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• Summer solstice 2022: Sensual traditions on the longest day of the year

  20-06-2022 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Do you feel a stirring in your heart? Maybe a jump in your libido? Heck, are you just getting plain ol' hot and bothered?
  
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• Authorities find boat of slain UK journalist and indigenous expert in Brazil

  20-06-2022 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  The boat in which British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were traveling before they were killed was found Sunday evening, according to the police.
  
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• Authorities find boat of slain British journalist and indigenous expert in Brazilian Amazon

  20-06-2022 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  The boat in which British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were traveling before they were killed was found Sunday evening, according to the police.
  
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• Opinion: Republican election sabotage has already started. This state is proof of that

  20-06-2022 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  Last week, the all-Republican Otero County commission in rural New Mexico showed us how deeply former President Donald Trump's disinformation has penetrated our country's election institutions.
  
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• Lawmaker reacts to Trump asking for 'equal time' at January 6 hearings

  20-06-2022 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Victor Blackwell talks to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) about the potential benefits and drawbacks of having former President Donald Trump speak under oath at the January 6 hearings after he publicly asked for "equal time" to share his side of the story.
  
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• Lawmaker reacts to Trump asking for 'equal time' at Jan. 6 hearings

  20-06-2022 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Victor Blackwell talks to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) about the potential benefits and drawbacks of having former President Donald Trump speak under oath at the January 6 hearings after he publicly asked for "equal time" to share his side of the story.
  
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• Macron has suddenly become as constrained as Biden

  20-06-2022 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  Suddenly, with a single stroke, from one of Europe's most powerful, unassailable leaders, Emmanuel Macron has become as constrained as President Joe Biden.
  
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• Colombia's new president aims to reset relations with US

  20-06-2022 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  Gustavo Petro's victory in Colombia's presidential elections on Sunday opens a new page in the history of the country's relations with the US.
  
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• Analysis: Colombia's new president aims to reset relations with US

  20-06-2022 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  Gustavo Petro's victory in Colombia's presidential elections on Sunday opens a new page in the history of the country's relations with the US.
  
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• 6 people hospitalized after taxi jumps curb in New York City, NYPD says

  20-06-2022 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  A New York taxi cab jumped the curb and struck several people in central Manhattan on Monday, sending six people to local hospitals, including three with life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
  
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• How the 'boyfriend loophole' is stalling gun safety talks in the US

  20-06-2022 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Pamela Brown explains what the "boyfriend loophole" is and why it's holding up gun safety talks in the US Senate.
  
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• Russia's air force has 'underperformed' in Ukraine due to 'risk-averse' strategy, UK says

  20-06-2022 21:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Four months into Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Russia's air force has "underperformed" due to a "risk-averse style," the UK defense ministry said this week.
  
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• Israel set for general election after collapse of weakened government

  20-06-2022 21:21
  
  Country faces fifth vote in three years after Naftali Bennett’s unruly anti-Netanyahu grouping gradually fell apartIsrael’s weakened coalition government has announced that it intends to dissolve the Knesset, setting the stage for the country’s fifth election in three years and a potential return to office for longtime prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.A statement released by the office of the prime minister, Naftali Bennett, on Monday night said that “attempts to stabili
  
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• Hear from Apple employees on union victory

  20-06-2022 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  Apple workers in Towson, Maryland, have voted to form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant's US stores. CNN affiliate WBAL reports.
  
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• Timed Teaser: Tom Hanks said what when his wife tripped?

  20-06-2022 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Test your knowledge of the news these last few days - 10 questions, 10 seconds each. Go!
  
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• Israel calls for new elections one month before Biden visit

  20-06-2022 20:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and coalition partners have called for new elections that are set for October this year. President Biden is due to visit Israel next month.
  
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• Biden says he's considering a gas tax holiday

  20-06-2022 20:03
  
  President Joe Biden said Monday that he is seriously consideringtemporarily halting the federal gas tax as the White House looks to take steps to lower the
  
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• Christian factory worker in Scotland awarded over $26,000 after being fired for wearing cross necklace

  20-06-2022 19:42 via foxnews.com
  
  An employment tribunal awarded more than $26,000 to a Christian factory worker in Scotland who said he was fired because he would not stop wearing a cross necklace.
  
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• Daughter of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny speaks out

  20-06-2022 19:05 via cnn.com
  
  Dasha Navalnaya, the daughter of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, speaks with CNN's Jim Sciutto about the conditions her father faces after he was transferred to a maximum-security prison.
  
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• Biden says it's 'not likely' he will visit Ukraine on Europe trip

  20-06-2022 19:00 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden said Monday he is "not likely" to visit Ukraine when he travels to Europe for the Group of Seven summit and a meeting of NATO leaders later on this week.
  
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• A lot of young women worry about the end of Roe. I would celebrate it

  20-06-2022 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  In the coming days, the US Supreme Court could hand down a decision overturning Roe v. Wade, if we are to believe a draft of the decision leaked to the media several weeks back.
  
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• Canada lays out rules banning single-use plastics

  20-06-2022 18:53
  
  Ban on manufacture and import of six popular types of items will begin in December 2022, and sales a year laterCanada laid out its final regulations on Monday spelling out how it intends to apply a ban on plastic bags, straws, takeout containers and other single-use plastics.“Only 8% of the plastic we throw away gets recycled,” said federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos in French, adding that 43,000 tonnes of single-use plastics a year find their way into the environment, most not
  
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• Bennett and Lapid agree to dissolve Israel's government

  20-06-2022 18:44 via cnn.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid have agreed to dissolve Israel's government.
  
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• East African leaders propose deploying regional force to help DRC

  20-06-2022 18:41
  
  EAC meeting convened to discuss sending personnel to eastern DRC where military has been fighting rebelsEast African heads of state have gathered for a closed-doors meeting in Kenya to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the DRC military has been fighting a resurgence of M23 rebels.The rebels are a group of mainly Tutsi fighters that were defeated in 2013 by the Congolese army and UN peacekeepers. DRC accused Rwanda of backing t
  
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• French elections: Cleaner defeats former minister in parliamentary vote

  20-06-2022 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rachel Keke, a left-wing candidate in Paris, is the first cleaner to become an MP in France.
  
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• Paul Haggis, Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, detained on sexual assault charges

  20-06-2022 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis has been detained in Italy over allegations of sexual assault and aggravated personal injury, according to a statement from local prosecutors and his legal team.
  
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• Analysis: Texas Republicans just proved (again) that this is Donald Trump's party

  20-06-2022 18:17 via cnn.com
  
  • US Supreme Court rushes to end a term like no other
  
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• As many as 320 dead in Ethiopia gun attack, witnesses suggest

  20-06-2022 18:16
  
  Witnesses say victims of massacre in country’s western Oromia region were ethnic Amharas– a minority in the areaThe suspected death toll in an attack by gunmen in Ethiopia’s western Oromia region has risen, with new witness testimony suggesting that between 260 and 320 civilians were killed on Saturday.Reports of the massacre surfaced on Sunday, as survivors described one of the deadliest such incidents for several years in Ethiopia. Continue reading...
  
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• 'We are determined to anchor Moldova in the free world:' Moldova's Prime Minister on joining the EU

  20-06-2022 18:05 via cnn.com
  
  Natalia Gavrilița, Moldova's prime minister, speaks to Bianna Golodryga about the country's desire to join the EU and on facing the threat of Russia as the war in neighbouring Ukraine wages on.
  
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• Macron tried to make the center France's biggest political force. Here's why it backfired

  20-06-2022 17:40 via cnn.com
  
  There's no escaping the fact that losing his parliamentary majority in legislative elections this weekend is a major blow to French President Emmanuel Macron.
  
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• An ancient city emerges after an extreme drought

  20-06-2022 17:28 via cnn.com
  
  A sprawling 3,400-year-old city emerged in Iraq after a reservoir's water level swiftly dropped due to extreme drought.
  
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• Flights returning to normal after difficult holiday weekend

  20-06-2022 17:22 via cnn.com
  
  Air travel is returning to normal Monday after several days of widespread flight cancellations due to weather and staffing issues.
  
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• Daughter of Putin critic Alexey Navalny describes father's imprisonment in Russia

  20-06-2022 17:21 via cnn.com
  
  Dasha Navalnaya, the daughter of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, speaks with CNN's Jim Sciutto about the conditions her father faces after he was transferred to a maximum-security prison.
  
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• Video shows scene in India and Bangladesh as historic flooding underway

  20-06-2022 17:02 via cnn.com
  
  Authorities say millions of people in Bangladesh and northeastern India have been affected by some of the worst flooding in the region in nearly two decades. CNN's Vedika Sud reports.
  
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• Taliban release five British nationals held for six months

  20-06-2022 16:52
  
  Foreign Office diplomats secured their freedom but sources say nothing was given in return except an apologyFive British nationals held by the Taliban since last December including the former BBC cameraman and Afghanistan expert Peter Jouvenal were released on Monday after backroom diplomacy by the British Foreign Office (FCDO).It is understood that the five had been seized separately, and British sources said nothing was given in return for their release except an apology by them. However, the
  
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• Macron tried to make the center the biggest force in French politics. A land-grab by fringe parties has been the result

  20-06-2022 16:52 via cnn.com
  
  There's no escaping the fact that losing his parliamentary majority in legislative elections this weekend is a major blow to French President Emmanuel Macron.
  
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• How to make a gravity-defying building

  20-06-2022 16:41 via cnn.com
  
  When it finally opened in February 2022, Dubai's new Museum of the Future was already one of the city's favorite buildings. And how could it not be? For six years, residents and visitors alike had curiously watched every step of the construction process of this shimmering silver landmark located on Dubai's main highway, Sheikh Zayed Road.
  
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• How Dubai's Museum of the Future was built

  20-06-2022 16:41 via cnn.com
  
  When it finally opened in February 2022, Dubai's new Museum of the Future was already one of the city's favorite buildings. And how could it not be? For six years, residents and visitors alike had curiously watched every step of the construction process of this shimmering silver landmark located on Dubai's main highway, Sheikh Zayed Road.
  
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• What next for France's far right and left?

  20-06-2022 16:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The big winners of France's elections are poles apart but share the aim of opposing Macron.
  
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• Gustavo Petro: first leftist president faces tough challenge in Colombia

  20-06-2022 16:31
  
  Despite the election euphoria, Petro has a thin mandate and is viewed with suspicion by manyHe spent 12 years of his youth in the ranks of an urban guerrilla group, taking the alias of a revolutionary general from Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Later, he would serve as a progressive mayor of Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, and as a senator. He ran for president unsuccessfully twice, unable to overcome the conservative wall erected nearly two
  
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• Todd and Julie Chrisley break silence after fraud convictions

  20-06-2022 16:30 via cnn.com
  
  Todd and Julie Chrisley are speaking out about the "very sad, heartbreaking time" for their family after they were convicted of conspiracy to defraud banks of more than $30 million in loans.
  
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• Libya's oil industry is in disarray right when the world needs it more than ever

  20-06-2022 16:14 via cnn.com
  
  Libya was thrust back into the spotlight last week when it announced that it is pumping a million fewer barrels of oil than it did last year.
  
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• Libya's oil industry is in disarray just as the world needs it more than ever

  20-06-2022 16:14 via cnn.com
  
  Libya was thrust back into the spotlight last week when it announced that it is pumping a million fewer barrels of oil than it did last year.
  
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• Patrice Lumumba: Why Belgium is returning a Congolese hero's golden tooth

  20-06-2022 16:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  All that remains of Congo's murdered leader Patrice Lumumba is handed to his family in Brussels.
  
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• The family separated by war in both life and death

  20-06-2022 15:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A bereaved father in Ukraine is separated from his daughter, who is receiving medical treatment abroad.
  
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• Briton feared dead after going missing while on Seychelles hiking trail

  20-06-2022 15:42
  
  Tributes paid to retired barrister Peter Clement, 57, who was last seen walking alone on trail on 15 MayA retired British barrister is feared to have died in Seychelles after going missing on a jungle hike.Peter Clement, 57, who was reportedly on holiday to celebrate his retirement, was last seen walking alone on the 12-mile Grande Barbe trail on Silhouette Island on 15 May. Continue reading...
  
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• Jennifer Lopez introduces one of her twins with gender neutral pronouns

  20-06-2022 15:37 via cnn.com
  
  Jennifer Lopez and her child Emme Maribel Muñiz, 14, are being praised for a recent duet, but not because of the music.
  
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• Russian-born tennis player changes nationality to avoid Wimbledon ban

  20-06-2022 15:23 via cnn.com
  
  Russian-born tennis player Natela Dzalamidze has changed her nationality to Georgian to avoid the ban Wimbledon imposed on all Russian players following the country's invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• North Korea abruptly stops importing COVID containment goods from China

  20-06-2022 15:16 via foxnews.com
  
  Trade data from Beijing shows North Korea stopped importing COVID-19 prevention and control products from China in May amid the country's COVID-19 outbreak.
  
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• Defying gravity: How Dubai's Museum of the Future was built

  20-06-2022 15:13 via cnn.com
  
  When it finally opened in February 2022, Dubai's new Museum of the Future was already one of the city's favorite buildings. And how could it not be? For six years, residents and visitors alike had curiously watched every step of the construction process of this shimmering silver landmark located on Dubai's main highway, Sheikh Zayed Road.
  
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