David Shadrach

No 'R-word': US groups call to drop NFL team name NEWS / UNITED STATES WATCH 10:03 Taking a knee: NFL as a platform for race politics Sport United States NFL Racism US & Canada SIGN UP Snyder has said Washington 'will never change the name of the team' [Dan Mullan/Getty Images] Civil rights groups in the US are calling on broadcasters not to use the name of a National Football League team playing in a nationally televised Thanksgiving Day game because they say it is "offensive" and "denigrating [to] Native people". The Washington Redskins football team will take on the New York Giants on Thursday - Thanksgiving Day in the US - in a game that will be broadcast across the country. Civil rights and indigenous groups have called for Washington to change its name for several years, but they say using the team's name on Thanksgiving - a national holiday that many Native Americans associate with genocide and mark as a "National Day of Mourning...

Arab nations blockading Qatar expand blacklist NEWS / QATAR READ MORE Bahrain calls for 'freeze' of Qatar's GCC membership READ MORE Kuwait emir warns of GCC collapse and crisis escalation GCC Qatar Saudi Arabia UAE Egypt SIGN UP The Saudi-led bloc, which have imposed a blockade on Qatar, accuses Doha of supporting 'terrorism' [File: Reuters] Two Islamic organisations and 11 individuals have been added to an existing "terror list" drawn up by four Arab nations that are blockading Qatar , claiming the entities and individuals are supported by Doha. State-run Saudi Press Agency issued a joint statement by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday, saying the quartet's move was taken "in light of their commitment to fighting terrorism, drying up their sources of funding, combating extremist ideology…and its promotion". Saudi Arabia and its allies, which have imposed a land, sea, and air blockade on Qatar since J...

Myanmar, Bangladesh sign Rohingya return deal NEWS / MYANMAR READ MORE Rohingya activists demand a halt to 'ongoing genocide' READ MORE Myanmar: Who are the Rohingya? Rohingya Myanmar Bangladesh Asia SIGN UP More than 620,000 people have poured into Bangladesh since August [Anadolu] Bangladesh and Myanmar have signed a deal for the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, who have taken shelter in the border town of Cox's Bazar after a brutal crackdown by the military. Myanmar's foreign ministry confirmed the signing of the agreement on Thursday, without releasing further details. "I didn't find any clear statement how these refugees will be repatriated. I'm not sure whether they will be allowed to return to their original village," Rohingya activist Nay San Lwin told Al Jazeera. "It looks like they will be placed in the temporary camps, and later the refugees will be locked up in the camps for a long time like the Rohingya in Sittwe ...