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Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church closes in tax protest Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic and Catholic leaders, who jointly manage the vast site in the Old City, complained of plans by the city's municipality to modify a religious tax exemption that they said was "an attempt to weaken the Christian presence in Jerusalem". Separately, they complained of a ...
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Congo police kill protester in church-led march against Kabila Policemen react after a protester threw a stone from Notre Dame Cathedral compound in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 25, 2018. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic. Church groups have become the main opposing force to Kabila as political opposition parties have been hobbled by ...
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How Fast Can a Tiny Van Go in Ant-Man and the Wasp So here's the scene (as far as I can tell—it's just a trailer after all). Hope Pym (the Wasp) appears to be driving a van in a car chase. She uses the standard Pym-tech and makes the van the size of a toy car. As she continues to drive, she goes under another vehicle to do something cool. Really, the only ...
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Marilynne Robinson: 'I don't have an ideal reader in mind' The novelist, academic and essayist Marilynne Robinson is one of the United States's leading intellectuals, tackling the big subjects of faith, fear and regret with a quiet clarity and rigour that has earned her a Pulitzer prize, among many other awards including the Orange prize for fiction in 2009 for her ...
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Kurdish Syrian ex-leader Salih Muslim arrested in Prague Muslim was arrested in Prague on Saturday, Turkish officials told state-run Anadolu news agency on condition of anonymity. Turkey considers the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria and its armed wing, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), to be "terrorist groups" with ties to the ...
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North Korean envoy, in rare visit to the South, opens door to US talks Kim Yong Chol, who Seoul believes masterminded two attacks in 2010 that killed 50 South Koreans, was in South Korea for the end of the Olympics. He said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wanted to improve ties with Washington and had "ample intentions of holding talks" with its rival, according to ...
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Landlords' differing fortunes reveal split in UK retail When Britain's biggest shopping centre landlord Hammerson bought rival Intu last year, Hammerson chief executive David Atkins said the company would offer "crowd pleasing events" in its shopping centres. But next week his company will instead be hoping to avoid relegation from the FTSE 100, ...
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