the clashes broke out at Ketziot prison in the southern Negev desert after guards started what it termed "provocative" cell searches. Palestinians responded by hurling objects at the guards, who fired rubber bullets and used tear-gas and batons to disperse the protest

LEBANON

Torture and ill-treatment of women in pre-trial detention: a culture of acquiescence

1 INTRODUCTION

Women arrested in Lebanon risk torture and ill-treatment at the hands of law enforcement institutions especially during pre-trial detention(1).

Widespread torture or other ill-treatment of women detainees, especially those accused of major criminal offences, takes place in police stations. Women in pre-trial detention are routinely held in incommunicado detention and coerced to confess guilt or testify against themselves at a time when they lack the protection of the law. Women accused of political offences have also been tortured or ill-treated. Another vulnerable category of women are migrant workers, who have frequently been subjected to torture and ill-treatment in detention

Russia's Interfax news agency said on Sunday that Putin had been warned by his special services of a possible assassination plot during his visit to Tehran this week.

Russian media are mostly controlled by the government and it would be unthinkable for a major news organization to report an alleged plot against Putin without prior official approval.

The dramatic tale would serve to increase a feeling of insecurity in Russians at the thought of his disappearance and thereby increase their psychological dependence on him, argued Nikolai Zlobin, director of the Russian and Eurasia Project at the Washington-based World Security Institute.

My debating always was why suddenly Israel decided to wage a full-fledge war last year for a procedure that has been going on for decades?

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Winograd Commission that his decision to respond to the abduction of soldiers with a broad military operation was made as early as March 2006, four months before last summer's Lebanon war broke out.

Actually in order to have this hair color on top, which is not blond but I don't know how you call it is English "mèches" meaning that there are "stripes"? of blonde, you have to make the base color dark before putting the highlights, otherwise, it doesn't work.

Besides, the highlights are made during the same day or the day before. She won't go with weeks old highlights so that the roots appear? 

Do you think that she appears to have fake beauty unlike other contestants?

I think she overdid her tan, not her make-up. Anyway we can't judge from these pictures.

This is her without the tan. I don't know, personally I don't really like her looks, but I am still happy she won  Lebanese solidarity 

The girl crowning her in the picture was last year's winner from Slovakia.

And again, why do you assume she is originally dark haired?

And they are all wearing heavy make-up. It's just because the close-ups are on her that you notice her more. Besides, these are internet pictures with very low resolution/quality

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Conquered lands are at the mercy of the conqueror newbie.