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After a long battle, women will have the right to abortion for therapeutic reasons. Chile鈥檚 Constitutional Court announced a bill allowing abortion in such circumstances had been approved on August 21, despite pressure from conservative right-wing forces.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has slammed the major damage caused to Venezuela over recent months of opposition violence, comparing the right-wing protesters to the white supremacists in the United States who organised violent and deadly protests 聽in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12.
Speaking at a media conference on August 22, Maduro deplored how 鈥渇ascist groups鈥 attacked people based on their observable ethnic characteristics 鈥 in the United States and Venezuela.
A rally聽gathered in front of the NFL鈥檚 Park Avenue Headquarters in New York on August 23. A聽host of聽聽protested the exile-status聽of free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick 鈥 the star quarterback formerly of the San Francisco 49ers who caused waves by taking to his knee during the US national anthem as an anti-racist protest.
Donald Trump鈥檚 immigration policies 鈥 and the marching orders he has given to Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) 鈥 are destroying lives. When this hits home, it gets very real, very quickly.
It is a reality that recently smacked the members of the elite Bethesda Soccer Club right between the eyes: Their teammate and friend Lizandro Claros Saravia was detained by ICE, along with his older brother Diego. Both were then deported.
Leafing through my August 1 copy of 91自拍论坛 Weekly, I thought I spotted an egregious typo. Surely, Barry Sheppard鈥檚 dispatch from San Francisco, 鈥Bernie Sanders鈥 Democratic Party strategy fatally flawed鈥 in issue 1148 had had an apostrophe inserted in the headline where there should have been a colon.
Workers employed in the Corporate and Technical Division of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) will vote on a new enterprise agreement during the two weeks beginning on August 31. The Corporate and Technical Division includes non-firefighting employees of the MFB, such as payroll and finance staff and computer technicians.
In an August 9 speech to parliament, Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson once again backed the right-wing campaign against Venezuela鈥檚 democracy and national sovereignty.
His statements follow a June 21 speech to the Senate, where he spoke out against what he claimed was an 鈥渋ncreasingly anti-democratic and corrupted government under President Nicolas Maduro鈥, while praising the 鈥渄emocratic and peaceful鈥 protests led by Venezuela鈥檚 right-wing opposition.
An air strike by the US-backed Saudi-led coalition on a hotel near the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed dozens of people on August 23, multiple news agencies have reported. It came as a humanitarian crisis extended its grip on the impoverished nation.
Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Phoenix, Arizona when US President Donald Trump held a campaign rally on August 22, the first since his administration was engulfed by mass outrage following his remarks about the white supremacist riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, that included a far-right terrorist attack that left one peaceful protester dead.
United States President Donald Trump announced that the US would continue the ongoing war in Afghanistan, which is already the longest war in US history, Democracy Now! on August 22.
The Pentagon is likely to deploy about 4000 more US troops to Afghanistan in the coming months. In recent months, the US has intensified its air war in Afghanistan. During June, the US carried out 389 airstrikes in Afghanistan 鈥 the highest monthly total in five years.
Catalonia鈥檚 regional government has declared it will hold a referendum on October 1 over whether it should become independent from Spain. In response, Spain鈥檚 conservative People鈥檚 Party (PP) Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has vowed that the 鈥渦nconstitutional鈥 referendum will not take place, setting the scene for the biggest crisis in the Spanish state since the 1978 transition from the Franco dictatorship.
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