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A picture of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind bars is seen as members of the Israeli and Jewish community gather to protest outside the Israeli Consulate in New York, March 27, 2023, during an emergency rally for Israeli democracy.Leonardo Munoz, AFP Caution prevailed in Israel Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to pause controversial judicial reforms which sparked a general strike and mass protests, with the crisis far from over.

The defining moment in Mariluz Escribano Pueo's life came when the Spanish poet, activist and teacher was not quite nine months old.On 11 September 1936, three weeks after their family friend Federico Garcia Lorca had suffered a similar fate, Escribano's father, Agustin, was shot dead against the wall of Granada cemetery.

Germany commemorated the victims of Nazi persecution on the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, placing a focus Friday on people who were incarcerated and killed because of their sexual orientations and gender identities.Thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people were arrested and thrown into camps during Adolf Hitler's 1933-1945 dictatorship, based on anti-homosexuality laws that preceded and outlasted the Nazi era.

The last surviving member of the White Rose resistance movement, which urged Germans to stand up against Nazi tyranny during the second world war, has died, according to the group's historical foundation.Traute Lafrenz died at her home in South Carolina on Monday at the age of 103, the group said in a statement on Thursday, paying tribute to her courageous resistance and lasting testimony.

Tshala Muana, a Congolese singer who brought a supple voice and sensual dance moves to songs about women's dignity and social issues, died on Dec. 10 in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.She was 64.Her death, in a hospital, was announced on Facebook by her producer and companion, Claude Mashala.

Women's rights activists protest during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Britain, London, March 24, 2023.Toby Melville, Reuters Hundreds of protesters rallied Friday outside Downing Street in central London to heckle the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a meeting with his British counterpart Rishi Sunak.

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  When Masoud, a 27-year-old computer programmer, returned to his family home in Tehran, bleeding after being shot by security forces with dozens of metal pellets, his father urged him to go to the hospital.Going to the hospital, though, for protesters wounded at the antigovernment demonstrations that have been sweeping Iran, would mean almost certain arrest.

Once again the world is divided into competing spheres of eastern and western power, but is it a new cold war or reheated leftovers from the last one?The answer is a bit of both.For Vladimir Putin, the superpower rivalry of the 20th century never ended, although in economic and military terms there was a clear winner and it wasn't the Soviet Union.

Aliaksandra Herasimenia of Belarus on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Women's 50m Freestyle at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.Adam Pretty (Getty Images) Former Olympic swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia, one of the most prominent Belarusian athletes of the last few decades, has been sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison on charges of creating an extremist formation, according to the Viasna Human Rights Centre.

It was said that the people of East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR), loved to read, from classics like Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Hugo's "The Wretched," to science fiction and reports about places that could only be visited in the imagination due to travel restrictions.

It was said that the people of East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR), loved to read, from classics like Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Hugo's "The Wretched," to science fiction and reports about places that could only be visited in the imagination due to travel restrictions.

Labour would strengthen co-operation with the European Union with a new security pact to complement Nato's role, Mr Lammy added.We will seek to work with allies and partners to create a new international law of ecocide to criminalise the wanton and widespread destruction of the environment, Mr Lammy said.They were wrong in the 1990s with their endless damaging quarrels about Europe, Mr Lammy said.David Lammy has attacked the twisted lies of Empire that turned millions into slaves, in one of the fiercest condemnations by a senior British politician.

As I was lying in my bedI heard the church-bell ring;Before one solemn word was said A bird began to sing.I heard a dog begin to barkAnd a bold crowing cock;The bell, between the cold and dark, Tolled.It was five o'clock.The church-bell tolled, and the bird sang,A clear true voice he had;The cock crew, and the church-bell rang, I knew it had gone mad.

BBC South America correspondent, São Paulo

Outside the Albert Einstein hospital in São Paulo, fans started gathering when they heard the news of Pele passing.Some were dressed in the number 10 shirt Pele wore when playing for Santos.Outside a banner had been draped that read "Eternal King Pele".