Tag: Crowd
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Russians Crowd Polling Stations In Apparent Protest As Putin Is Set To Extend His Rule
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Russians crowded outside polling stations at midday Sunday on the last day of a presidential election, apparently heeding an opposition call to protest against President Vladimir Putin in a vote that offered them no real alternatives. Putin is poised to extend his nearly quarter century of rule for six more years after a relentless crackdown…
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South Korea’s Crowd Crush Disaster Prompts No Changes at the Top
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From the beginning, with the grief still raw and anguished questions unanswered, the South Korean government distanced itself from the disaster that unfolded last year on a Halloween weekend in Seoul. Nearly 160 revelers were crushed to death in a narrow alleyway in the Itaewon neighborhood, after huge throngs had amassed with no police officers…
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Crowd in the thousands overwhelms New York City’s Union Square, tosses chairs, climbs on vehicles
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NEW YORK — Thousands of people filled Manhattan’s Union Square Friday afternoon for an internet personality’s hyped giveaway that got out of hand, with some in the crowd clambering on vehicles, hurling chairs and throwing punches, leaving police struggling to rein in the chaos. Aerial TV news footage showed a surging, tightly packed crowd running…
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Trump’s South Carolina rally attracted crowd in range of 50,000 to 55,000, police chief estimates
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PICKENS, S.C. — PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump marked a return to the large-scale rallies of his previous presidential campaigns, speaking to a massive crowd gathered in the streets of a small South Carolina city on a blazing summer weekend. “There’s nowhere else I’d rather be to kick off the Fourth of…
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Harborplace redo must create a place that is 'always cool,' developer tells crowd
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“Cool will make you come back,” MCB Real Estate’s P. David Bramble told an audience of 200 city residents and politicians during the first “listening session” on the redevelopment of the waterfront landmark. Source link
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tells Peoria crowd that Biden’s reelection would leave U.S. ‘unrecognizable’ – Chicago Tribune
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PEORIA — Ahead of the expected launch of a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned a central Illinois audience of GOP faithful Friday night that if President Joe Biden is reelected and other Democrats also win office, “the country is going to be unrecognizable.” In a speech of about…