Israeli air strikes destroy buildings housing more than a dozen media outlets in Gaza
CPJ 2021-05-13
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New York, May 13, 2021 – Israeli forces must refrain from bombing media outlets, and should ensure that journalists can work safely and without fear, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On May 11 and 12, Israeli warplanes bombed and destroyed the Al-Jawhara and Al-Shorouk office...
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Trial for 3 ex-officers charged in George Floyd's death postponed to 2022
The Jamestown Sun 2021-05-13
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Mexico’s president has made an historic apology to the Indigenous Mayan people for the abuses they suffered in the five centuries since the Spanish conquest. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented the apology during an event marking the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest and...
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A woman and child walk past a mural of George Floyd painted on the side of Israel’s separation barrier on the occupied West Bank side of Bethlehem on March 31, 2021. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images I was 19 the first time someone told me I didn’t exist. I was in college, standing...
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Boris Johnson will write to families of Ballymurphy victims to apologise for deaths
Irish Independent 2021-05-13
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Ellen DeGeneres is calling time on her long-running talk show. The daytime host, who has seen a ratings hit after allegations of running a toxic workplace, has decided that the upcoming 19th season will be the last, ending in 2022. It coincides with the end of her contract. “You may wonder why I’ve...
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Extraterritorial coercion against exiles and diasporas from authoritarian states is now a global phenomenon. A recent report by Freedom House, investigating the scale and scope of transnational repression, details that since 2014 at least 31 origin countries have carried out assassinations,...
Joe Biden signs cybersecurity executive order after Colonial Pipeline attack
Indian Express 2021-05-13
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US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that advances federal cybersecurity capabilities and encourages improvements in digital security standards across the private sector which has been hit by a spate of cyber attacks. The executive order establishes a series of initiatives...
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