By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Swiss police were guarding three U.N. investigators into Eritrea’s human rights record in Geneva on Wednesday after a top official said they had received threats on the street and at their hotel. The inquiry’s report published earlier this month showed human rights violations in Eritrea that may amount to
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Ethiopian Israelis protest despite agreement reached with the Israel Police; hundreds of officers deployed to keep calm. About 500 Ethiopian-Israeli protestors demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Monday, despite a series of agreements reached with the Israel Police before the protest designed to stop the string of demonstrations. The participants demonstrated in front of the government
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Robel Berhan steers his blue and orange Union Cab with its empty backseat to Hotel Lucia on Southwest Broadway. Nothing. He heads to the Marriott. A line of other cabs blocks his way. He knows a guy at the Nines who sometimes helps him out. It’s nearly 7 pm on a Wednesday, and Berhan needs
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The clock is ticking who will be the first to grab first trip to Los Angeles? Ethiopian Airlines will begin 3x weekly Boeing 787-8 flights between Addis Ababa and Los Angeles as of June 2015. The flight will operate westbound on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and eastbound on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.The flight will stop
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Absorption Ministry puts kibosh on Interior Ministry’s permit to allow infantrymen to bring relatives to Israel By GEDALYAH REBACK Sergeant Chalacho Mekunan receives a citation for service during Operation Protective Edge from southern commander Sami Turgeman this past February (IDF Spokesperson’s office) Two Israeli soldiers born in Ethiopia are accusing the state of dragging its
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Rivlin admits mistakes, Netanyahu vows to make racism ‘contemptible and despicable’ ahead of new protests against police violence Israel did not do enough for Ethiopians making their way to Israel, President Reuven Rivlin said Sunday, admitting years of failings as the Ethiopian-Israeli community held a memorial for those who died while trying to reach the
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The man was speaking to a Port Authority Police officer when he jumped, authorities said. By DANIEL HUBBARD An Ethiopian man died Wednesday afternoon after he climbed the New Jersey tower of the George Washington Bridge and jumped into the Hudson River, authorities said. Port Authority Police spokesperson Joe Pentangelo said the man was in
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Athletics legend retires (Reuters) Haile Gebrselassie, considered one of athletics’ greatest distance runners, said on Sunday (Monday NZ time) he was retiring from competitive running. The Ethiopian’s long-time manager at first said it was not the end of Gebrselassie’s career, but later issued a press release saying the runner had retired from athletics. “Running legend
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(Reuters) – A group of Ethiopians who had been kidnapped in Libya arrived at Cairo airport on Thursday after Egyptian army forces rescued them, state media quoted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as saying. But one Ethiopian in the group, and a Libyan source, appeared to cast doubt on that version of events, saying the
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