Elderly man allegedly beaten to death in Virginia Walmart by parents of employee
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Elderly man allegedly beaten to death in Virginia Walmart by parents of employee

Bert Atienza and teen worker reportedly exchanged words before parents showed up and allegedly attacked shopper A 77-year-old Walmart shopper died after he was allegedly attacked inside a Virginia store by the parents of a teenage employee he had confronted over a shopping cart incident involving his wife, according to US media reports.Bert Atienza died from blunt head trauma on 8 June, one day af...

Hong Kong’s political, business elite pay final respects to Tung Chee-hwa
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Hong Kong’s political, business elite pay final respects to Tung Chee-hwa

Hong Kong’s political and business elite bade a solemn farewell to Tung Chee-hwa, the city’s first chief executive, at a vigil on Saturday, as Beijing leaders sent wreaths ahead of his state funeral and members of the public streamed into community centres to sign condolence books. Hundreds of wreaths lined the pavement at the Hong Kong Funeral Home in North Point, spilling into a nearby playgroun...

Thick smoke seen near Riyadh airport after air raid alerts in Saudi capital

Thick smoke seen near Riyadh airport after air raid alerts in Saudi capital

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Authorities also issued warnings for Jeddah and Yanbu, a major industrial port and home to vital oil facilitiesFlames and a large plume of black smoke were seen rising above Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia on Saturday after the government sent air raid alerts to citizens by phone overnight warning of aerial attacks.Explosions were heard in the capital as firefighters battled to extinguish the flame...

George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’

George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’

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British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewingGeorge Osborne has said he thought no one would find out about a private viewing of the Bayeux tapestry he organised for the tech billionaire Peter Thiel at the British Museum.The former chancellor, who is chair of the museum, told the Big Brue festival in Somerset that he had been on holiday whe...

MS Now, CNN and Politico say reporters have been denied access to White House

MS Now, CNN and Politico say reporters have been denied access to White House

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President said he was banning journalists from those organizations, saying of their coverage: ‘You get sick of it.’Journalists from three US outlets were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday morning a day after Donald Trump said he would ban them from the executive branch complex in a move that has prompted outrage and shock from free speech advocates.The outlets were television br...

MS Now, CNN and Politico say their reporters have been denied access to White House

MS Now, CNN and Politico say their reporters have been denied access to White House

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President said he was banning journalists from those organizations, saying of their coverage: ‘You get sick of it.’Journalists from three US outlets were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday morning a day after Donald Trump said he would ban them from the executive branch complex in a move that has prompted outrage and shock from free speech advocates.The outlets were television br...

Germany braces for key state elections where far right party AfD seeks another breakthrough

Germany braces for key state elections where far right party AfD seeks another breakthrough

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Germany is gearing up for two more pivotal state elections on Sunday: in the capital Berlin and in the largely rural region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. All eyes are on the far-right AfD, which after recording its best ever result in the recent Saxony-Anhalt elections, is hoping to once again make sweeping gains. The anti-immigration party's surging popularity is proving challenging for Chanc...

Macron visits remote French territory in the North America, a first in over a decade

Macron visits remote French territory in the North America, a first in over a decade

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President Emmanuel Macron embarks on a rare and symbolic visit to a remote French territory in the North Atlantic on Saturday, hosting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a time of growing tensions with Washington. The three-day visit to Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a three-island archipelago of under 6,000 people just off Newfoundland, will be the first by a French president in over a decade. Pe...

Denmark cautiously optimistic over Trump’s Greenland deal

Denmark cautiously optimistic over Trump’s Greenland deal

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Denmark’s government was cautiously optimistic on Saturday following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a deal on Greenland to bolster US military presence there but keep the island under Danish control after months of threats by the US president to seize the semi-autonomous territory of a Nato ally. The Arctic island’s top leaders echoed that stance and said the deal, which has not yet b...

Black smoke seen near Riyadh amid air raid alerts in Saudi Arabia

Black smoke seen near Riyadh amid air raid alerts in Saudi Arabia

France 24 •

⁠Flames and plumes of smoke ‌were ⁠seen ‌rising near ⁠Riyadh airport this afternoon with flights cancelled and delayed. This as fighting between Saudi-backed government forces and Iran-backed Houthi rebels has killed 48 people in recent hours. The rebels staged a lightning offensive this month, seizing swathes of territory in Yemen and launching a barrage of missiles and drones toward Saudi Arabia...

Thick smoke seen near Riyadh airport after air-raid alerts in Saudi capital

Thick smoke seen near Riyadh airport after air-raid alerts in Saudi capital

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Authorities also issued warnings for Jeddah and Yanbu, a major industrial port and home to vital oil facilitiesFlames and a large plume of black smoke were seen rising above Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia on Saturday after the government sent air-raid alerts to citizens by phone overnight warning of aerial attacks.Explosions were heard in the capital and firefighters battled to extinguish the flam...

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art

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Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum holds 16th-century paintings stolen by the Nazis during the second world warJewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz.This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the recent passa...

MS Now and CNN say their reporters were denied access to White House after Trump media ban

MS Now and CNN say their reporters were denied access to White House after Trump media ban

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President said he was banning MS Now, CNN and Politico journalists, saying of their coverage: ‘You get sick of it.’News outlets MS Now and CNN said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday morning, a day after Donald Trump said he would ban them ,and the website Politico from the executive branch complex.MS Now said a reporter and a cameraman had been denied acce...