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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators plan to risk mass arrest on Tuesday by closing down the Brooklyn street where US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer resides, a coalition of Jewish groups opposing Israel's actions in Gaza said. The protest is one of a dozen to be held in cities around the country, including Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. There have been a spate of major demonstrations on college campuses from California to Massachusetts over the past week. On many of the campuses, protesters have set up encampments of tents to protest against Israel's deadly war in Gaza, which has killed 34,183 ...
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday a peace deal with Armenia was closer than ever before, as teams from both countries began demarcating the border in a bid to end decades of territorial disputes and clashes. Aliyev's optimism comes amid progress on marking the border despite protests in Armenia, still bruised after Baku seized control of the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region in a lightning offensive last year. On Tuesday, teams from both countries installed the first border marker after officials had agreed to delimit a section based on Soviet-era maps. "We are close as never ...
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Britain’s plans to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda were swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organisations after Parliament approved legislation allowing the deportation flights to begin later this year. Both the U.N. refugee agency and the Council of Europe on Tuesday called for the U.K. to rethink its plans because of concerns that the legislation undermines human rights protections and fears that it will damage international cooperation on tackling the global migrant crisis. "The new legislation marks a further step away from the U.K.’s long tradition of providing refuge to th...
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A French court this week handed an Iran-born man a suspended 10-month sentence for entering the Iranian consulate in Paris with fake grenades in what he said was "revenge" for a crackdown at home that targeted his family. The 61-year-old, a long-time resident of France who regularly attends Iranian opposition demonstrations, told the court he acted on Friday after learning the previous day that his sister had been arrested. He said he had not wanted to "threaten anyone" but rather "take revenge" on the Iranian authorities, who he described as "terrorist". The court, in a ruling late on Monday,...
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A man has been arrested after footage emerged of a woman at a pro-Palestine protest in the London suburb of Romford being "racially abused" last Saturday went viral. Police said a 55-year-old man was charged with religiously aggravated international harassment after they launched an "urgent investigation" into the video. In the footage, a white man in glasses can be seen following three women, two of whom are visibly Muslim and wearing keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians, through a busy shopping area in Romford. He shouts insults and abuse at them including, "You Muslim f***ing c***s, yo...
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American journalist Terry Anderson, who was snatched by militants in Lebanon in 1985 during the country's multi-faceted civil war, and held hostage for six years, died at age 76 on Sunday, his former employer the Associated Press (AP) said. Anderson, then the AP's Beirut bureau chief, was the longest-held Western hostage in Lebanon when he was finally released in 1991, after the war ended. He died at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York, following complications from recent heart surgery, the agency reported, citing Anderson's daughter Sulome Anderson. A former Marine, Anderson was chained and ...
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Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on Monday, as Israel's war on Gaza continued to reverberate through U.S. university campuses. The police crackdowns came after Columbia University canceled in-person classes on Monday in response to protesters setting up tent encampments at its New York City campus last week. Demonstrators blocked traffic around Yale's campus in New Haven, Connecticut, demanding the school divest from military weapons manufacturers. Police arrested more than 45 protesters, a...
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Two decades after the release of infamous photos of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib being humiliated in US custody, victims of these acts are seeking justice in a case that could be decided in the coming days. The trial of Al Shimari versus CACI, which began last week in federal court in northern Virginia, began jury deliberations on Monday. At issue is whether or not the contractor CACI Premier Technology is responsible for the violations, which plaintiffs say included beatings, electric shocks, food deprivation and sexual assault, with guards posing for pictures while smiling with the inmates ...
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Pro-Palestinian activists and journalists have criticised US President Joe Biden’s recent remarks concerning Gaza solidarity protests at New York’s Columbia University, which intensified over the weekend. Student demonstrators on Sunday were protesting in support of Gaza and Palestinians have for a fifth day in a row, demanding that the prestigious university severs ties with Israel over its deadly and indiscriminate war on the Gaza Strip. Israel has killed at least 34,151 Palestinians – mostly women and children – since October 7. The educational institution offers an exchange programme withT...
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held talks with Pakistani leader Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Monday, in what experts said was a "significant" visit aimed at mending ties after the neighbours traded deadly cross-border strikes earlier this year. Prime Minister Sharif's office said the pair had a "vibrant discussion" on advancing bilateral relations – specifically in trade and communication – and also "agreed on the necessity for joint efforts by both countries to combat terrorism". Pakistan's foreign ministry also released photos of top diplomat Ishaq Dar meeting with Raisi, saying in a stat...
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