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17 August 19
'Portland Is Being Watched Very Closely': Trump Stokes Tension Over Far Right Rally
Jason Wilson, Guardian UK
Wilson writes: "As Portland prepared for what may be one of the biggest political demonstrations of the US summer, which authorities expected would lead to violence, Donald Trump threw into the mix a characteristically explosive tweet."
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Jason Wilson, Guardian UK
Wilson writes: "As Portland prepared for what may be one of the biggest political demonstrations of the US summer, which authorities expected would lead to violence, Donald Trump threw into the mix a characteristically explosive tweet."
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Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 sits anchored awaiting a court ruling on whether it can be freed after it was seized in July by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory, in the Strait of Gibraltar, southern Spain, Aug. 15, 2019. (photo: Reuters)
US Issues Warrant to Seize Iran Oil Tanker 'Grace 1' After Gibraltar Judge Orders Its Release
Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY
Hjelmgaard writes: "The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker detained in Gibraltar, a day after a judge in the British overseas territory ordered its release."
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY
Hjelmgaard writes: "The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker detained in Gibraltar, a day after a judge in the British overseas territory ordered its release."
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Shell union workers gathered for Donald Trump's speech. (photo: Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Report: Shell Union Workers Had to Choose Between Attending President Trump's Speech or Losing Pay
Tara Law, TIME
Law writes: "Union workers at a Royal Dutch Shell's manufacturing facility in western Pennsylvania were told that they had to attend President Donald Trump's speech on Tuesday – or take the day off without pay, reports say."
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Tara Law, TIME
Law writes: "Union workers at a Royal Dutch Shell's manufacturing facility in western Pennsylvania were told that they had to attend President Donald Trump's speech on Tuesday – or take the day off without pay, reports say."
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Mourners gather at vigil for Jimmy Aldaoud. (photo: Ali Harb/MEE)
'Jimmy's Death Won't Go in Vain': Iraqi Americans Vow to Fight Trump's Deportations
Ali Harb, Middle East Eye
Harb writes: "With the grief came a call for action. As more than 100 people gathered at a community centre north of Detroit to mourn the death of a Michigan man who died after he was deported to Iraq, advocates and officials vowed to fight back against Donald Trump's immigration policies."
Ali Harb, Middle East Eye
Harb writes: "With the grief came a call for action. As more than 100 people gathered at a community centre north of Detroit to mourn the death of a Michigan man who died after he was deported to Iraq, advocates and officials vowed to fight back against Donald Trump's immigration policies."
EXCERPT:
After Iraq started accepting deportees from the US in 2017, the Trump administration moved to remove 1,400 Iraqis from the country. Some of those subjected to deportation had lived in the US for decades.
The Iraqi-Christian community in Michigan was targeted by the crackdown, and hundreds of Iraqi Catholic Chaldeans are still battling their deportation orders in courts to remain in the US.
Aldaoud was one of at least 69 immigrants who have been sent back to Iraq from the US since the start of 2018.
He was diabetic and suffered from mental health issues. He died in Baghdad from lack of access to insulin.
The actor Jason Momoa exchanges a traditional greeting with an elder while visiting protesters last month. (photo: Hollyn Johnson/AP)
'A New Hawaiian Renaissance': How a Telescope Protest Became a Movement
Michelle Broder Van Dyke, Guardian UK
Van Dyke writes: "On Hawaii's Big Island, a protest against a $1.4bn observatory on Mauna Kea, a mountain considered sacred by many Native Hawaiians, is entering a second month."
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Michelle Broder Van Dyke, Guardian UK
Van Dyke writes: "On Hawaii's Big Island, a protest against a $1.4bn observatory on Mauna Kea, a mountain considered sacred by many Native Hawaiians, is entering a second month."
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Students protest in front of a line of riot police outside the Congress building in Tegucigalpa, April 30, 2019. (photo: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images)
The Student Movement Standing Up to the Honduran Regime
Tom Sullivan, Jacobin
Sullivan writes: "It's been ten years since a US-backed coup installed a repressive neoliberal regime in Honduras. Now, a student movement has emerged to challenge the government's agenda of privatization and militarization."
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Tom Sullivan, Jacobin
Sullivan writes: "It's been ten years since a US-backed coup installed a repressive neoliberal regime in Honduras. Now, a student movement has emerged to challenge the government's agenda of privatization and militarization."
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Pollution from a factory. (photo: Reuters)
We've Got Another Ozone Problem, and It's Not What You Think
Zoya Teirstein, Grist
Teirstein writes: "Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun's harmful UV light and keeps us safe."
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Zoya Teirstein, Grist
Teirstein writes: "Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun's harmful UV light and keeps us safe."
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