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Nigel Farage thrilled on Article 50 trigger day

Nigel Farage thrilled on Article 50 trigger day

Nigel Farage, former leader of Ukip, who is widely credited as having been a major factor behind the countrys decision to leave the European Union, says he is thrilled that Britain will be past the point of no return. The UK will trigger Article 50 on 29 March, thereby beginning the formal process of leaving the European Union. Mar 29, 2017
Giant alligator casually saunters across South Carolina golf course

Giant alligator casually saunters across South Carolina golf course

A giant alligator interrupted a golf tournament in South Carolina on 27 March as it casually walked across the course at the Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic’s 10th Annual Celebrity Golf Invitational, according to this report by ABC News.The event was held at the Kiawah Island Club in South Carolina. A representative of the club stated that alligators often walk onto the courses before retreating back to the ponds. Mar 29, 2017
Death threats and racial abuse hurled at Iranian couple by man on New York subway

Death threats and racial abuse hurled at Iranian couple by man on New York subway

An Iranian couple using the subway in New York were verbally harassed by a fellow passenger as they rode the C train from Penn Station uptown, on Saturday 25 March.Mahsa, who asked for her last name to be withheld, posted this footage, in which a man is heard hurling abuse at her and her partner.She wrote on Facebook: “We noticed him getting on the train at 42nd St because he was looking at us hatefully and grumbling something under his breath. When the train got less crowded at 59th St, he started cursing loudly the whole way till 125th St.” Mar 29, 2017
Activists close Stanstead airport runway after surrounding ‘deportation plane’

Activists close Stanstead airport runway after surrounding ‘deportation plane’

Activists from the organisation End Deportations laid on the ground, chained to each other, at Stansted Airport on 28 March as they formed a blockade on the runway to stop a flight they said was deporting asylum seekers to Nigeria and Ghana.Flights were suspended at the airport, with a spokesperson telling the Guardian that eight flights were diverted to other airports in the London area. Mar 29, 2017
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