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Detained and forced to have a ‘virginity test’

BBC NewsBy External SourceNovember 26, 2020Leave a comment

Esra, a for­mer polit­i­cal pris­on­er in Egypt describes the phys­i­cal abuse she expe­ri­enced while in detention.

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Pope Francis Urges Solidarity In A COVID-19 World In Rare Op-Ed

Journalism.orgBy External SourceNovember 26, 2020Leave a comment

Pope Fran­cis called for sol­i­dar­i­ty in a world gripped by the coro­n­avirus, praised health care work­ers and chas­tised gov­ern­ments and indi­vid­u­als who self­ish­ly thought only of them­selves dur­ing a glob­al pan­dem­ic, writ­ing in a New York Times op-ed published

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A Thanksgiving Resolution

Miscellaneous FeedBy External SourceNovember 26, 2020Leave a comment

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved to fly around the world using his miles and points. Around the globe he flew, vis­it­ing the far cor­ners of the world; meet­ing new peo­ple and sur­vey­ing new lands. The

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Edward J. Perkins, 92, Dies; First Black U.S. Envoy to South Africa

UncategorizedBy External SourceNovember 26, 2020Leave a comment

When Edward J. Perkins was a stu­dent at a seg­re­gat­ed school in Pine Bluff, Ark., his his­to­ry teacher taught the class about the bru­tal racial oppres­sion in South Africa. It was even worse, the stu­dents were told, than what they

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Fond Travel Memories I’m Thankful For Today

Miscellaneous FeedBy External SourceNovember 26, 2020Leave a comment

“Fail­ure is suc­cess in progress.” ‑Albert Ein­stein Thanks­giv­ing 2020 comes at a unique time in our his­to­ry. We are in the midst of a pan­dem­ic that has altered our world and our way of life. It has inflict­ed immense and

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Wedding Rings Lost in Shipwreck Will Be Returned to Migrant Couple

UncategorizedBy External SourceNovember 26, 2020Leave a comment

The red back­pack had been float­ing for two weeks in the cen­tral Mediter­ranean between Libya and Italy when a res­cue boat came across it. Inside, along with clothes and some notes in Ara­bic, was a sim­ple trea­sure: two wed­ding rings

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Why Oxford AstraZeneca’s Coronavirus Vaccine Data Has Come Under Scrutiny

Journalism.orgBy External SourceNovember 26, 2020Leave a comment

Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty and AstraZeneca have acknowl­edged a man­u­fac­tur­ing error meant some tri­al par­tic­i­pants received only a par­tial dose of their exper­i­men­tal COVID-19 vac­cine. The announce­ment has raised ques­tions about why researchers did not men­tion the

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Journalism.orgBy External SourceNovember 26, 2020Leave a comment

Novem­ber 26, 2020 Hap­py Thanks­giv­ing! The Center’s dai­ly brief­ing of media news is on hia­tus on Thurs­day and Fri­day for the Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day. The brief­ing will be updat­ed again on Mon­day, Novem­ber 30. Pag­i­na­tion Old­er Daily

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Minks Culled Over COVID-19 Fears Are Rising From Their Mass Graves

Journalism.orgBy External SourceNovember 26, 2020Leave a comment

Minks that were culled in Den­mark over fears they could spread a mutat­ed strain of the coro­n­avirus to humans are ris­ing from the mass shal­low graves in which they were buried, mul­ti­ple media out­lets report­ed. “As the bodies

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Somalia Worries That a U.S. Withdrawal Will Be Disastrous

UncategorizedBy External SourceNovember 25, 2020Leave a comment

NAIROBI, Kenya — The Amer­i­can-trained Soma­li com­man­do force Danab is usu­al­ly deployed to counter the Qae­da-linked group Al Shabab: lib­er­at­ing areas it con­trols, end­ing its attacks on gov­ern­ment offices and beach­side restau­rants, and tar­get­ing senior Shabab operatives.But with Pres­i­dent Trump

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