Indian students being murdered in Australia

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Why are Indian students being attacked in Australia?


The Autralians are claiming that its not racism


In fact, one Tim Colbach, columnist for the The Age claims that Indian TV needs to stop whipping up hysteria because there are far more killings of Indians in India than in Australia, and India has dowry deaths too!! So let some common sense reign, eh? Kids? If you don't know what derailing is? There is a classic example. Indian blogger Madhavi brings the subject back on track



And then Mr. Colbach pulls out two instances of Australians murdered in India over a ten year period. You all do it too!!!


The interesting thing is, then why is it that coroners are hiding the cause of deaths for at least 51 foreign exchange students, more than half of which are Indian? Never mind that coroners were deliberately suppressing and under reporting murders. What I want to know is...What were the stats in 2009?

leading the news: haiti's earthquake

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Haiti beset by series of natural disasters

The Caribbean island nation of Haiti has been beset by a series of natural disasters in recent years, experiencing four devastating tropical storms in 2008.

Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake will only further complicate living conditions for residents of the poverty-stricken country where 80 per cent of Haiti's nearly nine million people live below the poverty line.

Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports. 13 Jan 10

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a selection from the listening post

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Listening Post / Listening Post - Yemen news coverage

Media coverage of Yemen and terrorism, Macau ten years since the handover of Macau to China.

Listening Post / Listening Post - Copenhagen Climate Summit / Iranian blogosphere

Media coverage of the Copenhagen climate summit and news seeping out of Iran through its blogosphere

Listening Post / Listening Post - Italian media / Egyptian blogosphere

Silvio Berlusconi, Rupert Murdoch and the media in Italy and an extended interview with renowned blogger Wael Abbas on the Egyptian blogosphere