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Far-right takes to streets to deny racism is a problem in Lisbon
Hundreds of protesters marched through one of Lisbon’s main avenues yesterday shouting “Portugal is not racist”, in a demonstration...
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Yemen: Millions of children on the 'brink of starvation'
Almost 2.4 million children could be malnourished by the end of the year, UNICEF warns, appealing for urgent aid. Millions of children in...
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Thailand and Myanmar: burned seized drugs worth $2 billion
Thailand and Myanmar destroyed 25 tonnes of illicit drugs collectively worth more than $2 billion on Friday. However, it has been...
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Racial comments over World Bank staff nominee
The association representing the World Bank staff on Wednesday asked Brazil’s executive director nomination of Abraham Weintraub to be...
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Black Americans hospitalized at four times the rate of whites for COVID-19
Black Americans enrolled in Medicare were around four times as likely as their white counterparts to be hospitalized for the current...
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Who are they? People of colour whose deaths inspired waves of U.S. protests
The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last month has spawned a wave of protests and national soul-searching over...
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Knee on Black woman's neck: Fired Miami Gardens police officer
A former Miami Gardens police officer was charged on Thursday with battery and misconduct after a video surfaced on the internet showing...
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Amazon, Brazil: gold rush but illegal mining threatens last major isolated tribe
Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the...
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