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• Sudan’s warring factions sign agreement for seven-day ceasefire

  20-05-2023 23:44 via theguardian.com
  
  US and Saudi Arabia announce deal that comes after six weeks of fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support ForcesSudan’s warring factions signed an agreement late on Saturday for a seven-day ceasefire, the US and Saudi Arabia said in a joint statement, as fighting that has plunged the country into chaos and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week.The fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has led to a collaps
  
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• Arsenal 'must heal' after 'throwing away' title

  20-05-2023 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says his side have "transformed" the club, but now "must heal" after falling away in the Premier League title race.
  
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• Manchester City win Premier League for third successive season after Arsenal lose

  20-05-2023 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester City are crowned Premier League champions for a third successive season after title rivals Arsenal lose to Nottingham Forest.
  
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• Man arrested after damage done to Eric Gill statue at BBC headquarters

  20-05-2023 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police spent much of Saturday trying to get the man down from a scaffold outside Broadcasting House.
  
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• New York Christian university fires two staff for including pronouns in emails – reports

  20-05-2023 22:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Former employees at Houghton University say administrators claimed pronouns in signatures violated new school policyA New York Christian university terminated two employees for putting pronouns in their respective email signatures, these former workers allege, according to reports.Raegan Zelaya and Shua Wilmot, who were residence hall directors at Houghton University, said that administrators told them to take the words “she/her” and “he/him” off of their email signatures
  
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• Mother accused of abandoning newborn found alive in woods denied bond

  20-05-2023 22:02
  
  A woman accused of abandoning her newborn in the woods nearly four years ago has been denied bond after prosecutors argued she could intimidate potential witnesses.
  
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• NSW police footage shows officers used two sets of handcuffs on 81-year-old woman with dementia

  20-05-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: footage from body-worn camera shows police restraining confused dementia patient Rachel Grahame in 2020Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSix police officers used two sets of handcuffs on a distressed and frail 81-year-old woman with dementia after she took a lanyard from a staff member at her Sydney nursing home.Body-worn camera footage shows Rachel Grahame, who has advanced dementia and w
  
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• Liverpool 1-1 Aston Villa: Roberto Firmino's farewell will see a Reds 'rebuild'

  20-05-2023 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Roberto Firmino departs as a Liverpool great but his exit means the club will now have to rebuild as they look like missing out on Champions League football.
  
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• 3-year-old shoots man wanted for murder, leading to his arrest

  20-05-2023 21:15
  
  A shooting in Indiana that injured two people after a three-year-old accessed a gun led to the arrest of a man wanted for murder in Illinois, authorities said.
  
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• US rapper Post Malone helps Scottish musician fund downpayment for house

  20-05-2023 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Local musician Gregor Hunter Coleman was playing in Glasgow pub when star made ‘life-changing’ offerThe US rapper Post Malone helped a Scottish musician fund the downpayment for his first home, according to reports.The Sunflower crooner’s viral, widely reported act of kindness unfolded at a pub in Glasgow, Scotland, named Wunderbar last week. Post Malone walked into the bar while Gregor Hunter Coleman, an area musician, was playing, BBC Scotland reported. Continue reading...
  
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• Three dead in tourist plane crash in Switzerland

  20-05-2023 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Pilot and two passengers died at scene of accident in steep and forested area in west of countryA tourist plane crashed in a wooded, mountainous area of western Switzerland on Saturday, killing the three people onboard, police said.The small tourist plane crashed in a steep and forested area near Ponts-De-Martel in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel at about 10.20am (0820 GMT), regional police said. Continue reading...
  
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• La Rochelle comeback stuns Leinster in thrilling Heineken Cup final

  20-05-2023 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  La Rochelle retain the Champions Cup title after breaking Leinster's hearts for the second year running in a pulsating final in Dublin.
  
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• Bournemouth 0-1 Manchester United: Casemiro overhead kick puts Red Devils on verge of top four

  20-05-2023 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Casemiro's stunning overhead kick edges Manchester United a step closer to next season's Champions League with a narrow victory over Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium.
  
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• Australia, India, Japan and US take thinly veiled swipe at China

  20-05-2023 20:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Beijing clearly target of joint statement by Quad group calling for ‘stability in Indo-Pacific maritime domain’The leaders of the Quad group – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing’s behaviour on Saturday at a summit in Hiroshima.The US president, Joe Biden, and his three partners in the group did not mention China by name but the communist superpower was clearly the target of language in a joint statement calling
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war – as it happened: Kyiv says situation in Bakhmut ‘critical’ after Wagner claims control of city

  20-05-2023 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukraine denies Wagner claim that city has fallen and says fighting ongoing in some partsVolodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived in Hiroshima, Japan, to attend the G7 leaders’ summit in the city.Reuters reports that live footage broadcast by multiple media outlets showed Zelenskiy disembark from a French government aircraft.With Russia likely maintaining relatively few uncommitted combat units in Ukraine, the redeployment represents a notable commitment by the Russian command.Russia’s leaders
  
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• Viral story of migrants displacing unhoused veterans from hotels turns out to be false

  20-05-2023 20:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Leader of non-profit organization accused of fabricating stories about veterans being kicked out of hotels in upstate New YorkRecent reports about how migrants displaced unhoused veterans from upstate New York hotels have turned out to be false after circulating widely among rightwing media outlets.In an odd saga involving apparently altered receipts and paid unhoused actors, the chief executive of Yerik Israel Toney Foundation (YIT) – a non-profit organization focused on housing military
  
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• Woman arrested almost 4 years after newborn baby is found alive in plastic bag abandoned in Georgia woods

  20-05-2023 20:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Almost four years after a newborn baby was found abandoned in a plastic bag in a wooded area, deputies in Georgia have arrested the woman they say is the child's biological mother.
  
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• 15-year-old arrested after bringing AR-15, ammunition to a Phoenix high school, police say

  20-05-2023 19:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Police arrested a 15-year-old student after he allegedly brought an AR-15 and ammunition to a Phoenix high school on Friday, authorities said.
  
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• Clare Nowland: Police 'don't intend' to release video of 95-year-old's Tasering

  20-05-2023 19:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Care home resident Clare Nowland remains in critical condition three days after the incident.
  
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• UK TV host Phillip Schofield leaves ITV’s This Morning

  20-05-2023 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The presenter says he has agreed to step down "with immediate effect” after more than 20 years.
  
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• Girl, 2, dies after Florida parents 'decided to leave the child in the car', authorities say

  20-05-2023 18:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 2-year-old Florida girl who fell asleep in her car seat died after she allegedly was left in a hot car on purpose by her parents, authorities said.
  
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• Boy who saved sister by hitting would-be kidnapper with slingshot speaks: ‘I had to’

  20-05-2023 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Owen Burns, 13, says he grabbed the closest thing after he heard his eight-year-old sister’s screams in Alpena Township, MichiganA Michigan boy who recently channeled his inner David and warded off his sister’s hulking, would-be kidnapper by shooting him with a slingshot has said he grabbed the unconventional weapon because he was “freaking out” at the unfolding danger and it was the closest thing.“It just felt like I was scared, and I had … to do” some
  
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• Family of teen shooter who killed three says he struggled with mental illness

  20-05-2023 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  New Mexico 18-year-old killed three women and injured six others in mass shooting on Monday in FarmingtonThe family of an 18-year-old high school student who took three of more than a dozen guns to which he had access and killed three elderly women without provocation in New Mexico on Monday has claimed he was struggling with his mental health before the attack.The shooter, who was armed with at least three guns and wore body armor before police killed him, “was fighting a battle of mental
  
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• Russian mercenaries behind slaughter of 500 in Mali village, UN report finds

  20-05-2023 16:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Report implicates Wagner group fighters in Moura atrocity, including the torture and rape of civiliansFirst came a single helicopter, flying low over the marshes around the river outside the village, then the rattle of automatic fire scattered the crowds gathered for the weekly market.Next came more helicopters, dropping troops off around the homes and cattle pens. The soldiers moved swiftly, ordering men into the centre of the village, gunning down those trying to escape. When some armed milita
  
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• Greece recovers hundreds of stolen artefacts

  20-05-2023 14:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Among the 351 objects being repatriated is a 2nd-Century statue of Alexander the Great.
  
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• WATCH: The story behind viral video of Swifties who became friends over chronic illness

  20-05-2023 13:00
  
  Emma Sides, a student from Texas, connected with Madison Bernard, a student from Louisiana, online in 2021. They finally met in person at a Taylor Swift concert on April 22, 2023.
  
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• Jets to Ukraine: Crucial questions over supplying F-16s to Kyiv

  20-05-2023 11:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Supplying F-16 jets to Ukraine will be a military boost for Kyiv - but the devil is in the detail.
  
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• Strange alliances emerge in Tennessee as the GOP governor pushes for gun reform

  20-05-2023 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s decision to call a special legislative session to tackle gun reform has prompted unfamiliar allies to line up behind the GOP leader.
  
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• Joe Biden apologises to Anthony Albanese after cancelling Sydney Quad meeting at last minute

  20-05-2023 10:40 via theguardian.com
  
  US president and Australian prime minister launch joint initiative to accelerate transition to clean energyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has met the US president, Joe Biden, on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Japan and signed an agreement to advance climate and clean energy action.Albanese is holding a round of key talks at the G7 summit as some of the world’s most powerful leaders convene, with a
  
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• Brittney Griner 'feels the love' from fans on competitive return to action

  20-05-2023 10:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  American Brittney Griner said she "definitely" felt the love from the fans as she made her competitive return to action for the Phoenix Mercury.
  
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• Watch: Officer clings to roof in wild car chase

  20-05-2023 07:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A routine traffic stop in the US turned into a chase when officers discovered the driven had a warrant.
  
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• Debt ceiling talks: US inches to default with no backup plan

  20-05-2023 06:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Most Americans think a default is impossible, and few have planned for the potential economic chaos.
  
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• Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Brazilian former official indicted over murders

  20-05-2023 06:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former head of Brazil's Indigenous protection agency is accused of indirectly playing a part in journalist's death.
  
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• Turkey election: Why the world is watching the presidential race

  20-05-2023 06:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Democracy, EU candidacy, and the fate of millions of Syrians are all on the ballot paper next week.
  
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• Manchin seeks alternatives to Biden labor secretary nominee Julie Su

  20-05-2023 02:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin does not plan to support President Joe Biden’s nominee for labor secretary and has solicited a list of alternate candidates, two sources said.
  
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• The Satanic Temple: Think you know about Satanists? Maybe you don't

  20-05-2023 01:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rituals, blasphemy, and English Breakfast tea: Step inside The Satanic Temple's annual convention.
  
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• Haryana: India's grandmother-granddaughter karate champs

  20-05-2023 01:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The unlikely duo train together and even won medals at an international competition recently.
  
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• Syria: Dismay and fear as Bashar al-Assad returns to Arab fold

  20-05-2023 01:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Syrian's President Bashar al-Assad is coming out of diplomatic isolation - to the terror of refugees.
  
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