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Stories for Wednesday, March 18, 2015
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Israel’s Elections: ‘It’s Us or Them’
 

Israeli election winner Binyamin Netanyahu: “I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state today and evacuates areas is giving radical Islam an area from which to attack the State of Israel."


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Watch ‘Istanbul: The Politics of Architecture’


Global Voices contributor John Lubbock has produced a fantastic documentary that explores Istanbul's rich multicultural history, and reflects on the city's increasingly monocultural future.

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What Large-Scale Mining Is Doing to the Philippines


"Rapu-Rapu Island was once so beautiful. It was like paradise... When the mining companies came, everything changed... What was once paradise is a wasteland." 

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Bahraini Human Rights Defender Still Faces Prison Sentence


A Bahraini court has postponed the appeal of Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights. Rajab faces a prison term for suggesting Bahrain's security apparatus is an “incubator” for radical group ISIS.

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Curated by @Nevin_Thompson
 
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