Robin Gibb, NAACP supports marriage equality & No more Twitter in Pak

Robin Gibb, who co-founded musical group the Bee Gees with his two brothers, died Sunday at 62 years old. He had been battling liver and colon cancer for years, and although he had been recovering, a secondary tumor developed recently. Now if you remember The Bee Gees got their start in 1958, when Gibbs was just 9 years old

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The NAACP made waves over the weekend and voted to support marriage equality.
According to a press release on the website of the Baltimore-based civil rights organization, the board of directors passed a resolution supporting marriage equality citing the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution as a reason for backing it.

They stated "The mission of the NAACP has always been to insure the political, social and economic equality of all people,"

The NAACP vote comes about a week and a half after President Barack Obama's decision to support gay marriage which followed with a decision by the pastors of some african american churches to blast the president's decision.




Police and protesters clashed during an antiwar rally in Chicago as several thousand gathered near the meeting site of NATO dignitaries. The rally was intended to be peaceful, but protesters surged against riot police and at one point uprooted a metal barrier and tried to push it toward police. The protests drew to a close in the evening on Sunday as rally organizers urged people to disperse, and police threatened to use water and other anti-riot measures against the crowd. President Obama and the Afghan President met earlier in the day to discuss Afghanistan prior to the summit’s gathering of world leaders.

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Pakistan blocked access to Twitter on Sunday after the social network would not take down messages related to a competition involving pictures of the Prophet Muhammad. Now the chairman of the   Pakistan Telecommunication Authority stated“We have been negotiating with them until last night, but they did not agree to remove the stuff, so we had to block it,”.... Depictions of the Prophet Mohammad are considered blasphemous by many Muslims.