Tag: violence
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Peacemakers work to prevent gun violence in South Florida : Shots
[ad_1] Peacemakers have a debrief before concluding their work for the day at the Lincoln Fields apartments complex in Miami, Fla. Lamont Nanton (second from left) is the group’s manager and Shameka Pierce (third from left) works with the group. Verónica Zaragovia/WLRN hide caption toggle caption Verónica Zaragovia/WLRN Peacemakers have a debrief before concluding their…
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Malaysian Premier Worried About Thai Deep South Violence
[ad_1] By: B A Hamzah Concern about the seemingly unending cycle of violence on the jungled border between their two countries has led Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to agree with his Thai counterpart to initiate a joint commission for bilateral cooperation in trade and investment. When in place, the commission is hopefully expected to…
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Police arrests man accused of opening fire during Haryana’s Nuh violence
[ad_1] Police have arrested a man accused of opening fire and injuring a man during the communal violence in Haryana’s Nuh, officials said on Thursday. The police, acting on an FIR registered on July 31 at Sohna City police station, arrested Mohammad Kaif. A Vishva Hindu Parishad-led procession was attacked by mobs…
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‘It’s violence’: Racial slur added to Summerland Secondary School sign
[ad_1] A ‘Welcome Back’ sign at Summerland Secondary School was rearranged to add a racial slur over the weekend. Former Summerland Mayor Toni Boot discovered the altered sign Sunday morning and immediately reported it to RCMP and School District 67 staff. “It wasn’t shocking because racism is what it is. But it was just like a…
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PBS: GOP Has ‘Turned Up Volume on Violence’ Against Trans People
[ad_1] The Thursday edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour featured host Geoff Bennett cynically using two recent murders, one of a gay dancer and another an LGBT bookstore-owning ally, to bash Republicans as the perpetrators. Bennett spoke to the spokesman of the censorious Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to push their notion. Bennett was…
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Mexican president’s state of the union avoids drugs, violence despite high levels – National
[ad_1] Mexico’s president on Friday delivered his second-to-last state of the union, and perhaps what was most striking of his roughly 1 1/2 hour speech was what he didn’t talk about: drugs, crime or drug cartels. Experts and residents agree that wide swaths of Mexico are under the de-facto control of drug cartels, but President…
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Gender-based violence and feminism in Romania, a 20-year struggle
[ad_1] A 2016 study that surveyed gender-based violence across European Union member states revealed that 55 percent of Romanians, both men and women, consider non-consenual sexual contact justified in certain situations. For 30 percent of these respondents, rape was justified when the woman was in a group that had used drugs and alcohol, while for…
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How social media fuels gun violence among teens : Shots
[ad_1] Oona Tempest/KFF Health News Oona Tempest/KFF Health News Juan Campos has been working to save at-risk teens from gun violence for 16 years. As a street outreach worker in Oakland, Calif., he has seen the pull and power of gangs. And he offers teens support when they’ve emerged from the juvenile justice system, advocates…
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Narco gang violence overshadows Ecuador presidential election – Channel 4 News
[ad_1] Presidential elections in Ecuador are going to a run off – after no candidate managed to get enough votes in the first round to be declared the winner. Leftist Luisa Gonzales, who’s a protege of the country’s former president Correa, will face centrist Daniel Noboa. But the campaign has been overshadowed by growing violence,…
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BJP planning Haryana-like violence in MP: Digvijaya
[ad_1] Digvijaya Singh | Photo Credit: The Hindu Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday alleged that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government was planning a “Nuh-like-violence” in the State ahead of the Assembly elections due later this year. Mr. Singh made the reference to the recent communal violence…