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

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.

© Madison Swart for The New York Times

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.
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Anti-Immigrant Riots after Belfast Stabbing Leave City on Edge

In two nights of violence in Northern Ireland after a brutal stabbing, people were targeted because of their skin color, the authorities said.

© Peter Morrison/Associated Press

Attempting to clear protesters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday evening.
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