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Several fires across New South Wales continue to burn as conditions in the area — two years or more of drought, hot and dry winds, little to no rainfall — have spurred the blazes.
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Some 500 enslaved people revolted in Louisiana but were largely ignored by history. Two centuries later, an ambitious re-enactment brings their uprising back to life.
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Two associates of President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani reached out to the previous Ukrainian government as early as February in the hopes of getting Kyiv to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two Ukrainian-American businessmen who were clients of Giuliani and allegedly aided him in his quest to investigate the Bidens, reportedly sat down with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at the offices of then-Ukranian general prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko. This meeting came after Fruman, Parnas, Giuliani, and Lutsenko met in New York in January and Warsaw, Poland, in February.At the meeting, Parnas and Fruman allegedly offered a White House visit in exchange for Poroshenko launching the investigation into the Bidens and alleged 2016 election meddling. Poroshenko, who eventually lost his re-election bid to incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky, could have used the White House visit to boost his candidacy, the Journal notes. “He wanted to come to Washington and meet with Trump and then after the state dinner he would have an interview,” one of the sources told the Journal, referring to Poroshenko. “Then he would say he would investigate meddling in 2016 and the Bidens.”None of that came to fruition, however, and it turned out to be Zelensky’s government that got caught up in the Trump impeachment saga. But the Journal points out that the reports of the Poroshenko meeting, if true, show that Giuliani’s associates were in contact with Ukraine’s president earlier than previously thought. Giuliani’s lawyer said Giuliani was not aware of the meeting, and none of the other parties involved responded to requests for comment. Read more at The Wall Street Journal.More stories from theweek.com 5 brutal cartoons about Trump’s environmental assault Angela Merkel leads ceremony marking 30th anniversary the fall of the Berlin Wall How the law barely protects whistleblowers
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A few state attorneys in Florida are trying to help former felons work through a ‘legal mess’ and go back to the voting booths.
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Alexis Crawford was reported missing on Nov. 1, just days after she filed a sexual assault report against her roommate’s boyfriend, officials said.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday urged Europe to defend democracy and freedom as Germany marked 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, warning that such gains must not be taken for granted. At a solemn ceremony in a church standing on the form…
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Michael R. Bloomberg is poised to enter a race that has many voters anxious and searching for the perfect candidate. But do they need yet one more option?
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CAL coach Hunter Cantwell was concerned about his receiving corps after Milton Wright’s graduation, but new leaders have emerged
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India’s Supreme Court ruled Saturday that a Hindu temple could be built on the site where a mosque was illegally razed by Hindus in 1992 in the town of Ayodhya, ending a decades-long dispute.Many Hindus believe the site to be where the god Ram was born, and that a Hindu temple once stood on the spot before India’s Muslim rulers built a mosque there in the 16th century. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu who in his initial 2014 campaign promised to build the temple, urged for calm Saturday, as did Muslim leaders, The Washington Post reports.> The Honourable Supreme Court has given its verdict on the Ayodhya issue. This verdict shouldn’t be seen as a win or loss for anybody. > > Be it Ram Bhakti or Rahim Bhakti, it is imperative that we strengthen the spirit of Rashtra Bhakti. > > May peace and harmony prevail!> > — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 9, 2019So far, that’s held, although Ayodhya reportedly remains alert, and a heavy security presence has taken over the streets to prevent any clashes. Some people were reportedly happy to have a ruling one way or the other in the hopes that it will mean the end of tensions. Still, lawyers for the Muslim parties rejected a five acre land grant as consolation, and they will ask the court to review its decision. But it’s reportedly unlikely to be overturned.Ultimately, the decision is seen as another victory for Modi, under whom Hindu nationalist movements have strengthened, often at the expense of India’s Muslim community. Read more at The Washington Post and Deutsche Welle.More stories from theweek.com 5 brutal cartoons about Trump’s environmental assault Angela Merkel leads ceremony marking 30th anniversary the fall of the Berlin Wall How the law barely protects whistleblowers
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EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian officials said a roadside bomb has killed two members of the security forces on Saturday in the restive northern Sinai province. The explosion hit their armored vehicle in Rafah, a town on the border with the Gaza Strip…
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Thawing sea ice may have opened the door, allowing the infection to cross oceans, a new study suggests.
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