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  • NewsFrance 24

    UK sends first asylum seeker to Rwanda under voluntary deportation scheme

    Britain has sent a first asylum seeker to Rwanda, British media reported on Tuesday, a week after adopting a controversial law allowing irregular migrants to be deported to the east African country. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government has made the fight against illegal migration a priority as it hopes to recover ground on the main opposition Labour party ahead of an expected general election later this year.The announcement of this expulsion comes just two days before local elections in Engl

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Hundreds of NYPD storming Columbia campus as students warned to shelter in place amid Gaza protests: Live

    NYPD have entered the Columbia college campus and are making arrests and dispersing pro-Gaza protestors

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  • PoliticsAFP

    Florida abortion ban starts in heat of US election battle

    Florida braced for one of the strictest abortion bans in the United States to take effect Wednesday, with Vice President Kamala Harris visiting to hammer Donald Trump on a key issue in the 2024 election.Harris, the first female, black and South Asian vice president in US history, has become the campaign's leading voice on abortion rights and led a nationwide tour on the issue.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    ‘Zombie deer disease’ detected in Indiana, 33rd state to see condition

    There is no known treatment for disease, which was first discovered in Colorado in the 1960s, and which impacts the nervous system of deer, elk, and moose

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  • NewsAFP

    Georgia pro-EU protesters erect barricades outside parliament after crackdown

    Pro-EU demonstrators in Georgia built barricades outside parliament on Wednesday after police used tear gas and rubber bullets against thousands of protesters rallying for a third week against a controversial "foreign influence" bill, an AFP reporter saw.On Tuesday evening, masked riot police violently rushed the peaceful rally, using tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon, while beating and arresting scores of people protesting against the bill, which critics say resembles Russian legislatio

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Prosecutors seek to have ‘Odinist cult’ theory tossed from Delphi murders trial

    Richard Allen confessed to the murders of Abby Williams, 13, and 14-year-old Libby German in 2022, though his attorneys have tried to have the confessions thrown out ahead of his trial next month

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  • NewsAFP

    Heavy police presence at Columbia as more unrest rocks US campuses

    A heavy police presence was seen at Columbia University on Tuesday, raising fears of a clash with student protesters as administrators struggle to contain pro-Palestinian demonstrations on dozens of campuses around the United States.The university outlined in a press update Tuesday that those in the encampments and Hamilton Hall "number in the dozens," while nearly 37,000 attend Columbia.

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