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• Seychelles marks World Tuna Day |16 May 2025

  16-05-2025 12:52 via article.wn.com
  Seychelles marks World Tuna Day World Tuna Day is an annual celebration on May 2, highlighting...
  
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• Women protest gender-based violence in Bangladesh

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  DHAKA: Around 3,000 women rallied in Bangladesh on Friday for the country’s interim government to openly support a commission tasked with addressing gender-based violence. The Women’s Affairs Reform Commission was...
  
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• US to start European troop withdrawal discussions later this year

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  TALLINN: The United States will begin discussions with European allies to reduce troops in Europe later this year, US ambassador to Nato Matthew Whitaker said on Friday. Asked to comment on a report that the Trump administration is considering withdrawing troops from Europe, Whitaker said “nothing has been determined”. “But as soon as we do, we...
  
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• US envoy says she quit Ukraine post due to Trump’s ‘appeasement’

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON: The former US ambassador to Ukraine said on Friday that she resigned last month because of President Donald Trump’s policy of “appeasement of Russia”. “I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, and children...
  
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• Ukraine war talks yield POW swap, but no truce

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  ISTANBUL: Russia and Ukraine agreed a large-scale prisoner exchange, said they would trade ideas on a possible ceasefire and discussed a potential meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in their first direct talks in over three years on Friday. But coming out of the highly anticipated talks in Istanbul, which lasted just over 90 minutes, there were few signs of more significant progress toward ending the three-year war. Kyiv was seeking an “unconditional ceasefire” to
  
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• UK Praises India, Pakistan For Steps To Cease Hostilities During Visit To Islamabad

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  During talks with senior leaders in Pakistan, including PM Shehbaz Sharif, Lammy acknowledged how difficult the recent tensions have been, especially for people in both countries and the British Indian and British Pakistani communities. ......
  
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• Trump family hotel project in doubt after forgery inquiry

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  BELGRADE: The future of a luxury property development by Donald Trump’s son-in-law in Belgrade has been thrown into doubt over suspicions that documents used to revoke the site’s protected status were...
  
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• Rushdie’s assailant gets 25 years’ jail

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  MAYVILLE: An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie with a knife at a New York cultural centre in 2022. Hadi Matar, 27, was...
  
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• Romanian Design Week 2025 opens in Bucharest

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  People visit the opening exhibition of Romanian Design Week (RDW) 2025 in Bucharest, Romania, May 16, 2025. The event, an annual festival dedicated to architecture, design and creativity, takes place from May 16 to 25 under the theme "Design of Tomorrow,...
  
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• Republicans reject Trump tax-cut bill after president calls for unity

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax bill failed to clear a key procedural hurdle on Friday, as hardline Republicans demanding deeper spending cuts blocked the measure in a rare political setback for the Republican president in Congress. The vote in the House budget committee came despite Trump’s call for Republicans to “unite behind” the legislation. “We don’t need `grandsters’ in the Republican Party. Stop talking and get it done!” h
  
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• Photo group says it has 'suspended attribution' of historic Vietnam picture because of doubts

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  There's more muddle now to an issue that has split the photographic community. An organization that honored The Associated Press' Nick Ut with its “photo of the year” in 1973 for an iconic image of a naked girl running from ......
  
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• Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif admits India attacked Nur Khan airbase in Operation Sindoor | Watch video

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  The 'Operation Sindoor' of India has reverberated...
  
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• More Hollywood stars deplore Gaza killings

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  CANNES: Hollywood heavyweights Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Riz Ahmed and Guillermo del Toro have added their names to a letter condemning the film industry’s silence on genocide in Gaza, the organisers said on Friday. The petition, signed by more than 370 actors and...
  
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• Mexico firmly opposes U.S. remittance tax proposal

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  MEXICO CITY, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Mexico will deploy "the best political and legal defense" against the U.S. initiative that proposes to impose an additional tax on...
  
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• Man Who Blinded Rushdie In One Eye Sentenced To 25 Years

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  Salman Rushdie was stabbed several times, including in his right eye, which he lost and now wears an eye patch. ......
  
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• Los Angeles FC to host América in Club World Cup qualifying playoff

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  MIAMI — Los Angeles FC will host Mexico's América on May 31 in their Club World Cup qualification playoff, FIFA finalized on Friday. The winner will get group-stage games against Chelsea in Atlanta on June 16, then Esperance from Tunisia in Nashville, and Flamengo of Brazil in Orlando. The play-in game is needed to complete the 32-team lineup of the tournament that starts on June 14 because another Mexican club, León, was removed. León broke tournament integrity...
  
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• Kazuo Ishiguro: 'When you go from book to film, that’s a fireside moment'

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  Movies are a regular presence in author Kazuo Ishiguro's life in part because filmmakers keep wanting to turn his books into them. That includes “Remains of the Day,” “Never Let Me Go” and Taika Waititi's upcoming film of Ishiguro’s most ......
  
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• Iran, European powers hold nuclear talks in Turkiye

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  ISTANBUL: Iran met European powers on Friday to discuss its nuclear negotiations with Washington, while US President Donald Trump issued a new threat unless the Iranians “move quickly” towards a deal. The meeting in Istanbul followed remarks by Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warning of “irreversible” consequences if Britain, France...
  
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• ICC prosecutor, under probe, steps aside temporarily

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has stepped aside pending the conclusion of a probe into a misconduct allegation against him, his office said on Friday, as media reports cite accusations of sexual misconduct. News of Karim Khan’s leave have plunged the...
  
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• Doubt cast on identity of Vietnam ‘Napalm Girl’ photographer

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  AMSTERDAM: World Press Photo said on Friday it had removed US-Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut’s name as the person credited for one of history’s most iconic pictures, the Vietnam War image Napalm Girl, amid doubts over its authorship. The organisation, which awards one of the world’s most prestigious photojournalism prizes, said it carried out its own investigation into the haunting 1972 photo — which shows a nine-year-old girl fleeing naked from a napalm...
  
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• Denmark fines two for desecrating Holy Quran

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  COPENHAGEN: A Danish court on Friday fined two men 10,000 kroner ($1,500) each for desecrating the Holy Quran, including the leader of an anti-Islamic party. The...
  
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• Bolivia's top electoral body to decide on candidate qualification of former President Morales

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  LA PAZ, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Bolivia, Oscar Hassenteufel, said Friday that former President Evo Morales will...
  
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• AP Trending SummaryBrief at 9:06 p.m. EDT

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  Former MLB star Rafael Furcal charged in rock-throwing road rage incident, police say ......
  
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• AP News Summary at 9:20 p.m. EDT

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th-century law ......
  
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• 10 escape from New Orleans jail through hole in cell wall while lone guard left ...

  17-05-2025 04:40 via article.wn.com
  Authorities say 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet. Eight of them are still on the lam. One was caught soon after the Friday morning escape. Another was caught later. ......
  
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• Busted doors, cut bars, and a hole behind the toilet: Everything we know about 10 inmates who escaped Louisiana jail

  17-05-2025 04:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Three employees have been suspended as sheriff claims breakout may be tied up in politics around an upcoming sheriff’s election
  
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• What the BC ‘Safe Supply’ Whistleblower Controversy Is About

  17-05-2025 03:56 via article.wn.com
  Explainer In B.C., an issue involving a leak about “safer supply” drugs being trafficked has...
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th-century law

  17-05-2025 03:56 via article.wn.com
  U.S. top court indefinitely extended the prohibition on deportations from a north Texas detention facility under the alien enemies law ......
  
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• U.S. developing plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

  17-05-2025 03:56 via article.wn.com
  The Trump administration is working on a plan to...
  
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• Trump says Comey knew 'assassination' meaning behind deleted social media post

  17-05-2025 03:56 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump is condemning a cryptic social...
  
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