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The French Government Is Trying To Outlaw an Environmental Movement
Following several violent clashes between the environmentalist group Les Soulevements de la Terre and the police, the French government has issued a decree to officially dissolve the movement, thus making it illegal — in a move usually reserved for suspected Islamist terrorist groups or far-right militants.
A Mural Brought the Palestine Conflict to the 1964 World’s Fair
The Jordan Pavilion triggered an international crisis that led to protests, arrests, vandalism and the cancellation of at least one foreign leader’s visit, all within the first few weeks of a world’s fair whose official slogan was “Peace Through Understanding.”