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VIDEO: Malaysian Immigration Police Raid Apartments during COVID-19, arrest 200

Malaysian immigration authorities raided apartment buildings in Petaling Jaya Old Town on Wednesday morning, arresting about 200 people who had emigrated to the southeast Asian country. Video by Samsul Said/Zenger Malaysian Immigration Department director-general Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud speaks to the media after arresting 200 alleged illegal immigrants in Petaling Jaya Old town, Malaysia on […]

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Algeria cracks down on media

BOUIRA, Algeria—Anti-censorship groups have criticized Algeria’s government for launching an assault on the media with a wave of arrests, detention of journalists and the blocking of several popular news websites. The Committee to Protect Journalists, a U.S.-based media watchdog, has urged authorities in the North African country to lift a block on three news outlets that […]

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Nearly 200 killed and injured in Afghanistan’s deadliest day of 2020

Mourners at a funeral and babies at a maternity ward were among the nearly 200 killed and injured Tuesday in militant attacks in Afghanistan. Officials said militants attacked a 100-bed maternity hospital in the Dasht Barchi area of western Kabul, killing 24 people, including women and children, and injuring dozens. Humanitarian organization Doctors without Borders […]

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Mayor’s Race Heats Up in Final Stretch

By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com During a mayoral debate broadcast live on Facebook, May 11, six mayoral candidates, former Mayor Sheila Dixon, former Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith, former Obama administration official Mary Miller, Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young, former State Prosecutor Thiru Vignarajah and Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott, grappled over some […]

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More than 100 killed and injured in Afghanistan’s deadliest day of 2020

Mourners at a funeral and babies at a maternity ward were among the 133 killed and injured Tuesday in militant attacks in Afghanistan. Officials said militants attacked a 100-bed maternity hospital in the Dasht Barchi area of western Kabul, killing 16 people, including women and children, and injuring 20 others injured. Humanitarian organization Doctors without […]

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Face Coverings Recommended in COVID-19 Fight, But Trump Says He Won’t Wear One

By Eric Tucker, Zeke Miller and Mike Schneider The Associated Press President Donald Trump announced new federal guidelines April 3 recommending that Americans wear face coverings when in public to help fight the spread of the new coronavirus. The president immediately said he had no intention of following the advice himself, saying, “I’m choosing not […]

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