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  Arrests at London climate-change protests top 1,000

  Reuters . London | Updated at 12:00am on April 23, 2019

  The number of environmental campaigners arrested during eight days of direct action in London topped 1,000 on Monday, police said, adding that Waterloo Bridge, one...

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  Comic poised to take over presidency in Ukraine vote

  Kiev. Agence France-Presse | Updated at 12:55pm on April 21, 2019

  Ukrainians went to polls on Sunday in the second round of an extraordinary election with a comedian who plays a president on TV expected to...

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  Journalist shot dead during Ireland riot

  Reuters . Belfast | Updated at 12:49am on April 20, 2019

  An off-duty journalist was killed after shots were fired during rioting in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry overnight, an attack that shocked the province...

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  Protests on in London, Paris, Rome

  Reuters . London/Paris/ Rome | Updated at 12:44am on April 20, 2019

  Film star Emma Thompson joined climate change activists in central London on Friday to read poetry praising Earth’s bounties, part of a series of protests...

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  Pope washes feet of prisoners

  Reuters . Rome | Updated at 12:00am on April 20, 2019

  Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 prisoners on Thursday at a traditional service, telling them to shun any inmate hierarchy structure or...

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  Female journo shot dead during Northern Ireland riot

  Reuters. Belfast | Updated at 02:49pm on April 19, 2019

  An off-duty journalist was killed after shots were fired during rioting in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry overnight, in what police on Friday said...

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  London climate protests enter fourth day

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 12:00am on April 19, 2019

  London commuters faced further disruption on Thursday as climate change protests continued to bring parts of the British capital to a standstill, leading to over...

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  Madeira mourns 29 German bus crash victims

  Reuters . Canico, Portugal | Updated at 12:00am on April 19, 2019

  Madeira began three days of mourning on Thursday for 29 German tourists who died after their bus veered off a steep road, as Germany’s foreign...

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  29 German tourists killed in Madeira bus crash

  Agence France-Presse. Canico, Portugal | Updated at 11:50am on April 18, 2019

  Twenty-nine German tourists were killed when their bus spun off the road and tumbled down a slope before crashing into a house on the Portuguese...

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  Climate-change protesters disrupt London docklands train service

  Reuters . London | Updated at 01:22am on April 18, 2019

  Two environmental activists climbed onto the roof of a train in London’s Canary Wharf financial district on Wednesday as part of a third day of...