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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man was arrested and several others were being sought in connection with an attack on a Jewish man in New York’s Times Square that drew the attention of several politicians and is being investigated as a hate crime, police said on Friday.
FILE PHOTO: New York Police Department officers stand outside of a midtown Manhattan office building in New York November 3, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER)
The attack on Thursday, captured in a video that was shared on social media, followed rival pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations in midtown Manhattan over the fighting in Gaza, which ended in a ceasefire hours later. The demonstrations resulted in 26 arrests.
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YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenia said on Saturday it would use “all necessary means” to protect ethnic Armenians from attack by Azerbaijan, which said its forces had captured a string of villages in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
A shop is seen on fire following recent shelling during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Stepanakert October 3, 2020. Gor Kroyan/REUTERS
Ignoring a French attempt to mediate, the opposing sides pounded each other with rockets and missiles for a seventh day in the newest flare-up of a decades-old conflict that threatens to draw in Russia and Turkey.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Fifteen Mexican soldiers were detained for hours by angry villagers at a remote stretch of Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala after a soldier shot dead a Guatemalan migrant, Mexico’s defense ministry said on Tuesday.
Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said a soldier on Monday afternoon had opened fire on a car that fled in reverse to avoid a military checkpoint in the Motozintla municipality of the state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border.
The shots killed a man described by the Chiapas Attorney General’s office as a 30-year-old migrant from Guatemala. Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry identified him as Elvin Mazariegos.
Bosnia's top court on Friday indicted eight Serb ex-soldiers for crimes against humanity over their alleged role in the murder of at least 78 Bosnian Muslim civilians early in the Bosnian war of the 1990s.
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BEIJING/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The top political leader of Tibet’s government in exile said on Friday that there is an urgent threat of “cultural genocide” in Tibet, and the international community must stand up to China ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
FILE PHOTO: Tibet s exiled Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Penpa Tsering (in grey), speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile and Samdhong Rinpoche (R), Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, observe a minute s silence during a ceremony in the northern Indian hilltown of Dharamsala March 10, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer
Penpa Tsering, who was this month elected president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), told Reuters that they are committed to a peaceful resolution with China, but Beijing’s current policies threaten the future of Tibetan culture.