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August 05, 2019
22: French inventor Franky Zapata finally succeeded in his bid to fly his crazy jet-board across the English Channel on Sunday, making the 22-mile crossing in 22 minutes. The pictures of him gliding into Dover were insane.
1: The anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats picked up a Conservative seat in a UK parliamentary by-election in Wales on Friday. That leaves recently appointed Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a governing majority of one as he tries to lead the UK out of the European Union in October.
6: Mexico's president said six of its citizens were killed during the mass shooting that killed 20 people in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday. Mexico's foreign secretary called the shooting an act of terrorism and said his government was considering legal action to "demand that the United States protect the Mexican community in the United States."
500: More than 500 people have been arrested in Hong Kong since protests began on June 9. Yesterday 82 people were detained as protestors, who launched a general strike, clashed with police and fought with club-wielding gangsMore For You

Students and their supporters take part in a protest demanding snap parliamentary elections, continuing an anti-corruption movement sparked by a deadly railway station collapse in Novi Sad in November 2024, in Belgrade, Serbia, May 10, 2026.
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Student protesters are set to take to the streets in Serbia this weekend in the first major demonstrations of the year against President Aleksandar Vučić, as frustration mounts over democratic backsliding and corruption.
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