployment rate in United States, December 2011
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United Nations - daily news and current events
United Nations News ... News and Views at the United Nations ... In this photoreleased by the Syrian official news agency SANA and according to them, flames ...
archive.wn.com/2012/07/01/un/index.html
Carter's baptism of fire in Kabul job - United Nations - NZ Herald News
Be part of the news. Send pics ... Photo Shearer vows to listen, learn and act · United Nations headlines ... News & feedback for the online editorial team More ...
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BBC News - South Sudan cattle clashes: UN moves troops to Pibor
The United Nations is sending troop reinforcements to the South Sudanese town of Pibor to prevent an attack .... 24 hours of news photos from around the world ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16364244
TheDay.com - VRHS Participates in Model United Nations ...
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A United Nations-funded construction site is seen in ... - Yahoo! News
View the photo A United Nations-funded construction site is seen in Rafah on Yahoo!News. View the photo A United Nations-funded construction site is seen in ...
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Quotes from The New York Times - News, photos, topics, and quotes
... in and facing a scandal, or not allowing them and facing the United Nations. ... I want to share "Quotes from The New York Times - News, photos, topics, and ...
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Photo from Getty Images - Stateless Arabs, known as bidoon, wave ...
Stateless Arabs, known as bidoon, wave United Nations and Kuwaiti flags as they protest to demand citizenship and other rights ... Getty Images 28 minutes ago ...
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