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Change 'Sunak' to 'Corbyn' and we'd all be sitting here nodding our heads saying: "Told you so !!"
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Sunak plans triple tax raid on the wealthy, hitting pensions, second homes and businesses, The Sunday Times reports [HASHTAG]#TomorrowsPapersToday[/HASHTAG]
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Trump or Clinton last time and Trump and Biden this time. 300,000 odd million of them and that's their choice...
Agree Sooper both stupid. I’m still trying to get my head around what he trying to say?Trump or Clinton last time and Trump and Biden this time. 300,000 odd million of them and that's their choice...
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pretty shocking really lol
New Head at BBC says that in future the goal of BBC Comedy is that it should be funny.
Nish Kumar complains this is blatant discrimination against him.
Nish Kumar complains this is blatant discrimination against him.
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Saudi Arabia has kept hundreds of African migrants in deplorable conditions in detention camps to reportedly prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Many of them have become mentally ill and have died after being maltreated and brutalised there within 5 months.
Credit: Telegraph UK.
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Here is the current confidential schedule (as of this morning) detailing XR activities in London over the next 10 days. I bet XR will be more than a bit cross if this gets widely circulated. Oh, well
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France’s Charlie Hebdo to republish Mohammed cartoons at start of terror trial
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Issued on: 01/09/2020 - 13:15
Portraits of Bernard Maris, Georges Wolinski, Tignous, Charb and Cabu, who were killed in the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, painted on the side of a building in Paris near the site of the attack. © AFP
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French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015, said Tuesday it was republishing hugely controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to mark this week's start of the trial of alleged accomplices to the attack.
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"We will never lie down. We will never give up," director Laurent "Riss" Sourisseau wrote in an editorial to go with the cartoons in the latest edition.
"The hatred that struck us is still there and, since 2015, it has taken the time to mutate, to change its appearance, to go unnoticed and to quietly continue its ruthless crusade," he said.
Twelve people, including some of France's most celebrated cartoonists, were killed on January 7, 2015, when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi went on a gun rampage at the paper's offices in Paris.
The perpetrators were killed in the wake of the massacre but 14 alleged accomplices in the attacks, which also targeted a Jewish supermarket, will go on trial in Paris on Wednesday.
The latest Charlie Hebdo cover shows a dozen cartoons first published by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005 -- and then reprinted by the French weekly in 2006, unleashing a storm of anger across the Muslim world.
In the centre of the cover is a cartoon of the prophet drawn by cartoonist Jean Cabut, known as Cabu, who lost his life in the massacre.
"All of this, just for that," the front-page headline says.
'The right to blaspheme'
The editorial team wrote that now was the right time to republish the cartoons and "essential" as the trial opens.
"We have often been asked since January 2015 to print other caricatures of Mohammed," it said.
"We have always refused to do so, not because it is prohibited -- the law allows us to do so -- but because there was a need for a good reason to do it, a reason which has meaning and which brings something to the debate."
The paper's willingness to cause offence over a range of controversial issues has made it a champion of free speech for many in France, while others argue it has crossed a line too often.
But the massacre united the country in grief, with the slogan [HASHTAG]#JeSuisCharlie[/HASHTAG] (I Am Charlie) going viral.
"A thousand bravos," Zineb El Rhazoui, a former journalist for the weekly, said on Twitter, calling the republication of the cartoons a victory "for the right to blasphemy".
The former director of Charlie Hebdo, Philippe Val, also hailed a "remarkable idea" for defending freedom of thought and expression in the face of "terror".
In a nuanced response, the president of the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM), Mohammed Moussaoui, urged people to "ignore" the cartoons, while condemning violence.
"The freedom to caricature is guaranteed for all, the freedom to love or not to love (the caricatures) as well. Nothing can justify violence," he told AFP.
The suspects, who go on trial from 0800 GMT on Wednesday, are accused of providing various degrees of logistical support to the killers.
The trial had been delayed several months with most French courtrooms closed over the coronavirus epidemic.
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The court in Paris will sit until November 10 and, in a first for a terror trial, proceedings will be filmed for archival purposes given public interest.
National anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard dismissed the idea that it was just "little helpers" going on trial since the three gunmen were now dead.
"It is about individuals who are involved in the logistics, the preparation of the events, who provided means of financing, operational material, weapons, a residence," he told France Info radio on Monday.
"All this is essential to the terrorist action."
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Issued on: 01/09/2020 - 13:15
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Portraits of Bernard Maris, Georges Wolinski, Tignous, Charb and Cabu, who were killed in the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, painted on the side of a building in Paris near the site of the attack. © AFP
Text by: NEWS WIRES
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Video by: FRANCE 24 Follow
8 min
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015, said Tuesday it was republishing hugely controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to mark this week's start of the trial of alleged accomplices to the attack.
Advertising
"We will never lie down. We will never give up," director Laurent "Riss" Sourisseau wrote in an editorial to go with the cartoons in the latest edition.
"The hatred that struck us is still there and, since 2015, it has taken the time to mutate, to change its appearance, to go unnoticed and to quietly continue its ruthless crusade," he said.
Twelve people, including some of France's most celebrated cartoonists, were killed on January 7, 2015, when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi went on a gun rampage at the paper's offices in Paris.
The perpetrators were killed in the wake of the massacre but 14 alleged accomplices in the attacks, which also targeted a Jewish supermarket, will go on trial in Paris on Wednesday.
The latest Charlie Hebdo cover shows a dozen cartoons first published by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005 -- and then reprinted by the French weekly in 2006, unleashing a storm of anger across the Muslim world.
In the centre of the cover is a cartoon of the prophet drawn by cartoonist Jean Cabut, known as Cabu, who lost his life in the massacre.
"All of this, just for that," the front-page headline says.
'The right to blaspheme'
The editorial team wrote that now was the right time to republish the cartoons and "essential" as the trial opens.
"We have often been asked since January 2015 to print other caricatures of Mohammed," it said.
"We have always refused to do so, not because it is prohibited -- the law allows us to do so -- but because there was a need for a good reason to do it, a reason which has meaning and which brings something to the debate."
The paper's willingness to cause offence over a range of controversial issues has made it a champion of free speech for many in France, while others argue it has crossed a line too often.
But the massacre united the country in grief, with the slogan [HASHTAG]#JeSuisCharlie[/HASHTAG] (I Am Charlie) going viral.
"A thousand bravos," Zineb El Rhazoui, a former journalist for the weekly, said on Twitter, calling the republication of the cartoons a victory "for the right to blasphemy".
The former director of Charlie Hebdo, Philippe Val, also hailed a "remarkable idea" for defending freedom of thought and expression in the face of "terror".
In a nuanced response, the president of the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM), Mohammed Moussaoui, urged people to "ignore" the cartoons, while condemning violence.
"The freedom to caricature is guaranteed for all, the freedom to love or not to love (the caricatures) as well. Nothing can justify violence," he told AFP.
The suspects, who go on trial from 0800 GMT on Wednesday, are accused of providing various degrees of logistical support to the killers.
The trial had been delayed several months with most French courtrooms closed over the coronavirus epidemic.
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The court in Paris will sit until November 10 and, in a first for a terror trial, proceedings will be filmed for archival purposes given public interest.
National anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard dismissed the idea that it was just "little helpers" going on trial since the three gunmen were now dead.
"It is about individuals who are involved in the logistics, the preparation of the events, who provided means of financing, operational material, weapons, a residence," he told France Info radio on Monday.
"All this is essential to the terrorist action."
Trump or Clinton last time and Trump and Biden this time. 300,000 odd million of them and that's their choice...
Fear not, Kanye West is on his way. He's checking whether his wife's arse will go through the White House door
