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Netanyahu Greeted With Protests On First Visit To Argentina

More protests are expected throughout the prime minister’s 10-day Latin American tour.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, walks with Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie, right, inside the Argentine Foreign Minister Palace San Martin, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Netanyahu is on a two-day official visit to Argentina. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Adolfo Perez Esquivel, human rights activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has criticized an official state visit to Argentina by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Perez Esquivel argued that Israel's head of state is “accused of having committed crimes against humanity in the International Penal Court for killing civilians,

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Australia Ordered To Pay Refugees In Historic Settlement

The case is the largest human rights class action settlement in Australia’s history

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A group of asylum seekers who were en route to Australia hold up their identity after landing in Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. (Eoin Blackwell/AAP Image, via AP, File)

Australia's Victoria Supreme Court has ordered the Australian government to compensate hundreds of asylum seekers for illegally detaining them in squalid conditions and systematically subjecting them to inhuman treatment on the remote island of Nauru. The final class action settlement, reached in a lawsuit brought by Slater and Gordon law firm,

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Trump Chokes On DACA, Passing The Buck To Congress

The decision to phase out protections from deportation for 800,000 young adults over 6 months even fails to satisfy Trump’s shrinking hardline base.

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A supporter of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, waves a flag during a rally outside the White House, in Washington, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. A plan President Donald Trump is expected to announce Tuesday for young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children was embraced by some top Republicans on Monday and denounced by others as the beginning of a "civil war" within the party. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

UPDATE | After speculation, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made it official: DACA will be rescinded: U.S. President Donald Trump will let the ax fall on the program that shielded young undocumented immigrants from deportation but will give Congress six months to craft legislation to replace it. The move to formally scrap the program will be

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Venezuela Will Increase ‘Anti-Imperialist Defense’ Against Threats from the US: Maduro

Venezuela, he said, has never had militaristic or interventionist intentions unlike the “imperialist powers” that “use a world map in their meetings to plan the use of force against nations posessing vital resources.”

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro holds the country's national flag during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, July 27, 2017. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)

On Thursday Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro highlited the necessity of preparing against a possible military action toward Venezuela in order to defend the country's sovereignty, speaking as Latin American military leaders meet with U.S. Southern Command in Lima, Peru, following threats of a “military option” to be considered against Venezuela

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Hezbollah and Syrian Army Liberate Large Islamic State Group Enclave: Nasrallah

Hezbollah has been one of the most effective forces fighting Islamic State forces along the Syrian border, in collaboration with the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad. Earlier this month, a Hezbollah offensive drove out numerous al-Nusra Front militants from a border region of Lebanon.

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A joint offensive between Shia resistance movement Hezbollah and the Syrian army has liberated the majority of a significant enclave controlled by the so-called Islamic State group, the Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced in a televised speech on Thursday. According to Nasrallah, since the offensive began last week to clear out

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Fearing Counter-Protests, Anti-Muslim Group Cancels 67 Rallies

ACT America’s leader Brigitte Gabriel is known to have issued statements denouncing Islam and stating devout Muslims cannot be “loyal Americans.»

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Counter-protestors stand behind a line of Seattle Police officers across the street from an anti-Islamic law protest rally, June 10, 2017, in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

Citing the 40,000-strong anti-fascist protest in Boston Saturday, the largest anti-Muslim group in the U.S. has canceled nearly 67 "America First" rallies in 36 states. ACT for America, who claims to "prioritize real protection over political correctness," had planned nationwide rallies on Sept. 9 to support President Donald Trump's "Common

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UN Condemns US Airstrikes In Syria Over Heavy Civilian Death Toll

According to reports from Syrian local media, at least 78 civilians have died in the past day in Raqqa city during U.S:-coalition led airstrike assaults

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Black smoke rises from Raqqa where U.S.-forces are battling ISIS militants, in, northeast Syria, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla)

As reports mount of heavy civilian deaths at the hands of the United States coalition in Raqqa, the United Nations has expressed “deep concern” over the reports and has said that they condemn any attack directed against civilians or civilian infrastructure. “In recent days and weeks scores of civilians have reportedly been killed and injured in

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