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Police ban an England supporter from football for five years after anti-Semitic videos of 'fans performing Nazi salutes' emerge from World Cup

This is Money 24 Jun 2018

The video, shared widely on social media, showed three fans raising their arms in the salute and singing an anti-Semitic song with references to the Auschwitz concentration camp, punctuated with shouts of 'Sieg Heil'....

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Right to choose

Dawn 24 Jun 2018

Most of the commentators accused Dawn of being biased, anti-state and of promoting foreign agendas, while those who supported Dawn and the people’s right of choice to information and a newspaper of their own liking were in a minority ... Dawn encourages critical thinking and challenges the superficial concepts that control social behaviour to protect the status quo....

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Tense times in downtown Lewiston in wake of killing

Lewiston Sun Journal 24 Jun 2018

While social media has been the go-to place for such comments, anti-Somali sentiment has seeped into some real-life interactions as well ... But while anti-Somali sentiments have been abundant on social media and some people have taken their anger to the park, there have also been public signs of support for immigrants in general and the city’s Somali residents in particular....

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Cambodia: 33 pregnant women found in raid on child surrogacy ring

The Observer 24 Jun 2018

Phnom Penh anti-trafficking police chief Keo Thea said one of the five, a Chinese national, appeared to be the mastermind behind the “rent a womb” operation run out of a villa in the capital’s Russey Keo district ... He said police seized passports and other documents and the five would be sent to court on Sunday to be charged under Cambodia’s anti-trafficking laws....

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Florida attorney general confronted at Mr. Rogers movie

Journal Review 24 Jun 2018

"We were in a movie about anti-bullying and practicing peace and love and tolerance and accepting of people for their differences," Bondi said in interview ... General News Immigration Social Issues Social ... An East Texas woman tried to sell her 8-year-old daughter for sex for $100 to a man in Nebraska using social media, according to Texas news reports....

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Racial harmony would be disaster for leftists

Victoria Advocate 24 Jun 2018

During an interview in December with The Daily Caller, Steele said the anti-Americanism that started during the 1960s and has become mainstream and visible in the black community is “heartbreaking and sad.” That anti-Americanism that so dominates the American black identity has been “ruinous to black America, where we are worse off than we were under segregation by almost every socio-economic measure.”....

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Romanian President to Seek New Term, Backs Corruption Fight

Voa News 24 Jun 2018

Romania's president said Saturday that he would seek a new term in office, pledging to fight corruption after the leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party was convicted of abuse of power....

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Messi meme breaks city cops’ social media record

The Times of India 24 Jun 2018

We won’t let you!’ — the latest meme by Kolkata Police, which has Lionel Messi’s penalty miss on one side and a sergeant issuing a challan on the other, has created a storm on social media ... All the intense social media action, though, has put a smile on the cops’ faces ... A senior Kolkata Police official involved with the social media cell explained that the whole idea was to ensure maximum publicity....

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Russia drug-tested more than England and world has nothing to fear, says doctor

The Observer 24 Jun 2018

The remarks came after a senior US anti-doping official told the Guardian it would be “naive” not to think that Russia could violate anti-doping rules again during the World Cup ... Speaking with Russian media the team doctor, Eduard Bezuglov, said that players had given more than 300 samples over the past year to Fifa, Europe’s Uefa and the Russian anti-doping agency Rusada and that “all of them turned out to be clean”....

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As Facebook ages, teens look elsewhere to connect

This is Money 24 Jun 2018

"The social media environment among teens is quite different from what it was just three years ago," said Pew researcher Monica Anderson. "Back then, teens' social media use mostly revolved around Facebook ... Facebook remains king of the social media space and is still growing, though more slowly than in past years ... social media analyst at eMarketer....

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Mohamed Salah ‘honoured’ with gift of citizenship from Chechen leader

The Observer 24 Jun 2018

Egypt’s national team are based in Chechnya for the World Cup despite outrage from rights organisations pointing to the region’s crackdown on political opponents and a widely reported anti-gay pogrom, which Kadyrov has denied ... Read more ... “Mohamed Salah is an honorary citizen of the Chechen Republic! That’s right!” the Chechen leader wrote in a post released on social media, saying he had signed an official directive to that effect ... ....

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Saudi women gear up for new freedom as driving ban ends

The News International 24 Jun 2018

Social media is also celebrating with tweets like #You_Will_Drive_and_the_People_Are_With_You.Some reactions have been more derisive or expressed concern about social impacts.Much of the kingdom’s overwhelmingly young population supports Prince Mohammed’s reforms, but many Saudis fear their speed could provoke a backlash from religious conservatives once seen as dominant....

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Privilege Versus Paranoia

Quillette 24 Jun 2018

If you are white and enjoy any level of public platform—politician, professor, policy wonk—and you use said platform to address social issues, you are certain to be accused of seeing life through the distortive prism of white privilege ... However, it defies credulity to propose that Dyson and other leading social justice voices are alone in seeing life for what it really is, stripped of all parochial subtexts....

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