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Wednesday 5 June 2019

Trump baby blimp flies in London as protests greet president

By JILL LAWLESS One group came dressed
LONDON (AP) — Thousands in the red cloaks and bon-
of protesters greeted Presi- nets of characters from
dent Donald Trump's U.K. Margaret Atwood's "The
visit with anger and British Handmaid's Tale," which is
irony Tuesday, crowding set in a dystopian, misogy-
London's government dis- nist future America.
trict while the U.S. leader Demonstrators filled Tra-
met Prime Minister Theresa falgar Square and spilled
May nearby. down Whitehall, a street
Feminists, environmental- lined with imposing gov-
ists, peace activists, trade ernment offices, before
unionists and others dem- marching half a mile to Par-
onstrated against the lavish liament.
royal welcome being given Many paused to photo-
to a president they see graph a robotic likeness of
as a danger to the world, Trump sitting on a golden
chanting "Say it loud, say it toilet, cellphone in hand.
clear, Donald Trump's not The robot caught the at-
welcome here." tention of passers-by with
"I'm very cross he's here," its recitation of catchphras-
said guitar teacher Katie es including "No collusion"
Greene, carrying a home- and "You are fake news."
made sign reading "keep People carry signs and banners as they march through central London to demonstrate against the "It's 16 feet high, so it's as
your grabby hands off our state visit of President Donald Trump, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. large as his ego," said Don
national treasures" under Associated Press Lessem from Philadelphia,
a picture of one of Queen who built the statue from
Elizabeth II's corgis. the things I'd really like to with the flying of a giant baby, which rose from the foam over an iron frame
"I find him scary. My sign is say." blimp depicting the presi- grass of central London's and had it shipped by boat
flippant and doesn't say A day of protests began dent as an angry orange Parliament Square. across the Atlantic.q

Spanish court halts government plan to exhume Franco

Associated Press Fallen, a self-aggrandizing Judges say that if their ap-
MADRID (AP) — Spain's Su- mausoleum, on June 10 peals are successful, return-
preme Court on Tuesday and move the embalmed ing the general's remains
temporarily halted the gov- body to a public cemetery to the mausoleum could
ernment's plan to move the in the outskirts of Madrid. damage public respect for
remains of Gen. Francisco The plan has been lauded national institutions.
Franco to a discreet tomb by Spaniards on the left but Luis Felipe Utrera, a lawyer
next week, because judges infuriated others nostalgic for the Franco family, said
have yet to rule on appeals for the dictatorship, and it Franco's descendants were
by the dictator's descen- has drawn criticism from "satisfied" by Tuesday's de-
dants. Spain's center-right politi- cision. "The government
The announcement was a cal parties, who consider wanted to move Franco's
setback for Pedro Sánchez, it unnecessary. Sánchez body as if it was a piece of
the Socialist leader who last has met opposition from furniture," Utrera told Span-
month won a new term as Franco's relatives and the ish public broadcaster TVE,
In this Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, flowers lay on the tomb of Span-
ish former dictator General Francisco Franco in a mausoleum prime minister. abbot of the basilica within adding that the govern-
in the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen), near Madrid, Sánchez had wanted to the huge mausoleum com- ment was failing because
Spain. exhume the former dicta- plex where the dictator it's acting "out of a political
Associated Press tor from the Valley of the was buried in 1975. motivation."q