Sentences with phrase «sparked international outrage»

The results of Ai's investigation, along with the many works he created and exhibited around the world directly addressing the disaster, sparked international outrage and brought attention to the devastating loss that the Chinese government had tried to deny and conceal.

Last weekend, all eyes turned to Steve Harvey, who sparked international outrage after mistakenly announcing the wrong winner of the Miss Universe pageant.

The death of Cecil the lion, a particularly photogenic male cat in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, has sparked international outrage.

In April, it sparked international outrage by abducting more than 200 girls from their boarding school in Chibok, in Borno state, like Damboa.

Mr Corbyn sparked international outrage last week by comparing Israel to ISIS terrorists and failing to speak up while Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth was verbally abused.

The Chibok abduction sparked international outrage and became the most infamous act by the Islamist Boko Haram group which has killed 20,000 people and uprooted at least 2 million in a brutal eight - year campaign that shows no sign of ending.

Trump's reported choice of terminology to describe majority - black countries — while suggesting that more immigrants should come to the U.S. from the very - white Norway — sparked international outrage.

Pressure has grown on governments to act after an overcrowded migrant boat sank in the Mediterranean last month, leaving more than 750 dead in a case that sparked international outrage.

The revelations, semi-denials and continuing comments have cast a pall over the White House's legislative agenda, brought the country closer to the brink of a government shutdown and sparked international outrage.

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While such a move would require a protracted legal process, complete with appeals and checks against international law, the letter sparked outrage at British plans to «storm» the embassy, prompting many observers to brand it an own goal by the Foreign Office.

Ivanka Trump sparked outrage when she sat in for her father at the international meeting of world leaders.

Lawyers, environmentalists and civil society groups are calling it a «blatant violation» of two international moratoria and the news is likely to spark outrage at a United Nations environmental summit taking place in India this week.