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  • NewsAFP

    Tensions rise as US pro-Palestinian student protests spread

    Increasingly confrontational pro-Palestinian rallies by students protesting the death toll from the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted across US college campuses Wednesday, triggering tense faceoffs with police in Texas and California.The student protesters say they are expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where the death toll has topped 34,200 so far, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, and calling on Columbia and other universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel. 

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  • NewsAFP

    Time for 'democratic transition' in Venezuela: opposition candidate to AFP

    Little-known Venezuelan diplomat Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, the consensus opposition candidate picked to confront President Nicolas Maduro in July elections, told AFP Wednesday it was time for a "peaceful, democratic transition."At his home in Caracas, Gonzalez told AFP: "It is time for a peaceful democratic transition for Venezuelans," after 25 years of Chavismo, the brand of populist leftist ideology championed by the late president Hugo Chavez and inherited by Maduro.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Fifth suspect arrested in ‘God’s Misfits’ killings of two women in Oklahoma

    Paul Grice is accused of kidnapping and murdering Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Speaker Mike Johnson booed at Columbia University as he calls for president to quit unless pro-Palestine protests quelled

    Mr Johnson called the protesters ‘antisemitic’ and ‘lawless agitators’

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Riot police arrest students as Palestine protests spread to colleges in Texas and California

    Protests relating to the Israel-Hamas war have been sprouting up at campuses across the country

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  • OpinionThe Telegraph

    Expand the military industrial base

    Rishi Sunak has placed the British defence industry on a “war footing”. The phrase conjures up images of munitions and aircraft factories churning out shells and Spitfires more than 80 years ago. But even if the pace will not be as frenetic, the motivations are not dissimilar. Britain in 1939 was unprepared for the conflict to come and had to ramp up its manufacture of the armaments needed in short order or face calamity.

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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Trump trial live: David Pecker to resume Karen McDougal affair testimony as ex-president faces gag order fines

    Former president’s historic ‘hush money’ election interference trial is underway in New York

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