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I am just a messenger, and yet I get all this hate. I am not saying anything new, I am just saying what scientists have repeatedly said for decades. And I agree with you, I’m too young to do this. We children shouldn’t have to do this. But since almost no one is doing anything, and our very future is at risk, we feel like we have to continue.

Jay Boyarsky, the chief assistant district attorney for Santa Clara, said the charges carry a sentence of life in prison and he will file hate crime allegations if warranted.

Many political parties have made the fight against gender inequality a central theme of their campaign.

The Sri Lankan government has been slammed for releasing a photo of American Muslim activist and author Amara Majeed and claiming that she is an ISIS terrorist involved in...

U.N. special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, told The Guardian that their are fears this resolution won't pass because of the U.S. threats to veto this bill over the selection of words used.

The two young Reuters reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, both Myanmar citizens, were arrested in 2017 after revealing killings of the Muslim minority Rohingya, which has been dubbed as an "ethnic cleansing" operation in Myanmar.

Heads of state and senior officials from states including Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa took part in the summit.

Civilian deaths attributed to pro-government forces rose in the first quarter of this year even as overall civilian casualties dropped to their lowest level in that period since 2013.

Meanwhile, mosques around the island have cancelled the Friday prayers amidst persisting tension and fear within the community. Sri Lanka’s Catholic churches have also decided to remain closed for “security reasons”. The Army, Navy and Air Force have deployed additional troops to the streets.

As a start, the US and other Western countries must help rebuild the vast areas destroyed by Cyclone Idai. By Ben Ehrenreich

Protester Dagan James expressed the frustration that led to the protests, “We’ve been trying to get change, we’ve been trying to get the government to do more than what they’re doing, and they’re not doing enough, so then these protests started on Monday

As probes continue, on Tuesday, the military was given special powers to detain and arrest suspects, just as it was used during the civil war but withdrawn when it ended. A nationwide state of emergency has been declared, amidst warnings of continuing possible attacks.