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    Old Philippine presidential campaign footage misrepresented as Duterte rally in 2024

    Old footage of the final campaign event for then-Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte in 2016 was recirculated in false TikTok posts in April 2024 that claimed it showed a mammoth crowd at a recent rally he led against constitutional change. The gathering this year -- which police said about 7,500 people attended -- was yet another sign of a breakdown in relations between Duterte's family and President Ferdinand Marcos, who has backed proposed amendments to the Philippine Constituti

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    Mould-breaking Miss Germany defies wave of online hatred

    As a mother who is almost 40 and who was born in Iran, the new Miss Germany Apameh Schoenauer stood out at the beauty pageant. "I took part in Miss Germany because I wanted to change something," said Schoenauer, an architect and mother of a toddler, who moved to Germany aged six.

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    Frozen in time: Colombian town's unexplained mummies

    In a small town high in the Colombian Andes, Clovisnerys Bejarano kneels before a glass box holding the petrified corpse of her mother, who died 30 years ago, but looks as if she might just be asleep.  In the late 1980s, some 50 mummies were found in the mausoleum every year, but the rate has declined to a handful per year, said Vergara.  

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  • NewsAFP

    Pro-Palestinian US campus protests grow as police crack down

    Pro-Palestinian protests spread to more college campuses in the United States on Thursday as authorities appeared to be running out of patience and police began to push back forcefully.Riot officers used chemical irritants and tasers at one university as administrators at some of the country's most prestigious institutions battled to prevent occupations taking hold.Staging sit-ins and mounting boisterous demonstrations, the activists are calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas, as wel

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Half of those arrested at University of Texas protests not affiliated with institution say administrators

    Of the fifty-five people who were found to have ‘violated institutional rules’ during on-campus protests on Wednesday, some 26 were not staff or students, according to a statement released by the university

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    India election: fears that Modi’s BJP will polarise voters in fight for key state

    Muslims worry Modi’s party will rely on familiar tactics of drawing on religious divisions as it battles Congress to to retain seats in Karnataka

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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Who are the 18 indicted co-conspirators in the Arizona fake electors’ scheme?

    So far, the state’s attorney general’s office has disclosed 11 identities of the 18 people indicted for their role in an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election, reports Kelly Rissman

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