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The Philippines: when the police assassinate kids

Manila, Philippines – His parents named him Reynaldo de Guzman, but everyone knew him as Kulot (Curly) on account of his hair. Kulot grew up in Anak Pawis (Child of Sweat), a district by the banks of Manila’s largest floodway. Here, homes made of cardboard and bamboo vie for space with partially constructed concrete apartments. During…

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Yemen’s Houthis: Saleh’s overture to Saudi ‘a coup’

Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh has said he is open to talks with a Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels, in what the fighters called « a coup » against their fragile alliance with the ousted president. The Saudi-led coalition, consisting of several Arab-Sunni states, intervened in Yemen in March 2015 to push back Houthi rebels and Saleh forces…

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What’s within the aid of Sudan’s ‘rapprochement’ with Russia?

On November 23, Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir paid his first official visit to Russia, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu. The visit took place in defiance of the two arrest warrants for Bashir issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to a…

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McDonald’s security guard ordered Muslim lady to take away hijab

The security ordered the woman to remove her hijab (Picture: Guzelian)A McDonald’s security guard ordered a woman to remove her hijab before he would allow her to be served. A video showed the man telling the Muslim student, 19, to take off her headscarf at the branch on Seven Sisters Road, in Holloway, north London.…

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Razer Phone evaluate: A tough sell, even though or no longer it’s enormous for gamers

Hardware At first glance, the Razer Phone looks like a larger, sturdier version of the Nextbit Robin, except that instead of plastic, the Razer is wrapped in anodized aluminum. I have to admit, however, that I was not immediately impressed with the Razer Phone’s design. It just looks like a boring black slab that doesn’t…

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US Senate passes sweeping tax cuts bill

Image copyright AFP Image caption Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell overcame a pocket of Republican resistance to get the bill through US senators have passed a sweeping tax cuts bill, paving the way for Donald Trump’s first big legislative victory. The package would mark the biggest tax overhaul since the 1980s. It was passed by…

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Senate approves tax invoice after Republicans escape to rework it

Two senators — Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Steve Daines, R-Mont. — backed the plan after winning deeper tax breaks for noncorporate businesses. Sen. Susan Collins supported it after leadership added a limited state and local property tax deduction and expanded a medical expense deduction. The bill would now also include a form of the alternative…

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Honduras military, police in crackdown on election unrest

Tegucigalpa – Honduras has descended deeper into crisis on Friday night as the government declared a 10-day curfew and empowered police and military to crack down on unrest that has erupted over the five-day delay in official election results being released. The curfew, which began at 11:00pm local time, suspends the right to free movement from…