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Wildwood (United States) (AFP) - Former US president Donald Trump raised eyebrows among his no-nonsense New Jersey crowd at a rally Saturday when he recited a 1963 soul song in its entirety and referenced a fictional cannibal as "great." In a meandering recitation of "The Snake" during a more than 90 minute speech, Trump used the Oscar Brown song to draw a parallel with "illegal immigration and how stupid it is what we're doing right now." "We're letting people come into our country that we will only be trouble," said the Republican contender for president. Trump has drawn on the song several ...
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Washington (AFP) - Tens of thousands packed a rally in Washington on Tuesday to support Israel and to condemn anti-Semitism in a riposte to weeks of largely pro-Palestinian demonstrations across a deeply divided United States. With senior members of Congress addressing the event on the National Mall, near the Capitol, the crowd rapidly swelled with people wearing the white and blue colors of Israel. Many were waving placards calling on Palestinian militant group Hamas to free hostages taken during their surprise October 7 attack on Israel, which authorities there say killed more than 1,200 peo...
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By Shrey Banerjee An old video showing a mob vandalising buses in Surat by pelting stones on them has surfaced with misleading claims amidst the communal clashes in Haryana. According to reports communal tensions gripped Nuh district of Haryana and areas in Gurugram, stoking a riot-like situation. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar as appealed for peace after six lives were lost in the clashes. The video is being circulated in this backdrop, with the caption, "We pay taxes, they enjoy subsidies and govt patronage as they are "minority". Everything is inverted at the policy level. They ...
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Moscow (AFP) - Pro-Kremlin activists rallied in Moscow Saturday outside embassies of countries considered "unfriendly" by Russia on the ninth anniversary of its annexation of Crimea, a youth movement said. The pro-Kremlin youth movement "Molodaya Gvardia" ("The Young Guard") said that over 5,000 people demonstrated outside the embassies of 20 "unfriendly" nations including the United States, France, Germany and Poland. These countries "support Ukraine... and also actively supply lethal weapons to the Ukrainian regime," they said. Around 400 activists gathered outside the US embassy in Moscow...
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Columbia (United States) (AFP) - When Ronald Reagan campaigned at South Carolina's statehouse in 1980, some 10,000 enraptured supporters showed up for a man who would become an icon of conservatism unrivaled in modern US history. Donald Trump -- who spoke at the same building Saturday as he attempts to reboot his faltering bid for another four years in the White House -- might lack Reagan's everyman appeal, but his admirers are every bit as ardent. "He has incredible charisma. He was one of the greatest presidents in the modern era -- up there with Reagan and JFK," said Ronald Soloman, who had...
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New York (AFP) - Hundreds of demonstrators rallied Thursday in front of New York's prestigious Metropolitan Opera to protest a lockout of stagehands, part of a lengthy labor dispute over proposed wage cuts. Workers including electricians, technicians and craftspeople were joined by musicians, actors, union representatives and local politicians over the lockout dating back to December 2020, when contract negotiations collapsed. "We are the Met!" people chanted at the rally, which punctuates months of tensions threatening the globally renowned institution's fall season. The Met employs more than...
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Martinsburg (United States) (AFP) - President Donald Trump on Monday barnstormed Pennsylvania with three mass rallies Monday and his Democratic opponent also made a surprise appearance, hoping to defend his lead in a swing state that could well decide the outcome of the election in eight days.Hopping from rally to rally, Trump demonstrated how badly he wants to claim the state on November 3, telling large, enthusiastic crowds of supporters to ignore polls showing Biden leading there and across other battleground states."We get Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing," he said in Allentown, before...
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