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• Exiled Hong Kong activist target of harassment campaign

  11-12-2025 07:06 via article.wn.com
  LONDON — A high-profile Hong Kong pro-democracy activist living in the UK has been the target of a campaign of harassment involving letters containing fake, sexually explicit images of her sent from ......
  
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• Karoline Leavitt calls out ‘disingenuous’ Vanity Fair article after Susie Wiles’ Trump interview as writer fires back

  17-12-2025 11:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Karoline Leavitt has criticised what she says is a “disingenuous” Vanity Fair article, after Chief of Staff Susie Wiles called out the publication for allegedly changing the context of her words.
  
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• Rob Reiner death latest: Nick Reiner was asked to leave Conan O’Brien’s party hours before his parents’ deaths

  17-12-2025 11:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  New details emerge about Rob and Michele Singer Reiner’s final hours after their son was charged with two counts of first-degree homicide on Tuesday
  
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• World’s most visited museum remains shut as staff strike

  17-12-2025 11:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Culture Ministry officials have held crisis talks with unions
  
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• Louvre workers vote to extend a strike at world’s most visited museum

  17-12-2025 11:40 via article.wn.com
  Louvre workers vote to extend a strike at world’s most visited museum. ......
  
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• Louvre workers vote to extend a strike at the world's most visited museum

  17-12-2025 11:40 via article.wn.com
  Employees at the Louvre Museum have voted...
  
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• Ex-etiquette: Holiday stress

  17-12-2025 11:40 via article.wn.com
  Q: The holidays are coming, and this...
  
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• Ukraine Army leaves Kyiv city defenceless amid Russia's midnight attack to do revenge strike in…?

  17-12-2025 11:39 via article.wn.com
  Explosions shook Kyiv late on December 16 as Russian...
  
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• UK offers tax breaks to lure Egyptian firms to London bourse – ambassador

  17-12-2025 11:39 via article.wn.com
  The UK is offering fresh tax and...
  
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• South African immigration authorities raid a US refugee processing center

  17-12-2025 11:39 via article.wn.com
  South African authorities say a center processing applications for the United States refugee program was raided by immigration and law enforcement officers and seven Kenyan nationals were arrested for working there illegally ......
  
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• Sam Altman flaunts abs in ChatGPT-generated firefighter-style pic, internet reacts: ‘Nuked a rainforest for this’

  17-12-2025 11:39 via article.wn.com
  Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, set off a round of online reactions after sharing an AI-generated image of himself styled as a shirtless firefighter, complete with Christmas lights and a calendar-style pose. The image was not real. It was created using ChatGPT’s image-generation tools and posted as part of a thread demonstrating recent updates to the...
  
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• Nick Reiner's chilling clip surfaces amid reported argument with parents night before murder; ‘don't wanna ...

  17-12-2025 11:39 via article.wn.com
  A video of Nick Reiner with his father Rob has resurfaced after the acclaimed Hollywood director was found murdered along with his wife at their Brentwood home in Los Angeles. Nick was later held responsible for the homicide, as per the Los Angeles Police Department. A report from New York Post said that Nick had had a ‘very loud argument’ with his parents the night before, at Conan O'Brien's holiday party. An old photo showing Rob...
  
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• Louvre workers vote to extend a strike as security scrutiny intensifies

  17-12-2025 11:39 via article.wn.com
  Employees at the Louvre Museum voted Wednesday to extend a strike that has disrupted operations at the world’s most visited museum. (FILES) A notice informs members of the public of the closure of the Louvre Museum as members of the French CGT union protest outside the entrance as museum workers voted to go on strike against increasingly deteriorating working conditions and the declining visitor experience at the world famous museum, in Paris on December 15, 2025. Hundreds of tourists line
  
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• Louvre workers to vote on extending strike as security scrutiny intensifies

  17-12-2025 11:39 via article.wn.com
  Employees at the Louvre Museum are set to vote on whether to extend a strike that shut the world’s most visited museum ......
  
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• Diageo sells East African Breweries stake to Asahi for R38.51bn

  17-12-2025 11:39 via article.wn.com
  The spirits company is selling its stake to cut debt amid US tariff problems...
  
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• Brown University student's social media profiles deleted amid doxing; Rhode Island AG issues stern warning ...

  17-12-2025 11:39 via article.wn.com
  Brown University and the Rhode Island Attorney General have hit back after a first-year student was doxed following the mass shooting on Saturday, that claimed the lives of two students. Authorities are yet to name a suspect in the case, earlier having detained one person before letting him go. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Noronha speaks during a press conference into the ongoing investigation into the December 13 mass shooting at Brown University.(AFP) Far-right...
  
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• Louvre staff vote to extend strike: Unions

  17-12-2025 11:37 via article.wn.com
  Staff at France's Louvre Museum voted on Wednesday to extend a strike over working...
  
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• Bondi Beach mass shooting suspect charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder

  17-12-2025 11:36 via article.wn.com
  A suspected gunman in Sydney's Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offences including 15 charges of murder on Wednesday, as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims. ......
  
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• Woman who allegedly put razor blades and a fish hook in Walmart bread is arrested

  17-12-2025 11:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Camille Benson, of Texas, has been charged with attempted mayhem, according to the Biloxi Police Department
  
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• WW3 fears ramp up as Putin's pal lists Europe targets and warns 'don't blame us'

  17-12-2025 11:33 via article.wn.com
  A mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin has unleashed a fresh threat to Europe in a chilling TV address. The latest rant from the Kremlin ally comes as Brits have been warned to prepare for conflict ......
  
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• Pro-life leader praises Vatican's 'inspiring' anti-abortion Nativity scene: 'It's really beautiful'

  17-12-2025 11:33 via article.wn.com
  FIRST ON FOX: The leader of an international pro-life organization lauded the...
  
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• Man jailed for three years after breaking into petrol station and stealing �1.30

  17-12-2025 11:33 via article.wn.com
  A man broke into a closed petrol station in Spain and stole just �1.30 from the cash register. Despite the small amount taken, his history as a repeat burglar led to a three-year prison sentence that cannot be suspended ......
  
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• The crime that haunts Mexico, sowing fear, disrupting life: extortion

  17-12-2025 11:32 via article.wn.com
  MEXICO CITY — A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations. ......
  
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• Spanish police evict hundreds of migrants from squat deemed a safety hazard

  17-12-2025 11:32 via article.wn.com
  Spanish police have begun carrying out...
  
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• Paris' Louvre staff votes to extend strike, leaving museum closed, BFM TV reports

  17-12-2025 11:31 via article.wn.com
  PARIS, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Staff at...
  
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• Delhi restricts vehicles, office attendance in bid to curb pollution

  17-12-2025 11:31 via article.wn.com
  NEW DELHI, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Authorities in...
  
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• Brazil Senator Flavio Bolsonaro woos business leaders ahead of presidential run

  17-12-2025 11:31 via article.wn.com
  BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Brazilian...
  
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• Bondi Beach attacker’s family in India ‘had no knowledge of his radicalisation’, police say

  17-12-2025 11:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Sajid Akram moved to Australia in 1998 but travelled to Philippines using his Indian passport just weeks before the shooting in Sydney
  
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• US will not release full Venezuela boat strike video, Hegseth says

  17-12-2025 11:28 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday there are no plans to release the...
  
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• Unemployment rate rises, a warning sign for the US economy

  17-12-2025 11:28 via article.wn.com
  The unemployment rate rose to a...
  
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