Tuesday, June 21, 2016

World Refugee Day (20 June) Marked as a Record 65 Million People Displaced: VOA News

Published on 20 Jun 2016
Monday marks World Refugee Day, and the U.N. refugee agency says the number of people forced to flee their homes is now at the highest level ever recorded. The UNHCR says it is inevitable more people will continue to flee war and poverty, and the world must improve its response. Henry Ridgwell reports from London.
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Why do autistic people really love manga? - BBC News

Published on 20 Jun 2016
The world of Japanese manga comics is loud, colourful and bombastic. This spirit is reflected in TokyoToys, a shop that has just opened in Glasgow. The brainchild of Hideki Nguyen, it specialises in selling manga merchandise with a very exuberant staff.

But the store also attracts people of a much less extrovert disposition, from the autistic community.
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#USA - Sandy Hook families' legal battle against gun industry: Al Jazeera English

Published on 20 Jun 2016
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#UK - Tears in Commons as MPs remember Jo Cox - ITV News

Published on 20 Jun 2016
There were tears in the Commons today as MPs paid tribute to their murdered colleague Jo Cox.

In heartfelt tributes Mrs Cox was described as "brave", "inspirational" and someone who "wanted to leave the world a better place then she found it".

Follow the latest updates on the story here: http://bit.ly/28KvgkC
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Trading Video: Expect Yellen to Be Drowned Out By Brexit Fears - Forex News by DailyFX

Published on 20 Jun 2016
Talking Points:

• Another weekend flip in EU Referendum opinion polls led to another dramatic swing for GBP/USD
• Brexit fears are a universal risk for the FX market and broader financial system which makes for an erratic course
• Fed Chair Yellen and ECB President Draghi's testimony along with Eurozone investor sentiment is top, non-Brexit risk

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#USA - British man charged over attempt to kill Donald Trump - bdnews24.com

Published on 20 Jun 2016
A man arrested over the weekend trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer at a Las Vegas rally held by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told an investigator he wanted to kill the candidate, court papers showed on Monday.
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Monday, June 20, 2016

#UK - Economic Myth Vs Reality Ahead Of EU Vote - Sky News

Published on 20 Jun 2016
It could have been so perfect: months to ponder our relationship with Europe; finally an opportunity to work it out once and for all and to settle the matter.

Instead, this campaign has descended into something else: a series of scary stories about life inside and out of the European Union.

But how much of it has been fact and how much fiction? For the answer, let's examine the six most terrifying economic fairy tales we've heard from both sides.
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#UK - Roses and tears as UK lawmakers pay tribute to slain Jo Cox - NEWS AB

Published on 20 Jun 2016
The murder of British lawmaker Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed last week, appeared increasingly likely to have been a politically motivated attack, the leader of the opposition Labour Party told parliament on Monday (June 20).

"Her community and the whole country has been united in grief, and united in rejecting the well of hatred that killed her in what increasingly appears to have been an act of extreme political violence," Corbyn told a specially-convened session of parliament, which had been in recess for EU referendum campaigning.

Lawmakers from all political parties paid tribute to the Labour MP Cox for her work helping Syrians, refugees and promoting human rights.

Her murder happened just hours after the nationalist party, UKIP, unveiled a poster with a long line of refugees fleeing conflicts with the words "Breaking Point". The campaign was immediately compared to Nazi-propoganda and heavily criticised.

"I can only imagine Jo's reaction had she seen the poster unveiled hours before her death. A poster on the streets of Britain that demonised hundreds of desperate refugees, including hungry terrified children fleeing from the terror of ISIS and from Russian bombs," said Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, who shared an office with Cox.

"She would have responded with outrage and with a robust rejection of the calculated narrative of cynicism, division and despair that it represents. Because Jo understood that rhetoric has consequences. When insecurity, fear and anger are used to light a fuse then an explosion is inevitable," he added.

Her voice breaking with emotion, Labour MP Alison McGovern said: "When Jo spoke, Mr Speaker, we all listened. Why? Because the principles she drew on in that speech and life is the simple idea that we have more in common than that which divides us."

After the House of Commons session, lawmakers applauded as they filed out of the chamber to attend a memorial service in Westminster.
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