No one bothered to keep the young Palestinian’s family informed — On his way to what was supposed to his final chemotherapy session, last November, he boarded the wrong shared taxi. Discovering his mistake, he got off and ran across the highway to catch a taxi going in the opposite direction. Israel Defense Forces soldiers …
Australia’s Catholic Church paid $213 million in abuse compensation, costs
Australia’s Catholic Church has paid A$276 million ($213 million) in compensation to thousands of child abuse victims since 1980, a government inquiry heard on Thursday — the first time the total compensation paid by the church’s schools, orphanages and residences has been revealed. A report at a royal commission into institutional abuse said 3,066 victims …
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German police raid homes of Turkish imams suspected of Anti-Gulen spies
German police Wednesday searched the homes of four Turkish Muslim preachers on suspicion they spied for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, officials said. The imams are accused of reporting on Turkish followers of Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cult leader who heads an organization on Turkey’s terror list dubbed the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETO), directed the …
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Revealed: FBI terrorism taskforce investigating Standing Rock activists
The FBI is investigating political activists campaigning against the Dakota Access pipeline, diverting agents charged with preventing terrorist attacks to instead focus their attention on indigenous activists and environmentalists. The Guardian has established that multiple officers within the FBI’s joint terrorism taskforce have attempted to contact at least three people tied to the Standing Rock …
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Aboriginal child protection laws being ‘broken’ by NT government
Yingiya Mark Guyula used the anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s 2008 apology to the stolen generations to issue a warning about the way Indigenous children were being removed from their families today. “That legislation was broken by the Government themselves — they broke their own law and that’s why I have stood here and I am …
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Women and children ‘endure rape, beatings and abuse’ inside France’s refugee camp
Children and women are being raped by traffickers inside a refugee camp in northern France, according to detailed testimony gathered ahead of fresh legal action against the UK government’s approach to the welfare of unaccompanied minors. Corroborating accounts from volunteers, medics, refugees and other officials reveal that sexual abuse is common within the large camp …
Western-backed Sisi government forcibly closes anti-torture human rights group
Egypt closed the offices of a prominent human rights group that helps victims of violence and torture, the organisation and a police official said. El Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture and Violence in Cairo offers psychological rehabilitation to victims of abuses including sexual assault. “About 15 policemen in official uniform with …
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81-year-old Palestinian killed by Israeli settler
A Palestinian citizen was today killed in Al-Khudr village near Bethlehem after an Israeli settler ran him over. Mohammed Awad, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Red Crescent, said 81-year-old farmer Sulaiman Hamad died of serious injuries soon after being admitted to hospital. Witnesses informed the hospital that the settler from the adjacent …
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Israeli settlement law ‘violates rights and dignity’
Palestinian politicians and human rights groups are warning that a new law passed by the Israeli parliament violates international laws and is a step towards Israel annexing the occupied West Bank. The so-called Regulation Law, passed on Monday night, allows for the retroactive legalisation of about 4,000 homes built by Jewish settlers on privately owned …
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Australia Catholic Church faces six decades of child abuse allegations
Seven percent of Catholic priests working in Australia between 1950 and 2010 were accused of child sex crimes but few were pursued, Church data showed on Monday, as hearings began over allegations dating back decades. Last year, Australia’s most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, said the Church had made “enormous mistakes” and “catastrophic” choices by …
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