More than 200 Brazilian police officers raided the third-largest favela in Rio, home to over 60,000 residents, on Thursday morning. Local media reported heavy gunfire and explosions in Jacarezinho, and spoke of rifle-armed militants jumping across roofs to escape the police. Multiple Brazilian social media users described the confrontation as …
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More than a thousand people carrying red flags and banners gathered in Turin for the traditional May demonstrations, Italian news agency ANSA reported. Several processions moved through the streets and gathered in a square by Town Hall. One of the biggest banners read: “Health crisis, social crisis, ecological crisis, to …
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The protest turned violent as demonstrators clashed with police, reportedly leaving two policemen and at least one protester injured. A number of arrests were made. Led by the ‘Movimento Imprese Italiane’ (The Italian Business Movement), the protesters wore shackles and chains and chanted for freedom. “We put chains on ourselves …
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Along with a nearby statue to Confederate Gen. Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, the city’s now-famous statue of Robert E. Lee may be taken down if Charlottesville so desires, Virginia’s state Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, overturning an October 2019 Circuit Court decision that allowed the statues to remain in place …
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The House of Commons passed a controversial policing bill last week which, in addition to providing stiffer penalties for serious crime, sets out prison sentences of up to 10 years for anyone causing “serious annoyance or inconvenience” in public – a provision that activists say will be used to clamp …
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Protests against Covid-19 restrictions in multiple major cities across the country were planned for Saturday, with the biggest occurring in the central German city of Kassel. According to local media reports, citing police, at least 10 thousand people showed up for a rally there, many of them refusing to wear …
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If you haven’t heard, Swedish egomaniac Zlatan has irked LeBron with his suggestion that the basketball saint should quit playing politics and basically shut up and dribble. “That is the big first mistake people do when they become famous and they become in a certain status,” said the 39-year-old AC …
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The Microsoft co-founder, who boasts the third-largest fortune in the world and calls himself a “bitcoin skeptic,” took on the world’s most popular cryptocurrency several times this week. In one of his recent chats on the popular Clubhouse app, he pointed out that the production of bitcoin is harmful to …
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The casualties were revealed in a lengthy article revisiting the incident in the western Himalayas that was published by the official newspaper of the Chinese military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily on Friday. The piece names five soldiers and officers, of which four died and one was seriously injured. …
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Footage from Ruptly video agency shows police officers trying to push back a crowd of young men from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. People took to the streets in the city of Bnei Brak, a Haredi Tel Aviv suburb, on Sunday night to attend the funeral of senior rabbi Chaim Meir …
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