FILE PHOTO: Signage seen outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a federally owned ICE (Immigration and Customs Control) detention center operated by the CoreCivic prison contractor, amid the outbreak of the disease by coronavirus (COVID-19) in San Diego, California, USA, April 11, 2020. REUTERS / Bing Guan NEW YORK (Reuters) …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United States President Donald Trump on Monday criticized NASCAR’s confederate flag ban on his events and assaulted black car driver Bubba Wallace’s response to a knot found in his garage, one incident which the Republican President referred to as a “hoax”. Trump’s comments, sent in a tweet, …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – More than 166 people were killed during anti-government protests in Ethiopia last week, the government said on Sunday, as the capital and other hotspots remained under surveillance by security forces and a widespread Internet shutdown entered his sixth day. FILE PHOTO: Ethiopian military travel in their …
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(Reuters) – College student Saw Myint Tun traveled hundreds of miles from his home in February to work in the jade mines of northern Myanmar in search of gems that could transform his family’s modest fortune. Family members pray next to a coffin containing the body of a victim after …
Read More »Predominant black armed protesters march through the Confederate memorial park in Georgia
(Reuters) – A predominantly black group of heavily armed protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta on Saturday, calling for the removal of the giant Confederate rock carving at the site that civil rights activists consider a monument to racism. FILE PHOTO: A woman speaks in front of the …
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