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  • NewsAFP

    Battling mass tourism, Venice introduces day tickets

    The ticket office is in place and the inspectors are primed -- Venice launches a new scheme Thursday to charge day-trippers looking to enter the historic Italian city, a world first intended to ease the pressure of mass tourism.Visitors entering the UNESCO World Heritage site for the day will have to buy a five-euro ($5.3) ticket, with inspectors carrying out spot checks at key entry points.

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    Portugal marks 50 years of democracy with far right on rise

    Portugal marks Thursday 50 years since a military coup ended a decades-long dictatorship and 13 years of colonial wars in Africa, an anniversary that comes as a far-right party gains prominence."The main motivation was to resolve the problem of the colonial wars" that had been going on for 13 years in Angola, and almost as long in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, said retired colonel Vasco Lourenco.

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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and more than a dozen Trump allies indicted in Arizona for fake elector plot

    Indictment comes as Supreme Court set to consider whether Trump immune from federal 2020 election conspiracy case

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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Supreme Court to hear high-stakes arguments on Trump’s presidential immunity in criminal case: Live

    Decision on immunity question could impact what charges Trump faces, and whether they go to trial before November presidential election

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  • NewsThe Independent

    How a deathbed confession and lone bullet finally solved 24-year-old missing persons case

    Susan Carter and her 10-year-old daughter Alex Carter had been missing since 2000. Their bodies were found mere hours after the man who confessed to killing them died in custody

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Netanyahu decries pro-Palestine university protests over Gaza as ‘horrific’ and ‘antisemitic’

    Israeli prime minister argued such protests are the ‘canary in the coal mine’

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  • NewsFrance 24

    Mauritania president announces second term bid for June election

    Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani said Wednesday he would run for a second term in presidential elections due in June. Ghazouani, 67, has been at the helm of the vast West African country since 2019 and provided stability in the Sahel region, which faces rising jihadism."I have deemed it appropriate to address you directly, dear compatriots, through this letter, to inform you of my decision to present myself to you, so that you renew your confidence in me for a new term," he said in a

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