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One million turn out in Chile as protests gather momentum

Bloomberg More than a million people poured into Santiago’s public squares and thoroughfares in one of the biggest street protests ever seen in the Chilean capital. Downtown areas such as the iconic Plaza Italia came alive with people, mainly student-age and twenty-somethings but also older people and families, waving flags and banners seeking better pay, pensions, healthcare and education. Many ...

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Russian agent Butina freed after US sentence

Bloomberg Maria Butina, a Russian who was freed after serving a US prison sentence for failing to register as an agent of a foreign government, arrived in Moscow and thanked diplomats and groups who supported her. “Russians don’t give up,” she said in a brief statement at the airport, accompanied by her father and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. A ...

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Trump asks court to toss California ‘sanctuary law’

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court to throw out a California immigrant-sanctuary law that restricts local police from helping federal authorities round up and deport people who are in the country illegally. In an appeal, the administration said the 2017 measure undermines federal immigration enforcement efforts. The law “makes it more difficult for federal officers to ...

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