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Haiti: 15 US missionaries and family kidnapped
Deutsche Welle 17 Oct 2021
The missionaries had been heading home from building an orphanage when they were pulled off a bus by a gang, according to media reports. Haiti has witnessed more than 600 kidnappings already this year. At least 15 American missionaries and family members have been kidnapped by a gang outside the Haitian capital, security sources said Sunday ... .
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Russia says it pushed US destroyer from area near its waters
Belleville News-Democrat 16 Oct 2021
Russia’s Defense Ministry said a ...
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Slaughter in Indonesia: Britain’s secret propaganda war
The Observer 17 Oct 2021
In early 1965 Ed Wynne, an official from the Foreign Office in London in his late 40s, arrived at the door of a two-storey villa set in the discreet calm of a genteel housing estate in colonial Singapore. But Wynne was no ordinary official ... A junior official, four local people and two “IRD ladies”, seconded to the unit from London, would join him ... AP.
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End The Death Penalty
The Independent 17 Oct 2021
By the time Dylann Roof went on trial, Reverend Sharon Risher was already starting to have her doubts about the death penalty. In 2015, Roof, an avowed white supremacist, shot and killed nine people at a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, after they had welcomed him into their Bible study session ... ((AP Photo/Stephen B.
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UK: MP's killer was referred to counter-terrorism scheme
Khaleej Times 17 Oct 2021
The attacker who fatally stabbed British lawmaker David Amess was referred to an official counter-terrorist scheme for those thought to be at risk of radicalisation, according to media reports ... Police have said they are investigating "a potential motivation linked to extremism" ... "I'm feeling very traumatised".
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How a massacre of Algerians in Paris was covered up
BBC News 17 Oct 2021
"It was a miracle I was not thrown into the Seine," Algerian Hocine Hakem recalled about an infamous but little-known massacre in the French capital 60 years ago ... The police killed hundreds of protesters and dozens of others were thrown into the River Seine, making it one of the darkest pages of France's chequered colonial history ... Anti-Arab racism ... .
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Taliban To Announce Plans For Girls' Education "Soon": UN
NDTV 16 Oct 2021
The Taliban will announce a framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan "soon," a senior United Nations official said, after four weeks in which Afghan boys have been allowed a... .
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Pressure mounts on ex-DoJ official Jeff Clark over Trump’s ‘election subversion scheme’
The Guardian 17 Oct 2021
The report noted Clark repeatedly tried to “induce Rosen into helping Trump’s election subversion scheme”, including by telling Rosen that if he agreed to join their cabal to overturn election results, Clark would turn down an offer Trump had made him to become attorney general in place of Rosen ... .
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Australian police seize biggest heroin shipment ever
RNZ 16 Oct 2021
Australian police said today they seized the largest heroin shipment ever detected in the country, worth an estimated $A140 million ($NZ147 million), and arrested a Malaysian national over the importation of the illicit drug ... The maximum penalty is life imprisonment, the police said ... - Reuters ....
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Cities, police unions clash as vaccine mandates take effect
Egypt Independent 16 Oct 2021
Police departments around the US that are requiring officers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are running up against pockets of resistance that some fear could leave law enforcement shorthanded and undermine public safety. Police unions and officers are pushing back by filing lawsuits to block the mandates ... This is about saving jobs.” ... ___ ... ....
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Venezuela Halts Talks After Maduro Ally Extradited to US
NBCBayArea 17 Oct 2021
Venezuela’s government said Saturday it would halt negotiations with the country's opposition in retaliation for the extradition to the U.S. of a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro wanted on money laundering charges ... Our redesigned local news and weather app is live! Download it for iOS or Android — and sign up for alerts ... U.S. & World ... Biden ... .
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Japan's Kishida sends ritual offering to notorious Yasukuni shrine
China.dot.org 17 Oct 2021
TOKYO, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 14 convicted Class-A Japanese war criminals from World War II and is deemed by neighboring countries as a symbol of Japan's past militarism ... Enditem .
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Police to help MLAs beef up their protection
Belfast Telegraph 17 Oct 2021
All Northern Ireland MPs and MLAs are being contacted by police to check on their personal security in the wake of the murder of Sir David Amess. The PSNI said it is also urging politicians in the province to “immediately report” any safety worries so they can keep themselves and their constituency meetings safe ... ACC Jones yesterday added ... Most Read ... .
