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Petition says image of St Michael standing on Satan is reminiscent of George Floyd killing The imagery on the award’s badge portrays St Michael trampling on Satan. Photograph: INTERFOTO/Alamy Campaigners are calling for the redesign of one of Britain’s highest honours personally bestowed by the Queen because they say its badge resembles a depiction of …
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There comes a moment in every foreign correspondent’s life when she must confront whether the story that she is telling is hers to tell. This much was apparent to me when I went to Hong Kong last September, to report on the protests that had engulfed the city. For two weeks, I dutifully donned my press vest, helmet, and …
Critics of police unions stress that the unions have far too much power, and contend that robust protections give many police officers a sense of impunity.Photograph by David Butow / Redux Police unions have long had a singular—and divisive—place in American labor. What is different at this fraught moment, however, is that these unions, long …
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King Leopold II of Belgium laid claim to the Congo and declared it his territory while exerting physical threats to the indigenous people of the Congo (Kongo). He declared the people and the land to be his property, and he quickly turned the country into a moneymaking venture for himself and his throne. Kongo was …
Among the numerous tragedies of the current COVID-19 crisis is the large number of Holocaust survivors who count among the disease’s victims. In recent weeks, newspapers across the world have published moving obituaries of individual Jews who, more than three-quarters of a century ago, fled persecution, went into hiding or survived the horrors of the …
