Plain language news for August 28 2023 at 725 pm

Plain language news for August 28, 2023 at 7:25 pm TVthek

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More than 4,000 refugees arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa yesterday. Refugees leave their homes because of war, for example. Nearly 250 refugees are under the age of 18. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has approved a legal document making it more difficult to rescue Mediterranean refugees.

Russian authorities officially confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash on 23 August. Prigozhin was the head of the military group “Wagner”. Prigozhin criticized the war in Ukraine. DNA analysis revealed that one of the 10 dead passengers was Prigozhin. DNA analysis is a biological process by which various information about a person is discovered.

Today is the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, the capital of the United States. King stood up for the rights of African Americans. In this August 28, 1963 speech, King stated that in the future he wanted his children to live in an America where all people were equal.