PARIS (AP) — Protesters blocked roads, lit blazes and were met with volleys of tear gas on Wednesday in Paris and elsewhere in France, heaping pressure on President Emmanuel Macron and making new Prime…
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British swimmer Ross Edgley is first to swim around Iceland
British swimmer Ross Edgley on Tuesday became the first person to swim around the entire island of Iceland, completing a four-month challenge in freezing seas.
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EU proposes regional hub on Cyprus to better tackle wildfires, von der Leyen says
Cypriot officials proposed setting up such a hub on the Mediterranean island as early as 2022, with additional firefighting aircraft that could quickly respond to wildfires.
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‘This is our revolution. It’s our turn now’: Nepal’s ‘gen Z protesters’ speak out against corruption | Nepal
The whiteboard listing the names of patients at a hospital in central Kathmandu tells the story of a protest gone badly wrong. Beside each name is written their ages; 18, 22, 20, 18, 23. The list goes on.
By Wednesday morning there were still…
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France hit by protests as Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu takes office
ReutersProtests took place nationwide following a call by grassroots movement Bloquons Tout (“Let’s Block Everything”) France is seeing a day of protests led by a grassroots movement named Bloquons Tout (“Let’s Block Everything”) in a show of…
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Man convicted of murder in knife attack at German festival and sentenced to life in prison
The state court in Düsseldorf convicted him of three counts of murder, 10 of attempted murder and membership of the so-called Islamic State, German news agency dpa reported.
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