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World Newspapers: Other Movements Have Faded. This One ‘Feels Like Home'
Jun 08, 2020 22:05Protesters at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, facing the National Mall. Two weeks have passed since the first demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd.
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World Newspapers: Thousands throng D.C., vowing to be heard
Jun 07, 2020 21:39More than 10,000 people poured into the nation’s capital on the ninth day of protests over police brutality, but what awaited this sprawling crowd, the largest yet in Washington, was a city that no longer felt as if it was being occupied by its own country’s military.
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Iran's Newspapers; E'temaad: A fair trial for political offenders, another positive political step.
Jun 07, 2020 08:27Head of Iran's Judiciary Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi has said that a fair trial for political offenders will be held.
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World Newspapers: Videos highlight US police riot tactics
Jun 06, 2020 21:54US Police in riot gear were marching across a mostly empty plaza in Buffalo when two officers shoved a lone 75-year-old man who stood in their way. He fell to the ground and hit his head on the concrete. Officers marched past him as he lay motionless and bleeding from the ear. 101/214
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World Newspapers: Republican critiques of Trump grow
Jun 05, 2020 21:43A Republican senator and Trump’s former chief of staff Thursday joined a growing group of critics blasting Trump’s call to deploy troops to quell protests against police brutality, a sign that opposition to the US president’s approach is spreading beyond his usual political adversaries.
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World Newspapers: 3 more charged, accused of aiding in Floyd's killing
Jun 04, 2020 22:04The three Minneapolis police officers who failed to intervene while George Floyd was killed were charged on Wednesday with aiding in his death, and officials pressed a more severe charge — seconddegree murder — against Derek Chauvin, the officer who pinned Mr. Floyd to the ground with a knee for nearly nine minutes while he pleaded, “I can’t breathe.” 214
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World Newspapers: Trump takes America to the brink
Jun 03, 2020 21:40The events of the past week, in which the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody led to demonstrations against police brutality, and these demonstrations were met by more police brutality — including unprecedented violence against the news media — have made it clear what Kroll meant by taking the handcuffs off. And Donald Trump, far from trying to calm the nation, is pouring gasoline on the fire; he seems very close to trying to incite a civil war. 101/214
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World Newspapers: Chaos amid curfew
Jun 02, 2020 21:43Dozens of demonstrators have been arrested atop Dallas' Margaret Hunt Hill bridge.
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World Newspapers: Civil march degenerates into battles with police
Jun 01, 2020 21:12Cities across the nation are undergoing the sixth night of protests in the wake of the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed Black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck. 101
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World Newspapers: Wave of rage and anguish sweeps US cities
May 31, 2020 22:06The United States edged closer to nationwide upheaval on Saturday as protests gained force from coast to coast, and as authorities steeled themselves for another night of unrest over the death of George Floyd. 214
