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• Hae Min Lee's brother is requesting a redo of the hearing that vacated Adnan Syed's murder conviction

  10-12-2022 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  Attorneys representing the brother of Hae Min Lee, the teenager whose 1999 killing was investigated on the hit podcast "Serial," requested a redo of the hearing in which a judge vacated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed.
  
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• Rita Moreno: If I wasn't Hispanic, I'd have had a different career

  10-12-2022 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  West Side Story icon Rita Moreno says discrimination left her with an unfair share of rubbish film roles.
  
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• The secrets shared by Afghan women

  10-12-2022 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Two female Afghan writers give a glimpse of how women have been coping since the fall of the regime.
  
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• Two Georgia men wrongfully imprisoned for 25 years released after podcast uncovers new evidence

  10-12-2022 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  After spending 25 years in prison on murder convictions related to the 1996 shooting death of their friend, two Georgia man were exonerated this week, after new evidence uncovered in a true-crime podcast last year proved their innocence, their lawyers said.
  
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• Calls for EU reform after five arrested in Qatar corruption inquiry

  10-12-2022 22:16 via theguardian.com
  Campaigners point to culture of impunity as five questioned over bribery allegationsThe arrest of a European Parliament vice-president and four others linked to a corruption investigation implicating World Cup hosts Qatar sparked calls Saturday for “root and branch reform” in the EU institution.“This is not an isolated incident,” said anti-corruption campaigning group Transparency International. Continue reading...
  
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• Federal data: Kansas oil spill biggest in Keystone history

  10-12-2022 22:12 via abcnews.go.com
  Federal data shows the spill dumped enough oil to fill an Olympic-sized pool.
  
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• England's Harry Kane missed a late penalty kick, and France takes the last spot in the semifinals, where it will face Morocco

  10-12-2022 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  World Cup holder France remains on course in its title defense after beating England 2-1 to reach the semifinals at Qatar 2022.
  
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• World Cup 2022: Is Portugal's exit the end of the road for Cristiano Ronaldo?

  10-12-2022 21:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup dream is over, and probably for good - but is his whole career also reaching the end of the road?
  
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• 'Everyone loves us' - Morocco make World Cup history

  10-12-2022 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The marvellous Moroccans have lit up this World Cup - and their fans got reward by witnessing their side becoming the first from Africa to reach the semi-finals.
  
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• German aid worker freed after kidnapping in Niger four years ago

  10-12-2022 20:42 via theguardian.com
  63-year-old Joerg Lange’s employer, humanitarian organisation Help, did not say how release securedA 63-year-old German aid worker, Joerg Lange, has been freed more than four years after he was kidnapped in western Niger near the Malian border, his employer, humanitarian organisation Help, said in a statement on Saturday.Armed men on motorcycles kidnapped Lange in April 2018 near the Nigerien town of Inates in borderlands where militant groups, some with links to al-Qaida and Islamic State
  
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• At least 24 in Iran face execution for involvement in protests

  10-12-2022 20:42 via foxnews.com
  
  At least 24 people arrested in Iran face execution for their involvement in the anti-government protests that have swept the nation as demonstrators demand women’s rights. Iranian daily news outlet Etemad reportedly posted a list Friday complied by judicial authorities that accused 25 demonstrators of "waging war against God" – a charge that 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari was found guilty of before he was hung Thursday. Shekari’s name was also on the list.  IRAN EXECUTES FIRST
  
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• Morocco stuns Portugal to become the first African nation ever to reach semifinals

  10-12-2022 20:23 via cnn.com
  
  Morocco made history Saturday as the first African team to reach a World Cup semifinal, defeating Portugal 1-0 to continue its sparkling run in Qatar.
  
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• Biden faced internal opposition to Brittney Griner swap, reports say

  10-12-2022 20:18 via theguardian.com
  Department of Justice viewed deal to exchange basketball star for Russian arms dealer as a mistakeJoe Biden has faced pressure from within his own administration, as well as his political opponents, in securing the release of basketball player Brittney Griner from Russia, according to reports.On Thursday, Biden hailed the “intense and painstaking negotiations” that led to the release of Griner in a prisoner swap deal with the arms dealer Viktor Bout. Griner was arrested at a Moscow a
  
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• At least three killed and a dozen missing after Jersey flats explosion

  10-12-2022 20:06 via theguardian.com
  Police say there could be more fatalities after 4am collapse of three-storey building on Channel Island At least three people have died and about 12 people are believed to be missing after an explosion in a block of flats in St Helier, Jersey police have said.The blast at Haut du Mont, Pier Road, in the capital, occurred at about 4am on Saturday, less than eight hours after firefighters had been called to the site after concerns from residents, it was confirmed. Continue reading...
  
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• Exclusive: health unions offer to pause NHS strikes if government join pay talks

  10-12-2022 20:02 via theguardian.com
  Royal College of Nursing and Unison call on health secretary to negotiate with them to avoid action at Christmas and new yearHealth unions made a dramatic offer on Saturday night to suspend a wave of planned strikes that threatens to cripple the NHS over Christmas and the new year if ministers agree to open serious discussions over pay.The moves by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the country’s biggest union, Unison, are the first signs of flexibility by either side in a dispute that
  
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• ‘Toxic rhetoric’: marriage equality plebiscite offers ugly lessons for Indigenous voice to parliament referendum

  10-12-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Support and self-care will be vital during the campaign, which could stir up ‘perfect storm for fear and hate’From the age of five Keenan Smith knew they felt different, lacking the sense of ease other children in country Australia took for granted and bristling at being pushed towards rough and tumble sports and toy trucks and guns.“I didn’t like the same things that boys would use in that age group, things like sports and those traditionally gendered things,” the
  
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• Man killed by troopers was hauling suspected cocaine

  10-12-2022 19:55 via abcnews.go.com
  The incident started as a high-speed chase on Interstate 10 in Louisiana.
  
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• Fifth teenager pleads guilty in shooting near Iowa school

  10-12-2022 19:53 via abcnews.go.com
  It's the fifth guilty plea among the 10 people charged.
  
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• Russia shells maternity hospital in Kherson, police reveal 47K war crimes reported

  10-12-2022 19:35 via foxnews.com
  
  Russian forces on Saturday struck a maternity hospital in Kherson as Moscow continues to heavily shell civilian targets as both sides face off across the Dnieper River. No casualties were reported by Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the President's Office, who confirmed the attack according to local news outlets.  The latest strike on a maternity hospital comes one day at 68 missiles reportedly rained down on Kherson and just weeks after Russian forces struck a maternity ward in Zaporizhzh
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war – as it happened: Moscow has turned entire city of Bakhmut to ‘burnt ruins’, says Zelenskiy

  10-12-2022 19:32 via theguardian.com
  Ukraine’s president says Russian shelling has ‘actually destroyed’ the cityRussian forces have “destroyed” the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, while Ukraine’s military reported missile, rocket and airstrikes in multiple parts of the country.The latest battles of Russia’s nine-and-a-half-month war in Ukraine have centred on four provinces that Russian president Vladimir Putin illegally claimed to have annexed in late
  
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• Kosovo Serbs block road to main border crossings in volatile north

  10-12-2022 19:28 via theguardian.com
  Trucks and agricultural machines used as roadblocks, heightening recent tensions in the regionHundreds of ethnic Serbs erected barricades on a road in northern Kosovo on Saturday, blocking the traffic over the two main border crossings towards Serbia, police said.Trucks, ambulance cars and agricultural machines were used as roadblocks, heightening recent tensions which included explosions, shootings and an armed attack on a police patrol which saw one ethnic Albanian police officer wounded. Cont
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo leaves World Cup in tears as chances to win title are shattered by Morocco

  10-12-2022 19:22 via cnn.com
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo left the 2022 World Cup in tears as his chances to win the tournament for the first time in his career were shattered after his Portugal team was shocked 1-0 by Morocco in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo leaves World Cup in tears

  10-12-2022 19:22 via cnn.com
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo left the 2022 World Cup in tears as his chances to win the tournament for the first time in his career were shattered after his Portugal team was shocked 1-0 by Morocco in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo leaves in tears

  10-12-2022 19:22 via cnn.com
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo left the 2022 World Cup in tears as his chances to win the tournament for the first time in his career were shattered after his Portugal team was shocked 1-0 by Morocco in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
  
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• Laura Kuenssberg: Putin set UK on search for new friends

  10-12-2022 19:09 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK wants better relations with nations which are neither bad guys nor allies, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
  
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• Suspect died during Dresden hostage operation, German police confirm

  10-12-2022 19:07 via theguardian.com
  Two apparently uninjured people safe after incident in which shots were reportedly firedGerman police said on Saturday that a man suspected of killing his mother and later taking two people hostage in the eastern city of Dresden has died.Authorities had urged people to avoid an area in the city centre and ordered Dresden’s Christmas market to remain closed while the police operation to free the hostages was under way. Continue reading...
  
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• Moroccan ecstasy at World Cup win shared by Africa and Arab world

  10-12-2022 19:00 via cnn.com
  
  Moroccan fans exploded in joy on Saturday as their team became the first from any African country to reach a World Cup semi-final, filling the stadium with a deafening roar and unleashing cheering, crying, dancing and singing on the streets back home.
  
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• Watch fans in Morocco erupt with joy as team wins

  10-12-2022 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  The North African side stuns Portugal in Qatar to reach its first World Cup semi-final.
  
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• Nurses at Atlanta hospital under fire over TikTok video mocking maternity patients

  10-12-2022 18:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Four labor and delivery nurses at an Atlanta hospital came under fire over a TikTok video in which they shared the things that annoy them about expecting
  
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• Three dead, dozen missing after explosion at apartment block on Channel island of Jersey

  10-12-2022 18:44 via cnn.com
  
  One person died Saturday and several are missing after an explosion and fire at an apartment building on the British self-governing island of Jersey.
  
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• Large, powerful winter storm set to slam United States

  10-12-2022 18:42 via abcnews.go.com
  A winter storm heads for the west coast on Saturday while the east coast braces for another storm expected to hit next week.
  
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• 3 dead, several missing after explosion, fire on Jersey

  10-12-2022 18:36 via abcnews.go.com
  Police on the Channel Island of Jersey say an explosion and fire in an apartment building has killed at least three people and left several missing
  
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• Sam Bankman-Fried to testify as lawmakers demand answers on FTX's downfall

  10-12-2022 18:34 via abcnews.go.com
  Sam Bankman-Fried said he will try to "shed light" on issues surrounding FTX's U.S. solvency, what he thinks led to the crash and his "own failings."
  
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• Nephew calls Republican who tearfully opposed gay marriage bill a homophobe

  10-12-2022 18:29 via theguardian.com
  Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler voted against bill protecting same-sex marriage but Andrew Hartzler, who is gay, was unimpressedThe backlash to the Republican member of Congress who broke down in tears in her opposition to the same-sex marriage bill has included a familiar face – her nephew, who has called the lawmaker a “homophobe”.On Thursday, Vicky Hartzler, a Republican representative from Missouri, shed tears as she urged colleagues in the US House of Representatives to vote
  
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• Viktor Bout says he 'wholeheartedly' supports Ukraine war

  10-12-2022 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said on Saturday he "wholeheartedly" supports Moscow's so-called "military operation" in Ukraine and that if he had the opportunity and necessary skills, he would "certainly go as a volunteer."
  
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• Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout says he 'wholeheartedly' supports Ukraine war and would volunteer if he could

  10-12-2022 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said on Saturday he "wholeheartedly" supports Moscow's so-called "military operation" in Ukraine and that if he had the opportunity and necessary skills, he would "certainly go as a volunteer."
  
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• Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout says he 'wholeheartedly' supports Ukraine war

  10-12-2022 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said on Saturday he "wholeheartedly" supports Moscow's so-called "military operation" in Ukraine and that if he had the opportunity and necessary skills, he would "certainly go as a volunteer."
  
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• Freed Russian arms dealer says he 'wholeheartedly' supports war

  10-12-2022 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said on Saturday he "wholeheartedly" supports Moscow's so-called "military operation" in Ukraine and that if he had the opportunity and necessary skills, he would "certainly go as a volunteer."
  
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• Freed Russian arms dealer says he 'wholeheartedly' supports Ukraine war and would volunteer if he could

  10-12-2022 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said on Saturday he "wholeheartedly" supports Moscow's so-called "military operation" in Ukraine and that if he had the opportunity and necessary skills, he would "certainly go as a volunteer."
  
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• How Kyrsten Sinema's decision makes Democrats' 2024 Senate map tighter

  10-12-2022 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democrats and two independents within their ranks, the caucus has 48 Democrats and three independents.
  
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• Nobel Peace Prize winners blast Putin's invasion of Ukraine

  10-12-2022 18:18 via abcnews.go.com
  The winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus have shared their visions of a fairer world during an award ceremony and denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine
  
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• Morocco becomes first ever African team to reach World Cup semifinals

  10-12-2022 18:10 via cnn.com
  
  Morocco made history Saturday as the first African team to reach a World Cup semifinal, defeating Portugal 1-0 to continue its sparkling run in Qatar.
  
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• Odesa almost out of power after Russian drone attacks, say officials

  10-12-2022 18:04 via theguardian.com
  Russian drones hit energy facilities in Ukraine port city, leaving all non-critical infrastructure without powerRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesAll non-critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa was without power after Russia used drones to hit energy facilities, local officials said on Saturday, with much of the surrounding region also affected.“Due to the scale of the damage all users in Odesa except critical infrastructure have been disconnected
  
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• Council leaders urge ministers to delay plans for photo ID at May elections

  10-12-2022 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Voters risk being turned away and organisers need more time to prepare, argue critics of the new measuresPlans to force voters to present photo ID at polling stations for the first time in May risk damaging access to democracy and must be delayed, senior local government figures have warned ministers.Amid concerns about voters being turned away and polling station workers being confronted, the body representing councils told the Observer there was simply not enough time to deal with all the risk
  
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• A lost ecosystem revealed in Greenland by oldest environmental DNA

  10-12-2022 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  The past is an ever-changing story, and this week, myriad discoveries added new details.
  
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• Kansas man charged in 1980 killing of nursing student

  10-12-2022 17:46 via abcnews.go.com
  Investigators who reexamined her death turned up new evidence.
  
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• Mail carrier killed while delivering mail in Milwaukee

  10-12-2022 17:44 via abcnews.go.com
  A shooter killed a U.S. Postal Service employee as he was delivering mail.
  
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• Court: Resentence mom who put newborn in trash at sorority

  10-12-2022 17:42 via abcnews.go.com
  She put the infant in the trash after giving birth at her college sorority house
  
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• Morocco becomes first ever African team to reach World Cup semifinals with victory over Portugal

  10-12-2022 17:35 via cnn.com
  
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• U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl dies while covering World Cup match in Qatar

  10-12-2022 17:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  Grant Wahl, a longtime soccer sportswriter, died Friday in Qatar while covering the World Cup.
  
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