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El misterio de la casa donde naci la reina Isabel II

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Sean CoughlanCorresponsal de la realeza BBC News2 enero 2022 ¿Dónde quedaba exactamente la casa en la que nació la reina Isabel II? ¿Los visitantes han estado viendo el lugar equivocado? ¿Es cierto que la casa sufrió daños durante los bombardeos nazis? La monarca británica nació el 21 de abril de 1926 en la casa número 17 de Bruton Street en Mayfair, Londres. No se trataba de un palacio o una gran finca, ni siquiera de un hospital, sino de una vivienda en una concurrida calle capitalina. Read More...

The burning question in Dallas: Why here?

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As Dallas braced Saturday for the funerals of five officers killed in the deadliest mass shooting of police in nearly a century, their heartbroken colleagues were left to ask: Why here? According to police, gunman Micah Xavier Johnson told negotiators that “he was upset about the recent police shootings,” but Dallas officers have not fatally shot anyone this year. Johnson said he was “upset about Black Lives Matter,” but the police chief in Dallas, who is black, is a national leader in the effort to reduce officer-involved violence. Read More...

White companies wouldn't remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it.

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RICHMOND — Workers in bright yellow vests circled up in the morning chill. Some clutched cups of Starbucks coffee, a last comfort before beginning the hard work of dismantling a statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill in the middle of an intersection. As a small group of Confederate heritage defenders assembled nearby — at least one of them armed — city safety coordinator Miles Jones lectured the work crew on wearing hard hats and eye protection. Read More...