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Venezuela cash crisis sparks looting, protests

  Caracas / AFP Desperate Venezuelans looted delivery trucks and clashed with police as a botched plan to introduce new banknotes left people without cash—the latest shortage in a spiraling economic crisis. President Nicolas Maduro blamed opposition politicians for the unrest, claiming that there were pictures and videos of some opposition members of the National Assembly involved in “attempts of ...

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Three more charged over Nice truck attack

  Paris / AFP A French anti-terrorist judge has charged three more men suspected of helping to arm the radical who crushed 86 people to death with a truck in Nice, a judicial source said on Saturday. The three, who were among 11 arrested on Monday in Nice and the western city of Nantes, were remanded into custody on Friday, said ...

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Polish opposition MPs block parliament over media freedom

  Warsaw / AFP Dozens of Polish MPs protested in parliament over plans to restrict journalists’ right to cover proceedings, as thousands of demonstrators marched outside in support for their stance. The demonstration at the gates of parliament in Warsaw was called by the KOD pro-democracy movement, which is critical of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party’s policies on ...

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