Justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro has vowed to submit a motion aimed at withdrawing Poland from the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe´s Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. He said the Convention contains harmful, ideological elements. |
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PARIS: Workers started dismantling Notre-Dame's grand organ on Monday to let experts restore it in time for the fifth anniversary of the fire that damaged the Paris cathedral. The organ - the biggest musical instrument in France - was not burned by the flames that destroyed the cathedral's roof and spire on April 15, 2019. |
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Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has fallen ill after returning to Italy from a trip to his native Bavaria to visit his brother, who died a month ago, a German newspaper has reported. The daily Passauer Neue Presse quoted Peter Seewald, a biographer of the retired pontiff, as saying that the 93-year-old.... |
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Recall with us the chilling scene in the 1972 film “The Godfather” in which a Mafia don prohibits his people from selling drugs to anyone except “the dark people, the coloreds — they’re animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.” As the California Legislature considers a bill prohibiting the sale.... |
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President Donald Trump’s political fortunes took a nosedive when he had federal agents use tear gas to clear out a park across from the White House so he could conduct a photo-op at a nearby church. But to hear his campaign’s newest senior adviser, Steve Cortes, tell it, Trump’s misstep was not the.... |
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President Donald Trump’s political fortunes took a nosedive when he had federal agents use tear gas to clear out a park across from the White House so he could conduct a photo-op at a nearby church. But to hear his campaign’s newest senior adviser, Steve Cortes, tell it, Trump’s misstep was not the.... |
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“Birthdays … appear to end up in a lethal way more frequently than expected,” was the sobering conclusion of a Swiss study published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology. The 2012 study analysed almost 2.5 million deaths in Switzerland and found that the number of birthday deaths between 1969-2008.... |
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A week ago today I lost my partner of 30 years and husband Chris Needs, who died unexpectedly. I want to thank everybody for their kind support and wonderful tributes to Chris over the past few days. I have been overwhelmed by the huge number of messages, kind words and tributes received on social media, by phone, email and cards. |
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In support of the call for a time-out made by the country’s front liners, the Diocese of Paranaque announced the suspension of public masses in parishes under its jurisdiction from today, August 3, until August 14. Parañaque Bishop Jesse Mercado said the two-week suspension of public masses is in.... |
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Perhaps no topic generates as much heat today than a discussion on the almajiranci system of Islamic education. Though mainly practiced in the northernmost part of the country, its neglect and repercussions of its consequent decline is felt all over the country. At its heydays it drew adherents from far and wide. |
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Two thousand miles southeast of Rogers Place in Edmonton, in a converted office in Las Colinas, Josh Bogorad and Daryl “Razor” Reaugh are surrounded by televisions. There are individual 65-inch monitors in front of each of them. There are additional ones showing high-angle shots of the Alberta playing surface. |
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