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Alaska

Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state and presidential adviser, dead at 100 | #alaska | #politics

Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford administrations who was said to be one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy framers in postwar United States, has died. He was 100. The news was confirmed by Kissinger’s consulting company on Wednesday night. “Dr. Henry Kissinger, a respected American […]

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Arkansas

Duckfest in Stuttgart hosts World Championship Duck Calling Contest, Miss Arkansas MC’s

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Turkeys may get all the glory around Thanksgiving, but in Stuttgart, it’s duck season. The annual “Wings Over the Prairie” festival, also known as “Duckfest,” took flight last weekend and culminates with the World Championship Duck-Calling Contest on Saturday, November 25. The festival, the largest outdoor expo in the mid-south according […]

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Alabama

Opinion | Trump’s Similarities to Hitler Prove It Certainly Could ‘Happen Here’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

The Nazis in America are now “out.” This morning, former Republican Joe Scarborough explicitly compared Trump and his followers to Hitler and his Brownshirts on national television. They’re here. At the same time, America’s richest man is retweeting antisemitism, rightwing influencers and radio/TV hosts are blaming “Jews and liberals” for the “invasion” of “illegals” to […]

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Mayor

Ryyan Alshebl: From Syrian refugee to mayor of a German town | Refugees

Video Duration 25 minutes 10 seconds 25:10 Talk to Al Jazeera The 29-year-old who fled war in Syria eight years ago shares his journey from being a refugee to mayor of Ostelsheim. Read more In 2015, a 21-year-old asylum seeker from Syria made it to the Greek island of Lesbos in a rubber boat. Ryyan […]

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Mayor

The Syrian Refugee Who Became Mayor Of A German Village

Ryyan Alshebl fled war-torn Syria in 2015, arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos after a harrowing four-hour journey on a rubber boat. Eight years on, he is the mayor of a German village. “It was dark and cold and there was not a single light to be seen on Lesbos,” he recalls. “A few […]

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Kyiv Mayor Klitschko urges Berlin to do more to help wounded Ukrainians – POLITICO

BERLIN — Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko is seeking assurances from his counterpart in Berlin that Ukraine will be able to send seriously injured soldiers to Germany’s capital safe in the knowledge that their medical costs will be met. In a letter to new Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner seen by POLITICO, Klitschko noted that some 250-500 […]

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