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Funerals Set to Begin for Police Officers Slain in Dallas
Funerals are set to begin for the five officers slain by a sniper during a protest last week in downtown Dallas. Funerals will be held later Wednesday for Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Lorne Ahrens, Dallas Police Sgt. Michael Smith and Dallas Area Rapid Transit Officer Brent Thompson. Ahrens' funeral will be held in Plano....
Death of Rebel Leader Fuels Renewed Anger in Kashmir
When Indian forces announced last week that they had killed a top Kashmiri rebel leader, they called it a major victory in the fight against militants in the disputed Himalayan region. They clearly didn't expect the backlash that followed — an outpouring of public anger, daily protests and dozens dead in the streets....
Amnesty: Hundreds ‘disappeared’ by Egyptian forces
"Officially, you do not exist." That's the alarming title of a new report published by Amnesty International alleging human rights violations occurring in Egypt. Activists say people are being detained without access to family or a lawyer, and held incommunicado without formal charges or a trial. They call it...
DNC Employee Shot Dead in DC Over the Weekend
A Democratic National Committee employee was shot dead over the weekend about a block from his home, officials said today. Seth Rich worked as the voter expansion data director at the DNC for more than two years. The attack occurred Sunday at about 4:20 a.m. on a residential street in the Bloomingdale neighborhood in...
U.S. has bigger problem than we want to admit
In 1944, the Swedish social scientist Gunnar Myrdal, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in economics, published a landmark study of the United States titled "An American Dilemma." It was about the condition of blacks in America. He posited that over the course of American history, white prejudice kept...
East Baton Rouge DA Recuses Himself from Alton Sterling Police Shooting Case
East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore III has rescued himself in the Alton Sterling shooting investigation, he announced today. He cited a relationship with the parents of one of two officers placed on leave after their involvement in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Sterling last week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana....
Kashmir Seethes as 20 Killed Amid Anti-India Protests
Indian authorities were struggling Monday to contain protests by Kashmiris angry after 20 people were killed in weekend demonstrations, as youths defied a curfew to rally in the streets against the killing a top anti-India rebel leader. Paramilitary troops and police in riot gear patrolled villages and towns in the Himalayan...
Dallas shootings: Killer ‘prepared larger attack’
The man who shot dead five police officers in Dallas and wounded seven more was planning an even larger attack, the city's police chief says. Micah Johnson, 25, was angry with the recent killings of black men by police and wanted to kill white officers, police say. Police chief David Brown said he was "convinced"...
Georgia Set to Execute Sixth Inmate This Year
An execution scheduled for Thursday would be the sixth in Georgia this year — the most executions carried out by the state in a calendar year since the death penalty was reinstated four decades ago. John Wayne Conner, 60, is scheduled to die by injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of...
South Sudan clashes ‘leave dozens dead’ in Juba
Dozens of people have been killed by clashes in South Sudan's capital Juba, military, medical and journalistic sources have said. Gunfire broke out on Friday evening near the state house where President Salva Kiir was meeting his sometime rival, Vice-President Riek Machar. Estimates of the death toll vary, but most accounts...
Bombing at Turkey police station kills 3, agency reports
At least three people were killed and seven others were injured in a car bombing at a police station in southeastern Turkey Saturday, according to state-run news agency Anadolu. A security source and local officials said the blast in Mardin was the work of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Anadolu reported. "Mardin...
Dallas shooting: Obama denies US polarised after deaths
President Obama says the US is not as polarised as some have suggested in the wake of fatal shootings involving the African-American community. Five white police officers were shot dead during a protest rally in Dallas on Thursday. The march was against the killing of black men by police. Two deaths this week have led to...