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Will make it harder for minorities to vote. more than 20—thousand people gathered in washington dc, with rallies also taking place in phoenix, atlanta, minneapolis and elsewhere the palestinian authorities say a twelve—year—old boy shot by israeli soldiers last week on the gaza border has died of his injuries. hundreds of people attended the funeral of oman hassan abu al—nile, who was hit by live fire during clashes between protesters and the israeli army last saturday. there have been c...

Got some new statistics to bring you on the number of people being pinged. apparently it is falling. last week a total of 261,000. an 80% decrease from the previous week. to break it down, there were 1.5 per case issued by the nhs app in england last week. however, the figures are still above the levels in may. 1.1 pings per case at the beginning of may, but it is still coming down. councils across england are preparing to house up to 20—thousand afghan refugees over the next few years, follow...

Disaster, the exit, those words still apply. well see what happens after this. you can make the right decision but you can execute the wrong way. and the question is as we say in the now what? well get the latest on the ground in afghanistan from cnns nick paton walsh in kabul for us. nick? >> reporter: don, the pen gone doubled down on the idea they can get 30,000, 20 thousand afghans who worked with u.s. forces here out of the country in some frankly miraculous evacuation effort. to the scenes...

What was about to happen. 20 thousand afghans who helped the united states as interpreters, fixers and various capacities have applied for these special visas. 2,000 of them have left. 20,000 applied. how can this be accomplished amidst the chaos? >> well, you know, i have to say that the presidents response was very, very disappointing, frankly he should have stuck it in an op ed. i dont understand how that could possibly be his response. you know, what is happening in kabul is just, you know, ...

The currency lost 90% of its worth on the open market. you can see here the value of the currency over the past 20 years. and it is falling quickly, last month buying one us dollar from a vendor in lebanon would have cost around 15,000 lebanese pounds. now, its around 20 thousand lebanese pounds. and thats meant that the savings and the salaries of ordinary lebanese are almost worthless. this nurses salary in beirut was once worth 1100 dollars a month. now its worth less than 70.

Are probably good on that so, no. it harks back to those wonderful images of the royal yacht britannia and before that king edward vii conducting his royal, kingly diplomacy around the world, but those days are past. this isnt going to be a royal yacht britannia and i honestly dont see how it fits into promotion of modern, high—tech britain. that was a cross bench appear and a former ambassador to france amongst many otherjob former ambassador to france amongst many other job titles former amb...

Than all the sports combined. see you are getting a slice of american history every time you watch it. and its a huge event, isnt it? theyll be 20 thousand fans in the stadium, in tampa bay, the tampa bay buccaneers of the first team to play at home, which could be a factor, do they? absolutely. they understand where theyre at. when you come into any environment, there is a bit of uncertainty, they dont have that and they have a huge cannon in the end zone that every time you score it goes off a...

Contributing act to the racial wealth gap in the united states. the 2016 median family wealth for white families was $171,000. wealth is defined as total market value of all your assets, security, and property and compare that to 20 thousand the amount for african-americans, one-tenth. by 1920, african-americans made up 10% of the population in the region but represented 14% of farm owners. get this. data from the census bureau and u.s. agricultural department show between 1910 and 1997, black f...

That is a lot of people. that is a lot of people. it looks like the academy awards is to look before they decided to go political against us. now the academy awards -- that includes half a million brand-new manufacturing jobs which the previous administration of said will never happen. that will never happen. it won to have happened if you had them, right here in pennsylvania we have added 155, 50,000 jobs including 20 thousand new construction jobs, nobody thought that was possibl possible. mor...

In iraq. it is believed that more than 1,000 isis fighters have managed to avoid capture by forces and have crossed the open desert border in the last six months defying a massive operation by u.s., kurdish, iraqi and allied forces to stamp out the remnants of the terror group. the iraqi army has deployed more than 20 thousand troops to guard that frontier. militants are using tunnels and the cover of night to get across. isis cells operating in at least four northwestern provinces are carrying ...