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[Link] World’s Worst People Keep Assaulting and Harassing Flight Attendants

Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com

The passenger started drinking their own alcohol, which is against federal law, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. When a flight attendant told the passenger to stop, that passenger sexually assaulted the attendant.

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[Link] The young loyalist who dared contemplate the idea of a ‘new’, united, Ireland

Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

He was the teenage supermarket worker who shocked MPs examining loyalist anger in Northern Ireland by claiming that sometimes violence “was the only tool you have left”. Joel Keys left the committee chair, Tory MP Simon Hoare, “chilled and appalled” and he faced a media backlash.

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[Link] Father of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killer: ‘I Would Have Shot Him Myself’

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

Had Travis McMichael not shot Ahmaud Arbery in the chest twice with his shotgun and killed the 25-year-old Black man, Travis’ dad Gregory McMichael said he would have done it instead.

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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Dad Walked Out When Jury Was Shown Images of His Dead Son

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

The first time photos of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal injuries were shown during the trial of the three white men accused of killing him, his father Marcus Arbery Sr. stood up and left the courtroom. “If you seen your kid get blown apart with a 12-gauge shotgun, what would you do?” Arbery Sr.

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[Link] All sides in Ethiopian war committed crimes against civilians, UN report finds

Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au

The report covers most of the year-long conflict, fought by Tigrayan forces against the Ethiopian military and its key allies: forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region and soldiers from the neighbouring nation of Eritrea.

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