CHICAGO, July 19 (APP/AFP) – The family of an Australian woman killed by US police after making an emergency call is complaining that authorities have left them in the dark about how the shooting happened. Scrutiny intensified Tuesday into the death of Justine Damond, who was killed late Saturday by a police officer responding to […]
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Family of Australian killed by US police demands answers
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Polish parliament adjourns vote on contested court reform
WARSAW, July 19, (APP/AFP) – Polish lawmakers suspended their debate on a controversial reform to the Supreme Court until Wednesday, after the leader of the governing party unleashed a diatribe against the opposition. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, was incensed by the mention of his late twin brother in […]
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Migrants rescued crossing Sahara desert
NIAMEY, July 19 (APP/AFP) – Twenty-three west African migrants, including a seven-year-old girl, were found alive after being abandoned in the depths of the Sahara, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday An IOM worker told AFP the migrants were found some 300 kilometres (180 miles) from the Niger city of Agadez, a key […]
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Mounting EU concern over Poland’s commitment to rule of law
BRUSSELS, July 19, (APP/AFP) – The European Union on Wednesday will mull turning up the heat on Poland’s rightwing government over plans to reshape the country’s courts — a drive critics say would undermine judicial freedom. After launching reforms of the constitutional court following its election victory in late 2015, the Polish government last week […]
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DR Congo may be linked to UN experts’ murder: report
UNITED NATIONS, United States, July 19, (APP/AFP) – UN experts say they are not ruling out the possible involvement of Democratic Republic of Congo state security forces in the murder of two of their colleagues. In a confidential report seen by AFP on Tuesday, the group of experts says it has conducted preliminary analysis of […]
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Verdict due in major Thai human trafficking trial
BANGKOK, July 19 (APP/AFP) – A Thai general is among more than 100 defendants facing a verdict Wednesday in a sprawling 2015 human trafficking case which saw thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants abandoned at sea and in jungle death camps. Thailand’s junta launched a crackdown in May that year on a multi-million-dollar network running […]