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My Twin Sister Died 7 Years Ago. I Didn't Expect My Grief To Change Like This — But It Did.
"What do you do when the person who is your first call when anything happens is the one person you can’t call when the worst does?"
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Macron hosts Xi in French mountains to talk Ukraine, trade
French President Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping at one of his beloved childhood haunts in the Pyrenees mountains, pressing a message to Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade.Xi, who is due to host Russian President Vladimir Putin in China later this month, warned against using the Ukraine crisis "to cast blame, smear a third country and incite a new Cold War".
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In France, Puigdemont rallies separatists ahead of Catalan vote
"Puigdemont, president!"The president should be allowed to go where he needs to go, to Catalonia, which is why it's very important that we're here," explained Angels Lores, a 58-year-old teacher who refers to Puigdemont as if he were still regional leader.
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Rescuers search for survivors in deadly S.Africa building collapse
Rescuers said Tuesday they had made contact with 11 people as they raced to save dozens still unaccounted for nearly 24 hours after the deadly collapse of a building in the South African city of George.Contact has been made with 11 people who are under rubble among 48 still unaccounted for, they said.
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Putin, launching fifth term, promises Russians victory
President Vladimir Putin vowed at a lavish inauguration on Tuesday to deliver victory to Russians, embarking on a record-breaking fifth term with more power than ever.In a video minutes before the inauguration, Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya described Putin as deceitful and said Russia was doomed to remain in a state of conflict so long as he remains in power.
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'Unlike anything we have studied': Gaza's destruction in numbers
As well as killing more than 34,000 people and causing catastrophic levels of hunger and injury, the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas has also caused massive material destruction in Gaza."The fastest rates of destruction were in the first two to three months of the bombardment", Scher told AFP. In Gaza City, home to some 600,000 people before the war, the situation is dire: almost three-quarters (74.3 percent) of its buildings have been damaged or destroyed.
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India's small shopping centres turning into ghost malls, says Knight Frank
India's small malls are increasingly turning into ghost malls as consumers move towards online purchases and bigger shopping centres for a better experience, a consultancy report said on Tuesday. Mall properties with a vacancy rate of more than 40% have been termed ghost malls. While there was a 238% year-on-year increase in the Gross Leasable Area (GLA) of all shopping centres in prime Indian markets in 2023, the number of ghost malls rose to 64 from 57 in 2022, said real estate consultancy K
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