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«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Demonstrators again converge on Georgia's parliament after the country's EU bid was suspended

Thousands of demonstrators in the Georgian capital have converged on parliament again in the capital of the South Caucasus nation. They are venting outrage against the governing party’s decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union. Riot police have deployed to push the protesters away from parliament. There already had been mass opposition protests against the disputed October parliamentary election. The demonstrations now have new life. Georgia's governing party has objected to European Parliament criticism of the election. Читать дальше...

Scoop 

Let’s Give Less To Landfill This Christmas

The Tauranga community has made an impressive effort reducing the amount of waste going to our landfills since the launch of the new kerbside collections in 2021, nearly halving the amount of household waste going to landfill each year.

Green and Gold Rugby 

TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY

DAMN IT, HE’S BACK Well no it bloody well isn’t if you are a true blue Soap Dodging Taswegian. However, setting that aside for a moment and in the true spirit of Christmas, mines a Hellyer’s Road single malt whiskey aged in French Oak red wine barrels in case you’re buying at $640 a bottle, [...]

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CBSNews.com 

New book "The Barn" examines the killing of Emmett Till

Every day just outside Drew, Mississippi, people drive by a barn with no idea what they are passing. It was in that barn where 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed in 1955. Till's lynching sparked the civil rights movement. Wright Thompson's new book "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" examines how an ordinary building many see conceals an extraordinary evil no one knows. Jim Axelrod has more.