22 February 2022
India News Updates
| DNA Money Edit: EPFO cut may hurt employee sentiments | 22.2.2022 | DNA: Bangalore |
| DNA Money Edit: EPFO cut may hurt employee sentiments | ||
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| AITUC, CITU condemn govt decision to allow commercial coal mining by pvt firms | 21.2.2022 | General News |
| Central trade unions AITUC and CITU have strongly opposed the government decision to allow commercial coal mining by private firms. The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) vehemently condemns the decision of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) to open the coal mining sector for commercial mining by private and foreign corporate that too without any restriction on pricing and end-use, a CITU statement said. It said that so long private sector was allowed to mine coal only for captive use in power, cement and steel industry and debarred from selling the coal in market. The union said that such a retrograde decision by the Centre is nothing but a total reversal of the four decade long policy of nationalised coal mining which contributed immensely to industrial development as well as expansion of the power generation capacity in the country, it said. Such opening up of coal mining sector for unhindered exploitation by private and foreign corporate without any restriction on . | ||
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| Air France strike to affect half of long-haul flights tomorrow | 21.2.2022 | General News |
| Half of Air France’s long-haul flights out of Paris tomorrow will be cancelled due to a strike by pilots, cabin crew and ground staff, the carrier said. The airline said today it expected to maintain 75 percent of its scheduled service but only 50 per cent of its long-haul flights and advised travellers to postpone their trips until February 27 at no extra cost. The staff are demanding a 6 per cent across-the-board pay increase. Management is offering a basic increase of 1 per cent to be paid in two installments and a range of incentives, which trade unions have dismissed as “small change”. The Air France-KLM group posted a 42 per cent increase in its operating profit to 1.49 billion euros (USD 1.84 billion) in 2017. | ||
| EPFO lowers interest rate to 8.55 p.c. for 2017-18 | 21.2.2022 | Hindu: Economy |
| Gangwar expressed hope that the trade unions will agree to the decision of providing 8.55 per cent rate of interest. | ||
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| Why Indian Labour Conference has been postponed | 21.2.2022 | Rediff: Business |
| At the 47th ILC, scheduled for February 26 and 27 in Delhi, trade unions and employers were to discuss key issues related to employment and social security coverage to workers | ||
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| Coal mining by private firms: Labour unions oppose Cabinet decision | 21.2.2022 | News |
| The trade union leaders apprehend that the move would gradually ruin state-run Coal India as private players would not do mining ethically | ||
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| Voter registration at Black Panther lines | 22.2.2022 | General News |
| Activists are using Black Panthers, the superhero of the recent Marvel film of the same name, which stars a nearly all-black cast as a chance to increase the voter registration of the African-Americans.The film is set in the fictional East African country of Wakanda, the WGN TV reported.Members of the Electoral Justice Project are targeting “Black Panther” fans with a campaign called #WakandatheVote, according to WPIX.”It’s a good opportunity to engage with more people of colour. And it’s a chance to get out the vote and explain to people why they should vote,” said Kristeena Alexander, who was in line to see the film.The Electoral Justice Project, a movement that seeks to continue a long legacy of social movements fighting for the advancement of the rights of the black people through electoral strategy in the United States has been targeting excited fans with a simple message- “While you wait, send a text.”Fans need to type “Wakanda” and send it to 91990, which will show information . | ||
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| Women launch 71-day dharnaseeking complete Prohibition | 22.2.2022 | Hindu: Rx |
| After a week following the statement of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at Sindhanur denying complete Prohibition, hundreds of women under the banner of Madhya Nisheda Andolan launched a 71-day dharna | ||
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| Florida rally to ban assault-style weapons set for Wednesday | 21.2.2022 | Reuters: Top News |
| PARKLAND/TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Student activists from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff were shot and killed will call for a ban on assault-style weapons when they meet with lawmakers and hold a rally on Wednesday in Tallahassee, the state … | ||
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| Corrected: Florida rally to ban assault-style weapons set for Wednesday | 21.2.2022 | Reuters: World News |
| (Corrects name of opinion poll to Washington Post/ABC News in 14th paragraph. Error occurred in initial version of story.)
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| Court Rejects Hardik Patel’s Discharge Plea In Sedition Case | 21.2.2022 | NDTV News - India-news |
| A court today rejected Patidar leader Hardik Patel’s discharge application in a sedition case filed against him by the Ahmedabad crime branch in connection with the violence during an agitation by his… | ||
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| Bhanubhai’s Charred Body Is Proof That Casteism Remains a Burning Issue | 21.2.2022 | The Wire |
| Bhanubhai Vankar died protesting the rampant injustice and apathy that continues against Dalits in broad daylight, re-packaged and marketed as the ‘Gujarat model.’
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| Sedition case: Court rejects Hardik’s discharge plea | 21.2.2022 | General News |
| A court here today rejected Patidar leader Hardik Patel’s discharge application in a sedition case filed against him by the Ahmedabad crime branch in connection with the violence during an agitation by his outfit in August 2015. Sessions court judge Dilip Mahida rejected Patel’s discharge application, thereby allowing framing of charges against him in the case. The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader is currently out on bail granted to him by the high court in June 2016. The court accepted the prosecution’s plea that there are material evidence against Hardik on the basis of which charges can be framed. The court said that evidence against the accused in the form of speeches, conversations and forensic evidence establish that Hardik and two others — Dinesh Bambhania and Chirag Patel — had hatched a conspiracy and used pressure and threat to force the government to accept their demands. The court also considered the deposition made by another co-accused-turned-approver, Ketan | ||
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| Rally calling for ban on assault-style rifles to be held in Tallahassee | 21.2.2022 | Reuters: Top News |
| PARKLAND/TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Student and parent activists from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff members were slain last week in a shooting rampage will hold a rally on Wednesday at the state capital, calling for a ban on assault-style … | ||
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| Bahrain activist Rajab sentenced to 5 years for tweets | 21.2.2022 | General News |
| High-profile Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to a further five years in jail today over tweets critical of the war in Yemen, a judicial source and human rights groups said. Rajab, a leading figure in 2011 protests against the Gulf state’s Sunni minority rulers, was already serving a two-year sentence handed down last July for “disseminating rumours and false information” in television interviews critical of the government. He has served multiple stints in prison since 2012, all linked to his role in the protests. In the latest case, Rajab was found guilty of insulting a neighbouring country and spreading false news and rumours, a judicial source told AFP on condition of anonymity. The charges are linked to tweets and retweets, made via Rajab’s account and critical of a Saudi-led coalition, including Bahrain, that has been fighting in Yemen in support of its beleaguered government since 2015. The charges also relate to tweets critical of Bahrain’s treatment of inmates at .. | ||
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| Sedition case: Ahmedabad Court rejects Hardik Patel’s discharge plea | 21.2.2022 | General News |
| The Ahmedabad Sessions’ Court on Wednesday rejected Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti leader Hardik Patel’s discharge application in a sedition case against him.Hardik Patel was booked by the Crime Branch in 2015 under sedition charges following large-scale violence.He had asserted that there was no evidence against him in the chargesheet filed by the Crime Branch with regard to criminal conspiracy and inciting people to dislodge the government during the violent agitation that followed August 25, 2022 gathering by Patidar community.Additional sessions judge Dilip Mahida did not accept Patel’s arguments that there was no evidence against him.In October 2015, Gujarat High Court had rejected the quashing petition in this case. | ||
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| How Putin’s ‘cook’ dug up dirt in US to make anti-American films in Russia | 21.2.2022 | All International Stories |
| They shot footage across Manhattan, looking for disadvantaged areas, homeless people, and what Matveychev called ‘dirt’ that would cast America in a bad light | ||
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| How Saddam Hussein’s Old Ideology May Have Contributed to the Modern Islamic State | 21.2.2022 | The Wire |
| Was the early conception of IS a branching-out of the old Baath party? Or was it, as some argue, completely separate with no connection at all? Reality is probably a bit of a mix of both.
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| Florida school shooting: Survivors launch gun control push | 21.2.2022 | DNA: Bangalore |
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| Survivors of Florida school shooting launch gun control push | 21.2.2022 | Reuters: World News |
PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) - Dozens of students and parents from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff members died in a shooting rampage boarded buses on Tuesday for a trip to the state capital Tallahassee to push for a ban on assault rifles.
  
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| Women launch 71-day dharnaseeking complete Prohibition | 22.2.2022 | Hindu: Rx |
| After a week following the statement of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at Sindhanur denying complete Prohibition, hundreds of women under the banner of Madhya Nisheda Andolan launched a 71-day dharna | ||
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| Florida rally to ban assault-style weapons set for Wednesday | 21.2.2022 | Reuters: Top News |
| PARKLAND/TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Student activists from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff were shot and killed will call for a ban on assault-style weapons when they meet with lawmakers and hold a rally on Wednesday in Tallahassee, the state … | ||
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| Corrected: Florida rally to ban assault-style weapons set for Wednesday | 21.2.2022 | Reuters: World News |
| (Corrects name of opinion poll to Washington Post/ABC News in 14th paragraph. Error occurred in initial version of story.)
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| Rally calling for ban on assault-style rifles to be held in Tallahassee | 21.2.2022 | Reuters: Top News |
| PARKLAND/TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Student and parent activists from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff members were slain last week in a shooting rampage will hold a rally on Wednesday at the state capital, calling for a ban on assault-style … | ||
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| How Putin’s ‘cook’ dug up dirt in US to make anti-American films in Russia | 21.2.2022 | All International Stories |
| They shot footage across Manhattan, looking for disadvantaged areas, homeless people, and what Matveychev called ‘dirt’ that would cast America in a bad light | ||
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| Florida school shooting: Survivors launch gun control push | 21.2.2022 | DNA: Bangalore |
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| Striking HC lawyers plan statewide strike | 21.2.2022 | General News |
| The striking lawyers of Orissa High Court have decided to increase their strength by roping in more from their fraternity across the state and observe a day-long state-wide token strike in support of their demand to fill up vacant positions of judges. More than 50 bars have already responded to our call and we are waiting for others to decide on the state-wide lawyers strike to paralyse judicial activities across the state, said High Court Bar Association secretary Satyabrata Mohanty. Addressing media persons along with Association president Srikant Kumar Naik and other office bearers, Mohanty said the ongoing relay hunger strike by the High Court lawyers will continue till February 23 and after that the next course of action will be chalked out. The Bar Association made an appeal to the public saying that the ongoing agitation is aimed at strengthening the bench of the High Court in order to provide quick and speedy justice to the litigants as over 1.70 lakh cases are | ||
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| South Asians protest unjust treatment of migrants | 21.2.2022 | Hindu: Policy & Issues |
| ‘Govt. misusing laws to reject our right to remain in U.K.’ | ||
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| ‘Protect interest of arecanut growers’ | 21.2.2022 | Deccan Herald - District |
| Karnataka Pradesha Raitha mathy Krishi Karmikara Congress and Jilla Kissan Congress Samithi staged a protest urging the Central government to file an affidavit in the court to prove that arecanut is not harmful to health. The protesters shouted slogans against the Central government, at Azad Circle. They also expressed dissatisfaction over the statement made by Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Anupriya Patel in the Lok Sabha that consumption of supari would lead to oral squamous cancer. KPCC Kissan cell president Sachin Meega said the statement of the union minister has caused confusion among arecanut growers. During the previous Lok Sabha election campaign, Narendra Modi had promised to protect the interest of arecanut growers. But now the government is neglecting the growers. “Instead of politicising the death of farmers, MP Shobha Karandlaje should look into the problems faced by the arecanut growers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be informed on the problems of the … | ||
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| Hunger strike on February 22 | 21.2.2022 | Deccan Herald - District |
| Opposing the negligent attitude of the CMC administration, a hunger strike will be conducted in front of the CMC office from 8 am to 6 pm on February 22, CMC member K M B Ganesh said. Addressing reporters here on Wednesday, he said that the development of the city is ignored. Even though the related issues have been raised in the meeting several times in the last four years, the ruling party has done nothing regarding them. “The administration has failed to provide sites to the needy, roads, drain facility and others. The resolutions passed in the CMC meet have no value.” “BJP members recently protested against the failure of the administration. But the CMC vice president, who is from BJP, has also been incompetent. There is no coordination between the Congress and the BJP in development works, as a result of which none of the works is being carried out in the city.” CMC member Leela Sheshamma accused CMC president Kaveramma Somanna of making allegations on the latter without any reason. This gesture has … | ||
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| Women activists stage 48-hr hunger strike, seeks RGV’s arrest | 21.2.2022 | General News |
| Members of several women associations, led by All India Democratic Women Association (AIDWA), on Wednesday, staged a 48-hour hunger strike against Vizag police for not filing FIR against film-maker Ram Gopal Varma, over his latest film ‘ ‘God, Sex And Truth’.The women-led group shouted slogans against the filmmaker and eight women associations members sat on 48-hours hunger strike at the GVMC Gandhi statue in Visakhapatnam.RGV’s latest production was released on internet last month and the filmmaker was booked for obscenity and also for allegedly insulting the modesty of a woman.AIDWA member Mani, who had given written complaint against Ram Gopal Varma, last month said, when she spoke to Ram Gopal Varma in a tv-channel interview, the film-maker asked her to act in his next porn movie. Mani further said that she had given a written complaint against Ram Gopal Varma at MVP police station in Visakhapatanam, but the Vizag police didn’t file an FIR.Last week, Telangana police had filed a . | ||
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| Goa will fight mining ban in court of law, says Minister | 21.2.2022 | All News-IANS Stories |
| The Goa government may file a review petition against the cancellation of 88 mining leases by the Supreme Court earlier this month, Public Works Department Minister Sudin Dhavalikar hinted on Wednesday. | ||
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| Women launch 71-day dharnaseeking complete Prohibition | 22.2.2022 | Hindu: Rx |
| After a week following the statement of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at Sindhanur denying complete Prohibition, hundreds of women under the banner of Madhya Nisheda Andolan launched a 71-day dharna | ||
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| Gujarat court rejects Hardik’s discharge petition in sedition case | 21.2.2022 | All News-IANS Stories |
| A court here on Wednesday rejected a petition by Patidar reservation leader Hardik Patel to discharge him in a sedition case filed by Gujarat Government. | ||
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| Pinarayi Vijayan greets Kamal | 21.2.2022 | All News-IANS Stories |
| Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday extended his greetings and wishes to actor Kamal Haasan, who launched his political party, and hoped his party would uphold the ideals of secularism, democracy and pluralism. | ||
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| Court Rejects Hardik Patel’s Discharge Plea In Sedition Case | 21.2.2022 | NDTV News - India-news |
| A court today rejected Patidar leader Hardik Patel’s discharge application in a sedition case filed against him by the Ahmedabad crime branch in connection with the violence during an agitation by his… | ||
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| Bhanubhai’s Charred Body Is Proof That Casteism Remains a Burning Issue | 21.2.2022 | The Wire |
| Bhanubhai Vankar died protesting the rampant injustice and apathy that continues against Dalits in broad daylight, re-packaged and marketed as the ‘Gujarat model.’
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| Sedition case: Court rejects Hardik’s discharge plea | 21.2.2022 | General News |
| A court here today rejected Patidar leader Hardik Patel’s discharge application in a sedition case filed against him by the Ahmedabad crime branch in connection with the violence during an agitation by his outfit in August 2015. Sessions court judge Dilip Mahida rejected Patel’s discharge application, thereby allowing framing of charges against him in the case. The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader is currently out on bail granted to him by the high court in June 2016. The court accepted the prosecution’s plea that there are material evidence against Hardik on the basis of which charges can be framed. The court said that evidence against the accused in the form of speeches, conversations and forensic evidence establish that Hardik and two others — Dinesh Bambhania and Chirag Patel — had hatched a conspiracy and used pressure and threat to force the government to accept their demands. The court also considered the deposition made by another co-accused-turned-approver, Ketan | ||
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International News Updates
Here Are The Biggest Nationwide Gun Control Protests Planned
HuffPost-10 hours ago
Here Are The Biggest Nationwide Gun Control Protests Planned. Major events are scheduled to demand action after the Florida school shooting. By Lydia O’Connor …
They were inspired by the shooting survivors. So they walked for …
In-Depth-Miami Herald-5 hours ago
In-Depth-Miami Herald-5 hours ago
‘Enough is enough’: Hundreds of students travel from Maryland to …
In-Depth-Washington Post-7 hours ago
In-Depth-Washington Post-7 hours ago
Hollywood, Beltway Send Support & Awe To Florida Student …
Deadline-8 hours ago
This week’s remarkable student protests — high school students — in Florida and other states in response to last week’s horrific mass shooting in Parkland, has already drawn the tedious and idiotic right-wing conspiracy mongering, but here’s a more encouraging response to the movement. With tonight’s CNN Town Hall …
A superintendent threatens to suspend students protesting gun laws …
Washington Post-2 hours ago
It began with a reference to the protests that have been sparked around the country after a shooting in Parkland, Fla., left 17 people dead. “Please be advised that the Needville ISD will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness!!” Rhodes wrote. “Should students choose to do …
Students report anti-gun protests at Naples High, Barron Collier …
Naples Daily News-6 hours ago
Students at Barron Collier High School, Naples High School and Immokalee High School staged walkouts Wednesday to protest gun violence. At Barron Collier, about 200 students gathered in a circle on the football field around noon, according to videos of the event and students who participated. One by one, about 15 …
Moody’s Upgrades Greek Credit Rating by 2 Notches to B3
U.S. News & World Report-7 hours ago
Earlier Wednesday, Greece’s powerful Communist Party vowed to step up protestsagainst online auctions of homes with defaulted mortgages, putting more … More than 2,000 protesters from the party’s labor union took part in a rally in central Athens against the auctions which restarted Wednesday, following months of …
Union Urges Delaware Teachers to Join Gun Protests
NBC 10 Philadelphia-10 hours ago
Delaware’s largest educators union has urged teachers and school staff to participate in three upcoming protests against gun violence. A mass shooting last week at a high school in Parkland, Florida, left 17 people dead and has sparked calls for walkouts, sit-ins and other actions on school campuses around the country.
Trump Hosts Students and Parents Affected by School Shootings …
TIME-7 hours ago
Daniel Gelillo, a senior at Richard Montgomery High who helped organize the protest, said students were hoping to pressure lawmakers to act. He said that “up ’til now nothing has quite fazed them.” On Tuesday, Trump directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid-fire bump stocks used in last year’s …
Minnesota high schoolers plan anti-gun-violence protests
MinnPost-18 hours ago
Walkouts are planned for March and April, amid hopes, too, for a strong state presence at a ‘March For Our Lives’ protest in Washington, D.C., on March 24. … In Minneapolis, students are planning to walk out of their high schools on Wednesday afternoon, according to several social media reports.” KMSP-TV says, “The …
Hundreds of Missoula students walk out of class to protest gun …
International-The Missoulian-7 hours ago
International-The Missoulian-7 hours ago
When real-life protest imitates art – from Three Billboards to Father Ted
The Guardian-13 hours ago
Three billboards outside the Houses of Parliament (and other London locations) last week read: “71 dead”, “And still no arrests?”, “How come?” The 71 are the Grenfell fire victims and the group behind the boards was Justice 4 Grenfell. This week, following the shootings at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, three …
What the Gonabadi Dervish protests tell us about Iran’s protest scene
Critical Threats Project-5 hours ago
A Sufi Muslim minority group’s violent protest in Tehran may result in the reignition of protests in Iran, although it has not yet done so. The addition of socially marginalized religious minorities to Iran’s new protest scene will further increase pressure on government officials to address the political and economic grievances …
Schools and adults: Embrace these student protests
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-46 minutes ago
In response to the senseless tragedy in Parkland, Fla., news outlets are reporting a number of student-led protests throughout the country as well as here in Pittsburgh. My students at Pittsburgh Allderdice High School approached me to ask for advice about participating in the walkouts Wednesday as well as in the National …
Protests against EI ‘black holes’ expand to Richibucto
CBC.ca-9 hours ago
About 200 protesters showed up outside the Service Canada office in Richibucto on Wednesday in the latest protest against Employment Insurance “black holes.” Similar protests have been held in Tracadie and Caraquet. EI black holes refer to the gap between the time benefits run out and the start of regular seasonal work …
Argentine truckers block capital streets to protest Macri reforms
Reuters-9 hours ago
Hugo Moyano, head of the Truckers’ union, addresses a rally to protest labour reforms, in Buenos Aires, Argentina February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Martin Acosta. Macri aims to cut the primary fiscal deficit to 3.2 percent of gross domestic product this year from 3.9 percent in 2017. If he presses on with his economic overhaul, …
Yahoo Singapore News
Protests by teachers, health workers spread in Algeria
Reuters-14 hours ago
These protests are much smaller than the unrest Algeria saw during the “Arab spring” of 2011. As Tunisia and Egypt’s leaders were toppled, Algerian security forces contained those demonstrations. The government was able to further calm tensions by increasing spending as oil and gas revenues, the country’s lifeline, …
Alameda students walk out of classes to protest gun violence
East Bay Times-9 hours ago
Alameda High School students protesting gun violence and mass shootings gather at the corner of Encinal Avenue and Walnut Street, across the street from Alameda High, after a student walkout Wednesday morning, one week after a 19-year-old former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, …
Hundreds of Rochester students walk out to protest gun violence
International-Post-Bulletin-8 hours ago
International-Post-Bulletin-8 hours ago
Tampa Bay area students planning walkouts to protest gun violence
WFLA-12 hours ago
Others plan to walkout at some point today to protest gun violence. The walkouts come one week after police say 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire at his former school in Parkland, killing 17 people. Students at multiple schools in the Tampa Bay area are panning protests today including Pinellas Park High School, East …
Students at Kalamazoo schools hold protests against gun violence …
WWMT-TV-11 hours ago
We spoke to parents of some of the students, who said they are so proud of their kids for exercising their right to peacefully protest and they hope the county and our community listens to what the students have to say. “I think it’s a testament to their ability to organize and do things on their own and I think it’s also a statement …
The Hill
Sheriff Clarke: Are the Student Gun-control Protests George Soros …
The New American-9 hours ago
The Parkland massacre hasn’t faded from the news as previous school shootings had. This is mainly due to surviving students’ gun-control activism, but is this movement itself merely a result of manipulation by unseen, well-funded professional agitators? Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. certainly suspects …
Local students join nationwide protests against school violence
The Columbus Dispatch-7 hours ago
Hundreds of Upper Arlington High School students stood outside for 17 minutes Wednesday to honor the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a week earlier. [Jonathan Quilter/Dispatch]. Hide caption. Freshmen Anna Hahn, 15, left, and Adiah Bonham, 15, stand in silence during …
Local group and students travel to Capitol, take part in Atlanta protests
WSAV-TV-1 hour ago
SAVANNAH, Ga., (WSAV) — Local high school students took part in protestshappening in Atlanta on Wednesday. They traveled to the capitol with an advocacy group to fight for gun reform. Although these students weren’t inside Stoneman Douglas High School that day they tell News 3 the fear of something like that …
Protests and Progress: Nixon visit put Knoxville on national stage
Knoxville News Sentinel-14 hours ago
The largest anti-war protest in Knoxville’s history that night of May 28, 1970, led to nearly 50 arrests and to a free-speech case almost heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. The night also offered a taste of the bitterness and division that would mark the News-Sentinel’s ninth decade, from the uneasy end of an unpopular war to a …
Student protests raise difficult questions for America’s pro-gun lobby
The Australian-6 hours ago
In an extraordinary sight today, students from around the nation walked out of school to protest against the gun laws. The generation raised on social media used it to gather people at short notice to hold a series of protests from Minnesota to Arizona that dominated the national news. President Donald Trump has been …
Student Activists Stump for Gun Control During Nationwide Protests
International-Newsweek-9 hours ago
International-Newsweek-9 hours ago
Minneapolis high school students walk out for gun control
KMSP-TV-12 hours ago
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - High school students in Minneapolis are walking out Wednesday afternoon to protest gun violence following the mass shooting at a Florida high school last week. Since the shooting that left 17 people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students across the nation have been staging …
KT Press
Update: Rwandan police to investigate protests at Congo refugee …
Xinhua-8 hours ago
KIGALI, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — The Rwandan police will start investigations into the causes of Tuesday’s protests at Kiziba Refugee Camp in Karongi District in western Rwanda, which houses thousands of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) refugees, said the Rwandan government on Wednesday. Several …
Student rally at City Hall started with an Instagram post just days ago
The Bellingham Herald-9 hours ago
Already, nationwide protests have been set for March 14, March 24 and April 20, which marks 19 years since the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado that sparked the modern surge of school shootings. “Every revolution started like this,” said Noah Lovell, a Squalicum junior, as he helped make protest signs …
Tunisian Security Forces Target Journalists Covering Anti-Austerity …
Global Voices Online-7 hours ago
The Tunisian government’s overzealous security response to recent anti-austerity protests has put press freedom in jeopardy. Throughout January, protesters across the country took to the streets to demonstrate against tax increases that are raising the prices on a wide range of goods and services, including phone and …
Ethiopia’s Gondar continues shutdown to protest emergency rule
africanews-17 hours ago
Amhara region along with Oromia were the main centers of spreading anti-government protests that led to the imposition of the last state of emergency in October 2016. It was lifted in August 2017 and followed by a series of security headaches. Addis Ababa said the latest state of emergency is aimed at curbing rising …
The Latest: NRA protests minimum age hike for rifles
New York Daily News-7 hours ago
Julia Cordover, the student body president at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., speaks as President Donald Trump hosts a listening session with high school students and teachers in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster).
Boca Raton students march to city hall to protest gun violence
WPEC-8 hours ago
Meanwhile at city hall, students are inspiring each other to keep the Never Again movement alive until lawmakers listen. “Maybe we ourselves won’t be able to change the legislation, but our actions, our protests will inspire someone else, somewhere else,” Vardanyan said. It’s important to note some of the schools told their …
MSNBC Dubs Student Anti-Gun Protests a ‘Civil Rights Campaign’
NewsBusters (press release) (blog)-8 hours ago
As members of the news media, the anchors at MSNBC would have you believe that they are but dispassionate observers in all things political. Whether or not they themselves believe this self-styled characterization, their coverage of the anti-gun student protests in Florida has been especially replete with just such …
