Latin America

This Week in Palestine (Jan 12-18)

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for January 12 to 18th 2013. New models in protesting Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank, meanwhile, Hamas declares its readiness for conciliation, these stories and more, coming up.

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Exclusive: Aaron Swartz’s Partner, Expert Witness Say Prosecutors Unfairly Targeted Dead Activist

Outrage is growing over the U.S. Justice Department’s prosecution of the 26-year-old who committed suicide last week just weeks before he was to go on trial. Pioneering computer programmer and cyber activist Aaron Swartz was facing up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine if convicted for using computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to download millions of academic articles provided by the nonprofit research service JSTOR.

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Chavez Is Improving, Says Minister

With his respiratory infection now under control, Hugo Chavez is recovering favorably from his latest bout with cancer, said Venezuelan Minister of Communications and Information, Ernesto Villegas, on Sunday.

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