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Washington (AFP) - A US airman has died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington at the weekend in protest over the war in Gaza, the Air Force said Monday. The shocking act was an escalation of recent protests across the United States against Israel's actions in Gaza, where with US support it is waging a retaliatory war for an attack on October 7 by Hamas militants. Emergency responders on Sunday had rushed to the scene in response to a "call for person on fire outside the Israeli Embassy," the capital city's fire department said. The unnamed man had filmed himse...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A college professor was arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter over the death of a Jewish man who clashed with a pro-Palestinian protester in California, police said Thursday. Loay Alnaji was arrested early Thursday over the death of Paul Kessler at a rally near Los Angeles earlier this month, and his bail will be set at $1 million, a Ventura County sheriff's statement said. Kessler died from a head injury after falling to the ground. Police have not yet ruled out the possibility of a hate crime. The incident took place during dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestini...
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Thousand Oaks (United States) (AFP) - California police briefly detained a pro-Palestinian protester over the death of a Jewish man following a confrontation between two rival rallies, but no arrest has been made, officials said Tuesday. Ventura County sheriff James Fryhoff said Paul Kessler's death from a head injury after falling to the ground "is being investigated as a homicide," and investigators have not yet ruled out the possibility of a hate crime. A search warrant was obtained for a 50-year-old local man who attended a rally "advocating for Palestine," and admitted to being involved i...
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Washington (AFP) - Thousands of protesters in the US capital on Saturday called for a ceasefire in Gaza amid Israel's relentless bombing campaign, with some slamming President Joe Biden's support for Washington's top ally in the Middle East. The rally, at which demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and wore the traditional keffiyeh scarf, was the largest protest in Washington since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas conflict on October 7. "Free, free Palestine," and "End the siege on Gaza now," the protesters shouted. Other slogans targeted the US president: "Biden, Biden you can't hide, you si...
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Washington (AFP) - Protesters with hands covered in red paint repeatedly interrupted a congressional hearing on US military aid Tuesday, demanding Washington stop funding Israel's fight against Hamas. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were appealing to the Senate Appropriations Committee for billions of dollars in military assistance to support Israel, Ukraine and other security costs. Some two dozen spectators raised hands covered in paint in a symbol of the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its bombardment of the Palestinian territory after Ham...
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Washington (AFP) - Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in the US capital on Saturday, marching past the White House to chants of "Free Palestine" as the death toll continued to climb in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. "What is happening today is just beyond the pale. It's so upsetting, we are watching people being killed by an army that this country supports," demonstrator Linda Houghton told AFP. Across the country, Americans have held pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests in the week since Hamas militants broke through the heavily fortified border between the Gaza Strip...
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Washington (AFP) - Dozens of American teenagers occupied the office of the top Republican lawmaker on Thursday to protest against a looming government shutdown that they say will exacerbate the climate crisis. The Sunrise Movement, a nationwide youth environmental campaign, said around 30 of its members flooded inside House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's office while over a hundred more crowded the hallway outside. The group says 18 protesters were detained by police after refusing to disperse. "Our generation is on the front lines of this crisis," Ariela Lara, 17, a high school senior from the Bay ...
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New York (AFP) - The Russian music and performance collective Pussy Riot will receive this year's Woody Guthrie prize honoring art for social change, award organizers announced Thursday. Past recipients of the prize named for the US folk revolutionary Guthrie include Bruce Springsteen, Chuck D, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and John Mellencamp. "It feels fitting to be awarded in the spirit of Woody, I think he would love Pussy Riot's anti-fascist message," said collective creator Nadya Tolokonnikova, in a statement sent to AFP by the artist's publicist. "Usually, when Pussy Riot gets added to lists, ...
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Washington (AFP) - A group of TikTok content creators descended on the US Capitol Wednesday to protest against calls for a ban on the popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app, amid fears that it presents a national security threat. Lawmakers and government officials have complained that TikTok's parent company ByteDance is able to pass users' data to the government in Beijing and are calling for it to be removed from app stores unless it is sold to a US firm. Supporters argue that the platform is no more prone to data breaches than any other apps that collect personal information and that lawm...
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Lima (AFP) - Peru's Congress will resume debate Tuesday on a bill to bring forward elections, a move aimed at ending weeks of protests that have left dozens dead and brought parts of the country to a standstill. On Monday, lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on the bill after seven hours of discussions, and proceedings will resume at 11:00 am on Tuesday (1600 GMT), according to the legislature. "We are sure that there will be a way out. All the democratic blocs are going to debate it taking into account the high sense of urgency," said Prime Minister Alberto Otarola on Monday. The South A...
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