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BUDRUS, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead 17-year-old Palestinian Sameer Awad near the village of Budrus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian witnesses and medics said, and a second boy was shot and injured by soldiers in a nearby village. Violence and deadly confrontations have become more frequent in the Palestinian [...]
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Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian youth in West Bank
Posted by admin on January 15th, 2013
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Tags: Bank, Israeli, kill, Palestinian, soldiers, West, youth' 
No Comments »Youth unemployment hurts me, says Spain’s king as he turns 75
Posted by admin on January 5th, 2013
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain's King Juan Carlos I said he was worried about high youth unemployment and urged Spaniards to stick together to combat an economic crisis, in an interview to mark his 75th birthday after a year of scandal for the royal family. The king was widely respected for overseeing Spain's transition to democracy [...]
[Video] Pope To Identify With Catholic Youth By Giving Up On Catholicism
Posted by admin on December 12th, 2012
In an effort to reach today’s youth, Pope Benedict has joined Twitter and completely stopped going to church and believing in God. Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Catholic, Catholicism, Giving, identify, Pope, video, youth' No Comments »Infected and unaware: HIV hitting America’s youth
Posted by admin on November 28th, 2012
CHICAGO (Reuters) – More than half of young people in the United States who are infected with HIV are not aware of it, according to a report by government health officials that zeroes in on one of the remaining hot spots of HIV infection in America. Young people ages 13 to 24 account for 26 [...]
Morocco says breaks al Qaeda cell sending youth to Mali
Posted by admin on November 24th, 2012
RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco said on Saturday it had broken up a militant cell that was training youths to send them to fight in Mali, which has become the focus of international concern over the spread of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The interior ministry said in a statement on state news agency [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Breaks, Cell, Mali, Morocco, Qaeda, says, sending, youth' No Comments »Immigrants and youth drive Catalan independence movement
Posted by admin on November 24th, 2012
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) – Independence for Catalonia may seem like romantic folly to outsiders. The Spanish region must reach back to the Middle Ages to find historic grounds for a separate territory. It isn’t so much cultural identity that has breathed new life into the secession movement, but frustration over taxes, unemployment and recession. An [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Catalan, Drive, Immigrants, Independence, movement, youth' No Comments »Youth support drives passage of California tax-hike measure
Posted by admin on November 8th, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California's 74-year-old governor, Jerry Brown, engineered a surprise victory for his tax-hike ballot proposition by tapping support at the other end of the age spectrum. Proposition 30, a temporary $ 6 billion tax hike, passed with a solid 54 percent approval on Tuesday, driven largely by a higher-than-expected turnout of young [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: California, drives, Measure, passage, support, taxhike, youth' No Comments »Youth support drives passage of California tax-hike measure
Posted by admin on November 8th, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California's 74-year-old governor, Jerry Brown, engineered a surprise victory for his tax-hike ballot proposition by tapping support at the other end of the age spectrum. Proposition 30, a temporary $ 6 billion tax hike, passed with a solid 54 percent approval on Tuesday, driven largely by a higher-than-expected turnout of young [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: California, drives, Measure, passage, support, taxhike, youth' No Comments »“Ghetto Chavez” and the battle for Venezuela’s youth vote
Posted by admin on September 23rd, 2012
CARACAS (Reuters) – In Venezuela's biggest slum, a graffiti artist stencils a painting of President Hugo Chavez dunking a basketball. Another has him rapping to hip-hop music, and another doing a wheelie on a motorcycle. "Chavez el mio" ("My Chavez") reads a slogan on one of the series of striking campaign images ahead of the [...]
Could tougher voting laws squelch the youth vote?
Posted by admin on August 4th, 2012
Gone are the days when young voters weren't taken seriously. In 2008, they helped propel Barack Obama into the Oval Office, supporting him by a 2-1 margin. Tweet This Post
