Ireland’s Viva makes shortlist to join Oscar-chasing pack
Should Viva, whose dialogue is in Spanish, progress it would be the first time Ireland has had a runner in this particular … Viva concerns a young gay man struggling to get by in contemporary Cuba. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival …

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UN emerges as powerful platform for LGBT advances
This month, advocates from around the world including the United Nations Association of Georgetown (UNAG) of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA … Subhi Nahas, a gay Syrian refugee who escaped to the U.S. and became …

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Accused pimp describes ways women get lured into human sex trafficking
He said he offers them protection and security, helps them upload their online sex advertisements, drives them to johns’ houses, pays their rent and buys them “anything they need,” from food, tampons and hair dye to condoms and sex toys like dildos …

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What The Guardian learned from its first WhatsApp live chat
The Republican presidential debate this week was headlined by confrontations: Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz clashed over immigration and ISIS, while Donald Trump and Jeb Bush argued over whether Trump would be a “chaos candidate.” Writing for The Guardian …

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Letter to the editor: Color of their skin
I cannot be silent after hearing of an online chat group at our Edmonds-Woodway High School discussing “lynching” a fellow student because he is black. We are told that this online chat group has been active since August. Yes, the offending students …

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Divisive Comments
But still Mansour, an openly gay first-generation American and the son of Muslim … issued a press release calling for a ban on Muslims looking to immigrate to the United States and Muslims looking to visit the United States as tourists, at least until …

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Nation & World briefing
Islamic State sanctions — The United States and Russia have joined forces to draft … rushed to execute sweeping market-oriented changes intended to revive an ailing economy. Alfonso Prat-Gay, the finance minister in Macri’s center-right government …

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