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Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped
The police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, racial justice campaigners say.
The warning comes from the Runnymede Trust and 50 other groups demanding that the policy in England and Wales is scrapped, in a letter sent to the home secretary and police chiefs on Friday.
At least two killed and dozens injured after airstrike on southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Israel targeted the chief of staff of Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah group in a strike in the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday. The strike is the first on the capital’s southern suburbs, known for housing Hezbollah officials, in months. Continue reading… Source link
The man in Washington state had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds, health officials said A US man is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu, but state health officials said on Friday the risk to the public is low. The man in Washington state, an older adult with underlying health conditions, was being treated for a bird flu strain called H5N5 after becoming seemingly the first known human infected by the strain, according to a statement from the Washington State Department of Health.…
Experts infuriated by president accusing Democrats of ‘sedition’ for urging soldiers to refuse illegal orders Veterans have condemned the politicization of the military after Donald Trump accused Democratic lawmakers of “sedition, punishable by death” after a small group of them released a video in which they urged US soldiers not to follow any “unlawful” orders. The extraordinary exchange was sparked after Democratic lawmakers with military or national security backgrounds – the Congressional representatives Maggie Goodlander, Jason Crow, Chris DeLuzio and Chrissy Houlahan, and the senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin – posted a video on Facebook addressed to US…