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"They've gone too far now," says Jan Egeland, a former diplomat who helped broker the Oslo Peace Accord. "Decent people have to wake up." ...[Read more]
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YASER MURTAJA, A Palestinian photojournalist, was one of nine civilians killed by Israeli snipers on Friday in Gaza, but his death was perhaps the clearest rebuke to Israel’s official position that its sharpshooters have only fired live ammunition at � ...[Read more]
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Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday that there were "no innocent people" in the besieged Gaza strip where at least 30 Palestinians have been killed over the course of 10 days of protests. ...[Read more]
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The murders of Maria Magdalena Cruz Rojas and Belisario Benavidez on Good Friday sparked calls for justice and security for Colombia’s activists.
Human rights groups decried the recent killings of Colombian social activists Maria Magdalena Cruz Rojas an ...[Read more]
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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]
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Abu Thurayya was actually one of four people killed by Israel on the same day. All were protesting against Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Yet because both of his legs had previously been amputated, the local and in ...[Read more]
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A disabled Palestinian man missing both legs is among those killed by Israeli security forces that opened fire on demonstrators in the West Bank and along the border with Gaza, Gaza’s health ministry said.
Abu Thurayeh, 29, was shot dead east of Gaza Ci ...[Read more]
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A 1975 document from the Rockefeller Commission detailing the CIA’s role in foreign assassinations said plans to assassinate Castro were undertaken in the early days of the Kennedy administration.
The report said Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the Pre ...[Read more]
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raeli forces executed another teenage girl at a checkpoint in Hebron on Sunday. Her name was Dania Ersheid, she was 17 and a student at Al-Rayyan Girls’ High School. A witness at the scene, standing in back of Ersheid in line at the checkpoint adjacent ...[Read more]
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THE LAST TIME Fawziya Shaalan saw her son alive was February 26, 2016. After eating lunch, Mahmoud, a 16-year-old Palestinian-American living in the West Bank, decided to go on an afternoon walk. This was routine; it was a way for Mahmoud to deal with his ...[Read more]
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The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but h ...[Read more]
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