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Through churches, social media and the relatives of the nine African-Americans who were killed in Charleston, S.C., a campaign converted or tamed opponents.
Gov. Alejandro García Padilla said that his administration would probably seek significant concessions from its creditors on a $72 billion debt load.
Some consumer websites say they will not sell users’ data, but unrestricted-data clauses allow them to transfer it if a merger or other transaction occurs.
The dramatic shift in public opinion, and now in the nation’s laws, on same-sex marriage has left evangelical Protestants in an uncomfortable position.
The prime minister’s decisions escalated tensions and uncertainty over a financial crisis that some analysts say could have global ripples.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 24, 2015, covering June 29, 2015.
Muse
Taylor Swift
Of Monsters and Men
Florence + the Machine
The Rolling Stones
2015Hisham Barakat, Egyptian lawyer and judge (born 1950)[†]
Hisham Muhammad Zaki Barakat was Prosecutor General of Egypt from 2013 to 2015. During his term as state prosecutor, he was responsible for thousands of controversial prosecutions, including several widely deemed politically motivated resulting in death sentences for hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. He was assassinated in a car bombing on 29 June 2015.
2015Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (born 1931)[†]
Josef Masopust was a Czech football player and coach. He played as midfielder and was a key player for Czechoslovakia, helping them reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final. He was capped 63 times, scoring ten goals for his national team.
2015Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (born 1927)[†]
Charles Victor Pasqua was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]