Student protests in Athens turn violent, disrupt exams as debate rages over private universities | AP News

Student protests in Athens turn violent, disrupt exams as debate rages over private universities | AP News

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police and student protesters clashed in the center of the Greek capital on Thursday after a demonstration against government plans to allow privately run universities.Demonstrators in Athens attacked police cordons, set fire to trash dumpsters and threw stones at riot police near parliament and later during clashes along the capital’s narrow

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Live updates | Death toll in Gaza passes 27,000 as South Africa says Israel is ignoring court ruling | AP News

Live updates | Death toll in Gaza passes 27,000 as South Africa says Israel is ignoring court ruling | AP News

More than 27,000 people have been killed and 66,000 wounded by Israel’s offensive in Gaza, the Hamas-controlled territory’s Health Ministry said Thursday. South Africa’s foreign minister has accused Israel of ignoring last week’s ruling by the United Nations’ top court, which ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent deaths in Gaza.The number of

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Kremlin foe Navalny urges election day protests in Russia next month by voting at a specific hour | AP News

Kremlin foe Navalny urges election day protests in Russia next month by voting at a specific hour | AP News

Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Thursday urged Russians to show their protest of President Vladimir Putin during next month’s presidential balloting by voting at a specific time on election day.In a social media statement relayed from the Arctic penal colony where he is being held, Navalny argued that by forming long queues at noon

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Zelenskyy thanks the EU after it agrees on a new 50 billion-euro aid package for Ukraine | AP News

Zelenskyy thanks the EU after it agrees on a new 50 billion-euro aid package for Ukraine | AP News

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed a decision by the European Union to provide his country with a new 50 billion-euro ($54 billion) support package. (Feb. 1) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed a decision by the European Union to provide his country with a new 50 billion-euro ($54 billion) support package. (Feb. 1) Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM]

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AP PHOTOS: A farming protest movement grips Europe from Brussels and Berlin to Greece and Romania | AP News

AP PHOTOS: A farming protest movement grips Europe from Brussels and Berlin to Greece and Romania | AP News

PARIS (AP) — Snow-dusted tractors lined up outside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and nighttime protests in Romania marked by vivid national flags have become markers of a widespread farmer protest movement across Europe. Starting in France, where farmers blocked major highways around Paris with their tractors, the days-long protests spread across the European Union

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Austrian prosecutors appeal a decision to move ‘monster of Amstetten’ Josef Fritzl to regular prison | AP News

Austrian prosecutors appeal a decision to move ‘monster of Amstetten’ Josef Fritzl to regular prison | AP News

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian prosecutors have appealed a court decision that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison.Ferdinand Schuster, a spokesperson for the state court in Krems, on Thursday confirmed a

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