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Israeli soldiers killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy. Then, during his funeral, they killed someone else

Originally published: Mondoweiss on July 29, 2021 by Yumna Patel (more by Mondoweiss) | (Posted Aug 04, 2021)

On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father’s car, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping. The next day at Mohammed’s funeral, Israeli soldiers attacked the procession, killing 20-year-old Shawkat Awad.
Hundreds of more unmarked graves discovered in residential school in Canada

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 25, 2021 by Peoples Dispatch (more by Peoples Dispatch) | (Posted Jun 30, 2021)

The Cowessess First Nation said that at least 600 unmarked graves have been discovered on the grounds of what used to be the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.
Doctors in Nepal warn people could die on streets amid Covid crisis

Originally published: Morning Star on May 2021 (more by Morning Star) | (Posted May 10, 2021)

Nepal reported 9,070 new confirmed cases on Thursday, compared to 298 a month ago.
Report sheds light on the pattern of over-policing that led cops to pull over Daunte Wright

Originally published: The Appeal on April 21, 2021 by Samantha Schuyler (more by The Appeal) | (Posted Apr 22, 2021)

The criminal legal system “relies heavily on collecting money from the very people targeted by the system,” in the process incentivizing police to punish as many people as possible, the authors of the ACLU report write.