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Elephants are preparing to take their final bow at the Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus, ending a 145-year spectacle that delighted fans and enraged animal activists. Vanessa Johnston reports.
Elephants are preparing to take their final bow at the Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus, ending a 145-year spectacle that delighted fans and enraged animal activists. Vanessa Johnston reports.
EU leaders are determined to "act very quickly" on a plan to use the profits from frozen Russian central bank assets to arm Ukraine, the European Council President Charles Michel says. The proposal, at the heart of talks between leaders in Brussels, could unlock some three billion euros ($3.3 billion) a year for Kyiv -- once given a final green light. SOUNDBITE
Polish ultra far-right MP Grzegorz Braun is expelled from the chamber for using a fire extinguisher to put out a Hanukkah menorah, a nine-branched candelabra, placed in the lobby of the Polish Parliament. "This should have never happened," Szymon Holownia later told reporters after he ordered Braun to leave the plenary, adding that he would call for an investigation into the incident. IMAGES
'We must act now. There is no time. We must return all captives back home,' says the cousin of Itay Svirsky, who was taken hostage by Hamas militants during the cross-border attack on Israel on October 7. Svirsky's cousin was speaking at a CRIF (Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions) conference in Paris attended by families of Hamas hostages. SOUNDBITE
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