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She said she would not apologise for spending "a lot" during Covid but added: "I think we just overran it to the point where it made inflation worse than it needed to be."

Charles de Gaulle was a soldier and politician who formed a French government in exile during World War Two when the Nazi German forces overran France.

On 13 July 2022, in dramatic scenes that were broadcast around the world, crowds overran the presidential palace, jumping into the swimming pool and ransacking the house.

Of course, there was Charlottesville, mass shootings and other violence by white supremacists, and Jan. 6 where neo-Nazis and Kluxers and other white supremacists overran the Capitol.

The Houthis, who started out as anti-government rebels, had spent years in pitched battles with the Yemeni state; in 2014 they overran the capital, Sanaa, then put their sights on the rest of the country.