Headlines
  • Iran will retaliate with attacks against "nine countries" if the United States strikes Iranian military bases or "petrochemical" facilities, according to an adviser to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
  • At least 58 recruits were killed and over 200 others were injured when the Houthis launched three ballistic missiles at a training facility in Yemen's Shabwa governate. The death toll is anticipated to rise.
  • After unrest, French authorities impose curfews in some areas of Paris, northern cities, and Nice.
  • After looting damaged thousands of businesses over the weekend, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu warned on Monday that he was ready to declare a state of emergency as authorities struggled to contain ongoing violence.
  • Paul Mackenzie, a self-proclaimed preacher, and 28 accomplices were found guilty by a Mombasa, Kenya, court on Monday of killing 190 children and one adult as members of a well-known Christian starvation cult.

Tag: US Police Brutality

June 18, 2020

Camden Community Policing

“Defund the Police” has become the slogan shouted out by Black Lives Matter demonstrators over the last few weeks in the U.S. But how or even whether to implement that demand is stirring debate and controversy. In Camden, New Jersey, the police department was dismantled and re-structured seven years ago to more closely involve the community

African Diaspora Protest Alongside Americans To...

Africans living in the United States met in Washington DC on Sunday to show their solidarity to African Americans, who have been protesting following the recent death in police custody of George Floyd in Minnesota and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta

June 16, 2020

Police View on US Racisim

The death of African American George Floyd in the custody of police officers have spurred calls to reform law enforcement practices in the United States. VOA’s Marsha James and Gabrielle Weiss spoke to a retired police officer in Laurel, Maryland about her views of racism in the ranks

June 15, 2020

Deadly Police Shooting in Atlanta Sparks...

A deadly police shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, has further fueled unrest and demonstrations against racism and police brutality. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, the call for bipartisan legislation addressing police reform nationwide grows as protests across the country, and world, continue

June 12, 2020

US Policing Oakland

As protests against police violence continue in the U.S., residents are looking at their local police forces and asking questions. That is happening in Oakland, Calif., the birthplace of the Black Panthers in the 1960s and where the term “Black Lives Matter” was coined seven years ago. Michelle Quinn reports on how policing is still a contentious issue in this city of more than 400,000

June 7, 2020

Why Americans Of All Races Are...

A scholar of race relations reflects on why many in the United States have taken to the streets in protest, and reflects on his own life struggles

June 1, 2020

United States: After the arrest of...

Oscar Jimenez, cameraman Leonel Mendez and producer Bill Kirkos were arrested at 5 a.m. while filming live near a burned-out police station. The team was clearly identified as belonging to the media, and the CNN badgeby Oscar Jimenez was perfectly visible.

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