Two separate bomb attacks took place in the German city of Dresden Monday night, according to Saxony police. One of the attacks targeted a mosque while the second targeted the International Congress Center of Dresden. No injuries have been reported from the two home made devices, only property damage, police added. Police say they believe …
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French woman who interviewed European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker claims she came under pressure from YouTube not to ask difficult questions. Laetitia Nadji, who is in her 30s and has 60,000 followers on her YouTube channel where she gives environmental tips, was chosen for a European version of a similar interview YouTube did with US …
Giving comments to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said: “We do not designate PKK as a terrorist organization. However, we do define attacks targeted at civilians as terror.” As he was asked ‘why it was so difficult for HDP to keep a distance from PKK and violence’, Demirtaş responded: “It is not …
Members of a Danish nationalist party sparked controversy when they distributed cans of spray labeled “Asylum Spray: Legal [and] Effective” in the town of Haderslev in southern Denmark on Saturday. The Danskernes Parti (Party of the Danes) is currently trying to qualify for the next parliamentary elections and seeks to have all non-Western immigrants thrown …
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An international aid convoy has been hit by an air strike near the Syrian city of Aleppo according to the Syrian Red Crescent. At least 18 of the 31 vehicles were struck as they were delivering assistance for 78,000 people in a rebel-held area. One report said at least 12 people were killed, most of …
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A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Nine people were injured during Monday morning’s shootings on the street in front of …
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Despite an ongoing ceasefire deal between warring sides in Syria, aid trucks are being prevented from entering the country by the Assad regime. Around 40 trucks of two convoys carrying mostly food and flour, set off from the Turkish border town of Cilvegözü, 40 km west of Aleppo on Tuesday, but made it little further …
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At least 90 migrants who refused to leave the so-called “Jungle” camp in Calais, northern France, have been detained before deportation, a French NGO said on Friday. The CIMADE organization said the 90 migrants were taken to detention centers ahead of being sent back to their countries in 45 days’ time. Among the migrants were …
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French police have been stripping refugees and migrants of their shoes and forcing them to walk in bare feet to deter them from venturing outside the Calais Jungle, The Independent has learned. Refugees failing to comply with officers’ demands have then felt they were being threatened by police officers with force, it has been alleged. …
Near Standing Rock, North Dakota on Oct. 22, armed police corralled and arrested more than 140 people seeking to protect themselves, their cultural heritage and the health of the planet on the site where contractors bulldozed the peoples’ ancestral burial ground to make way for the construction of an oil pipeline. Jihan Hafiz, a journalist …
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