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• 1st LD: U.S. unveils aid package to farmers affected by tariff policies

  08-12-2025 23:08 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government on Monday unveiled an aid package of 12 billion U.S. dollars to farmers hit...
  
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• At least 19 dead as buildings collapse in Morocco’s Fez

  10-12-2025 11:10
  
  Fez was caught up in a wave of protests against the government over deteriorating living conditions
  
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• Trump says he will speak to Thailand and Cambodia as fighting erupts months after US-brokered truce

  10-12-2025 11:05
  
  Truce signed in October summit in Trump's presence collapsed on 8 December after the two sides blamed each other for renewed clashes
  
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• Another scam rocks Tirumala temple: Rs540 million fake silk dupatta fraud exposed

  10-12-2025 11:02 via article.wn.com
  Dubai: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which manages one of the world’s most revered and richest Hindu temples, has been shaken by a decade-long procurement scandal involving fake silk dupattas worth nearly Rs540 million. Coming barely a year after the 2024 adulterated laddu ghee controversy, the fresh revelations have deepened concerns about systemic lapses in the temple’s procurement and quality-control mechanisms. An internal vigilance probe has now found that from 2015
  
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• The 20 best fiction and nonfiction books

  10-12-2025 11:01 via article.wn.com
  Publishers will release as many as 1 million books this year, so good luck summarizing that. But if what I read and loved in 2025 is any indication, writers have pulled their focus in from the big picture to the ......
  
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• The 10 best books of 2025: Censorship, crime and compassion

  10-12-2025 11:01 via article.wn.com
  CHICAGO — There are 49 books in front of me, stacked like colorful bricks in a wall. These are the 49 books I didn’t include in the Chicago Tribune’s 10 Best Books of 2025. If you’re curious about the recipe ......
  
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• Review: ‘Sunshine Man’ has two protagonists; one wants to kill the other

  10-12-2025 11:01 via article.wn.com
  It might be the best opening line of a novel this year: “The week I shot a man clean through the head started like any other.” That’s how Emma Stonex’s “The Sunshine Man” starts. Her followup to “The Lamplighters” (a ......
  
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• Holiday book guide 2025: The best gift books of the season, paired to some very ...

  10-12-2025 11:01 via article.wn.com
  My favorite part of the holidays is giving someone a book. I’m that person who gives everyone on my list a wrapped book then I joke it’s a box of socks. My least favorite part of the holidays, however, is ......
  
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• Couldn't make it up: Half of UK novelists fear AI takeover of fiction

  10-12-2025 11:01 via article.wn.com
  BERLIN — It is perhaps difficult to imagine Jane Austen or D.H. Lawrence or Evelyn Waugh or even the Bronte sisters being as worried, but one in two of Britain's current crop of novelists fear artificial intelligence (AI) could be ......
  
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• Pritzker signs bill backing immigration protections in courthouse

  10-12-2025 11:00 via article.wn.com
  BRENDEN MOORE Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Christening it as part of a “nation-leading” response to aggressive federal immigration raids, Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday allowing Illinois residents to sue immigration agents who arrest them in or near courthouses or if they believe their constitutional rights were violated. kAm%96 ?6H =2H — H9:49 =2H>2<6CD 92G6 24<?@H=65865 :D =:<6=J E@ 7246 2 =682= 492==6?86 — 2=D@ C6BF:C6D AF3=:4 4@==
  
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• Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado unable to attend Oslo ceremony due to security threats, Nobel Institute says

  10-12-2025 11:00 via article.wn.com
  Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado will not attend the award ceremony in Oslo because of severe security threats and travel restrictions imposed by Venezuela’s government, the Nobel Institute said Wednesday. Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the institute, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that Machado...
  
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• Newly reopened Mattoon multiplex theater gets a marquee

  10-12-2025 11:00 via article.wn.com
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• ‘I am p***ed off as hell’: Tennis star Martina Navratilova slams ‘capitulation’ to Trump in new ad campaign

  10-12-2025 11:00
  
  The tennis star says she won’t be ‘cowed’ by an ‘authoritarian regime’ 50 years after she defected from communist Czechoslovakia
  
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• Congresswoman Ilhan Omar calls Trump a ‘national embarrassment’ after president’s racist rant about ‘hellhole’ and ‘s***hole’ countries

  10-12-2025 11:00
  
  Donald Trump also revived old conspiracy theories about Ilhan Omar marrying her brother to gain citizenship to the US
  
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• The BBC's biggest threat comes from its Left-wing allies

  10-12-2025 10:59 via article.wn.com
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• Bodycam video shows moments before police arrest Luigi Mangione in McDonald’s

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• Xcaliber International General Counsel Eric Estes Named a 2026 Legends in Law Honoree

  10-12-2025 10:58 via article.wn.com
  Award to be Presented at the Library of Congress June 1, 2026 ......
  
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• US plans to mandate social media checks for visa-free visitors

  10-12-2025 10:57 via article.wn.com
  The plan is the latest in a series of measures from the Trump administration aimed at restricting entry. ......
  
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• From Israeli-held zones in Gaza, foes of Hamas seek lasting role

  10-12-2025 10:57 via article.wn.com
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• At least 19 killed in collapse of two buildings in Morocco’s Fez, state news agency says

  10-12-2025 10:57 via article.wn.com
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• 10 names we hate, according to 2 baby name consultants

  10-12-2025 10:55 via article.wn.com
  Baby name consultant Colleen Slagen isn't a fan of talking about names she doesn't like. Friend and fellow baby name consultant Jessie Paquette is not afraid to share the names that simply "do not work" for her. "I thought it was a very important conversation in a long form video format because we can give backup to what we're saying," Paquette tells TODAY.com. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are WATCH HERE The women were not interested in simply throwing a video titled "Names We Hate"
  
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• Why is Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado not attending award ceremony | About ...

  10-12-2025 10:54 via article.wn.com
  Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado, who is also a Venezuelan opposition leader, will not attend the award ceremony in Norwegian capital Oslo on Wednesday, said head of the Nobel Institute Kristian Berg Harpviken. When Nobel peace prize was announced, Maria Machado was described as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”(File/AFP) He added that Machado's daughter will accept the prize on her...
  
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• Trump Pennsylvania rally: POTUS' inflation speech turns into discussion about immigrants from ‘filthy, dirty’ countries

  10-12-2025 10:54 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump’s speech at his Pennsylvania rally, meant to focus on combating inflation, turned into a discussion about immigrants from ‘filthy’ countries. Inflation, a major issue that has impacted the US president’s popularity, could not command his entire attention. Trump Pennsylvania rally: POTUS' inflation speech turns into discussion about immigrants from ‘filthy, dirty’ countries (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)(AFP) At a casino and r
  
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• Record number of Indian nationals removed from Canada in 2025: CBSA data

  10-12-2025 10:54 via article.wn.com
  Toronto: A record number of Indian nationals were removed from Canada by the country’s authorities, surpassing the high set in 2024. Travellers at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Picture for representative purpose only). (Bloomberg) In the first ten months of this year, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) enforced removals of 2,831 Indians, out of a total of 18,969. That figure for the ten months of 2025 is already over 41% hi
  
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• Florida crash: Shocking moment plane dove into roadway, smashed into Toyota Camry | Video

  10-12-2025 10:54 via article.wn.com
  A shocking video shows the jaw-dropping moment a plane crashed into a car on a busy Florida Interstate during an emergency landing. The incident left a driver injured, according to the New York Post. Florida crash: Shocking moment plane dove into roadway, smashed into Toyota Camry(WESH) The “fixed-wing multi-engine aircraft” smashed into a 2023 Toyota Camry in the southbound lane of I-95 in Cocoa, Florida, around 5:45 pm on Monday, December 8, according to...
  
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• Cambodia-Thailand border clashes send half a million into shelters | Kuwait Times Newspaper

  10-12-2025 10:54 via article.wn.com
  SAMRAONG, Cambodia: Half...
  
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• British tourists face undergoing social media screening before being allowed into the US

  10-12-2025 10:54 via article.wn.com
  Hundreds of thousands set to travel to America for the World Cup may have to hand over online history ......
  
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• 2 buildings collapse in Morocco's Fez, at least 19 dead: Report

  10-12-2025 10:54 via article.wn.com
  At least 19 people died and at least a dozen were others injured after two buildings collapsed in Morocco's Fez city early on Wednesday, AFP news agency reported, citing Maghreb Arab Press Agency, the Moroccan news agency. Representative image: The buildings collapsed...
  
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• Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado and why won’t she appear for ...

  10-12-2025 10:48 via article.wn.com
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• UN says Hong Kong using ‘draconian’ security laws against citizens calling for accountability after fire

  10-12-2025 10:48 via article.wn.com
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