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The Moulin Rouge, founded in 1889, became a global symbol of end-of-the-century Parisian culture, its famed can-can dancers widely depicted in paintings by avant-garde artists.

“I need to pause and think,” Pedro Sanchez said.

Tens of thousands of people have signed petitions calling for harsher penalties for domestic violence as the Central Asian nation is riveted by the trial of a businessman accused of killing his wife.

Three have been charged with conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act, police said, while two were charged with possessing or controlling violent extremist material accessed online.

Xiaolei Wu, a former student at the Berklee College of Music, threatened to chop off the hands of a person who posted a flyer on campus advocating democracy in China and reported their family to Chinese authorities.

“There were well over 200 along the beach here and just nearby and there’s 31, I think, deceased but the rest got away, which is an amazing story,” a researcher on the scene said.

Fueled in part by a stronger dollar, the yen’s weakness comes as the Bank of Japan is due to release its monetary policy decision Friday.

The Karen National Union has fallen back from Myawaddy, a trading post it gained control of this month, after a counteroffensive by Myanmar’s ruling junta.

Membership is declining as more conservative congregations leave the fold.

Thousands of Argentines filled the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities as President Javier Milei touted the country's first quarterly surplus since 2008.

The increase is “nothing that we’re celebrating,” Ahmed Bayram of the Norwegian Refugee Council charity told NBC News.