A host of Black civil rights leaders and a multiracial, interfaith coalition of allies rallied attendees on the same spot where as many as 250,000 gathered in 1963.
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Russia’s Wagner mercenaries face uncertainty after leader’s presumed death
The plane crash has raised questions about the future of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private army, which fought alongside Russian troops in Ukraine before his brief uprising against military leaders in Moscow.
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Director of British Museum steps down amid controversy over thefts of ancient items
Hartwig Fischer had planned to leave the post next year but said his presence had become a distraction after questions were raised recently about whether the museum took warnings seriously.
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Prominent Lebanese journalist Talal Salman dies at age 85 after long illness
Salman founded one of his country’s largest Arabic-language independent newspapers.
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World Wrestling Entertainment star Bray Wyatt dies at 36
World Wrestling Entertainment star Bray Wyatt died Thursday, WWE announced. He was 36. Wyatt, whose real name was Windham Rotunda, died “unexpectedly,” according to an article on the WWE website that did not mention a cause of death. “WWE is saddened to learn that Windham Rotunda, also known as Bray Wyatt, passed away on Thursday, […]
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Niger’s junta invites Mali and Burkina Faso to aid its defense, asks French ambassador to leave
The move further escalates the international crisis in the West African nation stemming from a coup that ousted the West African nation’s democratically elected president.
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Kremlin denies role in plane crash believed to have killed Russian mercenary leader Prigozhin
Prigozhin, whose brutal fighters were feared in Ukraine, Africa, and Syria, was eulogized Thursday by President Vladimir Putin, even as suspicions grew that the Russian leader was behind the crash that many saw as an assassination.
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The conflict in Sudan is fueling a humanitarian emergency of ‘epic proportions,’ UN aid chief says
Sudan was plunged into chaos in mid-April when months of simmering tensions between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
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Floods fill tunnels leading to Detroit airport, force water rescues in Ohio and Las Vegas
More severe thunderstorms with torrential rains were possible over the region Thursday evening.
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Trump and all 18 others charged in Georgia election case meet the deadline to surrender at jail
Trump attorney Steve Sadow on Thursday filed an objection to the proposed October trial date and a March date that the prosecution had previously suggested.