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"This betrayal was more painful to the Mau Mau than the actual bullet of the colonial forces," he told AFP.
From Barron's
The precarious state of her mind forces us to question whether Sylvia and Ted are ghosts, hallucinations or literary inventions sprung to life.
From Los Angeles Times
Delivering her speech prior to the PM, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described Starmer as an "unflinching ally and friend," and said both the EU and UK faced the threat of "outside forces trying to weaken our union from within".
From BBC
"We've seen this pattern: rocky inside, gaseous outside, across hundreds of planetary systems. But now, the discovery of a rocky planet in the outer part of a system forces us to rethink the timing and conditions under which rocky planets can form," says Cloutier, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
From Science Daily
"Each new system adds another data point to a growing picture of planetary diversity -- one that forces scientists to rethink the processes that shape worlds across the galaxy."
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.