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THE EDITOR: TT's children are on vacation. Here are some tips to stay safe: Always know your basic contact information. Never go anywhere with a stranger. Stay where you are if you get lost. Never share personal info online. Respect matches, knives. Your body is yours only. Do not keep secrets. Know when and how … Continue reading Basic safety for children
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He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
Six Hells Angels bikers were recently arrested in a major drug bust on the Spanish island of Tenerife, the Spanish Civil Guard has announced. The coordinated, large-scale operation saw the members of the notorious motorcycle club arrested on charges of production and distribution of cannabis, said Inmaculada Gonzalez, spokeswoman for the the guard's office in Santa Cruz, Tenerife. Marijuana plants […]
A Bourda Market vendor was robbed by four bandits in an early morning attack yesterday.
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A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or transaction that has some aspect of illegality or is characterized by some form of noncompliant behavior with an institutional set of rules. If the rule defines the set of goods and services whose production and distribution is prohibited by law, non-compliance with the rule constitutes a black market trade since the transaction itself is illegal. Parties engaging in the production or distribution of prohibited goods and services are members of the illegal economy. Examples include the drug trade, prostitution (where prohibited), illegal currency transactions and human trafficking. Violations of the tax code involving income tax evasion constitutes membership in the unreported economy.[1] [2]
Because tax evasion or participation in a black market activity is illegal, participants will attempt to hide their behavior from the government or regulatory authority.[3] Cash usage is the preferred medium of exchange in illegal transactions since cash usage does not leave a footprint.[4] Common motives for operating in black markets are to trade contraband, avoid taxes and regulations, or skirt price controls or rationing. Typically the totality of such activity is referred to with the definite article as a complement to the official economies, by market for such goods and services, e.g. the black market in bush meat.
The black market is distinct from the grey market, in which commodities are distributed through channels that, while legal, are unofficial, unauthorized, or unintended by the original manufacturer, and the white market.
Black money is the proceeds of an illegal transaction, on which income and other taxes have not been paid, and which can only be legitimised by some form of money laundering. Because of the clandestine nature of the black economy it is not
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has been out in full force in the Eastern Cape and have managed to arrest 1 117 people for a number of crimes
Protesters mass near White House
The Latest on the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck
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Several hundred people shouting “Black Lives Matter” and “I can’t breathe” have converged on the White House for a second straight day to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and President Donald Trump’s response.
Three lines of barricades separate protesters from a loose line of uniformed police officers at Lafayette Park, across from the White House.
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ATLANTA — Atlanta’s mayor has announced a curfew will be in effect from 9 p.m. Saturday to sunrise Sunday following violence that erupted in the city during demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Several other cities across the nation have order curfews following unrest surrounding demonstrations protesting Floyd’s death.
NEW YORK — Protesters angry over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis have returned to the streets of New York for a third straight day as Mayor Bill de Blasio pleads for calm after a demonstration in Brooklyn the previous night descended into chaos that left people bloodied and vehicles burned.
[AI London] Older people have suffered in unique ways from the conflict that has raged for almost a decade in Northeast Nigeria, with many starved or slaughtered in their homes or left to languish and die in squalid, unlawful military detention, Amnesty International said in a new report today.
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The Port Elizabeth Regional Court also sentenced Noziswe Stefaans, 46, to four years in jail for attempting to kill three of the victim's relatives, 15 years for robbery and five years for kidnapping.
On the Monday morning of July 13, 1863, the Enrollment
Act (mandatory draft) takes effect, with exemption
for the wealthy, which led to summer draft riots in
New York and other major northern cities (Newark
& Jersey City, New Jersey; Toledo, Ohio;
Evansville, Illinois and Boston, Massachusetts). In
New York City, earlier in the month the Provost
Marshal for New York, Captain Joel B. Erhardt,
orders some able-bodied men that are erecting a
building to report for the draft. They attack him with
crow bars and force him to flee. Registration and
drafting had begun peaceably earlier in the month
at the Provost Marshals Office, but on this date
thousands of workers do not report for work. Mobs
armed with clubs, knives and other weapons
converge on draft headquarters. As they converge,
they are joined by thousands of men and women
who leave work. Telegraph poles are knocked down
to disrupt communications. The police are swept
aside and the draft headquarters building is set on
fire. The mob goes wild, resulting in burning of a
Black orphanage, lynching, 3,000 Blacks
homeless, between 1,500 and 2,000 civilians dead
(many of them Black) and at least 8000 wounded or
maimed for life by a mob of at least 50,000. With
the police overwhelmed and the mayors house
under guard, Colonel Fry brings over 100,000
regular troops to New York City, including the
entire 8th Indiana Infantry Regiment from
Gettysburg, to quell the riot in New York. One mob
assaults a platoon of soldiers and forces them to
take cover in a foundry. Reinforcements rescue
them by routing the mob with fixed bayonets. The
mobs begin smashing and looting stores. They are
pursued by soldiers who fall victim to musket fire
from the rooftops. Howitzers are rushed up and
fired into the mob. Eleven of the ringleaders are
killed. Troops battle in hand-to-hand combat in
stairwells and on rooftops. One out of every five
Black New Yorkers moves away after the riot.
Following the riot, not one Black worker showed up
for work on New Yorks docks. Of the
Three Limpopo men have been jailed for life after they were convicted of killing a man they accused of being in a rival gang.
… .C. It's largely African American. It's the neighborhood … white people as well as African Americans. She's written a …
'PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG CONVICT' by H. Bruce Franklin When Chester Himes was nineteen, he was chained upside down, beaten by police until he confessed to an armed robbery, sentenced for twenty to twenty-five years, and incarcerated in the Ohio State Penitentiary. That was in 1928. By the time he was paroled […]
Eduard Florea was arrested at his home in Queens, New York.
Whenever I visit my son and daughter and their spouses, regardless of what time of the year it is, when it is time to prepare a meal, I am excused from food preparation and treated like a queen! Each makes it clear to me, ‘Mo, we got this!’ I respond by relaxing and playing with... [Read More]
At least 11 people died in intercommunal clashes in an Ivory Coast port town as tensions rise before an October election.
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press ROUEN, France (AP) — The panicked 22-year-old is led to Consultation Room No. 2, with its easy-mop floor and honeycombed meshing over the window. Behind her, the psychiatric emergency ward's heavy double doors — openable only with a staff member's key — thud shut. With anxious taps of her white sneakers, she confides to an on-duty psychiatrist how the solitude of the coronavirus lockdown and the angst of not finding work in the pandemic-battered job market are contributing to her maelstrom of anxieties. She is unnerved that she is starting to obsess about knives, fearful […]
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Press Release - A police officer is never off-duty and is always ready to make a sacrifice in order to ensure that the people they serve are and feel safe.
Trauma is a significant cause of visual loss in children in Jamaica. Prevention of eye injuries can go a long way to reducing the incidence of visual impairment. The most common causes of childhood eye injuries may be classified as follows: Eye...
Hours after President Donald Trump’s supporters seized the U.S. Capitol building, forcing congress members to barricade doors and crouch behind chairs they hoped would save their lives, an exhausted Rep. Lou Correa was getting ready to board a flight home to Anaheim. Video circulating Saturday shows a crowd surrounding the Democratic congressman at an airport, […]
A Chinese man who was studying chemistry at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University on a student visa has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after poisoning his former Black roommate’s food and drinks with heavy metal in 2018. According to WFMZ, the accused, Yukai Yang, entered the guilty plea – one count of attempted murder – on Monday...
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[HRW] Nairobi -- UN Should Urgently Investigate Atrocities by All Parties
Scores of freshly-dug graves fill the church compound in Mai-Kadra. Shovels abandoned by weary hands are strewn on the dirt among empty cans of lemon air freshener that fail to mask the stench of death.
Elsewhere in this town in western Tigray, dozens of corpses still awaiting a grave lie abandoned in a roadside ditch, their exposed flesh rotting in the sun.
No-one denies that something terrible unfolded here: a massacre of hundreds of civilians, who were shot, slashed or stabbed with knives and machetes.
It is the worst-known episode of violence against civilians in the deepening bloodshed in northern Ethiopia.
But the dead are now pawns in a blame game. Participants in the three-week-old conflict are seeking to absolve themselves of an atrocity that bears the hallmarks of a war crime.
- Contested narrative -
The massacre on November 9 was revealed by rights group Amnesty International, using photo and video analysis and interviews with witnesses who said retreating forces loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) were responsible for killing ethnic Amhara residents of the town.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has seized upon this narrative, the atrocity providing further arguments for pressing his offensive against the dissident leadership of the northern Tigray region.
On Tuesday, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC), a government-affiliated body, issued a report blaming a Tigrayan youth group as well as local police and militia for the massacre of at least 600 people it said were \"pre-identified\" by ethnicity.
But Tigrayan refugees who fled Mai-Kadra for Sudan instead say pro-government forces were responsible for the killings during a brutal assault on the town of 40,000 people.
- 'Ethnic cleansing' -
Last week AFP gained rare access to territory controlled by the federal government in the northern conflict zone and visited Mai-Kadra.
Amhara residents of the town said their Tigrayan neighbours had turned on them as the fighting drew close.
\"Militiamen and police attacked us with guns, and civilians attacked us with machetes,\" said Misganaw Gebeyo, a 23-year-old Amhara farmhand now lying in a hospital bed, a ragged scar extending below the medical gauze encasing his head. \"The whole population is involved.\"
He recalled hiding at home, watching in terror as assailants decapitated his friend with a machete. He too was hacked and left for dead.
\"They wanted to exterminate the Amharas,\" Misganaw said.
The town's newly-appointed administrator, a government loyalist called Fentahun Bihohegn, described the massacre as an act of attempted \"genocide\" against his fellow Amharas.
\"A brutal ethnic cleansing has been committed against the Amhara people,\" Fentahun said, describing the entire TPLF, whether leaders or members, as \"criminals\".
\"For me, I have witnessed the real hell here in Mai-Kadra,\" he said.
- Corpses in the streets -
A different story of the massacre can be found a short distance to the west, in the mushrooming refugee camps across the border
It was a big day for Thangulla Satish, a 45-year-old farmer from Lothunur village in India’s southern state of Telangana. He had toiled hard and prepared his rooster to win the upcoming cockfight championship for him. The Supreme Court of India had upheld the ban and use of knives or blades for such games as well as gambling in January […]
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She was the first African-American to be crowned.
QAnon's beliefs are rooted in many of the same things that brought us the Salem Witch Trials, including religious extremism and false accusations.
In November 2019 authorities discovered Caitlyn Pye planned to carry out a knife attack on members of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Georgia, citing the white supremacist murderer Dylann Roof as her inspiration.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb.12, CMC – The National Security Council in Trinidad has approved the use of pepper spray as a “device for safety”, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi announced Thursday night.\tSpeaking at a meeting of...
