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World joins US protests but leaders restrained about Trump
Jun 15, 2020 14:35People have taken to the streets of Berlin, London, Paris and other cities around the world to demonstrate in support of Black Lives Matter protesters in the US and to vent anger over President Donald Trump’s response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. But at the top, the leaders of traditional allies of the US have taken pains to avoid criticizing Trump directly, walking a fine line to reconcile international diplomacy with domestic outrage.
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Anger, activism grow over police abuse amid French lockdown
Jun 11, 2020 14:44With France confined to fight the Coronavirus, a video circulated online in April showing a young man lying on the bloody ground next to two police officers – and quickly set off protests in struggling neighborhoods around the Paris region. Sometime before, the man had been on a motorcycle. Then, he crashed into a suddenly opened police car door. Whether the door was opened on purpose or not is unclear, but what was clear was the anger the video sparked.
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American police shoot, kill, imprison more people than other developed countries
Jun 10, 2020 15:43US Police officers are more likely to use force on black Americans – and, according to a 2016 study published in the American Journal of Health, black men are nearly three times more likely than white men to be killed by police intervention. Comparable figures for other countries are not readily available. In general, more Americans are subjected to the cogs of the criminal justice system than in many other countries; and more end up in prison, too.
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US leads global wave of nations stealing, seizing and diverting coronavirus equipment
Apr 08, 2020 13:57Western governments have resorted to seizing, diverting, outbidding and outright stealing equipment from each other in a desperate bid to stem the tide of the coronavirus epidemic.
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Workers shut down the Louvre. The French labor strike is here to stay
Jan 27, 2020 15:43French railway workers remain on strike for the second month in a row and workers across industries continue demonstrations and work stoppages against the government’s plans to restructure the pension system.
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France enters second month of national strike
Jan 13, 2020 10:11Nurses, lawyers, and sanitation workers marched alongside railway and other public sector workers in massive demonstrations across France. At least 24 people were arrested at protests in Paris, and protesters clashed with police across the country.
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Paris police use pepper spray against seated climate change protesters
Jul 07, 2019 08:50In the latest act of police violence in France, dozens of riot officers surrounded a group of peaceful climate change protesters sitting on and blocking a road in Paris on Friday, dousing them in pepper spray and assaulting them.
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The G20 Summit in Osaka: The war of all against all
Jul 05, 2019 09:03World leaders gathered in Osaka, Japan Friday for the G20 summit amid the relentless promotion of trade war, protectionism and militarism. Andre Damon, National Secretary of the US-based International Youth and Students for Social Equality, has more on this under the heading “The G20 Summit in Osaka: The war of all against all.”
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Don’t weaponize Taiwan – Germany, France told
Jul 04, 2019 08:41China is highly sensitive to the plot of the West to pour in arms and ammunitions into the breakaway Chinese island of Taiwan, which the US is trying to use as a base against mainland China.
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The Yellow Vest hospital hoax (2)
May 23, 2019 13:26Stay with us for Part Two of an investigative report titled “The Yellow Vest Hospital Hoax” by Iran’s Ramin Mazaheri, chief correspondent in the French capital for Press TV on the May Day violence in Paris initiated by the police and not the peaceful protestors at the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, the first part of which we presented yesterday.