#BREAKING European Parliament lifts the immunity of Catalan MEPs Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comin and Clara Ponsati, who are wanted by Spain following Catalonia's independence attempt in 2017
#BREAKING EU Parliament decision shows Catalan issue 'to be resolved in Spain': Madrid
#UPDATE European Parliament waives immunity of three Catalan MEPs.
The European Parliament lifts the immunity of Catalan MEPs Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí, who are wanted by Spain following Catalonia's independence attempt in 2017
#UPDATE The European Parliament has lifted the immunity of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two allies wanted by Spain following Catalonia's independence attempt in 2017 u.afp.com/UN3X
#BREAKING Catalan separatist MEPs blame 'persecution' for immunity loss
#UPDATE Three Catalan separatist MEPs -- Carles #Puigdemont, Toni #Comin and Clara #Ponsati -- have blamed a European Parliament vote stripping them of their immunity on "political persecution" by Spain, which wants to try them on sedition charges
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🇬🇧 Britain's royal family launches an internal investigation into racism claims made by Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, indicating the couple's comments would not go unchallenged
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🇲🇲 Hundreds of soldiers and police swoop on a railway station in Yangon, seeking to arrest workers on strike to protest against the military coup in Myanmar
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🇺🇸 The first jurors are selected in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white police officer accused of killing George Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis laid bare racial wounds in the United States
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The town of Taro had sea walls that were supposed to be able to survive almost anything the ocean could offer up, but the 2011 tsunami still brought utter destruction.
The lesson learned in many Japanese coastal towns was: build higher
Then and now by @AFP photographers: Yasuyoshi Chiba, Philippe Lopez, Toru Yamanaka, Toshifumi Kitamura, Kazuhiro Nogi
Battle in nature.
Combo of a 10-metre-high tree, dubbed the "Miracle Pine", in Rikuzentakata in March 2011 (top L); in 2012 (top R); in 2013 when the tree was thought to have died; and finally nearly 10 years later with an artificial tree standing as a symbol of reconstruction
#BREAKING Judge orders release of Senegal opposition leader
#UPDATE A judge in #Senegal's capital Dakar freed opposition leader #OusmaneSonko from detention on Monday, his lawyers said, after his arrest provoked days of deadly clashes in the West African state
VIDEO: 🇸🇳 Supporters of Senegal's detained main opposition leader, #OusmaneSonko, protest outside a court in Dakar where a judge ordered his release on Monday pending an investigation after he was formally charged with rape
🇬🇧 Suicidal thoughts, a racist royal and an heir-to-the-throne trapped by tradition and protocol: Prince Harry and his wife Meghan lift the lid on life inside Britain's royal family
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🇺🇸 Minneapolis residents brace for the start of jury selection in Derek Chauvin's trial over the death of George Floyd, a Black man whose dying struggles were captured on video
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🇲🇲 Two anti-coup protesters are shot dead in Myanmar as demonstrators across the country seek to paralyse the economy with strike action following a weekend of night raids and arrests
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