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Dutch police clashed with around 500 far-right protesters during a rally against immigration and asylum policies in The Hague.
Police clashed with several hundred far-right protesters in The Hague who pelted them with fireworks and other projectiles.
Sky News – World Dutch police clashed with around 500 far-right protesters during a rally against immigration and asylum policies in The Hague.
Sky News – World Dutch police clashed with around 500 far-right protesters during a rally against immigration and asylum policies in The Hague.
NYTimes – US Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, convicted of a 1995 murder, made her first public statement since surviving a botched lethal injection in September. She said she remains in constant physical and mental pain and woke up confused and hurt. Her lawyers are seeking to have her death sentence reduced to life, and Tennessee's governor has ordered an investigation.
BBC News – World Residents have begun leaving the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky through an evacuation corridor opened during a temporary local ceasefire. Senior Ukrainian official David Arakhamia said evacuees left for Russia's Anapa city with a Ukrainian delegation and are expected to fly to Belarus before returning to Ukraine by bus. The White House said US first lady Melania Trump helped negotiate the ceasefire and coordinate the humanitarian mission. Several hundred people are understood to have decided to stay in the devastated frontline town, which lacks gas, electricity and running water.
NYTimes – World Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta announced it is closing, citing pressure from Russian authorities. The outlet, whose co-founder Dmitry Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize, said the government had orchestrated its demise. Reports noted recent searches of a senior editor's home and the detention of one of its journalists. Novaya Gazeta has been openly critical of Russia's war in Ukraine and was classed as a 'foreign agent' by Moscow.
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