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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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Ukraine's Armed Forces Deny Use Of Cluster Bombs

Comments (0) | armed forces, cluster bombs, donetsk, human rights watch, International, kiev, moscow, Ukraine, violence

Cluster bomb strike. (Lazy Susan 23/Flickr)

Belinda Cai
Web Producer

Human Rights Watch reported what appeared to be the "widespread" use of cluster bombs.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

My Conversation With Adam Adli, Embattled Malaysian Activist

Comments (0) | Activism, Adam Adli, censorship, dissident, grassroots movement, human rights, human rights watch, International, Malay, Malaysia, Malaysian activist, sedition, Sedition Act, Sedition Act 1948, UMNO, UMNO Party, United Malay National Organization, UPSI

The morning of his sentencing, Adli posted a selfie, presumably in the courtroom. "Keep calm and be seditious!" (Facebook)

Michelle Toh
Editor-at-Large

"Keep calm and be seditious!"

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Malaysian Activist Sentenced To A Year's Imprisonment For Sedition

Comments (1) | 1948 Sedition Act, Activist, Adam Adli, arrest, censorship, Facebook parody, freedom of expression, human rights watch, International, Malaysia, Malaysian activist, Malaysian Bar, Malaysian Bar Council, parody, political dissent, sedition, Sedition Act

Adam Adli, pictured here in September 2013, encouraged his social media followers to "keep calm and stay seditious." (Facebook)

Michelle Toh
Web Producer

Lawyers are protesting the latest sedition charges.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Ugandan Court Repeals Anti-Gay Law

Francesca Bessey
Senior Opinion Editor

Human Rights Watch cautions that the gay rights abuses are not over yet.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Report Shows ISIS Committed Mass Murder In North Iraq

Comments (1) | armed, atrocity, captured, civilian, conflict, crimes against humanity, execution, guns, HRW, human rights, human rights watch, Iraq, isis, islamist, kidnap, men, Middle East, Military, murder, Nation and World, site, Syria, Tigris, Tikrit, trenches, Trucks, violation, war

Francesca Bessey
Senior Opinion Editor

A Human Rights Watch analysis of photographs and satellite imagery reveals mass execution of civlians.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Anti-Homosexuality Laws: Is Our Society Really That Progressive?

Governor Jan Brewer vetoing SB1062 (twitter/govbrewer)

Niki Hashemi
Staff Reporter

Recent legislation is making people wonder whether the United States is truly progressive.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Drone Strikes Questioned In New Report

Comments (15) | 2013, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, AQAP, Christopher Coppock, civilian casualties, Drone Strikes, drones, drones in yemen, hellfire missles, human rights watch, human rights watch drones, legality of drone strikes, obama administration, Opinion

A General Atomics Predator drone armed with Hellfire missiles flies over an unknown location. (Leslie Pratt/Wikimedia Commons)

Christopher Coppock
Executive Producer

America's drone strikes in Yemen are killing at a rate of nearly three civilians to every militant.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Aleppo Bakery Attack Kills 20

Comments (0) | Abdu Jabar Agadi, Abu Firas, aleppo, Aleppo bakery, bakery, Free Syrian Army, human rights watch, International, Masaken Hanano, Revolutionary Council for Aleppo and Its Suburbs, shelling, Syria, Syrian bakery

A night bakery in Aleppo, Syria (Creative Commons).

Agnus Dei Farrant
Executive Producer

It was the only bakery operating in that portion of the city.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Boiling Tensions, Reports Of Torture Could Prompt Change In Syria

Comments (1) | Bashar al-Assad, Borders, human rights watch, International, international relations, russia, Syria, Turkey, warplane

(Freedom House/Flickr)

Catherine Green
Executive Producer

VIDEO: Human Rights Watch points out widespread torture techniques.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Police Tear Gas Protestors Demanding Fair Elections in Malaysia

Comments (0) | fair elections, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, human rights watch, International, Malaysia, Prime Minister Najib Razak, protest

(sharmasm, Creative Commons)

Cara Palmer
Executive Producer

Police fired tear gas and chemically-laced water into the crowd of 25,000 demonstrators.

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