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Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai wins appeal against fraud conviction
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Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's pro-democracy media tycoon, has won an appeal against a fraud conviction in 2022, which had seen him sentenced to nearly six years in jail.
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U.S., South Korea to start large-scale joint military drills Mar. 9
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SEOUL, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The United States and South Korea will kick off a major joint military exercise next month, both countries announced Wednesday, as they prepare for the transfer of wartime operational control from Washington to Seoul.
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Iranian Protesters Recount the 'War Zone' That Left Thousands Dead
On Jan. 8, Iranians took to the streets to call for an end to the repressive Islamic Republic. Two days later, demonstrations had been largely stamped out, the country was in a communications blackout, and thousands of protesters had been killed.
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Appeals court says Trump administration can halt work on slavery exhibit in Philadelphia amid appeal
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A U. S. appeals court late Friday said the Trump administration can halt work on a National Park Service slavery exhibit in Philadelphia while it appeals an order to reinstall it.
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Palestine Action and the trouble with defining terrorism
Ruling has sparked debate over the effectiveness and fairness of proscribing groups as terrorists.
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Pastor speaks out on harrowing church invasion that sent congregants fleeing in terror
Cities Church's Lead Pastor Jonathan Parnell and attorney Renee Carlson discuss the moment anti-ICE agitators stormed their Sunday service as they weigh potential legal action against the mob.
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Inside the surge of threats against public officials fueling a rise in prosecutions: "It's too much"
Washington -- The 15 comments came across a series of eight days in July, posted under pseudonyms alluding to the perpetrators of some of the most infamous mass shootings in U.
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Oscar-nominated co-writer of 'It Was Just an Accident' released from Iranian prison
Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated cowriter of "It Was Just an Accident," has been released from an Iranian prison 17 days after his arrest, according to local media reports.
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Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay Among 81 Names to Sign Open Letter Criticizing Berlin Film Festival for 'Silence' on Gaza: 'We Are Dismayed' (EXCLUSIVE)
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More than 80 current and former participants of the Berlinale have signed an open letter to the festival condemning what it claims has been its "silence" when it comes to the conflict in Gaza and the "censoring" of artists who have spoken out.
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Citing Orwell's '1984,' judge orders Trump administration to return slavery exhibits removed from Philadelphia museum | CNN Politics
A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell's novel "1984," ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia.
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The Damascus book fair draws crowds, with censorship eased in post-Assad Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Abdul-Razzaq Ahmad Saryoul began publishing books in Syria in 2003 but he used to abstain from participating in the annual International Damascus Book Fair because of tight measures by the country's security agencies and bans on many books under Bashar Assad's rule.
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Distraught family say they were forced to pay for the bullet that killed their son
Security forces for the Islamic Republic killed 37-year-old Hooman last month after he joined demonstrations in Lahijan in the north of Iran, according to his family.
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"We're still united, we're still fighting" -- Calgarians join global protests against Iranian government
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Thousands gathered in downtown Calgary Saturday afternoon to protest the Iranian government and recent massacres of Iranian protesters.
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Arrests of protestors continue to roil Iran weeks after crackdown
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The Iranian security agents came at 2 a. m. , pulling up in a half-dozen cars outside the home of the Nakhii family.
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Thousands expected to flood downtown LA for Iranian 'Global Day of...
Thousands of protesters will flood downtown LA on Saturday as part of a "Global Day of Action" in support of the Iranian people defying the nation's brutal two-month crackdown on dissenters.
