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Protests erupt in Spain after train crash kills dozens

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URDA, Spain — Spain began three days of mourning Thursday after at least 69 people were killed and dozens more injured in the country’s deadliest train crash in decades . But anger is mounting about the alleged incompetence that allowed the accident to happen and protesters clashed with police overnight outside the country’s transport ministry.

Once considered one of the country’s crowning achievements, Spain’s high-speed rail network had not endured a deadly crash since it came into service over 30 years ago.

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How Laura Loomer and Trump allies amplified ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ lie dogging Abdul El-Sayed

Michigan US Senate candidate signaled support for Egypt’s pro-democracy movement in 2012, not Islamist group The Republican campaign to defeat Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race by casting him as an Islamic extremist is based on a false claim first made by the conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer eight years ago, a Guardian review of the evidence reveals. Loomer, an influential outside adviser to Donald Trump who calls herself “ a proud Islamophobe ”, has claimed since El-Sayed entered politics in 2018 that an open letter he signed in…

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