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A demonstrator runs on the third night of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, France, Friday, June 30, 2023. Widespread riots in France sparked by the police killing of a teenager with North African roots have revealed the depth of discontent roiling poor neighborhoods — and given a new platform to the increasingly emboldened far right. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Clotilde Bigot
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.
Laura Linney and Maggie Smith prepare to board a bus in a scene from the film ‘The Miracle Club’
Arts & CultureFilm
Ryan Di Corpo
In ‘The Miracle Club,’ Thaddeus O’Sullivan is unafraid to explore more serious topics, such as abortion and suicide, and to reckon with the lingering effects of communal grief.
Migrants from Eritrea, Libya and Sudan sail a wooden boat before being assisted by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, in the Mediterranean sea, about 30 miles north of Libya, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
A policy of deterrence through intentional neglect has not had an impact on migration, but it has resulted in far more losses among migrants and refugees.
pope francis sits and talks to archbishop georg gaenswein the former secretary to benedict xvi
FaithNews
Simon Kajan — KNA
Speculation surrounding the return to Germany of Georg Gänswein is continuing unabated, not least because his status remains unclear now that he has been sent away from the Vatican.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
How the international media covers the migration tragedy unfolding in the Atlantic in comparison to coverage of the Titan tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea seems a valid question to probe.
Kassem Abo Zeed holds up a phone displaying a photo of himself with his wife, Ezra, who is missing after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off southern Greece, in the southern port city of Kalamata on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Abo Zeed traveled from Hamburg, Germany to try and find his wife and her missing brother, Abdullah Aoun. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
At the end of 2022, according to the United Nations, more than 108 million people worldwide “were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order.” The figure represents an increase of almost 20 million people over 2021.