A.M. Links: Half of Guantanamo Bay on Hunger Strike, Ethnic Cleansing by Buddhists in Burma, North Korea Moving More Missile Launchers

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    More than half of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are now on hunger strike.

  • Facebook is reported to be building a $1.5 billion data center in Iowa.
  • Residents of West, Texas are returning home after a deadly fertilizer plant explosion.
  • The Taliban took nine hostages after a Turkish civilian helicopter made an emergency landing in eastern Afghanistan.
  • Human Rights Watch says Buddhists are ethnically cleansing Muslims in Burma.
  • North Korea apparently moved two more missile launchers to its Pacific coast.
  • Russia warned the European Union against lifting the arms embargo against Syria in order to supply rebels.

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