Opposition candidates in Ivory Coast’s election face charges of terrorism and up to life in prison for denouncing the vote and creating a rival government after President Alassane Ouattara’s victory, a public prosecutor said on Friday.
China’s plans to ‘improve’ democracy in Hong Kong could spell the end of the city’s opposition
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Hong Kong As members of China's political elite prepared for an annual summit in Beijing this week, state-run news agency Xinhua noted "there is no perfect democracy, only democracy that fits best." Hong Kong may be...
Germany’s far-right AfD becomes first party to be put under government surveillance since Nazi era
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BerlinGermany's BfV domestic intelligence service has formally placed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) under surveillance on suspicion of trying to undermine Germany's democratic constitution, a person bri...
ICC prosecutor to launch formal investigation into alleged war crimes in Palestinian territories
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Jerusalem The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced plans for a formal investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel in the Palestinian territories, prompting an angry response fr...
Women leaders you should know and the causes they champion
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With the global pandemic, 2020 proved to be a tough year for everyone -- especially girls and women. But many leaders stepped up to help. As we mark Women's History Month, here's a look at some women making a differ...
Smith College controversy highlights struggles schools face in making racially equitable campuses
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In the summer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute read a book and ate her lunch in a common room area of a residence hall that required keycard access at Smith College. Since she was in a program teaching high school students ov...
Kansas City officer will not face charges in the killing of an unarmed man in 2020
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The Jackson County prosecutor in Missouri will not charge the officer who shot and killed Donnie Sanders in March 2020, according to a statement from Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Sanders, who was unarmed, was sho...
Four children and two adults were rescued from a sinking boat off the Georgia coast
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Two adults and four children were rescued Friday by the US Coast Guard off the Georgia coast after their boat stuck an object and started sinking. The 17-foot boat was near the entrance to the St. Marys River on the...
The US Coast Guard is searching for a missing plane off the Florida coast
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The US Coast Guard is searching for a small airplane that went missing Friday off the coast of Boca Raton, Florida. The plane had one person aboard, according to a tweet Saturday from the Coast Guard's 7th District ...
Colorado man sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic synagogue
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A Colorado man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Friday for plotting to blow up the 119-year-old Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Richard Holzer -- who self-identifies as a neo-Nazi and ...
Biden doesn’t penalize crown prince despite promise to punish senior Saudi leaders
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Despite promising to punish senior Saudi leaders while on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden declined to apply sanctions to the one the US intelligence community determined is responsible for the death of journ...
Hundreds of schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria, government official says
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Lagos, Nigeria Hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted in the early hours of Friday when armed men raided a state-run school in Zamfara State, north-west Nigeria, a government official told CNN. The schoolgirls were ta...
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, renames 2 dorms for Black civil rights leaders
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Two dorms at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will now bear the names of two Black civil rights leaders in the state "whose fight for equity and social justice transformed the state's higher education system ...