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  1. Hamdeen Sabahy listens to bystanders shout requests and questions as his campaign bus idles on Qasr el-Aini Street in central Cairo.

    The 57-year-old former left-wing student activist, jailed 17 times under two presidents, is now running to succeed the man who once threw him behind bars.

    Get the latest on our Egypt Live Blog: http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/Egypt
    • Social media websites have been abuzz with reports that a controversial painting showing South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has been vandalised in a Johannesburg art gallery.

      The painting, which shows Zuma's genitals, has been described as "sadistic" by the SA Communist Party. http://aje.me/Li2uCq
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      Social media websites abuzz after paint splashed on painting of South African president shown with genitals exposed.
      Share · 48 minutes ago via Measured Voice
    • India has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and runs one of the largest child feeding programmes. But critics say only a fraction of aid reaches the needy. '101 East' travels to India and asks what the country is doing to feed its millions.
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      Every third malnourished child in the world is from India, so what is the government doing to feed its millions?
      Share · about an hour ago via Measured Voice
  2. The US company SpaceX has became the first commercial outfit to send its own spacecraft toward the International Station with the launch of the cargo-bearing Dragon capsule. http://aje.me/KisWvq
    • Khalid Najar, Shoichiro Nishiyama and 17 others like this.
      • Emeka Ezeh If only GOD can show a preview of the Eternal Hell fire and Punishment that awaits these Evil people that kill at innocent humans, maybe the rest of them will have a change of heart.
      • Jack David Even if they were shown a preview Emeka Ezeh those destined for such a bed will deny it and say their eyes have been bedazzled - words are warning enough...
    • Shoichiro Nishiyama, Annissa Nashwa and 29 others like this.
      • Syamil Mj Great job on the unbiased journalism. Given the pro-govt proganda-infested newspapers they serve here in Malaysia, Al-Jazeera is about the only trusted source for both local & international.
      • Mohd Shafee Awang On the positive note,publicity to anwar to highlight the monsters in the govt
  3. At least 15 people have been killed and about 30 injured after a passenger train collided with a stationary goods train in southern India, a local railway official said. http://aje.me/JjUPkV
    • This is the story of Ibrahim, a courageous Dutch-Moroccan social worker in the Netherlands who is tackling the high incidences of sex-trafficking of young Dutch girls by their so-called 'boyfriends' - the Lover Boys - the majority of whom are Dutch-Moroccan. It is a taboo subject, but Ibrahim and his allies, including a local sheikh, are determined to remove this stain from their community.
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      This is the story of Ibrahim, a Dutch-Moroccan man tackling the taboo problem of sex-trafficking within his community.
      Share · 5 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • Ruling party candidate Danilo Medina has claimed victory in the Dominican Republic's hotly disputed presidential election, avenging his defeat 12 years ago by opposition candidate Hipolito Mejia.

      With 99 per cent of Sunday's vote counted, Medina and the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) held a 4 percentage point lead over Mejia, the candidate for the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD).
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      Danilo Medina claims victory in presidential poll although the opposition candidate is yet to concede defeat.
      Share · 5 hours ago via Measured Voice

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