People ride motorcycles during among the WorldPride parade on Saturday in Washington. Photo: AP

LGBTQ+ people and their allies ­gathered yesterday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC & the site of Martin Luther King&s 1963 &I Have a Dream& speech & to rally for preserving decades of progress while protesting setbacks under US president Donald Trump.

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‘This is charting new ground& & Donald Trump uses ‘untested& law to deploy National Guard to LA protests

Donald Trump&s order to deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles is unprecedented, relying on an unorthodox use of a law aimed at quelling serious domestic unrest or an attack on the United States by a foreign power, some legal experts said yesterday.

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Italian parents seek therapy to cope with ‘nightmare& of three-month school holiday

Stressed Italian parents are turning to psychiatrists to help them deal with the country&s &nightmare& long school holidays.

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‘I was born here but I only received citizenship at the age of 18&: Italians head to the polls for referendums

Italians began voting over two days yesterday in referendums that would make it easier for children born in Italy to foreigners to obtain citizenship, and on providing more job protections.

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Ukraine turns on Poland over World War II massacre commemoration

Ukraine has criticised Polish plans to establish a remembrance day for Poles massacred by Ukrainians during World War II.

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Russia claims Kyiv postponed plans for exchange of soldiers& bodies

Russian officials said yesterday that Moscow is still awaiting official confirmation from Ukraine that a planned exchange of 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed in action will take place, reiterating allegations that Kyiv had postponed the swap.

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