Merzouk’s killing blew the lid off years of simmering resentment because of the police treatment of black and Arab youth, the ghettoization of immigrants and their descendants and the general hopelessness among black and Arab youth who feel like second-class citizens in France.
What did four Shreveport neighborhoods with plunging crime rates have in common? They had Friendship Houses, opened and operated by Community Renewal International.
Mexico’s military has been one of the most prolific users of Pegasus spyware since 2011, having “targeted more cell phones with spyware than any other government agency in the world.”
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, alleged the FBI suggested that “certain kinds of Catholic Americans may be domestic terrorists.”
The death of the suspect, José Noriel Portillo Gil, “in no way can be considered a triumph for justice, or a solution to the structural problem of violence,” the Jesuit province in Mexico said in a statement.
Extremist and criminal violence is on the rise across Northern Africa from Somalia to Nigeria as local security forces face off against gangs and insurgencies they are often ill-equipped to contain.