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Report shows extent of discrimination, violence by Minneapolis police …

In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up we look at an by the Minnesota (U.S.) state Department of Human Rights into an illegal pattern of racist discrimination by the Minneapolis Police Department; protests in Lebanon against the proposed Capital Control Law amid the government’s talks with the International Monetary Fund; the ongoing strike by workers at the Sibnaye-Stillwater gold mining operations in South Africa to demand a living wage; and the humanitarian caravans led by Indigenous and social leaders in Colombia against widespread violence and insecurity in Colombia. 

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Colombian ex-military officers admit role in killing 120 civilians and …

In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up we look at a landmark public hearing held by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace on the Colombian military’s role in civilian killings in 2007-08; rising levels of acute food insecurity and mass displacement in the Horn of Africa as the region faces one of its worst droughts; an order issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to halt the execution of 53 year old Melissa Lucio who was convicted of killing her daughter in a widely-condemned trial; and the killing of at least 4 Syrian soldiers in an Israeli missile attack near the capital of Damascus.