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• Gun-toting, prayer-reciting protesters throng Jerusalem to back judicial overhaul

  27-04-2023 23:50 via theguardian.com
  
  100,000 Israelis march on Knesset in biggest rightwing protest in country in nearly two decadesAbout 100,000 Israelis in favour of the government’s divisive judicial overhaul have taken part in a demonstration outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, in the biggest rightwing protest in the country in nearly two decades.Protesters from all over Israel, as well as settlers who travelled in buses from the occupied West Bank, chanted “the people demand judicial reform” and danced and sang
  
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• U.S. sanctions Russian and Iranian agencies over detained Americans

  27-04-2023 23:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Biden administration on Thursday slapped sanctions on state-run agencies in Russia and Iran over their roles in wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens.
  
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• California passes most stringent diesel-engine emissions rules: ‘Fighting for air’

  27-04-2023 23:42 via theguardian.com
  
  State to implement most ambitious US regulations on railways, including phasing out locomotive engines over 23 years oldCaliforniahas passed stringent new rules to limit emissions from diesel-fueled locomotive engines, putting the state on track to implementthe most ambitious regulations on high-polluting railways in the country.The landmark step taken by the California Air Resources Board (Carb), which regulates California’s air quality, requires the phase-out of inefficient locomotive en
  
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• Gov. Jim Justice announces West Virginia Senate run, kicking off heated GOP primary

  27-04-2023 23:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  While West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has support from some party leaders, he’ll face Rep. Alex Mooney in the Senate GOP primary.
  
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• Lion hides, sacred seats and coronation rites from around the world

  27-04-2023 23:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Discover how the world’s few remaining monarchies crown their kings and queens.
  
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• Anand Mohan Singh: Indian official’s wife distraught as his killer is freed

  27-04-2023 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Uma Krishnaiah is "heartbroken" as a politician who was convicted over his murder walks out of prison.
  
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• James Shapiro wins Baillie Gifford anniversary prize with ‘extraordinary’ Shakespeare biography 1599

  27-04-2023 23:10 via theguardian.com
  
  The English professor’s analysis of a pivotal year in the playwright’s life triumphed over a shortlist that included Craig Brown, Barbara Demick and Wade DavisA book about a pivotal year in William Shakespeare’s life has been named the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners in a special announcement to mark the 25th anniversary of the prestigious nonfiction prize.James Shapiro’s 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare originally won the award in 2006, when it was known
  
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• Army aviators, ready to leave the military, are told they owe 3 more years instead

  27-04-2023 23:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hundreds of Army aviation officers who were set to leave the military are being held to another three years of service after they say the branch quietly reinterpreted part of their contract amid retention and recruitment issues.
  
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• Trump lawyer presses E. Jean Carroll on why she didn’t 'scream for help'

  27-04-2023 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  E. Jean Carroll, who alleges in a lawsuit that Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, was questioned by a defense lawyer who suggested her claim was made up.
  
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• Rep. Jamie Raskin says he's in remission after cancer treatment

  27-04-2023 22:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Thursday that he has completed chemotherapy treatment and received a preliminary diagnosis of being in remission from cancer.
  
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• Australia’s most advantaged and disadvantaged areas: how does your suburb compare?

  27-04-2023 22:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Regional areas dominate list of nation’s most disadvantaged areas, while areas on or next to water, particularly in Sydney, are the most advantagedFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s most advantaged suburbs tend to be on or next to water and are clustered around Sydney’s eastern suburbs and north shore, while regional areas dominate the list of the nation’s most disa
  
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• Teen suspects in fatal Colorado rock-throwing took photo of scene, became 'blood brothers' after attack, officials say

  27-04-2023 22:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  The teen suspects accused of hurling a large rock that killed a Colorado motorist took a photo of the deadly mayhem, then pledged a "blood brothers" oath to keep quiet about the crime, investigators revealed on Thursday.
  
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• Greece to allow pets at over 120 archeological sites

  27-04-2023 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Pets will soon be allowed into more than 120 archeological sites across Greece, the country’s Culture Ministry announced Thursday, although not in the Acropolis or some of the other top tourist draws. The move, unanimously approved by the country’s powerful Central Archeological Council, will relax current rules which only allow guide dogs for disabled visitors into archeological sites. The ministry did not specify when the new regulations would be implemented. BRITISH MUSEUM FACES P
  
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• William and Kate abseil in national park with mountain rescuers

  27-04-2023 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The couple arrived near Merthyr Tydfil to wet and windy weather in hiking gear.
  
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• Spanish parliament bans dwarf bullfighting

  27-04-2023 22:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Spain's parliament on Thursday banned "comic" bullfighting events featuring dwarves dressed in costumes, in a decision applauded by disability rights groups but condemned by the few surviving performers. Dwarves in Spain have long dressed as firefighters or clowns to chase bulls without killing them, at public spectacles designed to be humorous. The tradition stretches back decades, but has declined in popularity. COLOMBIA SET TO VOTE ON BULLFIGHTING BAN IN THE COMING WEEKS The law approved on T
  
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• Sudan evacuation: 'The kids were clinging to me, but I had to leave'

  27-04-2023 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wafaa Salim says it was "horrible" having to leave her nieces and nephews behind in Sudan.
  
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• Fighting surges in Sudan as three-day ceasefire comes to an end

  27-04-2023 22:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Army and RSF agree to extend truce but violence means no respite for exhausted civiliansSudan crisis – latest updatesRival factions in Sudan agreed on Thursday night to extend a ceasefire despite reports of surging fighting across the country that many fear suggests intense violence in the days to come.A 72-hour truce from Monday night had initially brought relative calm to Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, and so facilitated the evacuation of thousands of foreign nationals in recent days.
  
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• 5 charged after Indiana special needs student, 7, is forced to eat his own vomit with a spoon, police say

  27-04-2023 22:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Four Indiana elementary school staff members and a behavioral technician were charged after a 7-year-old special education student was allegedly forced to eat his own vomit with a spoon.
  
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• NC State student dies of apparent suicide, the sixth this school year

  27-04-2023 22:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  A North Carolina State University student has died in an apparent suicide, marking the school's sixth student suicide this academic year.
  
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• Kevin McCarthy basks in rare win after Republicans unite to pass debt ceiling plan – as it happened

  27-04-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  House GOP passes proposal to increase US debt limitSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailFor the Guardian, Lyz Lenz looks at the relationship between Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, and what the latter’s ouster from Fox News this week means for the former president’s latest campaign for the White House:At an 18 February 2017 rally, Donald Trump railed against immigrants and violence. He was unusually focused on Sweden, warning the crowd about recent terro
  
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• Berlin swears in first conservative mayor since 2001

  27-04-2023 21:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Berlin's first conservative mayor in 22 years took office on Thursday following a state election in which he capitalized on discontent in the German capital. Amid divisions in his own coalition, he had a rocky start. Kai Wegner's center-right Christian Democratic Union, Germany's main opposition party, emerged as the biggest party in the February rerun election that was ordered by a court because of serious glitches in the previous vote in 2021. The CDU celebrated winning in a big city, which it
  
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• WATCH: Watch grandma’s hilarious reaction to granddaughter dyeing her hair bright colors

  27-04-2023 21:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Warning: Her laugh is contagious.
  
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• Russia denies US visit with imprisoned journalist Gershkovich amid UN visa fight

  27-04-2023 21:30 via foxnews.com
  
  In an alleged tit-for-tat response Thursday, Russia said it denied a U.S. request to visit imprisoned American journalist Evan Gershkovich after Washington’s reported refusal to grant visas to Russian journalists earlier in the week, something denied by the State Department. "It is especially emphasized that such sabotage, aimed at preventing normal journalistic work, will not remain unanswered," the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Thursday, noting that it had summo
  
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• Russian, Egyptian nationals on missing yacht reported safe in Africa

  27-04-2023 21:20 via foxnews.com
  
  A missing yacht with three Russians and two Egyptians onboard reached safety in Djibouti in east Africa on Thursday, after going missing for days following an attack off the coast of Yemen, its owner said. Owner Dmitriy Chuguevskiy told The Associated Press that the vessel reached Djibouti after being detained for several days by authorities off the coast of neighboring Eritrea. Bullet holes in the ship after an attack off Yemen had raised the suspicions of Eritrean authorities, Chuguevskiy said
  
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• School board seeks dismissal of $40M lawsuit filed by Virginia teacher shot by student

  27-04-2023 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  School district officials in Newport News are seeking the dismissal of a $40 million lawsuit filed by Abigail Zwerner, the elementary school teacher who was wounded by a student in January.
  
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• Surviving roommate in Idaho student slayings won't have to appear at suspect's hearing

  27-04-2023 21:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  One of two housemates who were inside an off-campus residence when four University of Idaho students were slain in November won't have to attend an upcoming hearing for murder suspect Bryan Kohberger after asking a judge to reject a subpoena by his defense lawyer.
  
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• Camera reemerges 15 years after journalist was killed in Myanmar

  27-04-2023 20:40 via foxnews.com
  
  A video camera that had been missing for more than 15 years after it was dropped by a Japanese journalist who was fatally shot during a street protest in Myanmar was handed over Wednesday to his sister at a ceremony in Bangkok. Kenji Nagai was recording the demonstration on Sept. 27, 2007, in downtown Yangon -– part of a peaceful anti-military uprising known as the Saffron Revolution -– when soldiers arrived, dispersing the crowd with gunfire. The 50-year-old journalist, who was work
  
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• Turkish troops shoot Syrian civilians along border

  27-04-2023 20:38 via foxnews.com
  
  A leading international rights group on Thursday said Turkish border guards have been indiscriminately shooting at Syrian civilians along the border with the war-wrecked country, as well as using excessive force against asylum seekers and migrants trying to cross into Turkey. There was no immediate response from Ankara to the accusations by Human Rights Watch. The New York-based group also urged the Turkish government to investigate and hold accountable border guards responsible for "these grave
  
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• Israeli army fatally shoots alleged Palestinian attacker in West Bank

  27-04-2023 20:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli security forces shot and killed a suspected Palestinian assailant in the West Bank on Thursday, the Israeli military and Palestinian health officials said, stirring tensions in the occupied territory at a time of unusually high violence. The Israeli military said it received reports that a Palestinian had tried to carry out a car-ramming attack near the large West Bank settlement of Ariel. Israeli soldiers opened fire at the suspected assailant after they realized he was wielding a knife
  
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• EU team continues with probe of Lebanon Central Bank chief

  27-04-2023 20:35 via foxnews.com
  
  A European judicial team pressed on with its corruption probe of Lebanon's embattled Central Bank governor on Thursday, questioning one of his aides and summoning his brother for another hearing next week, officials said. The delegation from France, Germany, and Luxembourg is on its third visit to Lebanon to interrogate suspects and witnesses in an ongoing investigation of Gov. Riad Salameh and associates over several financial crimes and the laundering of some $330 million. Salameh’s asso
  
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• Second Kenyan pastor accused of mass killing of followers

  27-04-2023 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Ezekiel Odero arrested and more than 100 people evacuated from church, days after discovery of bodies linked to another churchKenya said on Thursday that one of the country’s highest-profile pastors would face charges over the “mass killing” of his followers, just days after the discovery of dozens of bodies in mass graves linked to another church.Ezekiel Odero, the head of the New Life Prayer Centre and Church, “has been arrested and is being processed to face criminal c
  
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• India accuses China of violating border agreements

  27-04-2023 20:25 via foxnews.com
  
  India's defense minister accused China on Thursday of eroding the "entire basis" of ties between the countries by violating bilateral agreements, a reference to a nearly 3-year-old standoff involving thousands of soldiers stationed along their disputed border in the eastern Ladakh region. Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met with visiting Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu and "had frank discussions about the developments in the India-China border areas as well as bilateral relations," Ind
  
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• The donkey island in the middle of a Georgia river

  27-04-2023 20:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In addition to being a fun tourist attraction, these donkeys are helping preserve artefacts.
  
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• Italian police arrest ’Ndrangheta mafia boss after five years on the run

  27-04-2023 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Pasquale Bonavota featured on police’s list of most dangerous criminalsItalian authorities have announced the arrest of a top boss of the ’Ndrangheta mafia after he spent almost five years on the run.Pasquale Bonavota, 49, who featured on the police’s list of most dangerous criminals, had been sought since November 2018 after escaping an arrest warrant for homicide and mafia association issued by a magistrate in Calabria, southern Italy. Continue reading...
  
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• 7 die in passenger train blaze in southern Pakistan

  27-04-2023 20:23 via foxnews.com
  
  At least seven people were killed after a car on a moving passenger train caught fire overnight in southern Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Railways official Mohsin Sial said the train caught fire in Khairpur, a district about 300 miles north of Karachi, the capital of Sindh province. He said six people were killed in the blaze while a woman died when she jumped from the window of the moving train. The blaze also badly damaged several other cars in the train, he said, and the cause remained u
  
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• Man responsible for German gym attack suspected in earlier killing

  27-04-2023 20:21 via foxnews.com
  
  A man arrested over last week's stabbing attack at a gym in western Germany in which four people were wounded is now also a suspect in a fatal stabbing earlier this month, prosecutors said Thursday. The 26-year-old Syrian, whom authorities are identifying only as M.D. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested at his apartment in Duisburg on Sunday in connection with the April 18 gym stabbing in the city. He is in custody on suspicion of attempted murder and other offenses. Investigators in
  
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• German prosecutors probe firearms official over Hamburg shooting

  27-04-2023 20:19 via foxnews.com
  
  German prosecutors said Thursday they are investigating an official at Hamburg's firearms department and three members of a gun club in connection with a mass shooting during a religious service at a Jehovah's Witness hall last month. A 35-year-old German man opened fire during the March 9 service, killing six people and wounding nine, including a pregnant woman who lost her unborn child, before turning the gun on himself as police arrived. Hamburg prosecutors said authorities searched the homes
  
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• Jerry Springer, face of America's most lurid talk show, opened the era of 'trash TV'

  27-04-2023 20:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  In the 1990s, Jerry Springer ruled American daytime television.
  
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• Jerry Springer, daytime television pioneer, dies at 79

  27-04-2023 19:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jerry Springer has died of pancreatic cancer at age 79. He is famous for his 27 years as host of “The Jerry Springer Show,” where the line “Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!” originated.
  
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• Forced deportation of children from Ukraine by Moscow is genocide, Council of Europe says – as it happened

  27-04-2023 19:50 via theguardian.com
  
  International human rights body calls for immediate and urgent action to halt movement of children from Ukraine by Russia. This live blog is closedRussia-Ukraine war at a glanceReuters has taken a hard look at satellite imagery of Russia’s “vast network of fortifications, sweeping down from western Russia through eastern Ukraine and on to Crimea” and built in readiness for Ukraine’s expected counteroffensive.The news agency says it has examined thousands of defensive posi
  
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• Raising a trans kid in Missouri has become a 'dystopian nightmare' for families

  27-04-2023 19:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Leaders in Missouri are attempting to restrict access to transition-related care, forcing families with transgender minors to come up with backup plans.
  
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• Meloni praises Sunak’s immigration policies on visit to No 10

  27-04-2023 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Far-right Italian prime minister in London for ‘new beginning’ aiming at deeper and wider alliance between the countriesThe Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has praised the work undertaken by her British counterpart, Rishi Sunak, to fight people traffickers and clandestine immigration networks, as two of the most prominent rightwing leaders in Europe met in Downing Street.At the start of a two-day visit designed to deepen relations between the two governments, Meloni was greet
  
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• Teacher caught berating kids who object to LGBTQ lesson with severe threat: 'You don't have a choice'

  27-04-2023 19:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Parents have lodged a formal complaint with the principal of a school in the U.K. regarding a lecture during which a teacher told students they would be "dealt with severely" if they object to being instructed about LGBTQ relationships. The complaint comes after students secretly recorded their teacher at Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy in London as he berated anyone who would speak out against the LGBTQ curriculum, according to the London-based nonprofit Christian Legal Centre. The uniden
  
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• 'Red Table Talk' is canceled after Facebook Watch shows are shut down

  27-04-2023 19:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Amid broad cost-cutting moves, Meta is shuttering the Facebook Watch originals group, whose small slate of shows included the breakout hit “Red Table Talk” hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, Variety has confirmed.
  
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• ‘By 7am, I’ve had three sets of guns pointed at me’: a British teacher’s escape from Sudan

  27-04-2023 19:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Zoe Salim says waiting at the border between Sudan and Egypt was the worst part of her family’s journeySudan crisis – latest updatesA British teacher who was forced to flee Sudan amid the outbreak of fighting has told her shock and fear as she made her way to Egypt.Zoe Salim, a former head of languages in a London school, was visiting Khartoum with her husband and two children for Ramadan. Continue reading...
  
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• China's railroad to world domination: $58 billion rail link with Pakistan will reduce reliance on West

  27-04-2023 19:20 via foxnews.com
  
  China has proposed its most expensive Belt and Road Initiative to date with a $58 billion railway system that would connect Pakistan to western China in a move to further reduce Western trade dependence, a report said Thursday.  The $57.7 billion plan was reviewed by analysts from the state-owned China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co Ltd., which has determined that despite its hefty price tag the investment is worth it, reported the South China Morning Post. The 1,860-mil
  
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• Croatia clears beaches of mysterious oil clumps ahead of tourist season

  27-04-2023 19:09 via foxnews.com
  
  Teams of workers wearing white overalls and blue gloves are using jet hoses to clear small, mysterious clumps of oil that drifted ashore last year along about six km of Croatia's northern Adriatic coast, moving fast before the tourists arrive. "A large part has been cleaned up, the tourist season is approaching and tourists will be able to come, but a lot of work still remains," said Silvia Buttignoni, director of the Natura Histrica organisation which manages protected areas of the Istria regio
  
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• Sudan's Darfur fighting: Trapped and too scared to go to the toilet

  27-04-2023 18:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With Arab militias targeting warehouses, markets and homes in Darfur, people are cowering inside.
  
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• Darfur: 'I saw pick-up trucks full of dead people'

  27-04-2023 18:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With Arab militias targeting warehouses, markets and homes in Darfur, people are cowering inside.
  
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• Sudan crisis: Three ways the conflict could play out

  27-04-2023 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC speaks to analysts to help map out the scenarios that may unfold in the next few weeks.
  
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