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France inducts 1st Black woman into its pantheon

France inducts 1st Black woman into its pantheon

Monkey festival returns: Monkeys cling onto a man during the annual festival, which resumed after a two-year gap, in Lopburi, Thailand. Reuters



Paris: France is inducting Josephine Baker — Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French World War II spy and civil rights activist — into its pantheon, the first Black woman honoured in the final resting place of France's most revered luminaries. AP

Donations pour in for US man freed after 43 yrs

kansas city: More than $1.4 million has been raised for 62-year-old Kevin Strickland, who spent 43 years behind bars before a judge overturned his conviction in a triple killing. AP

Cambodia’s ex-premier Prince Ranariddh dies

phnom penh: Cambodian former Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, whose royalist political party won elections in 1993, has died in France. He was 77. Reuters


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