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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, toldÃâà...
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 moreÃâà...
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'tÃâà...
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 exampleÃâà...
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 trackÃâà...
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 cutÃâà...
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 OctoberÃâà...
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. intelligenceÃâà...
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 andÃâà...
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 youngestÃâà...
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 SFPLÃâà...
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.
