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Federal authorities last year ordered the removal of herds from protected Indigenous territory on the world's largest river island, Bananal Island.
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Some of those include panniculectomies (Ozempic skin removal surgery) and abdominoplasties (tummy tucks).
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Haitian soldiers seasoned on American battlefields during the revolution later sparked Haiti’s overthrow of French colonial rule, depriving France of its most profitable slave colony and ending one of the most brutal enslavement of human beings in modern world history.
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Then in 1973, Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his secretary of state, plotted the overthrow of yet another democracy in Chile, propping up the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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The flight or expulsion of 850,000 Jews from countries across the Middle East is a story that still too often rests in silence, but even when it is told, the ideology that caused it is seldom named.
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The Radical Reform Movement has called for the expulsion of foreign investors.
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Dugan resigned from her position as a Milwaukee County circuit judge two weeks after her conviction amid threats of impeachment from Republican state lawmakers.
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Dugan resigned from her position as a Milwaukee County circuit judge two weeks after her conviction amid threats of impeachment from Republican state lawmakers.
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But his tenure was also marked by a notoriously volatile temperament that ultimately led to his dismissal in September 2000.
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Just a brutal start for Qatar, which now gets a red card and the dismissal of Homam El Amin.
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Defense attorney Michael Burt had argued a video deposition prosecutors conducted with a key witness is hearsay evidence and should not be admissible, as the witness could not be subject to cross-examination.
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According to a deposition transcript filed in the case, Ovitz showed up to testify at his attorney’s office in New York.
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The union announced on Friday that the suspension would continue until at least Tuesday.
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Winkelman, who led the district attorney’s law division beginning in 2018, is appealing the suspension.
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Houston has relented, however, following the council’s ouster of Commissioner Omar Farmer, an outspoken police critic, and a cooling-off of tensions between Houston and Commissioner Ricardo Garcia-Acosta, the current chair of the watchdog body.
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And he was so reviled by the Hollywood establishment that none other than Frank Sinatra hand-delivered a letter calling for his ouster.
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“Dethronement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dethronement. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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