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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden poked fun at himself but took sharp aim at his election rival Donald Trump Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, as protesters outside demonstrated against the conflict in Gaza. A long list of VIP guests, including journalists and celebrities from Chris Pine to Molly Ringwald, arrived in black-tie attire as more than 100 protesters confronted attendees in front of the Washington Hilton hotel chanting "shame on you" and other slogans. Inside, the topic of Gaza was far from the lips of Biden and the evening's comedian, Colin...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House Correspondents' Association dinner, which annually brings reporters, politicians and a glitzy array of celebrities together in a mostly lighthearted affair, will take place Saturday under very different circumstances, including a call for a boycott by Palestinian journalists. With President Joe Biden heading a long list of VIP guests, more than two dozen Palestinian journalists this week issued an open letter urging their American colleagues to boycott the dinner. "You have a unique responsibility to speak truth to power and uphold journalistic integrity," s...
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Over 10,000 people demonstrated in Madrid on Saturday in favour of keeping left-wing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in his job, after he said he would decide on Monday on whether to resign after a right-wing group made allegations against his wife. At the rally outside the headquarters of Sánchez's socialist PSOE party, people shouted slogans such as "Pedro, don't surrender," "Of course it's worth it" and "Stay" while waving red party flags and banners with the words "Sánchez, yes, keep going," as seen on the state TV station RTVE. Others shouted "Democracy yes, fascism no" or "You are not alone...
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The demonstration was against legislators extending the use of Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant, also known as the “Third Nuclear Powerplant.” Protestors braved the rain dressed in coats and straw hats, as speakers played the nuclear leak alarm message. Taiwan currently has four nuclear power plants, with the first and second in the process of decommissioning, a third one still in use and a fourth whose construction was suspended in April 2014.
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Over 10,000 people demonstrated in Madrid on Saturday in favour of keeping left-wing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in his job, after he said he would decide on Monday on whether to resign after a right-wing group made allegations against his wife. At the rally outside the headquarters of Sánchez's socialist PSOE party, people shouted slogans such as "Pedro, don't surrender," "Of course it's worth it" and "Stay" while waving red party flags and banners with the words "Sánchez, yes, keep going," as seen on the state TV station RTVE. Others shouted "Democracy yes, fascism no" or "You are not alone...
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Over 10,000 people demonstrated in Madrid on Saturday in favour of keeping left-wing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in his job, after he said he would decide on Monday on whether to resign after a right-wing group made allegations against his wife. At the rally outside the headquarters of Sánchez's socialist PSOE party, people shouted slogans such as "Pedro, don't surrender," "Of course it's worth it" and "Stay" while waving red party flags and banners with the words "Sánchez, yes, keep going," as seen on the state TV station RTVE. Others shouted "Democracy yes, fascism no" or "You are not alone...
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Students at the renowned French university Sciences Po have blockaded a building in Paris in protest against their university's stance on the Middle East conflict. The university announced on Friday that some 60 protesters were in the building in the centre of the French capital. The main entrances were blocked. Videos showed one entrance barricaded with rubbish bins and bars. The students displayed banners which included a call on the university to cut ties with all Israeli universities. The university management received a delegation of protesting students on Friday in order to find a soluti...
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New York (AFP) - Student anger with university officials and law enforcement fueled worsening tensions on several US campuses Tuesday after days of pro-Palestinian protests that have triggered mass arrests and shut down classes. Some of America's most prestigious universities have been rocked by protests in recent weeks as students and other agitators take over quads and disrupt campus activities, furious over the Israel-Hamas war and ensuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. At Columbia University in New York, the core of the spreading protests, organizers are calling for the university to divest ...
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A court in Berlin handed down suspended sentences for three climate activists responsible for a paint attack on the German capital's famous Brandenburg Gate in September last year. The district court found the members of the Last Generation climate group guilty of causing damage to property and gave each of them an eight-month suspended sentence. The 22, 28 and 64-year-old defendants had previously confessed to having spray orange paint on the landmark on September 17, 2023. They had argued that the action was an "appropriate and necessary protest" in view of the climate crisis. The court disa...
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A court in Berlin handed down suspended sentences for three climate activists responsible for a paint attack on the German capital's famous Brandenburg Gate in September last year. The district court found the members of the Last Generation climate group guilty of causing damage to property and gave each of them an eight-month suspended sentence. The 22, 28 and 64-year-old defendants had previously confessed to having spray orange paint on the landmark on September 17, 2023. They had argued that the action was an "appropriate and necessary protest" in view of the climate crisis. The court disa...
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