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☆ Colorado governor visits shooting site as community heals
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In a crowded brewery, Colorado Gov. Fierro squeezed Wyatt Kent, a drag queen whose 23rd birthday was being celebrated the night of the shooting, and chatted with his family. Club Q’s community had been a steadfast support network, said Kent, one which has continued to undergird the community’s healing since the tragedy. “If I pour myself out into others they will pour themselves out back into me,” said Kent, “and that’s what this community has always done.”The broader Colorado Springs community is pouring out support for the survivors, too. “Club Q will be back and the community will be back,” he said.
☆ In newly liberated Kherson, Ukrainians celebrate but worry about what's next
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Tom Balmforth | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
KHERSON, Ukraine, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Under rainy skies, Ukrainian-controlled Kherson's central square was a frenetic melee on Thursday afternoon of humanitarian aid queues and displays of patriotic celebration tinged with uncertainty about the future. Hundreds of people stood in a queue for humanitarian assistance, but said they had no idea what they might receive. [1/4] People receive food aid after Russia's retreat from Kherson, Ukraine November 17, 2022. Moscow declared Kherson to be Russian after a September referendum denounced by Ukraine and its allies as a sham. She said humanitarian aid only included basic medicines and insulin, but not what she needed.
☆ Alibaba mum on Singles Day sales tally, says in line with 2021
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Casey Hall | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Singles Day growth this year had been widely predicted at flat to low single digits. Alibaba did not respond to requests for comment on its decision to avoid releasing figures on the 11-day sales event ended that ended on Friday. [1/4] A delivery worker sorts parcels at a makeshift logistics station ahead of Alibaba's Singles' Day shopping festival, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China, November 10, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song 1 2 3 4Consultancy Syntun on Saturday estimated Alibaba and other Chinese e-commerce firms holding Singles Day shopping events together logged 934 billion yuan in sales, up 2.9%. The company's Tmall marketplace offered Singles Day deals on more than 17 million products, 3 million more than last year, with a record-matching 290,000 brands participating.
☆ Chinese brands outnumber foreign names among Singles Day best-sellers
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/2] A delivery worker wearing a protective mask rides an electric scooter across a street ahead of Alibaba's Singles' Day shopping festival, following a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China, November 10, 2022. Alibaba said Singles Day sales were in line with last year, when gross merchandise value rose 8.5%, the lowest since the company started the shopping event in 2009. For the first time, Alibaba did not announce sales data this year. Alibaba rival JD.com said that in the 28 hours from 8 p.m. on Oct. 31, Chinese brands accounted for 80% of the sales of the top 20 brands. ($1 = 7.1066 Chinese yuan renminbi)Reporting by Sophie Yu, Brenda Goh; Editing by William MallardOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ In Russian-held Donetsk, freed POWs return to tearful reunions
  + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Alexander ErmochenkoAMVROSIIVKA, Ukraine, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Fighters affiliated with the Russian-installed administration of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region arrived in the town of Amvrosiivka on Sunday after being freed in a prisoner swap with the Ukrainian military. "I still can't believe I'm home," returning prisoner of war (POW) Maxim Chekanov told Reuters. The fighters were freed during a prisoner exchange on Nov. 3, with the two sides in the eight-month-old conflict releasing 107 captives each. Prisoner exchanges have been a regular occurrence during the conflict, with both military personnel and high-ranking politicians released in the swaps. One woman, Lyudmila, said her returning son, Yevgeny, had lost a lot of weight since she last saw him.
☆ Jubilation shattered by gunfire: How attack on ex-Pakistani PM Khan unfolded
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Asif Shahzad Charlotte Greenfield | Asif Shahzad | Charlotte Greenfield | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Thursday's activities began at around 8 a.m. when supporters of Khan's PTI party gathered in the streets, with crowds swelling into the thousands throughout the day. "Imran Khan arrived and we welcomed him, we never thought about any attack; people were chanting, workers were dancing,” said PTI supporter and witness Qadir Khan. "I heard a burst of shots after which I saw Imran Khan and his aides fall down on the truck," witness Qazzafi Butt said. In the chaos and confusion touched off by the gunfire, supporters clamoured to know what had happened to Khan. "People chanted that they would lay down their lives for Imran Khan," he added.
☆ What do Indians think about Rishi Sunak’s rise? Like UK-India relations, it’s complicated
  + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +13 min
Now, an Indian-origin man has become the Prime Minister of England,” a Zee News anchor said. Leon Neal/Getty Images Sunak and Boris Johnson watch as a sheep is sheared during a visit to a farm in North Yorkshire, England, in July 2019. Danny Lawson/PA Images/Getty Images Sunak speaks during a general election debate in Cardiff, Wales, in November 2019. Hollie Adams/Bloomberg/Getty Images Sunak and Murty are seen with their daughters, Krishna and Anoushka, while campaigning in Grantham, England, in July 2022. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested as much in a tweet welcoming Sunak’s appointment.
☆ In pictures: Russia launches biggest air strikes since start of Ukraine war
  + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Jeremy Schultz | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
Grief-stricken relatives sobbed and clutched toys a day after a former policeman killed 34 people, most of them young children, in a knife and gun rampage there that has horrified Thailand.
☆ New York Comic Con style
  + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
Grief-stricken relatives sobbed and clutched toys a day after a former policeman killed 34 people, most of them young children, in a knife and gun rampage there that has horrified Thailand.
☆ Powerful quake strikes Mexico on anniversary of temblors, at least one dead
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
MEXICO CITY, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck western Mexico on Monday on the anniversary of two devastating temblors, killing at least one person, damaging buildings, knocking out power and sending residents of Mexico City scrambling on to streets for safety. Authorities also reported damage to two hospitals in the western state of Michoacan near the epicenter. 1/5 People stand in the street after a quake, in Mexico City, Mexico, September 19, 2022. Thousands of people were killed in the Sept. 19, 1985 earthquake and more than 350 died in the Sept. 19, 2017 quake. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Mexico City newsroom; writing by Dave Graham; editing by Stephen Eisenhammer and Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Opinion: The tyranny of Idi Amin -- and limits of a British welcome
  + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Opinion Lucy Fulford | Lucy Fulford | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
She is the author of a forthcoming book, "The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and How Ugandan Asians Changed Britain." In early August 1972, Uganda's brutal military dictator Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of the country's entire Asian population -- including my grandparents. And a British welcomeBut when Amin gave his expulsion order, the British government didn't leap into action. Prince Philip meets Ugandan Asians at a British reception center in Kent, November 1972. Lucy FulfordFormer Prime Minister David Cameron has referred to Ugandan Asians as "one of the most successful groups of immigrants anywhere in the history of the world," a legacy many British Ugandan Asians are rightly proud of.
☆ Made Men: A photo tour of the most notorious sites of New York Mafia history – and what they look like now
  + stars: | 2021-07-23 | by ( Andrew Lichtenstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +25 min
Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderManhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, on the western edge of Midtown, got its name from its crowded tenements. On March, 13, 2019, Gambino family crime boss Frankie Cali was shot dead in the driveway outside his Todt Hill home. Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderThe service road to the Belt Parkway runs through the northern edge of the Brighton Beach neighborhood. John Gotti's Family Home, Howard Beach, QueensThe home where John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family. It's here that John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family and thus the 'Godfather' of the American mafia, lived and raised his family.
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