No Food, No Water, a Broken Leg: How a Hiker Survived a Harrowing Week in the Wild – The New York Times

  1. No Food, No Water, a Broken Leg: How a Hiker Survived a Harrowing Week in the Wild  The New York Times
  2. Journalist Alec Luhn speaks out after dramatic rescue while hiking in Norway  Good Morning America
  3. Wisconsin journalist Alec Luhn recounts rescue from Norway mountain  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  4. Missing Journalist Found Alive in Norwegian Fjords After 5 Days, Surviving On 2 Chocolate Bars  SnowBrains
  5. Man reveals how he survived six days stuck on mountain without water  Metro.co.uk
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Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules

Court in Thuringia rejected woman’s request to enter concentration camp memorial while wearing the scarf

A German court has ruled that a Nazi concentration camp memorial has the right to refuse entry to those wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf.

The higher administrative court in the eastern state of Thuringia on Wednesday rejected a request from a woman to be allowed entry to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial while wearing a keffiyeh.

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How towering dominance of Bolivia’s socialist party came tumbling down – The Guardian

  1. How towering dominance of Bolivia’s socialist party came tumbling down  The Guardian
  2. What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political landscape  AP News
  3. Bolivia election: voters bring two decades of leftist politics to an end  The Conversation
  4. Bolivia heads to runoff after right turn in presidential vote  Reuters
  5. Bolivia set to elect first non-left wing president in two decades  BBC
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Why a 113-year-old, wooden church in Sweden was rolled away – NPR

  1. Why a 113-year-old, wooden church in Sweden was rolled away  NPR
  2. Drone footage shows final leg of Swedish church's move  BBC
  3. Stunning drone and timelapse footage shows church's historic 5km move  BBC
  4. How Do You Move a Hundred-Year-Old Church? On Wheels, Very Slowly.  The New York Times
  5. The ‘big church move’: Swedish town begins to roll historic building 5km  The Guardian
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Xi Jinping Visits Tibet as Dalai Lama’s Succession Looms – The New York Times

  1. Xi Jinping Visits Tibet as Dalai Lama’s Succession Looms  The New York Times
  2. Xi Jinping makes rare visit to Tibet to showcase control as Dalai Lama succession looms  CNN
  3. China's Xi makes second-ever visit to Tibet as president  Reuters
  4. Grand ceremony and parade mark 60 years of Chinese Communist Party rule in Tibet  AP News
  5. Xi urges concerted efforts for modernization when meeting representatives from across Xizang  Xinhua
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Macron hits out at ‘abject’ Netanyahu claim of rise in antisemitism in France

French president responds to Israeli PM’s ‘erroneous’ allegations in relation to decision to recognise state of Palestine

Emmanuel Macron has hit out at Benjamin Netanyahu for his “abject” and “erroneous” remarks after Israel’s prime minister claimed that antisemitism had “surged” in France after the country’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state in September.

In a statement released late on Tuesday, the office of the French president pushed back against Netanyahu’s claim. “The analysis suggesting that France’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine in September is behind the rise in antisemitic violence in France is erroneous, abject, and will not go unanswered,” it said. “The current period calls for seriousness and responsibility, not generalisation and manipulation.”

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