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Atomwaffen Division is a militant neo-Nazi group in the U.S. Who is behind it?
It's like a different world. The fenced-in apartment complex in the heart of Denver is located just a short walk from glitzy boutiques and high-end restaurants, but there is no sign of prosperity here. Homeless people are camped nearby while addicts smoke crack in the parking lot.
People are socializing in front of the building's entrance despite the midday heat. A black man is pacing the fence trying to get someone's attention while two younger men are carrying furniture into a neighboring building. It's a convivial neighborhood and everyone seems to know everyone else. Everyone, that is, except the older, gray-haired man who walks up to the door with a shopping bag full of vegetables at around 4 p.m. He doesn't even look at his neighbors before disappearing into the complex without greeting any of them.
But once you've seen the photos from the inside of his apartment, it immediately becomes clear why the 66-year-old seeks to limit his contact with the outside world. And it becomes even more clear when you look into his past.
‘Only bones remain’: shattered Yazidis fear returning home
Last week the BBC’s Lyse Doucet broadcast the fate of a community at Isis’s hands. She recounts the stories she heard
Agenerator sputters into life and men in farmers’ trousers spray water on muddy tractors as the sun slips from a late summer sky. On this most ordinary of village days in a northern corner of Iraq, 20-year-old Bafrin Shivan Amo perches on a metal cot bed to speak of the most hellish of times.
“They raped me every day, twice or more,” she recounts with remarkable composure. “I was just a child,” she says in her soft steady voice. “I can never forget it.”
Bafrin shares her story, as hard as that is, because she wants the world to hear what happened to her and nearly 7,000 other Yazidi women enslaved for years by the fighters of the barbaric Islamic State group. The world, her tiny community believes, has forgotten them.
Egypt sentences 75 protesters to death after demonstrations where 900 were people killed by security services
Amnesty International describes ruling as 'disgraceful' and a 'mockery of justice'
Egypt has sentenced 75 protesters to death and dozens more to life behind bars in a mass trial over a 2013 protest in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In August 2013 up to 900 people were killed in Rabaa and nearby al Nahda square by security services after they gathered to demonstrate against the coup which had removed the elected president Mohamed Morsi.
At what was initially intended to be a sit-in protest, the mood soon turned violent after Egyptian police moved to disperse the camps. The government said many protesters were armed and that eight members of the security forces were killed.
North Korea’s anniversary parade features pomp, no ballistic missiles
Thousands of North Korean troops paraded through Pyongyang Sunday as the nuclear-armed country marked its 70th anniversary, followed by artillery and tanks, but it refrained from displaying its most advanced missiles that have sparked sanctions.
While the parade featured some of North Korea's latest tanks and best-trained goose-stepping units, the country's intercontinental ballistic missiles were notably absent. Instead, Kim Jong Un's regime devoted nearly half of the event to civilian efforts to build the domestic economy.
The emphasis on the economy underscores Kim's new strategy of putting domestic economic issues under the spotlight.
Naomi Osaka upsets Serena Williams in controversial US Open final
Updated 0148 GMT (0948 HKT) September 9, 2018
Naomi Osaka won her first Grand Slam title Saturday, beating Serena Williams in a controversial US Open final that saw the American docked a game after calling the umpire a "thief."
It was the latest in a string of events that could lead one to say this has been the most eventful Grand Slam ever, what with the heat, a new heat rule for the men, chair umpires intervening in play, one of the biggest upsets in tournament history and the mid-match retirement of Rafael Nadal.
Osaka prevailed against her idol 6-2, 6-4 in New York to deny Williams a record 24th major -- and first as a mom -- and become the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles title.
Toronto Film Festival: Hate U Give lead found casting criticism ‘hard’
The star of the film version of novel The Hate U Give has admitted she found it hard to have her casting queried because she is not darker-skinned.
"It was the first time in my life that I'd ever had my blackness questioned," Amandla Stenberg told reporters at the Toronto Film Festival.
"I've never thought of myself as not being black enough," she went on.
The film tells of a girl who witnesses the fatal shooting of an unarmed friend by a white police officer.
The incident makes her question her place in both her predominantly black community and the private school where she is one of few non-white students.
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