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Macron labels Trappes shooting a racist terrorist attack
Governments are having to improvise as public anger outpaces their usual crowd control. Italian authorities are on maximum alert after protesters switched to organizing surprise flash mobs via chat rooms. France is deploying 70,000 officers to contain demonstrations after the president labeled a deadly shooting in Trappes a racist terrorist attack. Brussels shopkeepers are boarding up windows ahead of far-left marches. In Tirana, Albania's prime minister placed a stone table outside his office to invite rioters to talk; in Prague, the Czech prime minister has taken to personally telephoning his detractors.
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Supreme Court gives government five days to hand over voting data
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Security chief resigns after guard pushes journalist
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