67 h. ago Immigration agents conducting sweep on NYC's famed Canal Street confronted by protesters

An immigration enforcement sweep targeting vendors on New York City’s famed Canal Street turned chaotic Tuesday afternoon, as bystanders and protesters confronted federal agents and tried to block their path

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4 d. ago Two dead after plane runs off runway and ploughs into ground

The incident took place at around 4am local time ,with the Emirates flight EK9788 reported to have struck a ground vehicle in the process.

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1 week ago Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid

Witnesses call arrest of video editor Debbie Brockman, a US citizen, by masked federal agents, ‘absolutely horrifying’A video editor and producer for Chicago’s WGN television station was arrested by masked federal agents on Friday morning during an Ice raid in the city’s North Side, as shown in videos shared widely on social media.Videos show Debbie Brockman being violently forced to the ground by two agents before she is handcuffed and put in a van. A local resident filming the incident asks her name while she is face-down on the street being handcuffed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid, later released

Witnesses call arrest of video editor Debbie Brockman, a US citizen, by masked federal agents, ‘absolutely horrifying’A video editor and producer for Chicago’s WGN television station was arrested by masked federal agents on Friday morning, and later released, during an Ice raid on the city’s North Side, as shown in videos shared widely on social media.Videos show Debbie Brockman being violently forced to the ground by two agents before she is handcuffed and put in a van. A local resident filming the incident asks her name while she is face-down on the street being handcuffed. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago How Arsenal are taking the fight to Chelsea and Man City in aggressive youth academy drive

Special report: Arsenal making ground in raging battle with Premier League rivals for best young talent as Per Mertesacker plan starts to take shape

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3 w. ago ‘We’re all in this together’: New York cathedral pays tribute to immigrants with new mural

At St Patrick’s Cathedral, the largest permanent artwork commisioned in its 146-year history is a plea for acceptance and community at a difficult timeIn the neo-gothic splendor of New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral, a throng of today’s immigrants – mostly Latino, Asian, and Black – pause on a hillside slope with their humble sacks and bags. A man in a T-shirt cradles an infant, a kid in sneakers sits glumly in the foreground. Overhead in the towering clouds, the Lamb of God stands on a white altar amid the clustering gleam of golden pendulous stripes evoking the presence of God.The scene, humane and magnificent, is a part of what is perhaps the most significant new piece of public art in today’s riven America. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago My travels through Chicago: tear gas, resistance and Trump’s big immigration crackdown

Donald Trump recently launched ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ in the city and threatened to send in the National Guard. The mood is febrile, with fears things could get worseAt 5am on a warm September morning a small crowd of protesters assembles in the dark. They are gathering outside the Broadview immigration processing centre, a two-storey brick structure in the Chicago suburbs that has the ambience of a US outpost in a foreign war. Windows are boarded with plywood. Fences are lined with razor wire and black cloth. Masked Ice agents appear sporadically, dressed in military fatigues – tactical helmets, flak jackets and rifles.The protesters begin to heckle each time an agent turns up for work or leaves through a chainlink gate. “Quit your job!” they chant. “Take off your mask!” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Photojournalist hospitalized after masked ICE agents throw reporters to the ground in New York immigration courthouse

Officials want answers after series of violent incidents in Manhattan federal building: ‘What the hell are we doing here?’

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4 w. ago Ice officer ‘relieved of duties’ after video shows him manhandling woman at New York immigration court

Monica Moreta-Galarza was pleading with officer to release her detained husband when he pushed her to the groundA federal officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has been “relieved of his duties” after a video showing him pushing a woman to the floor at an immigration court in New York City spread quickly on social media.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, said that the officer’s actions were “unacceptable and beneath the men and women of Ice”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Escaping Gaza City, while reporting on its destruction – podcast

Malak A Tantesh on fleeing the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza and becoming a reporter in the most dangerous place on Earth for journalistsMalak A Tantesh is a journalist in Gaza. On 16 September, the day Israel began its full-scale ground offensive Gaza City, she was among those trying to flee the city. As she hurriedly packed up for her 11th displacement in the last 18 months, she recorded voice notes. “We all say that we don’t want to leave, but we deeply know that we have no other choice,” she says.She tells Lucy Hough what it has been like to be displaced so many times while trying to report on the events around her, all at just 20 years old. When Israel’s blockade of the strip led to hunger and famine, it became hard to work: “I was covering stories about hunger and famine, and I was myself hungry. I was feeling that I am about to collapse. We were eating one meal a day.” Continue reading...

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