UNITED NATIONS, (APP): A senior United Nations human rights advisor has condemned Sunday’s attack at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which 49 people were killed and 53 injured, and expressed grave concern at the outpouring of hatred, homophobia and Islamophobia that followed the incident, which targeted the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. […]
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Senior UN official gravely concerned by islamophobia that followed Orlando attack
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Chicago man shot and killed while live streaming
CHICAGO, (APP/AFP) – Just a day after an extremist attacked a French police couple and broadcast himself inside their home on Facebook Live, a man in Chicago was shot and killed while video streaming on the social network this week. Wednesday’s shooting, taking place just a few days after the Orlando, Florida massacre at a […]
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Seven headless bodies found in Mexico’s northwest
CULIACAN, Mexico, (APP/AFP) – The decapitated bodies of seven men have been found on a rural road in Mexico’s drug cartel-plagued northwestern state of Sinaloa, authorities said Friday. The victims, who were between 22 and 49 years old, were shot dead on Thursday in the community of Cacalotan, state prosecutors and police said. “They were […]
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Guinea clashes ‘over driver beating’ injure 17
CONAKRY, (APP/AFP) – Seventeen people were injured, including five with bullet wounds, during clashes Friday in northern Guinea between security forces and people demonstrating over the beating of a truck driver by soldiers, police and hospital sources and witnesses said. “At least 17 people were injured” during the violence in the northern city of Mali, […]
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Shock killing halts Britain’s EU campaign
BIRSTALL, United Kingdom, (APP/AFP) – Britain was reeling Friday from the murder of a lawmaker on a village street that froze campaigning at its frantic peak a week from a referendum on European Union membership. Jo Cox, a 41-year-old former aid worker and pro-EU campaigner known for her advocacy on behalf of Syrian refugees, was […]
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Iraq forces retake Fallujah government HQ: commanders
BAGHDAD, (APP/AFP) – Iraqi forces retook the main government compound in the centre of the militants bastion of Fallujah from the Islamic State group on Friday, top commanders said. “The counter-terrorism service and the rapid response forces have retaken the government compound in the centre of Fallujah,” the operation’s overall commander, Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, […]