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Month: November 2023

Polish nationalists hold Independence Day march in Warsaw after voters reject their worldview

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW. Poland (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have marched through Warsaw in an event organized by nationalist groups as Poland celebrates its Independence Day holiday. Participants in the Independence March carried Poland’s white-and-red flag and some burned flares. While many patriotic events take place across the nation of

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Danica Roem breaks through in Virginia Senate by focusing on road rage and not only anti-trans hate

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Danica Roem is accustomed to opponents using her transgender identity as a cudgel in Virginia legislative races. As part of a broad attack from the right, a national organization distributed mass mailers giving out her personal cellphone number and imploring people to call it to “put the

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Philippines joins Japan-led naval drills as brushes with China rise in the disputed South China Sea

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press ABOARD THE USS CARL VINSON (AP) — Japan is leading an annual multinational naval exercise that includes the Philippines as an observer for the first time. The Annualex exercises that began Saturday off Japan’s coast also include the United States, Australia and Canada. Their aim is to demonstrate and increase

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The wildest moments of WeWork’s rise

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — WeWork officially filed for bankruptcy this week, a seemingly inevitable development for the coworking startup which once promised to revolutionize office work but has been slowly unraveling for years. Co-founder Adam Neumann’s well-documented excesses during the early days of WeWork have already inspired a best-selling book and

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Trump joins media outlets in pushing for his federal election interference case to be televised

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Donald Trump is pushing for his federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised, joining media outlets that say the American public should be able to watch the historic case unfold. Federal court rules prohibit broadcasting proceedings, but The Associated Press and other news organizations say the unprecedented

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300,000 join pro-Palestinian rally in London as scores of counter-protesters arrested

By Livvy Doherty, Dan Wright, Eve Brennan, Niamh Kennedy, Radina Gigova, and Sophie Tanno, CNN London, UK (CNN) — Around 300,000 people turned out for a large pro-Palestinian rally in London on Saturday as police arrested scores of counter-protesters for attempting to confront the marchers. There was heavy police presence in central London’s Hyde Park

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Houseboats catch fire on a lake popular with tourists, killing 3 in Indian-controlled Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Officials in Indian-controlled Kashmir say a massive fire has destroyed several wooden houseboats anchored on Dal Lake, an area popular with tourists, and three charred bodies have been recovered from the wreckage. Police in a statement said the three were tourists from Bangladesh and staying at one of the gutted houseboats.

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