Trend Tablet. Patternity. Fall Winter 16 17 Lookbook. Baltimore photographer Devin Allen makes Time's list of year's best magazine covers. The May 11 cover of Time magazine, featuring Baltimore photographer Devin Allen’s stark image from the May unrest of an African-American man running in front of a phalanx of armed police officers, has been chosen as one of the 10 top magazine covers for the year by the editors of Time.
“When it come to photojournalism, we chose 27-year-old Devin Allen’s dramatic picture from the Baltimore protests,” Kira Pollack, the magazine’s director of photography and visual enterprise, wrote in an introduction to the selections. Meet the Amateur Photographer Covering Baltimore’s Protests. Company Info. Instagram: active users 2016. UK sends more troops to Iraq to fight ISIS with more than 1,000 now in region. Dozens more British troops are being sent to Iraq to help a massive push to drive out Islamic State, boosting the UK’s force in the region to more than 1,000.
It is the most UK military personnel fighting ISIS in the Middle East since our withdrawal from Iraq nearly seven years ago and signals an escalation in the fight against terror in Iraq. In addition as many as 200 British special forces troops, including the SAS, Special Boat Service and Special Reconnaissamce Regiment, are actually fighting ISIS on the ground in Iraq and neighboring Syria. For months British forces have been preparing Iraqi soldiers for a Spring offensive against ISIS, hoping to drive them out of key cities Fallujah and Mosul. Our RAF pilots flying strike missions against ISIS across Iraq and Syria have killed scores of ISIS gunmen and destroyed many terrorist facilities.
French politicians tell Britain 'take back your borders' after EU vote. Current population of Syria. Syria Population clock Source : United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Population Division Population of Syria 2015.
Wars in the World » List of ongoing Conflicts. Cleveland prepares for GOP convention unrest. WASHINGTON — Cleveland is preparing to host the Republican National Convention during one of the most tumultuous presidential elections in decades, amid concerns from its police union that the city is not moving fast enough to secure riot gear, train personnel, and ensure there will be enough officers on the streets.
Tensions are escalating as Donald Trump, the leading GOP candidate, warns of “riots” if he is denied the nomination at the July convention. Some city officials and law enforcement officers are accusing Trump of fueling discontent and inciting violence with his rhetoric. Advertisement Cleveland officials and the Secret Service, without elaborating on security details, insist they will be prepared in time. The city is scrambling to build and equip a security force that police specialists said could number 4,000 to 5,000 officers, roughly the standard for US presidential nominating conventions. Get Political Happy Hour in your inbox: #NotMyPresident protest turns into riot in Portland. Anti-Trump protest becomes a 'riot' in Portland, Oregon. Brexit: World reaction as UK votes to leave EU. International reaction has been coming in following the UK vote to leave the European Union.
Joint statement by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk, European Parliament President Martin Schulz, and Dutch PM Mark Rutte. Britain’s EU membership: New insight from economic history. Prime Minister Cameron is determined to change the relationship between the UK and the EU.
If the Conservative party wins the May 2015 general election, he promised he will renegotiate membership terms and offer an ‘in or out’ referendum by the end of 2017 (Copsey and Naughton 2014). Anti-Trump protests, some violent, erupt for 3rd night nationwide. Portland, Oregon police fired rubber baton rounds into a small crowd of remaining protesters that refused to disperse after an anti-Donald Trump demonstration.
Some people were arrested. (Nov. 11) AP For the third night in a row, anti-Donald Trump demonstrators took to the streets in several big cities and on college campuses across the United States, including an outburst of smashed windows and a dumpster fire in Portland that police countered with pepper spray and flash-bang devices.
About 4,000 protesters assembled downtown late Thursday chanting “we reject the president-elect!” The Associated Press reported. Hate crime? Terrorism? Mass shooting? How the increasingly blurred lines lead to a blurry response. Lucinda Rex, right, and Clarity Thorne embrace during a candlelight vigil downtown for the victims of a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub Monday, June 13, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.
A gunman has killed dozens of people in a massacre at a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (AP Photo/David Goldman) In the days after Dylann Roof entered a historic black Charleston church and shot and killed nine people came the realization that we had just seen a combination of two terrible American phenomena -- a mass shooting and a race-related hate crime. But it took several days for that reality to set in. Hate crime? Terrorism? Mass shooting? How the increasingly blurred lines lead to a blurry response. Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump in popular vote passes 2.5 million.
Hillary Clinton has received more than 2.5 million more votes than Donald Trump in the Presidential election, making her lead over her rival greater than 10 previous US Presidents.
The former Secretary of State lost the electoral college and conceded her 232 electoral votes – distributed in different numbers per state – to Mr Trump’s final tally of 306 votes. Yet the Democrat has accrued 65,250,000 total votes so far, compared to the President-elect’s 62,686,000 — meaning at least 2,564,000 more Americans voted for her. The Democrat's lead has been swelling thanks to late counting of mail in and absentee votes in states including California, New York and Washington. Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump in popular vote passes 2.5 million. Donald Trump will be the only US president ever with no political or military experience. EU fight against terrorism. In the strategic guidelines for justice and home affairs, adopted in June 2014, the European Council called for an effective counter-terrorism policy, which integrates the internal and external aspects.
On 12 February 2015, the EU heads of state and government stressed the importance for the EU of engaging more with third countries on security issues and counter-terrorism. In the relations between the EU and third countries, the counter-terrorism agenda is present in many ways, through high level political dialogues, the adoption of cooperation clauses and agreements, or specific assistance and capacity building projects with strategic countries.
The EU cooperates on counter-terrorism with countries in the Western Balkans, the Sahel, North Africa, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa and North America, as well as in Asia. Why Can’t We Deport Illegal Immigrants? It Would Actually Cost LESS to Deport all Illegals than Letting them Illegally Stay! – Liberty News. Donald Trump’s solid new immigration plan is putting the topic of the illegal invasion and wide open borders front and center in the headlines. EU immigration hits historic high, but post-Brexit policy clues lie in the detail. The latest official figures showing that immigration from the European Union rose to a historic high in the run-up to the Brexit vote will not make comfortable reading in Downing Street. But Theresa May’s policy advisers will be less interested in the confirmation that Britain remains, as it has been for the past 20 years, a country of mass migration and more interested in any detail that might help them frame the future post-Brexit migration policy.
The numbers that will really capture their interest will be those showing the record rise in the number of EU citizens arriving in Britain looking for work without a definite job offer and the numbers on overseas students. The figures show that 189,000 EU citizens arrived in Britain looking for work in the 12 months to June and 57% of them had a definite job offer. The remaining 43%, or 82,000, came looking for work – a rise of 21,000 over the previous year. Most find a job within weeks and are barred from access to welfare benefits. IS group to step up attacks on Europe - Europol. ART REPRESENT - IMRANOVI. UAE-based artist Imranovi was born and raised in Damascus, though fled his country following the outbreak of conflict to avoid conscription into Bashar Al Assad's army. It was while studying English Literature at University in Syria that he found his passion for graphics and software: a talent he soon began to refine and develop.
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A necessary part of this involves a massive information campaign to expose the crimes of the police state and promote freedom-based alternatives. We are part of that information campaign. This website seeks to cover all aspects of the police state. Police State USA does not promote the idea that all police officers are evil. 19 jokes only those heartbroken by Brexit will understand. 14 Times Russell Howard Nailed It. Kos crisis: The story behind the photograph of a Syrian father shared by thousands online - Europe. BBC Arts - BBC Arts - The Modern Face of Syria: Imranovi's art of war.
Campaigns — Lowy + Lacar. How UK politics, trade and security could be affected by Trump. The UK has long claimed, or liked to think, it enjoys a special relationship with the United States. But the election of Donald Trump, a man from outside the traditional political establishment, is likely to herald a shakeup in Anglo-American policymaking. How UK politics, trade and security could be affected by Trump. Benjamin Lowy: The photographer documenting war with a cell phone. PERSPECTIVES: Benjamin Lowy. Dressed to kill: How the military invaded our closets. BBC Two - Newsnight, EU Special: What Would Brexit Mean For Immigration?
London Design Festival: Will timber define our age? Britain's future will be defined by two starkly opposite figures: Nigel Farage and Tim Farron. Protest Art: After Ferguson, Artists Respond to the Movement. In one art piece, a black statue face down on the wood surrounded by yellow police tape and four orange traffic cones. In another, a painting of a white and black hand clasped together covering up a smashed window behind it. Anti-Trump protests: Portland police call it 'riot' An anti-Trump rally in Portland, Oregon, revved up as protesters confronted police Thursday night. French terror suspects 'were planning attack on Paris' French terror suspects 'were planning attack on Paris' Suicide truck bomber kills scores of Shia pilgrims in Iraq. Dozens of people, many of them Iranian Shia pilgrims, have been killed by a suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State near the Iraqi city of Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad, in the deadliest single attack on Iranian nationals by the Sunni jihadi group.
Jill Stein hopes to request election recounts in battleground states. Jill Stein, the Green party’s presidential candidate, is preparing to request recounts of the election result in several key battleground states. Recount Splash - Jill Stein 2016. The Stein/Baraka Green Party Campaign is launching an effort to ensure the integrity of our elections.