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Associated Press Sardine cut-outs were held overhead in a flash-mob-style protest in mid-November at Piazza Maggiore in Bologna. VERONA, Italy — Thousands of people packed a central square of this city late last month in the latest rally by self-styled “sardines,” a grass-roots protest movement that is targeting Italy’s rising far-right politician, Matteo Salvini. The […]
Swami Nithyananda is one of many self-styled Indian ‘godmen’ with thousands of followers and a chequered past (AFP Photo/Manjunath Kiran) Indian border officials and embassies have issued an alert for a fugitive guru accused of rape, the government said, days after the holy man announced the creation of his own “cosmic” country. Swami Nithyananda — […]
From left, Michael Fisher, Tommy Fisher, Sen. Kevin Cramer and Rep. Kelly Armstrong outside Fisher Industries in Dickinson, N.D. (Photo: Twitter/@Armstrong_ND A federal judge in McAllen, Texas, has temporarily blocked a plan for a construction firm favored by President Trump to build a privately-funded segment of border wall along the banks of the Rio Grande […]
Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said that white supremacist Dylann Roof “hijacked” the Confederate flag by carrying out a mass killing of African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015. Haley was governor of South Carolina at the time. “Here is this guy who comes out with this manifesto, holding […]