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UK politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
23 hours ago

Green Party wins UK by-election in blow to Labour, PM Starmer

Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer won a parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton, a traditional Labour stronghold, with 40.7% of the vote, signaling a fracturing of UK two-party politics and Labour's decline.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Rabih Alameddine wins National book award for fiction with darkly comic epic spanning six decades

This morning I saw two videos, he said. One was of an ICE agent. The woman was on the asphalt, zip-tied. He came over and zapped her, and then carried her like garbage and threw her in the back of the SUV. The second video, he continued, showed a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon that was bombed and 12 people died. And I kept thinking: they make a desolation and call it a ceasefire. Sometimes, as writers, we have to say: enough.
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