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Homeless man, sleeping on Dundas, 2016 07 16. Supreme Court to Decide on Criminalizing Outdoor Sleeping
Tenting in Los Angeles Skid Row. Russ Allison Loar, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons | By Clare Pastore / The Conversati... (photo: Creative Commons / OldYorkGuy) Scheerpost
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Israeli female soldiers pose for a photo on a position on the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Germany Buries the Evidence of Complicity in Gaza Genocide: Nicaragua Exposes It
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Washington, D.C. (February 3, 2021) Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas records a video message to DHS employees. Senate set for showdown over Mayorkas impeachment articles
The Senate is set for a showdown over the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as Democrats are expected to move quickly to dism... (photo: Public Domain / Benjamin Applebaum) CNN
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Activists marking five years since the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange demonstrate outside Belmarsh Prison in London, Sunday, April 14, 2024. U.S. President Joe Biden said last week that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents. Assange is currently fighting extradition to the U.S. from Belmarsh, where he is being held. Faulty Assurances: The Judicial Torture of Assange Continues
Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request by Australia that the... (photo: AP / David Cliff) Dissident Voice
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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia Remembering Cambodia’s genocide in a corner of Africa
Kigali, RWANDA- April 1975 was a cruel month for millions of Cambodians. Forty-nine years ago, on April 17, the Khmer Rouge finally captured Phnom Penh after a five-year ... (photo: Creative Commons / nicolas pascarel) Asiatimes
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Former President Donald Trump arrives for the start of the second day of jury selection at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in New York. Donald Trump returned to the courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign. Trump trial: Why can’t Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom?
By David Bauder, Associated Press | NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet ... (photo: AP / Justin Lane) The Daily Democrat
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Paramilitary soldiers patrol past a vandalised church in Imphal, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, May 14, 202 Behind India’s Manipur conflict, a tale of drugs, armed groups and politics
Sugnu, India – Ratan Kumar Singh, a 58-year-old high school teacher, never imagined he would be happy to see armed fighters, or “revolutionaries” as he called them.... (photo: AP / Yirmiyan Arthur)) Al Jazeera
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Former President Donald Trump attends the first day of his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on April 15, 2024. Trump arrives at court for the start of jury selection in his historic hush money trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump arrived Monday at a New York court for the start of jury selection in his hush money trial, marking a singular moment in American history a... (photo: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via AP, POOL) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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File - Ethnic Armenians refugees stand with their bags and wait for their relatives as they return to Stepanakert, the capital of the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Azerbaijan calls for ICJ to throw out Armenian ethnic cleansing case
Azerbaijan has called for the UN’s International Court of Justice to throw out a case accusing it of ethnic cleansing brought by its neighbour and rival Armenia. | Lawy... (photo: AP / Sergei Grits) Al Jazeera
Armenia   Azerbaijan   Nagorno-Karabakh   Photos   Wikipedia: Nagorno-Karabakh conflict  
Former President Donald Trump speaks with journalists before entering a courtroom in New York Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, to attend the start of a civil trial in a lawsuit that already has resulted in a judge ruling that he committed fraud in his business dealings What to expect at jury selection for Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial
Jury selection is set to begin Monday to impanel a group of 12 New Yorkers who will ultimately decide whether to convict former President Donald Trump in his first crimin... (photo: AP / Craig Ruttle) CNN
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In this Saturday, April 5, 2014 file photo, family photographs of some of those who died hang in a display in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali, Rwanda Because the world is not always beautiful and angelic
On the occasion of the thirty-year anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, The Economist featured an article about the efforts made by the current leader, Paul Kag... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis, File) Philenews
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FILE - O.J. Simpson sits at his arraignment in Superior Court in Los Angeles on July 22, 1994, where he pleaded "absolutely, 100 percent not guilty" on murder charges. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, died Wednesday, April 11, 2024, of prostate cancer. OJ Simpson’s manager: He admitted to killing Nicole Brown Simpson
OJ Simpson’s former sports agent says he confessed to his ex-wife’s murder while high on a cocktail of drugs and drink. | The sportsman turned actor, who died on Apri... (photo: AP / Lois Bernstein, Pool) Independent online
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FILE - Former President Donald Trump leaves Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. The hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday, April 15, with jury selection. It's a singular moment for American history as the first criminal trial of a former U.S. commander-in-chief. It's also the first of Trump's four indictments to go to trial. Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for November's election. Donald Trump’s criminal trial over hush money to begin in New York
Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial involving adult movie actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal is scheduled to start on this morning, with jury ... (photo: AP / Mary Altaffer, File) The Observer
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The flag of the International Criminal Court flies on the Foreign Office building in London, 17 July 2018 Africa has a chance to counter pitfalls of international criminal justice
Since its inception, the project of international criminal justice has been marked by a striking indifference to the long historical record of atrocities perpetrated by t... (photo: Creative Commons / International Criminal Court) Mail Guardian South Africa
Africa   Human Rights   Photos   United Nations  
People are led out from the Westfield Shopping Centre where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney, Saturday, April 13, 2024. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that four people died in the stabbing. Police couldnt be immediately reached to confirm the report. The newspaper said one person was also shot, but it wasnt clear if the person had died. Man fatally stabs 6 people at Sydney mall before being shot by police
A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said. Multiple people, including a small child, were also i... (photo: AP / Rick Rycroft) WPTV
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National Police patrol an intersection amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, April 8, 2024. Haiti establishes council to choose new leaders as gang violence rages
Haiti has formally established a transitional council to fill a leadership vacuum by choosing a new prime minister, and to restore order in the Caribbean country ravaged ... (photo: AP / Odelyn Joseph) Al Jazeera
Gang Violence   Haiti Crime   Humanitarian Aid   Photos   Wikipedia: Gang war in Haiti  
German police car Germany arrests three teenagers on suspicion of ‘terror attack’ plot
Police in Germany have arrested three teenagers on suspicion of planning a terror attack, according to prosecutors. | Two girls aged 15 and 16 and a 15-year-old boy were ... (photo: Creative Commons / photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash) Al Jazeera
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Protesters stand in front of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Thursday, April 11, 2024, where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested five years ago. US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents. Flicker of Hope: Biden’s Throwaway Lines on Assange
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In this is frame grab from video, Syrian government forces and Russian soldiers oversee the evacuation by buses of rebel fighters and their families, at a checkpoint in eastern Gouta, Syria, Thursday March, 22, 2018 Russian soldiers who quit Putin's war get no hero's welcome abroad as asylum claims surge
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — If the choice was death or a bullet to the leg, Yevgeny would take the bullet. A decorated hero of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Yevgeny told his frie... (photo: AP) Newsday
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O.J. Simpson appears at an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas. A lawyer for Simpson says the imprisoned former football star isn't happy with ads and interviews about a cable TV series focusing on his 1995 murder acquittal in Los Angeles O.J. Simpson, football legend acquitted in sensational murder trial, dies at 76
O.J. Simpson, a pro football Hall of Famer and movie actor whose trial for his ex-wife's murder attracted worldwide attention in 1995, has died of cancer, according to hi... (photo: AP / Ethan Miller) China Daily
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