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'Reckless': Doctors Without Borders slams US for hoarding 500 million vaccine doses
Oct 14, 2021 16:25The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has recently unveiled a new report estimating that the United States is hoarding nearly 500 million excess coronavirus vaccine doses—the most of any country—as poor nations across the globe remain without sufficient access to lifesaving shots.
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Black man shot, killed by New York police
Oct 14, 2021 08:25Newly released footage shows another African American man shot and killed by US police.
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Fighting escalates in northern Ethiopia with new army offensive
Oct 13, 2021 08:20Fighting has escalated between Ethiopia's national army and rebels from Tigray, days after Addis Ababa launched a new major offensive in the restive northern region.
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Indian troops kill five suspected militants in Kashmir
Oct 12, 2021 14:17Indian forces have killed five suspected militants in two separate gun battles across the Indian-administered Kashmir, Indian police say.
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Palestinian prisoners confronting Israel’s repressive measures
Oct 10, 2021 15:10Palestinians held in different Israeli jails have taken a number of steps to protest the crackdown imposed by the Zionist regime authorities on them.
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Ethnic, religious discord in Afghanistan, new security conspiracy of US-backed enemies: Parliament speaker
Oct 10, 2021 11:02Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has condemned a recent terrorist attack targeting worshippers at a packed mosque in the northeastern Afghan city of Kunduz, warning that enemies are plotting to stoke religious and ethnic discord in the country.
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Hurricane Ida is proof US systemic racism aggravates effects of climate crisis
Oct 08, 2021 16:38When US government allows exploitative real estate corporations to develop shoddy private developments to maximize profit and displace Black residents, thousands are left without homes during a disaster.
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UN ends Yemen war crimes probe amid Saudi Arabia’s intense lobbying
Oct 08, 2021 11:04The United Nations Human Rights Council has dropped an investigation into possible war crimes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen amid reports of intense lobbying by Riyadh.
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Biden’s expulsion of Haitian migrants is racist, illegal — and Trumpian
Oct 06, 2021 17:49Biden is continuing former president Donald Trump’s policy of misusing Title 42 in violation of U.S. treaty obligations. The Title 42 program stems from a misapplication of an obscure public health law, the Public Health Service Act of 1944.
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US sanctions disrupting host countries bid to assist Afghan refugees: Iran envoy
Oct 06, 2021 12:41Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations’ office in Geneva says the United States’ sanctions targeting the countries that host displaced Afghans have come to interfere with their efforts to properly help out the refugees.