Fireworks ban in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

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Picture: Alexis Huguet / AFP / Taken on November 23, 2023 – Supporters of Moise Katumbi, one of the main opponents of President Felix Tshisekedi, attend his election ...

Good news stories of 2023

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Picture: Luis Tato / AFP / Taken on August 18, 2023 – KENYA: Young Maasai men perform their traditional jumping dance as they gather during the Eunoto ceremony in ...

Famous artist designs racial justice windows for National Cathedral

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Picture: Jonathan Mehring/The Washington Post – Artist Kerry James Marshall, with a stained-glass window he designed. By Marisa IatiWASHINGTON – His paintings sometimes ...

The main storylines at a gloomy United Nations

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Picture: Li Muzi/Xinhua/Taken September 18, 2019 – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 78) from September ...

Anxiety ripples through the Democratic Party over Biden

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Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS/April 11, 2022 – Doubts about the suitability of Joe Biden to run as the Democratic candidate in the 2024 election are mounting, the writers ...

Iran says US prisoner swap moving ahead, showing partial thaw in relations

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Picture: Iran Presidential Office/via EPA-EFE/Taken September 21, 2021 – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. In a prisoner swap today, September 18, 2023, five American ...

‘No go’: UAW president rejects Stellantis wage increase offer

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Picture: UAW via Twitter – About 12,700 UAW members went on strike Friday, demanding pay increases and more-equal treatment and benefits for temporary workers, who ...

The gloomy failure of the ‘fictious’ Oslo Accords

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Picture: AFP – US President Bill Clinton, centre, observes as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, second from left, and PLO Chairperson Yasser Arafat shake hands ...

US cuts military aid to Egypt, sends money instead to Taiwan

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Picture: Reuters – The Egyptian Presidency Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi. The Biden administration’s decision to withhold $85 million in aid to Egypt and ...

How a decade of conflict and division put Libya in peril of disaster

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Picture: Ali Al-Saadi/REUTERS/Taken on September 11, 2023 – People are stuck on a road as a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Shahhat city, Libya, causing deadly ...

In Morocco’s quake-decimated villages, rescuers find only bodies

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Picture: Sima Diab/The Washington Post/September 11, 2023 – Rescuers attempt to retrieve the body of a deceased boy in Elbour, Morocco. ...

Thousands missing and feared dead, after floods submerge eastern Libya

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Picture: AFP/September 11, 2023 – Overturned cars lay among other debris caused by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023. Flash floods in eastern ...

Olympic sports have Russia dilemma – ‘neutrality’ is a cop-out

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Picture: Julien de Rosa/AFP/Taken on June 20, 2023 – The entrance of the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics (Cojo) headquarters in Saint-Denis, northern Paris. ...

More than 2,100 dead in Morocco earthquake; US ‘ready to go’, Blinken says

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Picture: Sima Diab/The Washington Post/Taken September 10, 2023 – A woman walks through the rubble of the Jewish quarter of Amizmiz, Morocco, on Sunday, two days ...

Blinken pledges $1 billion more to Ukraine amid doubts about offensive

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Picture: Anatolii Stepanov / AFP / taken July 10, 2023 – Ukrainian marines from the 37th Brigade check their French-made AMX-10 RC armoured fighting vehicle at a ...

Cuba says human traffickers are luring citizens to Russia-Ukraine war

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Picture: Stringer/AFP/Taken June 24, 2023 – Members of Wagner group detain a man in the city of Rostov-on-Don, on June 24, 2023, during what President Vladimir Putin ...

In China’s shadow, US rushes back to neglected Indian Ocean island

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Picture: Eduardo Soteras/The Washington Post – The Chinese Embassy on the island of Mahe. ‘In the 27 years since the United States pulled out, China has built schools, ...

US presses Saudi Arabia on reported migrant massacres

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Picture: Faisal Al Nasser/REUTERS/Taken November 9, 2013. – Members of Saudi security forces detain Ethiopian workers during a riot in Manfouha, southern Riyadh, ...

Behind the AI boom, an army of workers in ‘digital sweatshops’

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Picture: Martin San Diego/The Washington Post/Posted August 2023 – Internet cafes in the Philippines are now frequented by workers who sort and label data for artificial ...

Russia’s elite draws one lesson from Prigozhin: Cross Putin and die

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Picture: Kommersant Photo/Dmitry Lebedev via REUTERS/August 24, 2023 – Emergency specialists carry a body bag near wreckages of the private jet linked to Wagner ...

Hawaii fire: Maui utility may have compromised evidence, lawyers say

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Picture: Mengshin Lin/The Washington Post/Taken on August 21, 2023 – Fallen utilities poles outside of a gas station on Lahainaluna Road in Lahaina, Hawaii, on August ...

Iran arrests 12 female activists in crackdown ahead of protest anniversary

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Picture: Safin Hamed/AFP/Taken on September 24, 2022 – Women chant slogans and hold up signs depicting the image of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died while in the ...

Niger: coup leaders to put deposed president on trial for treason

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Picture: ANA – The junta appears to be entrenching itself, naming a new government last week and staging rallies in shows of defiance across the country, the writer ...

Trump ups ante on going after judges and witnesses. Where’s the line?

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By Aaron BlakeThrice-indicted former president Donald Trump seems intent on testing the rules that apply to tampering with witnesses and intimidating judges. Despite ...