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• Kenyan starvation cult death toll reaches 110 as exhumations slow

  01-05-2023 23:27 via foxnews.com
  
  Kenyan officials say the number of deaths linked to a cult on the country’s Indian Ocean coast has risen to 110. Heavy rains stalled the exhumation process for the third day as government pathologists began autopsies. The official number of victims had been at 103 until Monday and could rise as the investigation continues. SECOND KENYAN PASTOR JAILED AS STARVATION CULT DEATH TOLL SURPASSES 100 According to the Kenyan Interior Ministry, five people have been found alive over the last two da
  
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• Bolivia to investigate late Spanish priest accused of abuse

  01-05-2023 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  The top Bolivian prosecutor launched an investigation Monday into a late Spanish priest who allegedly abused several minors in Bolivia dating back to the 1980s. The case of Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, who died in 2009, came to light over the weekend in a report by the Spanish newspaper El País. Attorney General Wilfredo Chávez said on Twitter that he was seeking information from the Spanish consulate on the case, and that he was asking the Catholic Church to comment. "Th
  
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• Climate protestor glues self to podium on live Swiss TV

  01-05-2023 22:41 via foxnews.com
  
  An environmental activist stormed the set of a Swiss television debate and glued himself to a podium while live on air, only to be extracted, heels dragging, a few minutes later. Local station Leman Bleu had erected the red-carpet set in a historic arcade much frequented by tourists, near Geneva City Hall, with the public and passers-by invited to look on. The man who ran onto the set wore a T-shirt with the words for "Act Together" in French and the logo of the Extinction Rebellion activist gro
  
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• Bomb detonates near Bulgarian chief prosecutor's motorcade

  01-05-2023 21:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor escaped unharmed as a bomb exploded on a motorway near the capital, Sofia, while his motorcade drove past on Monday, government officials said. "The chief prosecutor and his family were the target of a terrorist act," the head of the National Investigation Service, Borislav Sarafov, told reporters. He added that the incident was not an attempt at intimidation but assassination, and fortunately no one was hurt. BULGARIA BECOMES LATEST EU COUNTRY TO BAN UKRAINIAN
  
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• Boy, 6, dead after lion mauling at Gaza zoo

  01-05-2023 21:20 via foxnews.com
  
  A Palestinian boy was mauled to death by a lion in a private zoo in the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the coastal territory's police force, run by the militant Hamas group. OHIO ZEBRA BADLY MAULS MAN'S ARM, DEPUTIES PUT IT DOWN: 'I THINK HE TORE MY ARM OFF' Police officers said 6-year-old Hamada Iqtiet had climbed the fence in the zoo in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, and reached an opening in the cage before the lion mauled him. An investigation was underway, they said. The boy's f
  
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• US says 20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war since December

  01-05-2023 21:15 via foxnews.com
  
  The White House said Monday it now estimates that just since December Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties, including 20,000 killed, as Ukraine has rebuffed a heavy-assault by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.RUSSIAN MISSILE BARRAGE RAINS DOWN ON KYIV AS UKRAINE PREPARES COUNTEROFFENSIVE In what has become a grinding war of attrition, the fiercest battles have been in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia is struggling to encircle the city of Bakhmut in the face of dogged Ukrainian defense
  
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• From Tallahassee to Tuscany, a Florida teacher’s renaissance: 'gracious and hospitable'

  01-05-2023 21:11 via foxnews.com
  
  The Florentines made good on their promise to give Hope Carrasquilla a hero’s welcome to the Italian city because that’s how many here view her. They see a woman in faraway Florida having fallen on her sword for a subject Florence feels passionately about. Renaissance art.The Tallahassee principal was forced to resign earlier this spring after a few parents complained that their sixth-grade children at a classical charter school had seen a little too much. An art teach
  
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• ‘Hungry’ South Korean student finds banana artwork very appealing: report

  01-05-2023 21:09 via foxnews.com
  
  A South Korean art student consumed a $120,000 piece of art that comprised a banana duct-taped to a wall because he was "hungry," according to media reports. Noh Huyn-soo was filmed removing and peeling the fruit at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul in front of stunned onlookers, The Guardian reported. He then attached the banana skin to the wall with the same duct-tape and walked off. LOUIS VUITTON TRANSFORMS SOUTH KOREAN BRIDGE INTO MASSIVE RUNWAY When asked by museum officials why he ate the f
  
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• U.S. military is tracking another mysterious balloon

  01-05-2023 20:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. military is tracking a mysterious balloon that flew over American soil, but it’s not clear what it is or who it belongs to, according to three U.S. officials.
  
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• Grieving father recalls Texas mass shooting as the hunt for the suspect continues

  01-05-2023 20:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  Wilson Garcia, who lost his wife and eldest son in the attack, recalls the fatal mass shooting and describes how he’d previously known the suspect.
  
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• Trump's defense grills E. Jean Carroll on old social media posts in rape allegation trial

  01-05-2023 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump's defense lawyer Joe Tacopina cross-examined writer E. Jean Carroll in the trial over her rape allegation against Trump.
  
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• Mexico's Senate approves reform of mining laws, 17 bills signed into law

  01-05-2023 20:06 via foxnews.com
  
  Mexico’s Senate has approved a wide-ranging reform of laws governing the mining industry, including a requirement that companies pay 5% of profits to local communities. The mining bill was among 18 pieces of legislation, some controversial, that were passed in a frenzied rush late Friday and early Saturday. The bills were approved with little or no debate, based on votes by only senators from Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party and its allies. The opposition occu
  
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• UN food relief agency suspends aid deliveries to Ethiopia's northern Tigray region

  01-05-2023 19:54 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers. The World Food Program is responsible for delivering food from the U.N. and other partners to Tigray, the center of a devastating two-year civil war that ended with a ceasefire in November. More than 5 million of the region's 6 million people rely on aid. WFP informed it
  
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• Taiwan's president says her country is willing to deepen cooperation with United States to safeguard peace

  01-05-2023 19:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Taiwan's president told visiting ex-U.S. national security adviser John Bolton on Monday that her country is willing to deepen cooperation with the U.S. and "other like-minded partners" to safeguard peace, as the self-governed island faces increasing military threats from China. President Tsai Ing-wen also expressed hopes to Bolton, a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2024, for more military and security exchanges and economic cooperation between the two sides, her office said in a
  
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• Sons of 'El Chapo' charged with fentanyl trafficking after shifting family business toward the deadly drug

  01-05-2023 19:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Son of With Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán serving a life sentence, his sons steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities of the cheap, deadly drug that they smuggled into the U.S., prosecutors revealed in a recent indictment. Although Guzmán's trial revolved around cocaine shipments, the case against his sons exposes the inner workings of a cartel undergoing a generational shift as it worked "to man
  
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• Louisiana woman accused of killing boyfriend's 6-year-old daughter, burying her in bucket on mother's lawn

  01-05-2023 19:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Louisiana woman has been arrested on charges of first degree murder and obstruction of justice after she allegedly killed her boyfriend's 6-year-old daughter and buried the remains in a bucket in the girl's mother's front yard, authorities say.
  
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• Japan street piano confiscated as public 'break rules'

  01-05-2023 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities in a Japanese city decided too many people were displaying poor manners while playing it.
  
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• Stranded with passports locked in Western embassies

  01-05-2023 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sudanese citizens say they can't escape because their passports are inside closed European embassies.
  
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• Worker sought for one of world's most isolated islands with low pay, 'long hours'

  01-05-2023 19:13 via foxnews.com
  
  A British wildlife group is seeking a person willing to spend 13 months on one of the remotest islands in the world to study its bird population. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) posted a job listing for a new field officer on Gough Island, a British territory approximately 1,500 miles from Africa in the South Atlantic Ocean, according to the BBC. The position pays between £25,000 and £27,000 — less than $35,000 — and requires a science degree or equiv
  
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• French police clash with violent protesters during mass May Day demonstrations

  01-05-2023 19:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Violent demonstrators took to the streets of Paris Monday and across France to protest against French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform, joining workers across Europe in May Day rallies.  May 1 marks a worldwide celebration of labor rights, with Macron's highly unpopular pension bill taking the forefront during the rallies in France..  Police were seen clashing with protesters during the demonstrations in Paris as people in masks threw projectiles amid clouds of tear gas. Loca
  
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• FAA sued over SpaceX Starship launch program following April explosion

  01-05-2023 19:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  Five environmental and cultural heritage groups are suing the Federal Aviation Administration, alleging that the agency violated the National Environment Policy Act when it allowed SpaceX to launch the largest rocket ever built from its Boca Chica, Texas facility without a comprehensive environmental review, according to court filings obtained by CNBC.
  
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• Chinese man who reported country’s COVID conditions to be released after vanishing 3 years ago, relative says

  01-05-2023 18:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Chinese authorities were preparing Sunday to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak, a relative and another person familiar with his case said. Fang Bin and other members of the public who were dubbed citizen journalists posted details of the pandemic in early 2020 on the internet and social media, embarrassing Chinese officials who faced criticism for failing to control the outbreak. The last video
  
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• Artificial intelligence pioneer leaves Google and warns about technology's future

  01-05-2023 18:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  The "godfather of AI" is issuing a warning about the technology he helped create.
  
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• India police force tells heavy-drinking officers to leave

  01-05-2023 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Assam state wants 300 officers to quit as officials say they have an alcohol problem.
  
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• May snowstorm for the record books blankets parts of Wisconsin and Michigan

  01-05-2023 18:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  A record-setting May snowstorm is in the making, which could bring historic snow totals to parts of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
  
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• 'Seriously?' - Swiss TV host's exasperation at protester

  01-05-2023 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Host Jeremy Seydoux challenges a climate activist when he interrupts a local election debate.
  
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• Aerosmith: US rock band announce farewell tour

  01-05-2023 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steven Tyler and co will say "peace out" to North America from later this year.
  
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• World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel extends lead over Mark Selby

  01-05-2023 17:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Luca Brecel produces an incredible display of potting to open up a 15-10 lead over Mark Selby and move within three frames of a first world title.
  
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• 6 students taken to hospital after press box collapses during West Virginia softball game

  01-05-2023 17:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  The partial collapse of a press box floor at a school softball tournament in West Virginia sent nine people to hospitals over the weekend, but none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, authorities said.
  
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• Sudan crisis: Fighter jets are roaring over my home in Omdurman

  01-05-2023 17:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of people have left Sudan's capital but the situation is getting worse for those left behind.
  
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• First Republic: JP Morgan snaps up major US bank

  01-05-2023 17:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  First Republic was seized by regulators, making it the third major US bank to fail in recent months.
  
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• Drowned migrants washing ashore overwhelm African nation, 'radical solutions' sought as cemeteries fill up

  01-05-2023 17:35 via foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in Tunisia are weighing the construction of new cemeteries amid a recent swell of migrants washing ashore after drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. The United Nations has noted that the first three months of 2023 proved to be the most fatal for people escaping Africa for Europe since the migrant crisis in 2017, according to The Guardian. Local morgues and cemeteries are reportedly overflowing as funerals are held every day for the many bodies that have been found on the Tunisian coast
  
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• Trump mistrial request denied in E Jean Carroll rape lawsuit

  01-05-2023 17:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump's legal team had argued "pervasive unfair" rulings had been made in the civil trial.
  
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• Former President Donald Trump travels to Scotland ahead of golf course opening

  01-05-2023 17:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Former U.S. President Donald Trump traveled to Scotland on Monday to open a new golf course at his resort near Aberdeen. Trump and his son Eric were greeted by two pipers, a red carpet and a 10-vehicle motorcade as they stepped off his private jet with an American flag painted on the tailfin. "It’s great to be home — this was the home of my mother," Trump said before getting into one of his cars. TRUMP DEFENDS TRIPS TO GOLF COURSES, SAYS IT'S HIS 'EXERCISE' AND HE PLAYS 'VERY FAST' T
  
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• 3 million Germans have already purchased country-wide public transit tickets

  01-05-2023 17:21 via foxnews.com
  
  Public transit companies in Germany say more than 3 million people have already snapped up a new ticket being launched Monday that allows them to use all local and regional trains, buses and metros across the country for $53.90 a month. The new Germany Ticket is intended to encourage people to ditch their cars in favor of more environmentally friendly forms of transportation. It follows on from an experimental 9-euro ‘all you can ride’ ticket that proved to be success last year, but
  
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• McCarthy says he'll invite Netanyahu to Washington if Biden doesn't

  01-05-2023 17:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Sunday said he would invite Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington if President Joe Biden doesn't.
  
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• Florida oversight board votes to sue Disney as part of the company's ongoing fight with Ron DeSantis

  01-05-2023 17:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  The local governing board that oversees much of Walt Disney World voted Monday to sue the company, part of an ongoing political feud fueled by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  
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• Stranded in Sudan with passports locked in Western embassies

  01-05-2023 17:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sudanese citizens say they can't escape because their passports are inside closed European embassies.
  
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• Gas leak in India kills 11, sends 4 others to the hospital

  01-05-2023 16:59 via foxnews.com
  
  Eleven people died and four more were hospitalized after a gas leak Sunday in northern India's Punjab state, local media reported. The incident occurred at an industrial area in Ludhiana city, but the source of the gas leak is still unclear, police told the Press Trust of India news agency. India's National Disaster Response Force sealed off the densely populated area and evacuated residents. INDIA'S POLICE INVESTIGATING SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PRESIDENT OF COUNTRY'S WRESTLING FEDE
  
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• Supreme Court to consider weakening power of federal agencies in fisheries case

  01-05-2023 16:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court will consider overturning a nearly 40-year precedent in a challenge to a fishing vessel regulation, the latest attack on federal bureaucracy.
  
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• New Zealand's prime minister wants his country to become a republic

  01-05-2023 16:35 via foxnews.com
  
  New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said Monday he personally favors his country becoming a republic, but it's not a change he intends to push for as leader. Hipkins made the comments to reporters hours before he was due to depart for this week’s coronation of King Charles III in London. New Zealand, a former British colony, is self-governing but Charles retains a largely ceremonial role as head of state and king. Charles is represented in New Zealand by a governor-general. Like many
  
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• Ukraine war: Russia launches second pre-dawn missile attack in three days

  01-05-2023 16:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The city of Pavlohrad, a logistics hub, was hit ahead of a much-anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive.
  
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• Florida tornado flips car across highway

  01-05-2023 16:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A driver captured video of a car being flipped upside down by a powerful storm in Florida.
  
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• Nearly 1,000 Americans extracted from Sudan as evacuations continue, State Department says

  01-05-2023 16:03 via foxnews.com
  
  A second U.S.-led convoy arrived in Port Sudan Sunday carrying hundreds of Americans who are being evacuated from Sudan amid violent conflict in the region, the State Department announced. Nearly 1,000 Americans have now been evacuated from Sudan over the last week, State said. The department tweeted Sunday that the latest convoy of evacuees would soon be heading across the Red Sea to the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah. "We are assisting U.S. citizens and others who are eligible with onward travel
  
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• Texas shooting: Father tells how gunman opened fire on his family home

  01-05-2023 15:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  "It's like we're alive but at the same time we're not," said the man, whose wife and son were killed.
  
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• Alibaba founder Jack Ma named as visiting professor at Tokyo College

  01-05-2023 15:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Jack Ma, a cofounder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, will be a visiting professor at Tokyo College, a research institute run by the prestigious University of Tokyo, the university said Monday. Ma will carry out research in sustainable agriculture and food production, it said in a statement. It said that Ma, who also heads his own Jack Ma Foundation, a philanthropic organization, will "share his rich experience and pioneering knowledge on entrepreneurship, corporate management and inno
  
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• Adidas shareholders launch class action lawsuit over Kanye West fallout

  01-05-2023 15:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Adidas shareholders have launched a class action lawsuit alleging the sportswear brand knew about the potential harm concerning behavior from Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, could cause the company for years, but failed to warn investors.
  
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• GOP Sen. Tim Scott signals he will officially announce his presidential campaign May 22

  01-05-2023 15:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said he'll make a “major announcement” in Charleston on May 22, weeks after he launched an exploratory committee for a presidential bid.
  
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• Barbie introduces Anna May Wong doll

  01-05-2023 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Trailblazing actress Anna May Wong is making her debut in the Barbie’s Inspiring Women series.
  
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• Bangladesh media in fear after PM’s ‘people’s enemy’ attack

  01-05-2023 14:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Even stories on cost of living leave journalists facing assault, threats and arrest under Digital Security ActFour weeks ago, a reporter in Bangladesh was hauled from his office, badly beaten – and then thrown from the roof of his building, leaving him with fractures in his back, three broken ribs and a machete wound on his head.The journalist, Ayub Meahzi, believes he was targeted for reporting on alleged local government ties to a criminal group. Continue reading...
  
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