Conflict & Justice
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Reuters
December 19, 2017
The Iran-aligned Houthi movement said it had aimed the missile at the Saudi royal court at al-Yamama palace, where a meeting of Saudi leaders was underway.
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PRI's The World
December 19, 2017
Henry Lemus Calderón, 19, is incarcerated in a high-security unit, and he can’t figure out why. Though in the country illegally, he was never arrested for any crime and never ordered removed, and he bristles at the notion of being considered in need of high security.
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PRI's The World
December 18, 2017
The teen and his advocates insist that he's being swept up and threatened with deportation because of teenage bravado, rather than actual evidence.
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Reuters
December 18, 2017
"Shots were fired by American service personnel and a man has been detained with cuts and bruises and taken into custody," Suffolk police said. "No other people have been injured as a result of the incident."
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Reuters
December 18, 2017
President Donald Trump will declare that China and Russia are competitors seeking to challenge US power and erode its security and prosperity, in a national security strategy he will lay out in a speech on Monday.
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Reuters
December 16, 2017
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday urged North Korea to carry out a "sustained cessation" of weapons testing to allow the two countries to hold talks about Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.
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PRI's The World
December 15, 2017
Some firefighters in the Chumash Fire department in Santa Ynez double as "cultural specialists" to try and protect indigenous cultural sites.
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PRI's The World
December 15, 2017
After landing in Dakar, Senegal, on Africa's west coast, the one-way flight became a round trip, back to the US. Why that happened, though, remains subject to dispute.
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GlobalPost
December 15, 2017
Ethiopia has experienced one of its worst population displacements due to violence in decades. Now stuck in camps, displaced Ethiopians are trying to come to terms with what their future may hold — while accusations and conspiracy theories abound about why the violence occurred.
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Iceland grieves after police shoot and kill a man for the first time in its history
PRI's The World
December 03, 2013
Updated
Iceland made history this week, but not in a good way. For the first time since the nation became an independent republic, armed police shot and killed a man, startling a population accustomed to peace.
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This Muslim purge in Myanmar is so awful you can see it from space
GlobalPost
November 15, 2016
Along Myanmar’s marshy coastline, villages keep going up in flames.
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Update: Indiana sentences Purvi Patel to decades in prison for what she says was a miscarriage
PRI's The World
March 13, 2015
Updated
Purvi Patel is the second pregnant woman in Indiana to be charged under the state's law against "feticide," a law originally passed to protect pregnant women from harm. Patel was sentenced Monday to face up to 20 years in prison, in a case has alarmed advocates for women and immigrants.
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White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States
GlobalPost
June 24, 2015
Since Sept. 11, 2001, it is white supremacists and other right-wing groups that account for the majority of terrorist attacks on US soil, a new report finds.
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There's a long story behind 'anti-Haitianismo' in the Dominican Republic
PRI's The World
November 14, 2013
Tens of thousands of people in the Dominican Republic are being stripped of their citizenship and deported. And most are of Haitian descent. It's the latest chapter in a long history of 'anti-Haitianismo' in the Dominican Republic.
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Some Black Lives Matter activists plan not to vote in November
PRI's The World
July 20, 2016
Hawk Newsome cares deeply about America's presidential election. But one thing the activist says he won't be doing in November is voting. For anyone.
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One girl's controversial adoption, and what it says about Guatemala's broken international adoption system
PRI's The World
January 08, 2015
Guatemala halted international adoptions years ago, because the process had become so corrupted. But there are still a lot of unanswered questions about adoptions that went through in the past, and about one highly controversial case in particular.
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'Winning' the green card lottery is only the start of a harrowing journey
PRI's The World
December 29, 2014
Abdi Nor Iftin always dreamed of leaving Somalia and coming to the United States, and his dream seemed to come true when he won a spot in the Diversity Visa Program, otherwise known as the green card lottery. But it turned out to be only the first step in a difficult and dangerous process.
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How a massacre of a village's Jews by their neighbors in WWII Poland is remembered — and misremembered
Whose Century Is It?
March 24, 2017
Updated
Memory can be slippery, especially when there's incentive to forget, or misremember. In the Polish village of Jedwabne, residents long said Nazis were responsible for the massacre, one hot day in July 1941, of hundreds of Jews in the village. Then evidence emerged that the villagers of Jedwabne had killed their own neighbors.
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Breitbart alumni shape the message at Trump's White House
PRI's The World
February 07, 2017
Sebastian Gorka's refugee parents escaped from Communist Hungary. Now he's a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, making the case for the immigrant and refugee ban.