Hundreds of Manchester United fans, protesting against the club’s US owners, invaded the pitch at Old Trafford stadium on Sunday ahead of the Premier League game against Liverpool, according to multiple British media outlets.Hundreds of Manchester United fans, protesting against the club’s US owners, invaded the pitch at Old Trafford stadium on Sunday ahead of […]
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At least five civilians and one police officer have died during protests against a government tax reform in Colombia since the start of unresrt this week, the country’s Ombudsman said Saturday.At least five civilians and one police officer have died during protests against a government tax reform in Colombia since the start of unresrt this […]
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Donald Trump saw it coming. Back in 2019, the moderate Joe Biden looked like a candidate uniquely suited to threaten his re-election as president. In a July 25 phone call, Trump asked Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to have his government work with his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and with then-US Attorney General William Barr to launch […]
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The organizers of Oktoberfest, Munich’s heralded and raucous annual beer festival, have sought to reassure distraught Germans by dismissing rumors that the event will move to Dubai.The organizers of Oktoberfest, Munich’s heralded and raucous annual beer festival, have sought to reassure distraught Germans by dismissing rumors that the event will move to Dubai.
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In her new book, “Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred,” theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein invites readers into the universe as she sees it — and as a self-described queer agender Black woman, she sees it differently than many people.In her new book, “Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, […]
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Vaccines could yet kick-start international travel, but it’s a long time coming for international families forced to live apart in a time where — because of inflexible Covid border restrictions — it often takes the death of loved one to bring them back together.Vaccines could yet kick-start international travel, but it’s a long time coming […]
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100 million fully vaccinated people are helping the US reopen. But many millions more are needed
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The United States has fully vaccinated more than 100 million people against Covid-19, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a milestone that comes with optimism about the future.The United States has fully vaccinated more than 100 million people against Covid-19, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
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As families bury their dead, recriminations begin over deadly crush at a religious festival in Israel
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As the Shabbat drew to a close in Israel, funerals for the victims of Friday’s crush at Mount Meron have resumed — and so have the recriminations over the mountaintop disaster that killed 45 people, including children.As the Shabbat drew to a close in Israel, funerals for the victims of Friday’s crush at Mount Meron […]