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Thousands take part in a demonstration of the "Sardine Movement", formed to oppose Italy's far-right League party, in Rome.
The youth-driven "Sardine Movement" has become a symbol of protest against Salvini, leader of the League party. ✊
Tensions between the French government and unions opposed to pension reforms mount as a crippling transport strike enters its 11th day.
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Superman's very first cape and Bilbo Baggins' pipe are each forecast to raise $100,000-$200,000 at a blockbuster auction of rare Hollywood memorabilia.
Also going under the hammer at Julien's Auctions will be the "most important collection" of Star Trek memorabilia ever auctioned, organizers say, including a jacket worn by Captain Kirk in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."
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Obsessed Star Wars fans have started camping outside Hollywood's Chinese Theatre, more than a week before the film opens.
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Sudan's former president Omar al-Bashir was sentenced to two years detention in a correctional center for corruption in the first of several cases against the ousted autocrat.
The deposed leader admitted to having received a total of $90 million from Saudi leaders and the trial centered on the $25 million received from Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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With Evo Morales gone, the coca farmers of Los Yungas, a region in Bolivia, are urging the new government to support them against lowering the price of of their "holy leaf" crop.
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Algeria's unpopular presidential election was meant to reset the country's politics after months of crisis -- but it exposed a rigid system determined to perpetuate itself, analysts say.
"You get the impression of two parallel Algerias: a ruling class which congratulates itself on organising elections and a populace that holds protests," said Maghreb expert and historian Karima Direche.
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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon in November surged by 104 percent compared to the same month in 2018, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, which provides official data on deforestation.
The 217 square miles deforested that month represent the highest number for any November since 2015.
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Make 2020 a year of action.
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg urged young people during a "Fridays for Future" rally in Italy to seize the next decade to fight climate change, and chastised world leaders for acting "as if there is no tomorrow"
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Protests in India against a new citizenship law that opponents say is anti-Muslim spread to other regions on Friday, a day after two people were shot dead by police in the northeast of the country -- the epicenter of days of demonstrations.
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Supporters of Algeria's newly-elected president Abdelmadjid Tebboune celebrate his election victory at his campaign HQ in the capital Algiers.
Tebboune won the widely unpopular poll without the need for a second-round runoff, the electoral commission said.
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AI 'completes' symphony.
A few notes scribbled in his notebook are all that German composer Ludwig van Beethoven left of his Tenth Symphony before his death in 1827.
Now, a team of musicologists and programmers is racing to complete a version of the piece using artificial intelligence, ahead of the 250th anniversary of his birth next year.
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Five years ago this week, Washington and Havana surprised the world when they agreed to reopen diplomatic ties severed in 1961, but relations have since slid downhill as if on a fresh layer of Cold War ice.
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THAT AWKWARD MOMENT
OBAMA DOES NOT UNDERSTAND ITS NOT ALL ABOUT HIM
AND THE POLITE THING IS TO JOIN HANDS IN SOLIDARITY
This is a fat innkeeper worm (Urechis unicinctus).
Thousands of marine worms like this - dubbed "penis fish" for their shape and color - appeared this week on a California beach after a strong winter storm exposed them.
The worms covered Drakes Beach, 50 miles north of San Francisco.
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After at least three years in darkness, the face of Argentina's Eva Peron is again lit, this time projected onto the side of the Social Development ministry, just days into President Alberto Fernández's first term.
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A hairdresser in Belgrade declares war on lice, opening up a salon that specialises in removing the insects the old-fashioned way, with combs rather than chemicals
After more than six months of protests in Hong Kong, some local residents are not in the mood to celebrate Christmas.
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