MINSK / BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday ordered his police to stage protests in the capital, Minsk, signaling an escalation after a week and a half of mass demonstrations against his government. Lukashenko’s mandate came when European Union leaders held an emergency summit on the political …
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MINSK / BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday ordered his police to stage protests in the capital, Minsk, signaling an escalation after a week and a half of mass demonstrations against his government. Lukashenko’s mandate came when European Union leaders held an emergency summit on the political …
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Some people just west of Vacaville – a city of about 100,000 inhabitants between San Francisco and Sacramento – were ordered to evacuate when fires broke out in the hills. “There are several locations where people are trying to get out, and we are working our way to them,” a …
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Maxwell Pearce, 24, known as “Hops Pearce” for the legendary basketball team, released clips on Sunday of the incident, which took place in January on Good Day Alabama for WBRC Fox6 News in Birmingham, Alabama. WBRC is a CNN subsidiary. Pearce told CNN on Tuesday that he was on the …
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