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NYC Halloween Parade Protected Year After West Side Truck Attack, Swastikas Investigated As NYU Speech Postponed

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Thousands of People Participated on the Annual Village Halloween Parade in New York City. Photos: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire By Kurt Wheelock NEW YORK – Security for the annual Halloween parade was stepped up as it fell on the one year anniversary of the terror truck attack which claimed eight lives and injured a dozen on the west side of Lower Manhattan. “We will have deployed thousands of plainclothes as well as uniformed members of the service,” NY Police Department Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison said. “As well as our Critical Response Command, our Strategic Response Group, K-9, aviation, as well as [Read More]

Nadia Murad Book on Human Trafficking

Nov 11, 2017 Celebrities, News , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Comments are off

Miroslav Lajcak President of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly During Nadia Murad, UNODC (UN Office on Drugs and Crime) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, details her fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as part of a panel discussion on trafficking in persons and the Lunching of her Book ” The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State” today at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire   United Nations, November 10 2017. The United Nations Office on Drugs and [Read More]

Jordanian Prince Abdullah II Presides Security Council

Apr 23, 2015 Celebrities, United Nations , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Comments are off

Photos by: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire United Nations, April 23 2015 – Presiding a Security Council meeting on the role of youth in countering violent extremism, Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II of Jordan said “we have to direct our energies not to answer the question ‘What should we do?’ because the actual question is ‘How should we do it?’” Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II is the youngest person to ever chair a meeting of the Security Council. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said “this is perfect for today’s discussion. He is not yet 21 years old – but he is already a [Read More]

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