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Die Zeit and news.sky.com write: Volkswagen will soon cut tens of thousands of jobs. This is due to the carmaker’s plans to close at least three plants in Germany. “The company’s board of directors wants to close at least three VW plants in Germany,” said Daniela Cavallo, a member of the board of directors has […]

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The current US president called Trump supporters “garbage”. Ahead of Kamala Harris’s final campaign speech, Joe Biden gave her a huge, cheerfully grunting pig. Commenting on comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke, who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden in New York, Biden said: “The only garbage […]

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Stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Madison Square Garden. In fact, harsh jokes in stand-up performances are commonplace, and Hinchcliffe’s words were taken out of context, but during the election season, it is precisely taking individual words out of context and twisting what was said that becomes almost […]

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The tumultuous eight months between the February and October Revolutions of 1917 witnessed many types of violence, but terrorism and even state violence were not among them. Instead, the lands of the former Russian Empire were rocked by many incidents of mass violence from below. Politically motivated killings often happened during 1917, but political parties […]

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Israel has struck ballistic missile production sites in Iran. Israel’s key allies — the US, Britain, Germany, France — have recognized this step as legitimate and adequate. Thus, an important geopolitical precedent has been de facto established. Missiles aimed at Israel can take off from the Gaza Strip, from Yemen, Lebanon or Syria. People in […]

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