World - Part 31

80% of domestic abuse deaths were of men
Male domestic violence victims are being urged to come forward and report their suffering in spite of the "stigma" surrounding their plight. Nationally, the number of women killed through domestic violence is more than double that of men. But in Cornwall ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Three Georgia police officers indicted for tasing to death black man who had committed no crime
Former sheriff’s deputies Henry Lee Copeland, Michael Howell and Rhett Scott have been indicted in connection with the death of Eurie Lee Martin. On July 7 Martin was walking, presumably to see family—it was his birthday—when he stopped to knock on ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Takes a Side in the Class War
“Only one business in the galaxy can get you this rich,” Rose — a new character in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” a mechanic on the Rebel flagship — explains to returning hero Finn as they look around the beachfront resort planet, “selling weap ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence
President Temer, pressed by the ruralist lobby, attacked indigenous and traditional land rights, conserved lands, and Amazon forests this year, and retreated from Brazil's Paris climate goal – analysis. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Life expectancy in US down for second year in a row as opioid crisis deepens
Life expectancy in the US has declined for the second year in a row as the opioid crisis continues to ravage the nation. It is the first time in half a century that there have been two consecutive years of declining life expectancy. Drug overdoses killed ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Israel Tackles Existential Threat Posed By 16-Year-Old Palestinian Girl
Israeli military court extended the detention of Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old girl who has become the face of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank for many who follow the weekly protests in her village through social med ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
China: US Has No Right to Act as Human-Rights Judge
Chinese officials have slammed the U.S. Treasury Department for sanctioning public security official Gao Yan, insisting that the United States has no right to act as a "human-rights judge." ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
How the US Swindled Russia in the Early 1990s
Due to a historic data-dump on December 10th, the biggest swindle that occurred in the 20th Century (or perhaps ever) is now proven as a historical fact; and this swindle was done by the US Government, against the Government and people of Russia, and it c ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
IFJ Urges Paris to Ignore Demand to Withdraw RT France’s Licence
The French authorities should not give in to the demand of prominent French personalities to stop RT France from broadcasting, which is "an insidious form of censorship," Philippe Leruth, the president of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Russian spy services foiled 60 terror plots
Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed security and intelligence forces in his country for efforts that foiled more than 60 terrorist attacks. Putin said Wednesday that intelligence agencies in Russia had played a huge role in ensuring security in th ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Detained Palestinian teen in viral photo to be sentenced in a court with a 99.74 percent conviction rate
Fawzi al-Junaidi, 16, will be taken in for a hearing in Israel’s military court today, after being held for more than a week in Israeli detention. Junaidi was detained during clashes that erupted in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Dec. 7, the ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save