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Trump Attacks 16-Year-Old Swedish Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Without mentioning president Trump, Michelle added, "Ignore the doubters and know that millions of people are cheering you on". TIME announced on Wednesday that Thunberg, who has become the public face of climate change activism since leading school strikes in her home country of Sweden, was 2019's winning, beating out President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). [Full Article...]
Dogs at polling stations are the best thing about the United Kingdom election
At the time of writing, we're mere hours away from having the ability to vote in the third General Election in 4 years . If there's one thing that has a faint chance of briefly uniting people during a general election, it's dogs. Britons braved winter storms and howling winds as they lined as much as solid ballots in what Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour social gathering chief Jeremy Corby... [Full Article...]
Police arrest juvenile suspect in fatal stabbing of Barnard College student
A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation confirmed the arrest. Majors was walking in the park when she was approached by people near West 116th Street and Morningside Drive, said Rodney Harrison , the Police Department's chief of detectives, on Thursday. [Full Article...]
Jo Swinson Has Stepped Down As The Leader Of The Liberal Democrats
This was the second time the Ms Swinson had lost her seat, having been defeated in 2015 after her party's unpopular coalition, only to win it back two years later. Announcing the deselection in November, the Liberal Democrats claimed Flello's values "greatly diverged" from those of the party. The party will now look for a new person to steer it, a position at which Ms Swinson hinted there coul... [Full Article...]
Algeria declares ex-PM Tebboune victor of presidential election
The final voter turnout was 40%, the electoral body's head said in a televised news conference in Algiers. He was then dismissed by then-President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika and replaced by Ahmed Ouyahia. "We have toppled Bouteflika, and we will topple all the system's men". Even without questions over his legitimacy, Tebboune will face hard times. [Full Article...]
Baghdad mob kills teen gunman and strings up his corpse
A large anti-government protest movement started 8 weeks ago in Iraq when protesters took action against government corruption, poor services and lack of employment. At least eight people were wounded, the officials said. However, other videos showed security forces with pointed guns surrounding a house where the teen had taken cover, suggesting he may have been killed by police. [Full Article...]
Johnson Wins: But Scottish independence could be back on the agenda
The company is now exporting more products to France than England. Nationalists now - for the first time since the partition of Ireland in 1921 - hold more seats in the British parliament than those who want to stay part of the United Kingdom. [Full Article...]
Chris Wallace of Fox Delivers Stinging Rebuke of Trump
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace called out President Donald Trump's attacks on the press in a speech at the Newseum in Washington D.C. Friday night. Wallace added that he agrees with retired admiral Bill McRaven who said that Trump's attitude toward the press is maybe "the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime", according to the Guardian . [Full Article...]