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• Florida Gov. DeSantis expands state of emergency as Hurricane Idalia expected to make landfall Wednesday

  28-08-2023 23:32 via foxnews.com
  
  A state of emergency in Florida is now in effect for 46 of its 67 counties as the state is preparing for Hurricane Idalia to make landfall over the state on Wednesday. Idalia upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane early Tuesday morning as the storm passed Cuba, according to FOX Weather. It is expected to be become a major hurricane with "life-threatening" storm surge when it makes landfall on Florida's western coast Wednesday morning. As of Tuesday morning, Hurricane Idalia was located about 85 mile
  
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• White House ‘increasingly confident’ Wagner leader Prigozhin died in plane crash

  28-08-2023 23:26 via foxnews.com
  
  The White House said Monday it is "increasingly confident" that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin died in last week's plane crash in Russia.  White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked whether the White House was any closer to determining what brought down "Prigozhin’s plane." "We are increasingly confident that Prigozhin died in the plane crash that took place on August 23rd this past Wednesday," Jean-Pierre said. "I don’t have any new assessment on that for you, so
  
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• India Club in London: Iconic restaurant to shut after 70 years

  28-08-2023 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The India Club in London, which was set up in the 1950s, is set to close in September.
  
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• Terry Gou: The Taiwan iPhone billionaire who wants to be president

  28-08-2023 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The electronics billionaire has charisma and experience with China - but the opposition vote is divided.
  
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• Deadly Montreal fire in March is now being criminally investigated

  28-08-2023 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  A fire in March that killed seven people in a heritage building in Old Montreal has turned into a criminal investigation, Canadian police said Monday. Montreal police Insp. David Shane said traces of fire accelerants were found at the site, which can help explain why the flames spread so quickly. He said experts have found out where the fire started, and have ruled out an accidental cause. PETS LEFT BEHIND IN CANADA DURING WILDFIRE EVACUATIONS RESCUED BY VOLUNTEERS, TO BE REUNITED WITH FAMILIES
  
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• Watch: The day air traffic control went down... in 71 seconds

  28-08-2023 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of passengers were stranded after a UK air space technical issue led to flight delays and cancellations.
  
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• Guatemala arrests former UN anti-corruption representative

  28-08-2023 22:16 via foxnews.com
  
  Guatemalan prosecutors on Monday arrested the former representative of a United Nations-backed anti-corruption commission that was expelled from the country several years ago. The arrest of Claudia González is the latest chapter in the government’s systematic pursuit of those who worked with the U.N. anti-corruption mission, best known by its Spanish initials CICIG. Interviewed outside the courthouse after her arrest, González said the charges were strange. She said she was c
  
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• Wegovy reimbursement would cost Denmark up to $4 billion each year, ministry reports

  28-08-2023 22:14 via foxnews.com
  
  Reimbursement of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy for the 900,000 people in Denmark who are considered obese would cost the Danish state as much as $4 billion each year, the country's health ministry said on Monday. Wegovy is the first-to-market in a new class of highly effective weight-loss drugs. It was also found to have a clear cardiovascular benefit, which could boost Novo Nordisk's hopes of positioning it as more than a lifestyle drug. The company said on Friday it aims to convince E
  
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• Thyssenkrupp Nucera unveils growth plans amid strong financial results

  28-08-2023 22:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Thyssenkrupp Nucera laid out growth plans on Monday after reporting strong sales and operating income, as the company works to meet growing demand for the green hydrogen hailed as key to decarbonising the German economy. "Another strong global workforce expansion is planned and necessary to achieve our growth targets," Chief Executive Werner Ponikwar told reporters after presenting quarterly results. The company, which Thyssenkrupp majority-owns after taking it public in a blockbuster market deb
  
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• Haiti police probe killings of parishioners who were led by pastor into gang territory

  28-08-2023 22:11 via foxnews.com
  
  The director of Haiti’s National Police vowed Monday to hold accountable those who encouraged hundreds of parishioners to take up machetes and sticks over the weekend to try and rid a community of gang members, only to be fatally shot by them. Police Chief Frantz Elbé said the group’s religious leader, identified as Marcorel Zidor, participated in the protest Saturday and was accompanied by unidentified people clad in olive green carrying assault rifles as they and the parishi
  
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• WATCH: Meteor lights up the sky over Colorado

  28-08-2023 22:10 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Doorbell camera footage captures a meteor streaking across the sky over Colorado early Sunday morning.
  
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• Poland investigating unauthorized radio signals responsible for thwarting weekend rail traffic

  28-08-2023 21:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Polish security authorities are investigating multiple cases of disruption to railway traffic, after unauthorized radio signals stopped several trains over the weekend. On some of the signals, the Russian national anthem could reportedly be heard in the background. Poland's railway is the main transport route for international military support going to neighboring Ukraine, which is fighting Russia's aggression. The network also transports Ukraine's agricultural exports to markets further west. P
  
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• China approves launch of retail funds to revitalize struggling stock market

  28-08-2023 20:56 via foxnews.com
  
  China's securities regulator approved the launch of 37 retail funds over the weekend, part of government efforts to revive a stock market struggling for lift-off in an ailing economy. The move comes on top of a slew of measures to shore up the market, including a stamp duty cut, slower pace of IPOs and lower margin financing requirements. The newly-approved funds, which will guide fresh capital into the market, include 10 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the small-cap CSI 2000 Index and s
  
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• Greek wildfire devastation persists: Authorities mobilize international aid as firefighters battle blazes

  28-08-2023 20:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Greek authorities reinforced firefighting forces in the northeastern part of the country Monday, where a massive deadly wildfire was burning for a 10th day with no signs of abating. The fire in the Alexandroupolis and Evros areas near the Turkish border has been blamed for 20 of the 21 wildfire-related deaths in Greece last week. The fire department said 474 firefighters, backed by 100 vehicles, seven planes and two helicopters were battling the flames. The forces included reinforcements from se
  
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• EU eyes 'bold' push to admit new members by 2030

  28-08-2023 20:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Faced with the Russian aggression against Ukraine and fears of Moscow’s increasing influence in parts of the Balkans, the European Union should make a "bold move" and accept new members by 2030, the European Council president said Monday. Speaking at an international strategic forum at the Slovenian lakeside resort of Bled attended by Western Balkan leaders, Charles Michel said that it was time for those states that have been waiting in an EU membership line for more than 20 years to be gi
  
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• Britain’s quirky World Bog Snorkeling Championships kicks off with flippers, snorkeling gear, and a giant toad

  28-08-2023 20:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Intrepid athletes donned snorkels and slithered through slime on Sunday during one of Britain’s quirkiest sporting events: the World Bog Snorkeling Championships. The annual competition in the tiny town of Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, sees competitors race to complete two lengths of a 60-yard water-filled trench cut through a peat bog. They can use flippers on their feet, but conventional swimming strokes are banned. JETS' AARON RODGERS FINDS GARRETT WILSON FOR FIRST PRESEASON TOUCHDOWN Some co
  
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• Niger’s junta makes military preparations ahead of possible international intervention

  28-08-2023 20:32 via foxnews.com
  
  The mutinous soldiers who overthrew democratically elected Niger President Mohamed Bazoum announced a raft of measures over the weekend that analysts say are aimed at strengthening their grip on power while preparing to defend against any military attempt by regional leaders to reinstate Bazoum. The junta led by Brig. Gen. Abdrahmane Tchiani ordered the Nigerien armed forces to go on maximum alert over "threats of aggression to the national territory" and asked the military-led governments of ne
  
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• Thousands pack streets of London to celebrate Notting Hill Carnival, one of Europe’s largest street parties

  28-08-2023 20:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of revelers packed the streets of west London on Monday for the climax of the Notting Hill Carnival, one of the world’s biggest celebrations of Caribbean music and culture. Organizers say up to 2 million people are expected to take in the music, parades, dancing and food over the two days of Europe’s largest street party, which began Sunday with a children’s parade. The carnival traces its history back to 1958, when Trinidadian human rights activist Claudi
  
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• Lebanese arrest warrants issued for 2 Russians accused of spying for Israel

  28-08-2023 20:17 via foxnews.com
  
  Two Russian citizens who were recently detained in Beirut on suspicion of spying for Israel have been referred to an investigative military judge who issued arrest warrants for them, two judicial officials said Monday. The two Russians were detained "several weeks ago" in Beirut as they were leaving the country through the capital’s Rafik Hariri International Airport, the officials said. The two judicial officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. The head of Lebano
  
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• Spain urges Mauritania to allow 168 rescued migrants to disembark Spanish vessel

  28-08-2023 20:04 via foxnews.com
  
  About 170 migrants who were rescued in the Atlantic Ocean have been stuck aboard a Spanish Civil Guard boat for days near the northwest African nation of Mauritania after authorities there refused to let them disembark, according to Spanish media reports. Spain’s Interior Ministry on Monday declined to provide details of the incident but said in an email that it was "confident that the situation would be resolved in the following hours." It said 168 people were rescued. A spokesperson for
  
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• 5 passengers, including 4 children, dead off Greek islands after 2 migrant boats sink near Turkey

  28-08-2023 20:02 via foxnews.com
  
  Five people, including four children, died and dozens were rescued Monday in two separate incidents involving migrant boats heading to Greek islands from nearby Turkish shores, Greek authorities said. The coast guard said four people died and 18 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos, which is near the Turkish coast. Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said all four were children: an 8-year-old boy and three girls aged 14, 8 and 1
  
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• Hurricane Idalia: What to do before, during and after

  28-08-2023 19:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tips on how to stay safe before, during and after a hurricane.
  
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• Jacksonville shooting: Mourners honour victims of racist attack

  28-08-2023 19:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Florida mourns a young father, a caring mother and a teenage cashier who died in a racist shooting.
  
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• A muddy reveal for mysterious West Point time capsule from 1820s

  28-08-2023 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Point academy unveiled the contents of a nearly 200-year-old lead box. They were unexpected.
  
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• Japan's PM asks China to stop harassment over Fukushima water release

  28-08-2023 19:34 via foxnews.com
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked China on Monday to urge its citizens to halt acts of harassment, including crank calls and stone throwing at Japanese diplomatic facilities and schools, in response to Japan's release of treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. "I must say it is regrettable," Kishida said. He said Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Masataka Okano summoned China's ambassador, Wu Jianghao, to ask that Chinese people act calmly and res
  
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• Military leader Burhan visits east Sudan in first tour outside of capital since conflict erupted

  28-08-2023 19:31 via foxnews.com
  
  The head of Sudan's army made a rare public speech Monday in his first tour outside of the capital since the conflict with a rival general erupted in mid-April. Sudan was plunged into chaos after monthslong tensions between the military, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, exploded into open fighting on April 15. In the eastern coastal city of Port Sudan, Burhan said a military operation that included naval and air forces enabled him
  
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• China's financial players turn to Guandan card game amidst shifting investment landscape

  28-08-2023 19:28 via foxnews.com
  
  China's bankers and business executives have become increasingly reliant on domestic capital in recent years as foreign funding has dried up, but a popular way to unlock that cash may very well involve "throwing eggs". The term refers to Guandan, a poker-like card game that has been around for decades, but has gained fresh life among venture capitalists a few years ago as they awoke to its popularity among wealthy local government officials in eastern regions. "Officials like this game, so we pl
  
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• Iran, Iraq reach agreement to disarm, relocate 'armed terrorist groups' in Iraq's Kurdistan region

  28-08-2023 19:19 via foxnews.com
  
  Iran and Iraq have reached an agreement that "armed terrorist groups" in Iraq's Kurdistan region will be disarmed and relocated next month, Iran's foreign ministry said on Monday. "An agreement has been struck between Iran and Iraq, in which Iraq has committed to disarm armed separatists and terrorist groups present in its territory, close their bases, and relocate them to other locations before the 19th of September," ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said at a weekly briefing. The spokesperson
  
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• Trump faces 4 March 2024 trial just a day before Super Tuesday

  28-08-2023 19:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  His trial for alleged election interference is set for 4 March, 2024 - a day ahead of Super Tuesday.
  
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• Russian man charged with spying on United States, Sweden

  28-08-2023 19:06 via foxnews.com
  
  Sweden charged a man on Monday with spying on it and the United States on behalf of Russia and unlawfully transferring advanced technology to Russia's armed forces over a nine-year period. Prosecutors indicted Sergej Skvortsov, a citizen of both Sweden and Russia, on charges of gross unlawful intelligence activity against the two countries between 2013 and 2022, according to the indictment. The 60-year-old's lawyer said he denied any wrongdoing. "He reiterates that he denies all charges," lawyer
  
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• Bears encroach on evacuated Canadian town of Yellowknife

  28-08-2023 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After wildfires forced residents to leave, bears have been seen in the empty streets.
  
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• Zambia-Egypt plane seizure: The cash and fake gold that no-one is claiming

  28-08-2023 18:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mystery surrounds a plane from Egypt loaded with money, fake gold and guns that was seized in Zambia.
  
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• Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan plans to visit Russia to discuss collapsed Ukrainian grain deal

  28-08-2023 18:34 via foxnews.com
  
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia soon to discuss the collapsed United Nations deal that had allowed Black Sea exports of Ukrainian grain, a spokesperson for Turkey's ruling AK Party said on Monday. The UN- and Turkey-brokered deal lasted a year but ended last month after Moscow quit. Ankara is seeking to persuade Russia to return to the agreement, under which Odesa's seaports shipped tens of millions of tons of grain. Since the grain-export deal collapsed, Russian forces have t
  
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• Trump and co-defendants in Georgia election case will be arraigned Sept. 6

  28-08-2023 18:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Monday that former President Donald Trump will be arraigned on charges in the Georgia election case at 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 6.
  
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• Virginia man stolen from mom at birth travels the world to hug her for first time: ‘the oceans I’ve cried’

  28-08-2023 18:03 via foxnews.com
  
  A 42-year-old Virginia man hugged his biological mother for the very first time this month after they were separated at birth and had not seen each other since. "Hola, Mama," Jimmy Lippert Thyden told Maria Angelica Gonzalez in Spanish, when the two met for the very first time at her home in Valdivia, Chile, in August. "I love you very much," he said as they embraced, both teary-eyed and emotional. Forty-two years ago, hospital workers took Maria Angelica Gonzalez’ son from her arms immedi
  
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• American Airlines fined $4.1 million for dozens of long tarmac delays that trapped passengers

  28-08-2023 17:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  The federal government is fining American Airlines $4.1 million for dozens of instances in which passengers were kept on board planes without a chance to exit during long ground delays.
  
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• Idalia expected to hit Florida as major Category 3 hurricane

  28-08-2023 17:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Idalia is expected to intensify early this week and hit Florida's Gulf Coast as a major category three hurricane, according to officials.
  
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• Federal judge sets Trump's trial date for March 2024 in election interference case

  28-08-2023 17:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Judge Tonya Chutkan will hear arguments from Trump's lawyers and federal prosecutors on whether the trial should begin before or after the 2024 election.
  
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• Trial of Highland Park shooter's father for signing gun application can continue, judge rules

  28-08-2023 17:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  A judge on Monday ruled that the case against the father of the Highland Park shooter can continue, overriding his attorneys' arguments that he can't be held culpable for his son killing seven and injuring a dozen more during a July Fourth parade in 2022.
  
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• University of South Carolina student fatally shot after trying to enter wrong home

  28-08-2023 17:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 20-year-old University of South Carolina student was fatally shot early Saturday morning when he tried to enter the wrong home, police said.
  
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• Spanish prosecutors investigating soccer president who kissed World Cup player

  28-08-2023 17:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Spanish prosecutors opened an investigation of the nation's soccer federation chief, officials said Monday, in connection to his kiss on the lips of a player shortly after winning the World Cup.
  
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• Francis Suarez goes quiet after failing to make the GOP debate

  28-08-2023 17:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Miami Mayor Francis Suarez had suggested that he'd drop out if he didn't make it into the first debate. But so far, he's staying in.
  
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• Pope Francis blasts 'backwardness' of conservatives in US Catholic church

  28-08-2023 17:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis has blasted the "backwardness" of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time. Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the U.S. Catholic Church, which has been split between progressives and conservatives who long found support in the doctrinaire papacies of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, particularly on issues of abortion
  
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• Syrian protests enter second week with calls for Assad to go

  28-08-2023 17:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Demonstrations have grown steadily throughout the south, centring around the province of SuwaydaA spate of protests and strikes across government-held areas in southern Syria have continued into their second week, with demonstrators increasingly unafraid to call for the removal of the president, Bashar al-Assad.Protesters gathered in the southern city of Suwayda on Monday, closing provincial roads. The province of Suwayda has remained under government control since Syria’s 2011 uprising an
  
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• Russia's top security agency detains former consulate employee who is accused of collecting information for US

  28-08-2023 17:11 via foxnews.com
  
  flash Russia's top domestic security agency said Monday that a detained former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok is accused of collecting information about Russia's action in Ukraine and related issues for U.S. diplomats. Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, the country’s main domestic security agency, said Robert Shonov is suspected of "gathering information about the special military operation, mobilization processes in Russian regions, problems and the assessment
  
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• Poland, Baltic states will seal off Belarusian borders in event of any military incidents, migrant pushes

  28-08-2023 16:57 via foxnews.com
  
  NATO members Poland and the Baltic states will seal off their borders with Russia’s ally Belarus in the event of any military incidents or a massive migrant push by Minsk, the interior ministers warned Monday. The ministers said they were seeing growing tensions on NATO's and the European Union's borders with Belarus, which has taken in thousands of Russia's military mercenaries and is pushing Middle East and African migrants into Europe, despite barriers having been put up. They warned of
  
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• U.K. flights delayed and canceled after 'technical issue' hits air traffic control

  28-08-2023 16:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Britain's air traffic control system said it was hit by a technical issue on Monday that threatened delays and cancelations to flights in and out of the country on a busy national holiday.
  
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• Pilot killed in F-18 jet crash near San Diego identified as Marine known as 'Simple Jack'

  28-08-2023 16:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. military has identified the Marine Corps pilot who was killed Thursday when his combat jet crashed near a San Diego base during a training flight.
  
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• A look back at the March on Washington nearly 60 years later: in photos

  28-08-2023 16:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  An archive of photos from the 1963 March on Washington, which took place on the National Mall on August 28, 1963.
  
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• Palestinian fears grow amid rising Israeli settler attacks

  28-08-2023 16:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Recent months have seen some of the worst ever scenes of settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
  
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