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    The Algerian Olympics team threw flowers in the Seine, at the point where in 1961 around 200 Algerians were drowned by French police crushing a protest against an anti-Muslim curfew.
    La délégation algérienne jette des fleurs lors de la cérémonie d'ouverture des JO dans la Seine, et plus précisément au pont où nos valeureux chouada ont été noyés en 1961. Gloire à nos martyrs. Vive l'Algérie 🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿 #ceremoniedouverture
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    ‘Our correspondent Richard Spencer found a guy with an unfortunate name’
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    Replying to @piersmorgan
    As a historian of the Italian right, let me just say that you are a fucking idiot
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    This day in 1942, the communist French Resistance fighter Jean Quarré was executed by the Nazis at Mont-Valérien, aged 23. On the way to his firing squad, he stuck out his tongue at the German cameraman making a propaganda film
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    The new Italian defence minister was hospitalised during the 2013 election campaign after smoking 150 cigarettes in one day. Which would equal one every six minutes from 8am till 11pm
    Guido Crosetto best skills and highlights :
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    The German “prince” involved in the coup plot looks like he was radicalised after being sacked from a mid morning BBC antiques programme
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    For an hour yesterday La Repubblica illustrated an article about the death of Benedict XVI with a photo of Anthony Hopkins
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    Elder statesman of the assassination community speaks
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    "The US couldn't choose the Left: there wasn't one. When there's no more Left, there's no limit on the Right. When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation"
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    Łukasz Litewka, elected to the Polish parliament for leftwing alliance Lewica, used part of his campaign poster to advertise a homeless dog that needed adopting
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    Beautiful speech by @JLMelenchon on free time, explaining what the fight in France is really about
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    1923 Italian Communist membership card
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    How quaint and British! Unsurprisingly, this "no news day" was the culmination of several days' represion of the Indian independence movement, including the arrest of Nehru
    #OnThisDay 1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment.
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