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In latest move by University of California, Berkeley, law enforcement agencies arrested protesters and erected barrierIn a midnight operation, hundreds of police officers descended on People’s Park in Berkeley, California, to clear out the activists and unhoused campers occupying the area, to make way for the construction of a housing complex for students.By dawn, the park that was once the centre of the 1960s...

Exclusive: Evidence found by Hannah Durkin includes ships landing in Cuba in 1872, and people held in Benin in 1873Historians have generally assumed that the transatlantic slave trade ended in 1867, but it actually continued into the following decade, according to new research.Dr Hannah Durkin, an historian and former Newcastle University lecturer, has unearthed evidence that two slave ships landed in Cuba in 1872....