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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law that bans offensive trademarks in a ruling that is expected to help the Washington Redskins in their legal fight over the team name....
PARIS (AP) -- A man rammed his car into a police vehicle in Paris' Champs-Elysees shopping district Monday, prompting a fiery explosion, and was likely killed in the incident, authorities said. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Carrie Fisher's autopsy report shows the actress had cocaine in her system when she fell ill on a plane last year, but investigators could not determine what impact the cocaine and other drugs found in her system had on her death....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition operating over Syrian government-controlled areas west of the Euphrates River will be tracked as potential targets, Russia's Defense Ministry said Monday, a day after the U.S. military shot down a Syrian air force jet....
LONDON (AP) -- British authorities and Islamic leaders moved swiftly to ease concerns in the Muslim community after a man plowed his vehicle into a crowd of worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday, injuring at least nine people....
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Nichols has offerd prayers for the victims of an attack in Finsbury Park, London. A van ploughed into worshippers leaving a London mosque on Monday, injuring 10 people.One man, who was already being given first aid at the scene before the vehicle was driven into pedestrians, has died but police said it was not clear whether his death was directly linked.Eight others are in hospital, with two in a very serious condition.The incident was being treated as a potential terrorist attack said Prime Minister Theresa May, which if confirmed would make it the fourth since March in Britain and the third to involve a vehicle deliberately driven at pedestrians. Below find the statement of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster.His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols has today issued the following statement in the aftermath of the Finsbury Park attack:'Together with people all over this country I am appalled at the deliberate attack on people l...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Nichols has offerd prayers for the victims of an attack in Finsbury Park, London. A van ploughed into worshippers leaving a London mosque on Monday, injuring 10 people.
One man, who was already being given first aid at the scene before the vehicle was driven into pedestrians, has died but police said it was not clear whether his death was directly linked.
Eight others are in hospital, with two in a very serious condition.
The incident was being treated as a potential terrorist attack said Prime Minister Theresa May, which if confirmed would make it the fourth since March in Britain and the third to involve a vehicle deliberately driven at pedestrians.
Below find the statement of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster.
His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols has today issued the following statement in the aftermath of the Finsbury Park attack:
'Together with people all over this country I am appalled at the deliberate attack on people leaving their late night prayers, as the end of their day of fasting, at the mosque in Finsbury Park. I have assured the leadership of the Mosque and the Muslim Welfare Centre of our prayers and support.
Violence breeds violence. Hatred breeds hatred. Every one of us must repudiate hatred and violence from our words and actions. We must all be builders of understanding, compassion and peace, day by day, in our homes, our work and our communities. That is the only way.'
(Vatican Radio) An international human rights group has expressed concern that rights activists and bloggers in Vietnam are being increasingly threatened and attacked, often in view of police, and urged the government to investigate the violence and hold those responsible accountable. New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report on Monday highlighting 36 assaults, sometimes resulting in serious injuries, that took place with apparent impunity between January 2015 and April 2017. Despite being a one-party Communist state, Vietnam is one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies, and has increasingly opened to social change. Yet the state maintains a tight control on the media and freedom of expression with zero tolerance for criticism. Hence critics often take to the social media to air their grievances.“In many cases, the assaults took place in plain view of uniformed police officers who did not intervene,'' Human Ri...
(Vatican Radio) An international human rights group has expressed concern that rights activists and bloggers in Vietnam are being increasingly threatened and attacked, often in view of police, and urged the government to investigate the violence and hold those responsible accountable. New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report on Monday highlighting 36 assaults, sometimes resulting in serious injuries, that took place with apparent impunity between January 2015 and April 2017.
Despite being a one-party Communist state, Vietnam is one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies, and has increasingly opened to social change. Yet the state maintains a tight control on the media and freedom of expression with zero tolerance for criticism. Hence critics often take to the social media to air their grievances.
“In many cases, the assaults took place in plain view of uniformed police officers who did not intervene,'' Human Rights Watch said in the 65-page report titled, “No Country for Human Rights Activists: Assaults on Bloggers and Democracy Campaigners in Vietnam.” ``In many of the cases, the assaults took place in tandem with and seemingly in support of official repressive measures against the activists in question.'' It added that in almost all the cases the victims of those attacks “were also targeted for arrest and other forms of official repression.”
“The fact that thugs abducted activists in broad daylight, forced them into vans, and beat them demonstrates the impunity with which activists are persecuted,'' said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, in a news release. `“The Vietnamese government needs to make it clear that it will not tolerate this kind of behavior and bring to an end this campaign against rights campaigners,” Adams said, warning that tolerance of these violent attacks would lead to lawlessness and chaos instead of the social order and stability that the state was striving for.
Human Rights Watch said 35 out of 36 cases featured in its report found no identified and prosecuted perpetrator despite the fact that victims often report their beating to the police. The report said there are approximately 110 known political prisoners in Vietnam. The Communist government has said there are no political prisoners in the country, only those who broke the law were put behind bars.
PARIS (AP) -- French President Emmanuel Macron is poised to rearrange his Cabinet after his new centrist party engineered a landslide in the country's parliamentary election, enabling the government to quickly start passing its first big laws....
LONDON (AP) -- London police said Monday that 79 people were now believed to have died in the high-rise apartment building fire....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's ballistic missile strike targeting the Islamic State group in Syria served both as revenge for attacks on Tehran earlier this month and a warning that Iran could strike Saudi Arabia and U.S. interests in the Mideast, an Iranian general said Monday....
