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A U.K.-based initiative to raise awareness about the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem has gone global. For the second year in a row, more than 50 countries are set to take part in Aqsa Week 2022, organizers said. The event, which runs from Feb. 24 to March 2, is being organized by the British-based Friends of […]
U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Israel of putting Palestinian children in cage-like prisons. The New York Democrat was speaking at the Democratic Socialists of America event during a campaign rally for Greg Casar, who is running for Congress in Texas. Ocasio-Cortez compared migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border to ...
A video showing police officers breaking up a fight between two teenagers, one Black, one white, at a New Jersey mall has sparked outrage over police response. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday the appearance of the officers’ “racially disparate treatment” is deeply disturbing. One video of the incident reviewed by CNN shows the [&hel...
After months of deliberation, a panel of five Minnesota judges has finalized the state’s new legislative map. It marks the end of the state’s redistricting process. Now individual counties and cities will use the judges’ map to draw their own lines. The judges’ panel took on the task of submitting a new map after a […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued a threat to unleash his supporters on major U.S. cities. If reelected, Trump said he would consider pardoning the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. These statements underscore the former president and his far-right GOP allies represent “a clear and present danger” to democracy. That is according to an...
Elon Musk has been criticized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum for comparing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. The CEO of Tesla tweeted a meme showing a photo of Hitler with the words “Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau” and “I had a budget.” The tweet was later deleted. Musk’s use of Hitler’s image […]...
Environmental justice advocates say a methane plume seen last month from space is the latest evidence that fossil fuel emissions must be reined in. Geoanalytics firm Kayrros SAS detected the plume of invisible greenhouse gas, which spanned 56 miles across Louisiana, Bloomberg reported. It’s the largest concentration of the gas seen via satelli...
A video of Indian policemen beating Muslim women advocating for wearing the hijab in school revived the controversy on Wednesday. The footage has been circulating on social media, and was broadcast by the local NDTV channel. It shows a group of women with their faces covered being approached by police before being struck by long […]
Three Kashmiri students have spent more than three months in jail now for celebrating the Pakistani cricket team’s win over India. Their families have appealed for their release as they struggle to bail them out. Arsheed Yousuf, Inayat Altaf and Showkat Ahmad Ganai — all in their early 20s — were arrested last October on […]
A video showing an Israeli police dog mauling a 19-year-old Palestinian man during an arrest released Wednesday has sparked outrage. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees Affairs accused Israeli forces of deliberately letting the dog maul the young Palestinian, even though he wasn’t resisting arrest. “The occupation army deliberately l...
