Terror attacks, Mountie killings, Ghomeshi scandal among top news events in 2014
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Updates on Security Crackdown in Egypt - NYTimes.com
The New York Times News Blog. Egyptian police officers in bulletproof vests and gas masks could be seen arresting Morsi supporters inside the protest camp in Nahda Square, near Cairo University in video from the news site El Badil.. One of the most widely-viewed clips of the day was extremely graphic, distressing video showing the charred bodies of three protesters reportedly killed during the raid on the camp in Nahda Square, which was published by El��.
Turkey, Iran, Egypt blast new Charlie Hebdo Muhammad sketch
A woman takes a photo of the cover of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo featuring the Prophet Mohammed displayed with front pages for newspapers from around the world outside the Newseum January 14, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo.
Meet the Pro-Cop Profiteer Making a Killing
Both are fixtures at protests around New York City, where they give away thousands of pre-printed signs bearing phrases like ���Police Brutality Is Tyranny,��� ���Dont Shoot,��� and ���We Cant Breathe,��� as well as the names of more than 150 people ���killed or.
Egypts New Police State
CAIRO ��� Egypt seems to be headed back toward the 1960s, when Gamal Abdel Nasser set a precedent for the whole Arab world by creating a police state that brutally suppressed dissidents and instilled fear among its citizens. Last week, on what seemed a .
Egypt News Latest Real-Time Updates - NewsBlogged
BBC News Egypt: Retrial ordered in mass death penalty case. BBC News A court in Egypt has ordered a retrial for 37 Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death over an attack on a police station in 2013. They were among more. New York Times (blog) Egypt is ranked 110th out of 148 countries on the United Nations Development Programmes Gender Inequality Index. Patriarchal attitudes are deeply held. Egyptian women lag far behind men on educational��.
Protester killed as Egypt marks anniversary of 2011.
US NewsWorldScienceTechMediaVideo �� Rihanna the latest hip.. Egyptian Shaima al-Sabbagh being carried away after she was injured during clashes with police (AFP). Dont miss stories.. On Saturday a female demonstrator was killed in clashes with police during a rare leftwing protest in central Cairo. Shaima. New York father fatally shoots daughter, girlfriend, and girlfriends mother before turning gun on himself. 0. Get the best of Raw Story, delivered daily.
���We Are All Khaled Said���: Will the Revolution Come to Egypt.
. around the region. Mike Giglio on a protest in Cairo that could mark the beginning of another upheaval.. Khaled Said, a small businessman in the historic Egyptian city of Alexandria, was dragged from an Internet caf�� by police and beaten to death in the street last summer. Said wasnt known as a.. 1 selling cognac brand presented the business guru and civic leader with their prestigious award during a recent party at Guastavinos in New York City. On a cold and��.
Protests in Egypt - as they happened | News | The Guardian
The support of the Brotherhood could well change the calculus on the streets, tipping the numbers in favour of the protesters and away from the police, lending new strength to the demonstrations and further imperiling president. Last night Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear weapons inspector often named as a leading reformist candidate to replace Mubarak, flew into Cairo calling for a new regime in Egypt.. The Daily Mail has this story on the killing.
We Need Our Police to Be Better Than This
In fact, Ramos and Liu were killed by deranged gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a career criminal who shot his girlfriend in Baltimore, drove to New York, and bragged about ���putting wings on pigs.��� Im no de Blasio partisan, but the mayors willingness to.
���When She Stands Among Men���: Sexual Harassment of.
Instead of using literature on sexual harassment, we examine the increase in harassment of women at protests through the lens of scholarship on sexual violence during conflict... If not, then you are a traitor to the nation, like the police and the President are traitors... New York Daily News, December 20,2011, accessed November 30, 2013, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/10-000-women-march-cairo-protest-behavior-egyptian-soldiers-article-1.994664.
Woman activist Shaima al-Sabbagh shot by police in Egypt.
Woman activist Shaima al-Sabbagh shot by police in Egypt demonstrations. Daily Mail A female demonstrator was killed in clashes with Egyptian police during a protest in central Cairo today on the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. A health. Security Tightened on Anniversary of Egypts 2011 UprisingNew York Times Reuters Africa -Mirror.co.uk -Ahram Online �� all 179 news articles ��. Source: Google News. Filed in: Business��.
Egypt: The Mayhem - The New York Review of Books
The theory was the government was trying to use the death of a popular Sheikh to stir anger towards the protest movement, but at a funeral march the next day that started at Al-Azhar and ended at the cemetery, thousands of mourners instead called for the end of SCAF.. An Egyptian woman holding the widespread picture of a woman who was stripped and beaten by military police during clashes last week as Egyptians gather for a protest, Cairo December 20, 2011.
Riots erupt after Egyptian court dismisses Mubarak charges
Rioting erupted in Cairo Saturday night, killing at least one person, following the dismissal of criminal charges against former president Hosni Mubarak in connection with the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his nearly three.
Death sentences for 10 Muslim Brotherhood members upheld in Egypt; 38.
A Cairo court has upheld death sentences against 10 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced 38 others to life in prison, including the spiritual leader of the Islamist group, Egyptian judicial officials say. All 10 Brotherhood members.
When Harlem Was Occupied Territory
They throw him almost through one of the radiators. I thought he was dead over there.��� ���The elderly fellow��� was Fecundo Acion, a 47-year-old Puerto Rican seaman, who had also made the mistake of wanting to know why the police were beating up children.
Unrest in Egypt: President Mubarak dissolves Cabinet after.
[Updated 4:35 p.m. (2335 in Egypt)] As public protests against the Mubarak regime spread from Cairo to New York City, Egyptian-American activists on Friday called on the Obama adminstration to back the Lotus Revolution to oust the. Their meetings with their U.S. military counterparts had been scheduled to continue through Wednesday... [Updated 9:49 a.m. (1649 in Egypt)] One woman killed in clashes in Cairo, Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reports via Twitter.
Memo to Cops: Criticisms Arent Attacks
But equating African Americans daily lived experience with the rhetorical fabrications of Giuliani, PBA head Pat Lynch, and a few other others is��� well, its like saying that Eric Garners crushed larynx is morally the same thing as Lynchs tender.
Egypt: Police Violently Break Up Peaceful Protest | Human.
(New York) ��� Egyptian police used water cannons, teargas, and batons on November 26, 2013, to disperse several hundred activists peacefully protesting military trials of civilians, Human Rights Watch said today.. Aida al-Kashef, one of the women, told Human Rights Watch that a man wearing a suit and flanked by other men in civilian clothing approached her and other female detainees on the stairs of the First New Cairo police station and told them to leave with��.
NYPD Springs to Action to Save Vacations
But in an op-ed for the New York Daily News a few months before de Blasio took office, Lynch criticized the NYPD for unofficially using quotas. As the Beasts Jacob Siegel reported during the slowdown, they were putting cops in positions they dont .
Egypt: Security Forces Used Excessive Lethal Force.
(New York) ��� Egyptian security forces rapid and massive use of lethal force to disperse sit-ins on August 14, 2013 led to the most serious incident of mass unlawful killings in modern Egyptian history.. The dispersal sparked gunfights in the Cairo neighborhood of Mohandessin and an attack on a police station in Kerdassa, in greater Cairo, which left four policemen dead. Human Rights Watch spoke to. Dozens of women and children hid in the mosque. Witnesses��.
Are Police Stealing Peoples Property?
The New York Times recently reported that there are seminars that law-enforcement officers can attend that provide ���useful tips on seizing property from suspected criminals.��� A video shown in one seminar quotes the city attorney of Las Cruces, New.
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SHANGHAI (AP) ��� People unable to contact friends and relatives streamed into hospitals Thursday, anxious for information after a stampede during New Years celebrations in Shanghais historic waterfront area killed 36 people in the worst disaster to.
What Would Happen if I Got in White Cops Face?
The best example of this came in the form of a single photograph, published by the New York Daily News, of a 20-something white woman standing fearlessly, pressed breasts-to-chest with a New York City police officer. From her expression. Like most.
Eric Garner Protests: Its Like Vietnam
���They said we were obstructing traffic, disorderly conduct, whatever,��� she told a Daily Beast reporter as dozens of cops massed at the corner and three helicopters whirled overhead. Protestors. A woman holds a sign as she takes part in a protest.
Post-coup violence in Egypt: LIVE UPDATES ��� RT News
Security sources said around 20 were arrested, and that police fired teargas at protesters in Cairos Mohandiseen district. The marches spurred the military-backed government to warn Egyptians of legal consequences should��.
Two dead as Islamists and police clash in Cairo
Two people were killed Friday as Islamist protesters and police clashed in Cairo just hours after attackers shot dead two soldiers, including a senior officer, in the Egyptian capital. The army and police had fanned out across Cairo and other cities in.
The 52 Best Photographs From Around The World In 2014
Its been quite a year. What better way to review the last 365 days than to examine, analyze, drool over and gush about the work of photojournalists and photographers, who worked to capture everything from protests to parades, scandals to celebrations, .
At least 15 killed in protests on anniversary of Egypt uprising.
CAIRO (Reuters) ��� At least 15 people were killed at pro-democracy protests in Egypt on Sunday, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, security sources said. In the bloodiest day of protests since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected president in June, security forces and plained clothed police fired at protestors, witnesses said. The anniversary is a test of. Dozens of protesters were killed during last years anniversary. Again this year��.
Egypt mulls ban of Muslim Brotherhood as it calls week of.
Police are surrounding the mosque, saying that they would let women and children leave, but want to take male protesters into custody for questioning.. Egyptian security forces detained more than 1,000 people during Fridays protests, many of them armed, police said. More than. Egyptian state TV has depicted the protest leaders as dangerous terrorists plotting against the country, and its footage of the clashes in Cairo showed people shooting firearms at police.
Mogahed condemns Egyptian repression, warns of.
An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 unarmed and reportedly nonviolent protesters in Cairos square, Rabaa al-Adawiya, were killed by Egyptian police on the morning of Aug. 14, 2013. Human Rights Watch called the massacre the��.
Egypt Revolution: Violence Leaves One Thousand Wounded
Clashes between protesters and police have left more than 1,000 people wounded, scarring downtown Cairo with debris and checkpoints and reminding residents of the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year.. Families of some of the more than 850 Egyptians killed during the revolution went wild when earlier this week the trial of former Minister of Interior Habib Al Adli was once again postponed.. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast.