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The new “Resident Evil" film is a hit with critics. But did you know the concept of the zombie can be traced back to enslaved people in Haiti? And that they’re a victim, rather than a flesh-eating monster?
With @yelmjouie
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🇭🇹: President Trump says almost all refugees allowed into the U.S. will be white South Africans fleeing a so-called “white genocide.”
Meanwhile, after ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians in the U.S, he’s now deporting hundreds of people to Haiti - where violence and U.S.-backed intervention has killed thousands and forced nearly 1.5 million people from their homes.
Trump has deported 460 Haitians since July. Deportees would have access to almost no help and would be exposed to ongoing violence, displacement and food insecurity.
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There is outcry in Spain after the govt allowed a U.S. extradition request for pro-Palestinian activist Fergie Chambers to proceed to court.
This politician called him the “first political prisoner in Spain for the Palestinian cause.”
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Romani actor Alina Șerban made her directorial debut at the Venice Film Festival with her film “I MATTER,” based on the discrimination Roma face in Romania – informed by her own life experiences. The film won the Armani Beauty Audience Award in the festival's closing ceremony.
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A village in India staged a “water funeral” in protest against a multi-billion dollar river-linking project.
22 villages and over 6,000 families would need to be displaced for its construction to go ahead.
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Cooking gas and firewood are hard to come by in Gaza. So one baker got creative – with a homemade oven, sesame oil, paper and a hair dryer.
Thousands of workers and students flooded the streets of Argentina in a “March of Anger” against President Javier Milei’s cuts to public funding and education.
The U.S. has a big public toilet problem, and NYC Mayor Mamdani is trying to help his city by adding 17 modular public toilets. @yelmjouie explains why these restrooms are so desperately needed in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
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“Despite all of this, we will learn. We will learn even in a tent.”
Gaza’s children are starting a new school year after almost 3 years of Israel’s genocide, and they’re taking classes in make-shift tents.
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A video of Iranian women running a 10K is going viral … but why?
And how is it connected to the Women, Life, Freedom protest movement?
@yelmjouie explains:
Wanna play as a tiny Macklemore who recruits pro-Palestine musicians to take down a godzilla-sized Ed Sheeran, who yells things like “both sides” and “I’m not complicit” – all while evading mini Robert Krafts?
Well with “Super Macklemore 64,” you can.
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“Everything here is driven by the surprise: It’s a surprise you survived, it’s a surprise how you will die.”
A building in Gaza City collapsed on people as they slept. Palestinian Journalist @wizardbisan says a distant Israeli bomb shook the ground, leading to the collapse.
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The U.S. deported Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane to Equatorial Guinea – a country neither is from. After they spoke out about their treatment, Amnesty says police hooded and beat them. They’re now imprisoned in Malabo.
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Most Americans are against the war on Iran. But, unfortunately for them, Republicans currently control Congress and the decisions regarding the war.
The one Republican who openly opposed? He was recently voted out.
AJ+ collaborator @franifio explains.
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AI companies are buying physical books, cutting them apart, scanning them, and destroying the originals.
🌍#AJEverywhere#
“6 points or 75,000 lives?”
Irish activists and former athletes are demanding UEFA Nations League matches between Ireland and Israel be canceled over the genocide in Gaza
Brides in Sudan have adorned their hands with henna for centuries.
But 3 years of war and drought caused by the climate crisis leave Sudanese farmers struggling to grow the plants they need to keep the tradition alive.
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Palestinian American human rights lawyer Noura Erakat was arrested for attempting to speak against a $1 billion Israeli bond investment by Palm Beach County.
While Israeli National Security Minister Itamar-Ben Gvir called for the death penalty of a Palestinian detainee, Israeli president Isaac Herzog pardoned an Israeli soldier after he was convicted of killing a wounded Palestinian in 2016.
The Israeli soldier was one of the first to be convicted of killing a Palestinian in the last decade.
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Chief Raoni Metuktire dedicated his life to fighting for Indigenous land rights in Brazil. He’s now in palliative care after a cancer diagnosis. This is his legacy:
