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U.S. News & World Report
April 17, 2018
And I wish he will be successful in his peace process," he said, referring to government efforts to reach an agreement with all the ethnic minorities to end ... Langjaw Gam Seng, 35, was sentenced to 2 years and 3 months for allegedly providing support to an ethnic armed group and defaming the military.
Polygraph.info
April 17, 2018
These restrictions do not target individuals or groups by their nationality, ethnicity, race or religion, as stated in the internationally accepted U.N. ... “Foreign Minister Lavrov's suggestion that sanctions against Russia amount to genocide is absurd,” Steven Pifer, former U. S. Ambassador to Ukraine, toldÃÂ ...
Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project
April 17, 2018
And this is reflected in their racial and ethnic diversity: No single racial or ethnic group accounts for a majority among Muslim immigrants, with 45% ... In all, second-generation Americans make up 18% of the U.S. Muslim adult population, while Muslims who have been in the United States for three or moreÃÂ ...
The Washington Spectator (blog)
April 16, 2018
Or what is the ethnicity of the owners of gun-manufacturing companies … Protestants? Or pharmaceuticals … Swiss? The ethnicity of spies … Brits? And are rapists really predominantly Mexican? And how about the ethnic and religious makeup of the Senate? The House? Are there a lot of Asians? I don'tÃÂ ...
Psychology Today (blog)
April 16, 2018
The diversity of ethnic-racial groups in the United States today is one of the country's greatest assets. However, the social benefits of our heterogeneous society are overshadowed by the reality that stigmatized ethnic-racial groups carry a disproportionate burden of negative health outcomes. For exampleÃÂ ...
IFLScience
April 9, 2018
It's no secret that the words we use can change the way people perceive us. Certain slang can denote someone's age or demographic, while our vocabulary might indicate a level of intelligence. Using that same train of thought, researchers at Stanford University are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to trackÃÂ ...
VICE News
March 13, 2018
Alphonsine Njededa, a woman in her 70s, was lying on a bed in a darkened one room hospital ward when she recounted an attack on her village less than two weeks earlier. Njededa had screamed as the militiaman slashed at her with a machete. The strikes from the blade were so powerful, one cutÃÂ ...
austin360
March 13, 2018
“To the moronic, self-obsessed ethnic who stole the mouse from the back computer: The fact that you do not know both your parents, and that the so-called adults that are caring for you ... “We didn't cry to Facebook or our parents that our math teacher yelled at us and called us kindergartners,” Wells wrote.
Rewire
March 13, 2018
Lawsuit Hits Back Against Trump's Elimination of Immigration Protections: 'This Is Ethnic Cleansing' ... An estimated 270,000 U.S. citizen children have at least one parent with TPS. ... Wilna Destin, a TPS recipient from Haiti who has been in the United States for almost 20 years, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
The Independent
March 13, 2018
Syria's war of ethnic cleansing: Kurds threatened with beheading by Turkey's allies if they don't convert to extremism .... Isis is particularly hostile to the US-backed YPG, as its most effective enemy which drove it out of a quarter of Syrian territory and captured the de facto Isis capital of Raqqa last OctoberÃÂ ...
Voice of America
March 13, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin is suggesting that Jews, Ukrainians or Tatars might have meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but again is rejecting Kremlin interference. In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News that aired Sunday, Putin dismissed the conclusion of the U.S. intelligenceÃÂ ...
The Hill
March 12, 2018
This week, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum made the painful decision to rescind its 2012 Elie Wiesel Award. It was awarded to Myanmar's civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for her commitment to our vision of a world where citizens and leaders confront hate, prevent genocide andÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 10, 2018
Others stressed the importance of loving and supporting adopted children. “We are a white couple with two Guatemalan children. Love, acceptance and pushing to strive have been consistent for us. We talk about race and the differences, not trying to hide anything. Our oldest child is in denial. Our youngestÃÂ ...
Xinhua
March 10, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition on clothing culture of the 56 Chinese ethnic groups opened Saturday at the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) in the western U.S. state of California. The garment exhibition, which runs from March 3 through July 3, is the first of its kind that the SFPLÃÂ ...
WTOP
February 28, 2018
In past surveys – and in the upcoming 2020 census – the Census Bureau boils complex information on race, ethnicity and ancestry into just two ... in the Latino community, because the census would no longer capture race separately from other aspects of a person's national origin or ethnic background.
Common Dreams
January 24, 2018
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but as the United States has retreated from international leadership in the past decade, several toxic global trends have ... Diehl uses this ethnic catastrophe to browbeat the US for not doing enough, but really what he wants, as evidenced by his years of writing (see, e.g.,ÃÂ ...
Independent Online
January 24, 2018
But for those following the daily travails and humiliation endured by African refugees in Israel, it was the brazenness of Netanyahu's crass plan that has appalled us. For months, there has been talk of a secret pact in which refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan or Eritrea would be relocated to UgandaÃÂ ...
News-Medical.net
January 24, 2018
The registry includes data on all donors, candidates and recipients in the United States submitted by members of the Organ Procurement and ... Purnell says dozens of educational programs designed to address racial and ethnic disparities in live donor kidney transplantation were implemented withinÃÂ ...
New Pittsburgh Courier
January 24, 2018
It's the question that stands out considering migrants from the African continent and the Caribbean constitute 10 percent of the overall Black population in the United States – and that's the official estimate. According to projections, Black migrants will grow to nearly a quarter of the overall Black U.S.ÃÂ ...
KTVZ
January 24, 2018
“The crimes that have been perpetrated against the Rohingya are horrific and will haunt us for generations to come,” said Merkley, who led a ... After a campaign of such violent ethnic cleansing, we must ensure that any repatriation of the Rohingya to their homeland is voluntary, safe and dignified.”.
Supermarket News
January 16, 2018
The appeal of these foods is further bolstered by the growth of ethnic populations in the U.S., which is outpacing that of the Caucasian population. For ethnically oriented independents and small chains, the opportunities have never been greater. Operators expanding to other locations adjust their offeringsÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
January 12, 2018
For years, he suggested that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. During the campaign, he suggested that some Mexican immigrants are "rapists" and "bringing crime" across the border and vowed to deport "bad hombres" from the U.S.. At a March meeting with members of theÃÂ ...
Herald Sun
January 4, 2018
The Lithuanian contingent is among more than 200 ethnically Lithuanian scouts at the camp site on the Yarra River, with most participants from Australia, but also people from the US and Canada. Mr Antanaitis, who is chief commissioner of Australian Lithuanian Scouts, said the 10-day event at Clifford ParkÃÂ ...
Vanguard
January 4, 2018
We want actual appreciation, something has to be done for us,” he said. The Ijaw National Leader also commended Dickson for excellent leadership and delivery of the dividends of democracy in Bayelsa State. Clark hailed Dickson for the construction of the 40-year-old Sagbama Ekeremor road which heÃÂ ...
MediaPost Communications
January 4, 2018
Focusing specifically on the U.S. Hispanic online user, some DMPs and publishers take a less sophisticated approach to ethnicity models and rely on language usage. There are a couple of issues with this approach as Spanish-language captures a small portion of Latinos in the U.S. and many SpanishÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
January 4, 2018
... cause for celebration: Myanmar does not seem to have made any genuine commitment to address the causes of the flight, which U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has described as “ethnic cleansing.” The world community, and particularly the United States, should consider taking a twofold approach.
Irish Times
January 3, 2018
But for minority ethnic teenagers in Ireland, whose parents' experiences growing up are a world apart from their children's lives, the gulf in understanding can be truly .... As well as that they understand that Irish society – and Western societies – is quite different, so they have a constant fear of losing us to Western culture.”.
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
January 3, 2018
5 years ago: “Let's face it: As an industry, right now, we do a great job of selling boats to old, white men. But U.S. demographic trends suggest this group is shrinking, while the black, Hispanic and Asian populations are on the rise. The pace at which that change is taking place is startling and has significantÃÂ ...
Amsterdam News
December 6, 2017
African peoples' kidnapping to and continued existence in the Western Hemisphere has been based on our ability to create profit for others. In the U.S. that is no longer the case, except for that profit generated by our slave labor in the prisons. In addition, what we find in cities across the United States is notÃÂ ...
Premium Times
December 31, 1999
Residents of Bwari Area Council in the FCT, on Saturday said the recent communal clash that erupted in Bwari town has affected their living condition. The residents expressed their feelings in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bwari, FCT. They said the crisis was caused by a clashÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
3, 2011 file photo, outgoing Arizona schools chief Tom Horne asserts that a major school district in Tucson is violating a new state law by continuing an ethnic studies program designed primarily for Hispanics, pointing out a quotation from a textbook used in the class, at a news conference in Phoenix.
Seven Days
December 9, 2017
Through a translator, the deputy also learned that the man didn't have a Vermont driver's license. He radioed for backup from a “Romeo unit.” Within 10 minutes, U.S. Border Patrol agents were standing next to the green truck. The deputy held up a document for the feds to see. “This is all I have for ID on him ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 9, 2017
WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's general election may be 11 months away, but some Republican gubernatorial candidates are already working to broaden their appeal in a Democratic-leaning state, sensing voters may be more willing to consider the GOP after consecutive years of state budget ...
ABC News
December 7, 2017
Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Thursday it would be a "nightmare" for ethnic Malays if the opposition wins elections next year. ... The nightmare that will befall us is unthinkable" if the party loses, Najib said, warning that Malays will be stepped on and disparaged in their own land.
Vanguard
December 7, 2017
Stuart Symington, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, has called for ethnic tolerance and acceptance among Nigerians of all backgrounds for a united and great nation. The envoy made the call on Wednesday night during the screening of an American film,“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road ...
Amsterdam News
December 7, 2017
African peoples' kidnapping to and continued existence in the Western Hemisphere has been based on our ability to create profit for others. In the U.S. that is no longer the case, except for that profit generated by our slave labor in the prisons. In addition, what we find in cities across the United States is not ...
Voice of America
December 7, 2017
The U.S. House of Representatives condemned the "ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya" on Wednesday, passing a resolution (423-3) by a two-thirds voice vote "calling for an end to the ... “The United States certainly cannot solve every problem in the world,” resolution co-sponsor Crowley said Tuesday.
Times of India
December 6, 2017
"This slaughter must end, and our resolution ought to send a strong message to Burmese leaders that their commitment to restoring democracy will be judged by their respect for the individual rights and freedoms of all people living within Burma's borders, no matter their faith or ethnicity," House Democratic ...
NPR
December 2, 2017
A major decision on the way the U.S. government collects information about race and ethnicity through the census and other surveys was expected to be announced this week by the Trump administration. But the White House's Office of Management and Budget, which sets standards for this type of data for ...
NPR
November 30, 2017
But the upcoming census in 2020 may ask those who identify as white to explore their family tree to share their ethnic background as well. ... Gallagher adds that some white people from families with long histories in the U.S. may connect with a "dime-store ethnicity" — an identity they can pick and choose to ...
Axios
November 27, 2017
It is deeply unfortunate that the President of the United States cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 27, 2017
Judge Orders U.S. to Delay Deporting Indonesians in Immigration Fight ... Justice" outside the federal building, where ethnic Chinese Christians who fled ... the 2010 deal with ICE entered the United States legally but overstayed their ... for their Christian faith and Chinese ethnicity if they were returned to the ...
Kaiser Family Foundation
November 27, 2017
U.S. Secretary Of State Declares Violence Against Rohingya Muslims As 'Ethnic Cleansing'; Repatriation To Begin But Expected To Take ...
Voice of America
November 26, 2017
Saipov came from Uzbekistan to the United States through the Diversity ... of Saipov's time in the U.S. have repeatedly referenced his ethnicity, ...
The Federalist
November 15, 2017
I Calculated Ethnic Groups' Rates Of U.S. Terrorism. ... have been charged with terrorism-related offenses against the United States. ... I did not attempt to use name-language origin to classify ethnicity for U.S.-born individuals, ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 4, 2017
The United States in September imposed sanctions on Malong, along with two senior South Sudan officials, for undermining the country's ...
teleSUR English
November 3, 2017
US Air Force (USAF) 119th Fighter Wing (FW) unit personnel wear their Chemical Warfare Defensive Equipment (CWDE) gear during a unit ...
Voice of America
November 3, 2017
Bangladesh Envoy to US: Atrocity Against Rohingya 'Ethnic Cleansing' ... Bangladeshi Ambassador to the United States Mohammad Ziauddin ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 2, 2017
SKOPJE (Reuters) - A Macedonian court sentenced 33 ethnic Albanians to jail terms on Thursday, including seven given life sentences, after ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 1, 2017
Saipov's mother visited the United States in late 2016 and early ... a sizable ethnic Uzbek minority, before moving to the United States. But Saipov moved to the United States, at the age of 22, after he won a U.S. green card ...
