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Isak Andic, the founder of Spanish clothing retailer Mango, one of Europe’s largest fashion groups, with nearly 2,800 stores worldwide, died Saturday in an accident, the company said.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was among the first to pay tribute to the businessman’s “entrepeneurial vision”.While the company did not provide further details, Spanish media reports said …

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Russia had begun deploying North Korean soldiers to storm Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region.He spoke after Russian authorities said their firefighters were battling a blaze in the western Oryol region caused by a drone attack, with Ukraine saying it had hit a major oil terminal.”Today, we already …

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Negotiators failed to produce an agreement on how to respond to drought at Saudi-hosted UN talks, participants said on Saturday, falling short of a hoped-for binding protocol addressing the scourge.The 12-day meeting of parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), known as COP16, concluded early on Saturday morning, a day later than …

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains hospitalized in semi-intensive care but is “lucid” and walking about, health officials said Saturday, four days after he underwent surgery for an intracranial hemorrhage. The 79-year-old leftist leader had successful emergency surgery Tuesday in which doctors drilled through Lula’s skull to relieve pressure that built up after a …

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South Korean lawmakers on Saturday impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, with the opposition declaring a “victory of the people”.The vote capped more than a week of intense political drama in the democratic South following Yoon’s failed attempt to impose martial law on December 3.Hundreds of thousands of people took …

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Georgia’s ruling party on Saturday voted for a far-right former footballer to become president in a controversial election process, amid a deepening constitutional crisis and weeks of mass pro-EU protests.The Black Sea nation has been in turmoil since the governing Georgian Dream party claimed victory in contested October parliamentary elections and then announced it would …

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Turkey reopened its embassy in Damascus on Saturday, nearly a week after president Bashar al-Assad was toppled by forces backed by Ankara, and 12 years after the diplomatic outpost was shuttered early in Syria’s civil war.The move came as Middle Eastern and Western diplomats were meeting in Jordan for high-level talks on Syria, and a …

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Brazilian authorities on Saturday arrested General Walter Braga Netto, a former defense minister and close ally of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, on suspicion of obstructing an investigation into an alleged 2022 coup attempt, a police source told AFP.Brazil’s Federal Police said it had detained “people who would be obstructing” the probe.”Braga Netto was arrested in the …

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At least two people were killed Saturday as fierce winds from Cyclone Chido lashed French Indian Ocean territory Mayotte, with authorities warning of severe damage and residents fearing the worst.The two confirmed deaths came on Petite-Terre, the smaller of Mayotte’s two major islands, a security source told AFP.Also on Petite-Terre, the Pamandzi airport “suffered major …

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The citizens of Damascus largely celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s hated regime with joy, after 13 long years of brutal civil war.But the city’s drinking holes did have one concern.The rebel army that overthrew the former leader was led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Islamist group which some drinkers feared would forbid the …

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