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The Casting Call Was for Zombies. The Job Was Actually a Landlord Rally.

12 June 2026 at 20:53
Housing debates often involve theatrics. But when a group of actors, many of whom are renters, discovered they had been hired to join a pro-landlord demonstration, several said they felt deceived.

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New York City actors who responded to a casting call asking for people to portray zombies found upon arrival that they would be marching to protest a proposed rent freeze on rent-stabilized homes.

In the U.K., a Violent Cycle: Hateful Attacks, Right-Wing Agitation and Riots

11 June 2026 at 18:08
Two stabbings have fueled violent protests in England and Northern Ireland in the last 10 days, fanned online by right-wing voices. In Britain and across Europe, it’s a grim pattern.

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Protests north of Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday in response to a stabbing attack two days earlier.

Night of Violence Grips Belfast After Stabbing Attack

10 June 2026 at 18:52
Cars and a bus were set on fire and families were driven from their homes after a stabbing caused tensions to spill onto the streets.

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Strife erupted in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday amid anger over a stabbing attributed to a Sudanese man.

‘Clumsy Diplomacy’: Inside the U.S.-Kenya Feud Over an Ebola Camp

Hundreds of Kenyans have marched through the streets to oppose a quarantine facility that would be reserved exclusively for American patients.

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Protesters confronting Kenyan police officers at a demonstration against a U.S. Ebola quarantine facility in Nanyuki on Tuesday.
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