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When Malcolm X visited Smethwick after racist election

On February 12, 1965, Malcolm X, with his brow-line glasses perched high above his nose, walked along the terraced houses of Marshall Street in Smethwick, a small and bleak UK town in the West Midlands. Nine days later, on February 21, 1965, he would be assassinated having returned to New York City. His final foreign…

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As unrest simmers, Scotland’s Iranian diaspora see on

Glasgow, Scotland – « I was not a dangerous person. I was not very active but in my community there was a group of girls who were very active and together we just wanted some very basic things, » says Tarooneh, who found herself in Glasgow in October 2007 after five months spent in London on a…

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How the Queen helped ‘frightened’ Anna Wintour to kick back

She’s known as the ice queen of the fashion world, and is reportedly the inspiration behind Meryl Streep’s fearsome Devil Wears Prada character. But even Anna Wintour found it hard to keep her cool when she landed a spot next to the Queen at Richard Quinn’s runway show. For her Fashion Week debut, the monarch…

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Younger survivors push for US gun reform

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAround 100 students made the bus journey of more than seven hours to reach Florida’s capitalSurvivors of a Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead have travelled to the state capital to press lawmakers to take more action on gun control. About 100 students arrived in…

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The rise and plunge of Mikheil Saakashvili

One of the most intriguing people at the recently concluded Munich Security Conference, the annual gathering of international relations nabobs from Europe, North America and elsewhere, was erstwhile Georgian President and Odessan Governor Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili is no longer president or governor of anything, and is also no longer a citizen of Georgia, but remains…

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‘Father of defectors’ on lifestyles after North Korea

Seoul, South Korea – Around 31,000 North Koreans have defected into the South since the end of the Korean War in 1953. Almost 71 percent of those defectors are female, most in their 20s and 30s. Only a few take the most dangerous route through the Korean Demilitarized Zone that a North Korean soldier took late last…

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Donald Trump will ban procedure that converts rifles into machine weapons

Sarah Sanders announced Trump’s desire to ban bump stocks at a White House press conference Wednesday (AP)President Trump will take steps to ban bump stocks that turn semi-automatic weapons into machine guns in the wake of the Florida shooting. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders made the dramatic revelation during a press conference Tuesday. Senator…

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21. Februar 2018: Abtreibungsgegner im Aufwind?

Die Gießener Ärztin Kristina Hänel musste 6.000 Euro zahlen, weil sie auf ihrer Homepage darüber informierte, dass sie Abtreibungen anbietet. Abtreibungsgegner hatten sie angezeigt und ein Gericht hatte sie daraufhin im November verurteilt. Grundlage dafür war der Paragraf 219a des Strafgesetzbuches. Politiker und Politikerinnen diskutieren seitdem, inwiefern das Werbeverbot für Schwangerschaftsabbrüche sinnvoll ist. Am Donnerstag…

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Schreibender Schnüffler

Rick Master ist eine Ikone des frankobelgischen Comics, genauso beliebt wie Bob Morane, Andy Morgan oder Michel Vaillant. Der heroische Reporter und Amateurdetektiv, der bei der Pariser Zeitung „La Rafale“ arbeitet und im Original Ric Hochet heißt, ermittelte in 77 Alben seiner Schöpfer André-Paul Duchâteau und Gilbert Gascard alias Tibet, die Master erstmals 1955 im…