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• TikTok files lawsuit against Montana over download ban

  22-05-2023 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  TikTok filed a lawsuit against Montana on Monday over a new law aimed at stopping people from downloading the app, arguing the ban violates the First Amendment.
  
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• Left-wing German chancellor slams 'nutty' climate protestors blocking streets, defacing art

  22-05-2023 23:44 via foxnews.com
  
  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday sharply criticized climate activists as "nutty" for drastic protests such as blocking streets or gluing themselves to famous paintings in museums. "I think it’s completely nutty to somehow stick yourself to a painting or on the street," Scholz said during a visit to an elementary school in the town of Kleinmachnow outside of Berlin, German news agency dpa reported. The chancellor added that he did not think anybody's opinion on climate change could b
  
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• China to enter struggling Sri Lankan fuel market

  22-05-2023 23:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Chinese petroleum giant Sinopec signed an agreement with Sri Lanka on Monday to enter into the South Asian island country's retail fuel market as it struggles to resolve a worsening energy crisis amid an unprecedented economic upheaval. The contract agreement would enable Sinopec to import, store, distribute and sell petroleum products in Sri Lanka, which has had a fuel shortage for more than a year. The move comes as Beijing looks to consolidate investments in Sri Lanka’s ports and energy
  
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• Tiger Woods will miss US Open to continue recovery from ankle surgery

  22-05-2023 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tiger Woods will not compete in next month's US Open as he continues to recover from recent ankle surgery.
  
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• Sudan conflict: Air strikes and clashes as new ceasefire begins

  22-05-2023 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fresh seven-day truce is officially under way - though more hostilities have been reported in Khartoum and other cities.
  
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• Tim Scott: Republican senator is running for president

  22-05-2023 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Republican from South Carolina enters the race with more campaign cash than any of his rivals.
  
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• Star Wars and Thor actor Ray Stevenson dies at 58

  22-05-2023 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The actor from Northern Ireland was reportedly taken to hospital while filming on Italian island Ischia.
  
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• Warner Bros. Discovery CEO booed at Boston University graduation amid writers strike

  22-05-2023 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Hollywood studio head was met with jeers and protests when he delivered the commencement address for Boston University on Sunday amid the ongoing Hollywood writers strike.
  
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• Madeleine McCann search resumes in Portugal 16 years after British toddler's disappearance

  22-05-2023 21:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Portuguese authorities on Monday resumed a search for missing Madeleine McCann – a British girl who went missing as a toddler from a 2007 family vacation in Praia da Luz. Madeleine was abducted from the family's ground-floor apartment in the coastal, southern Portuguese city on May 3, 2007, when she was 3 years old. Over the next several days in Portugal's Algarve region, police will conduct "new searches… at the request of the German Authorities" and with the "presence of Brit
  
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• UN urges Sudan's warring generals to honor 7-day cease-fire

  22-05-2023 21:36 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.N. envoy for Sudan urged the country's warring generals to honor a seven-day cease-fire starting Monday night, warning the growing ethnic dimension to the fighting risks engulfing Sudan in a prolonged conflict . Volker Perthes told the U.N. Security Council that the conflict, which began April 15, has shown no signs of slowing down despite previous declarations of cease-fires by both sides. But he said this time they must stop the fighting so desperately needed humanitarian aid can get to
  
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• 'El Popo,' Mexico's second-tallest volcano, erupts

  22-05-2023 21:31 via foxnews.com
  
  Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano spewed gas, smoke and ash Monday, leading education authorities to suspend in-person classes in parts of three states, a day after the government raised the warning level on the volcano’s activity. Activity at the 17,797-foot mountain just 45 miles southeast of Mexico City and known affectionately as "El Popo" has increased over the past week. Evacuations have not been ordered, but authorities were preparing for that scenario and telling people to
  
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• Colombia suspends ceasefire with Marxist rebel group accused of killing 4

  22-05-2023 21:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Colombia’s government said Monday it is suspending a cease-fire with rebels accused of recently killing four Indigenous people — at least three of them minors — who tried to avoid forced recruitment in the south of the country. President Gustavo Petro’s administration said in a statement that the military will resume attacks on factions of the FARC-EMC group operating in the provinces of Caqueta, Putumayo, Guaviare and Meta, due to the group's lack of commitment to the ce
  
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• Ray Stevenson, actor in 'Punisher: War Zone' and 'Thor,' dies at 58

  22-05-2023 21:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who starred in films like “Punisher: War Zone,” “King Arthur,” the “Thor” films and shows like HBO’s “Rome” and the upcoming “Ahsoka” series,” died Sunday in Italy, Variety has confirmed with his publicist.
  
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• Highest-denomination bill in Argentina is now the 2,000-peso note, worth $4

  22-05-2023 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Country unveils new banknote as currency plummets with inflation on course to 130%Argentina’s new 2,000-peso bill, the country’s largest-denomination note, went into circulation on Monday, though due to fast depreciation of the currency it is worth only $8.50 at the official exchange rate and just over $4 in commonly used parallel markets.The peso has shed about a quarter of its value against the dollar this year despite strict capital controls that slow its fall. Most Argentinians b
  
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• Madeleine McCann police to search Portuguese reservoir

  22-05-2023 20:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police will start combing the area, which is 50km from where the toddler went missing in 2007.
  
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• Rome's mayor blasts 'absurd' climate protest at Trevi Fountain

  22-05-2023 20:51 via foxnews.com
  
  A climate change protest in which a group of activists poured diluted charcoal to turn the water of Rome’s Trevi Fountain black has drawn a sharp rebuke from the Italian city’s mayor, who is calling for an end to such actions. Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri is speaking out after video showed uniformed police wading into the waters of the popular tourist attraction to remove activists belonging to a group called "Ultima Generazione" – the Last Generation – according to Reute
  
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• China summons Japan ambassador to rebuke G7 summit 'camp confrontation and Cold War mentality': report

  22-05-2023 20:49 via foxnews.com
  
  China’s Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong reportedly summoned Hideo Tarumi, Japan's ambassador to China, on Sunday to relay "solemn" protest from Beijing in response to the "hype around China-related issues" that occurred at the G-7 summit of the leaders of the world’s leading democracies in Hiroshima over the weekend.  In a statement, cited by Japan Times, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Sun communicated Beijing's "strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition" to remarks ma
  
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• Madrid museum to open new gallery next month with 5 centuries of Spanish royal collections

  22-05-2023 20:24 via foxnews.com
  
  It’s not as if Madrid was short on world-ranking galleries with the likes of the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofía, among others. But next month, Spain is set to unveil what is touted as one of Europe’s cultural highlights of the year with the opening in the Spanish capital of The Royal Collections Gallery. The swanky new museum will feature master paintings, tapestries, sculptures, decorative art pieces, armory and sumptuous royal furniture collected by
  
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• German prosecutors charge 4 for violating trade act to sell spyware to Turkey

  22-05-2023 20:15 via foxnews.com
  
  German authorities have filed charges against four suspects from a Bavarian company accused of selling surveillance software to Turkey that could be used to spy on Turkish dissidents, prosecutors said Monday. The Munich prosecutors say the defendants intentionally violated licensing requirements for dual-use goods by selling surveillance software to non-EU countries. Specifically, the four suspects from the FinFisher company are charged with commercial violations of the German trade and payments
  
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• Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong tests positive for COVID-19

  22-05-2023 20:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday he tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time after returning home from work trips in Africa and Asia. Due to his age, the 71-year-old said he was prescribed the Paxlovid antiviral medication. "I tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time this morning," Lee said on Facebook, where he posted a photo of a positive antigen rapid test. "I am generally feeling ok, but my doctors have advised me to self-isolate until I am asymptomatic." WH
  
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• Philippine fire destroys a nearly 100-year-old neoclassical landmark

  22-05-2023 20:11 via foxnews.com
  
  A massive fire tore through Manila’s historic post office building overnight, slightly injuring seven people and razing the nearly 100-year-old landmark in the Philippine capital, police and postal officials said Monday. The fire started before midnight in the basement of the neoclassical, five-story building and was brought under control Monday morning more than seven hours after it began, firefighters said. An investigation was underway to determine the cause of the fire and what was dam
  
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• Animal rights activists in Madrid protest against plans for a large-scale octopus farm

  22-05-2023 20:10 via foxnews.com
  
  Animal rights activists gathered Sunday in Madrid to protest plans for the construction of an octopus farm in Spain, saying there are no respective laws in the country and the European Union to guarantee the welfare of the animals in captivity. The proposed farm, which aims to breed octopuses on a large scale in captivity, is scheduled to be built next year in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean. A few dozen people showed up to express their concerns regarding
  
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• Carmelo Anthony confirms NBA retirement after 20-year career

  22-05-2023 19:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Carmelo Anthony confirms his retirement from basketball after a 20-year career in the NBA.
  
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• United Nations reports 2 million people were killed from extreme weather over the past half-century

  22-05-2023 19:42 via foxnews.com
  
  The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the human toll, the U.N. weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization, in an updated report, tallied nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over the past half-century around the globe that have killed more than 2 million people and caused economic damage of $4.3 trillion. The stark recap from WMO came as it opened
  
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• Estonia, Latvia planning joint purchase of German IRIS-T air defense systems

  22-05-2023 19:42 via foxnews.com
  
  Estonia and Latvia plan jointly to acquire German air defense systems for the protection of the two NATO nations' airspace in what would be the biggest defense cooperation deal between the Baltic neighbors that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defense ministries said Sunday. According to the provisional deal, deliveries of the medium-range IRIS-T SLM air defense system — manufactured by weapons maker Diehl Defence of Germany — could begin next year and the systems could be ope
  
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• Strategic partners Poland and Ukraine exchange remarks over violent past

  22-05-2023 19:39 via foxnews.com
  
  Officials in Poland and Ukraine, staunch strategic partners, have unexpectedly exchanged bitter remarks regarding a painful mutual past that includes mass murder. This year is the 80th anniversary of the massacres of tens of thousands of Poles by Ukrainians that Poland calls genocide. In 1943-44, Ukrainian nationalists and others massacred about 100,000 Poles in Volhynia and other regions which were then eastern Poland, under Nazi German occupation, and which are now part of Ukraine. Seeking to
  
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• Belarus opposition group urges EU to maintain sanctions on Belarusian fertilizer producer

  22-05-2023 19:36 via foxnews.com
  
  A member of the Belarus opposition movement urged the European Union on Monday to keep sanctions against a Belarusian state fertilizer producer, warning that lifting them would generate a $1.5 billion windfall for Alexander Lukashenko's regime as it supports Russia’s war on Ukraine. Pavel Latushka, a former Belarusian minister of culture who is now in exile in Poland, said that he fears the EU might be tempted to lift sanctions against Belaruskali, a producer of potash. Latushka heads an o
  
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• Iran building nuclear facility deep enough that US bombs would likely be incapable of destroying it: Report

  22-05-2023 19:31 via foxnews.com
  
  Iran is building a nuclear facility so deep underground that experts fear conventional U.S. weapons would be unable to destroy it. "So the depth of the facility is a concern because it would be much harder for us. It would be much harder to destroy using conventional weapons, such as like a typical bunker buster bomb," Steven De La Fuente, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told The Associated Press in a report Monday. The comments come after satellite
  
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• Brazilian ecologists combat Amazon deforestation with new land ownership model

  22-05-2023 19:05 via foxnews.com
  
  In a remote corner of the Amazon, Brazilian ecologists are trying to succeed where a lack of governance has proved disastrous. They're managing a stretch of land in a way that welcomes both local people and scientists to engage in preserving the world’s largest tropical forest. The goal is ambitious, counter the forces that have destroyed 10% of the forest in less than four decades and create something that can be replicated in other parts of the Amazon. It began with a four-month expediti
  
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• Cocoa planting is destroying protected forests in west Africa, study finds

  22-05-2023 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Global trade in chocolate, worth more than $1tn a year, is leading to widespread deforestation in Ivory Coast and GhanaThe world’s hunger for chocolate is a major cause of the destruction of protected forests in west Africa, scientists have said.Satellite maps of Ivory Coast and Ghana showed swathes of formerly dense forest had become cocoa plantations since 2000, according to a study. Continue reading...
  
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• Monsoon rains delayed in India as extreme heat strikes parts of country

  22-05-2023 18:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Swathes of India from the northwest to the southeast braced for more scorching heat Monday, with New Delhi under a severe weather alert, as extreme temperatures strike parts of the country. The Indian Meteorological Department issued a heat wave alert for seven southern and central states last week and broadened it to the capital and some northern states on Monday as sizzling temperatures breached normal levels. It warned that blistering heat will continue for the next few days before rains brin
  
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• World Health Organization members approve nearly $7 billion budget for next 2 years

  22-05-2023 18:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Member states of the World Health Organization on Monday approved a $6.83 billion budget for the next two years which includes a 20% hike in their mandatory fees. The proposal for the 2024-2025 budget passed with no objections and was met with lengthy applause.  Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the step as "historic and a big milestone". WHO DOWNGRADES CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, NO LONGER A GLOBAL EMERGENCY "We don't take it lightly, and we don't take it for granted and we'l
  
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• 6 dead, 7 injured in Abu Dhabi house fire

  22-05-2023 18:19 via foxnews.com
  
  A house fire in Abu Dhabi killed six people and injured seven on Monday, according to the civil defense authority in the United Arab Emirates. An Investigation is underway to find out the cause of the fire which erupted in the city's Al Moazaz area. The UAE has been grappling with a series of recent fires, exacerbated by flammable cladding materials and escalating temperatures, which can soar up to 113 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer. AT LEAST 20 STUDENTS KILLED IN GUYANA DORMITORY FIRE Ano
  
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• South African man arrested for superimposing president's face onto pornographic images, distributing them

  22-05-2023 18:18 via foxnews.com
  
  South African police said Monday they have arrested a man for allegedly distributing pornographic images with the faces of President Cyril Ramaphosa, Police Minister Bheki Cele and Cele's wife superimposed on them. The man will appear in court in the capital, Pretoria, on Tuesday on charges of contravening the Cyber Crimes Act, which relates to unlawfully accessing or processing computer data. The 34-year-old distributed the images to police officers and to the public on social media, police sai
  
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• First Arab female astronaut reaches space station

  22-05-2023 18:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Saudi scientist Rayyanah Barnawi will carry out breast cancer research while in orbit.
  
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• Dangote oil refinery launched in Nigeria

  22-05-2023 18:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is hoped that the plant will alleviate chronic fuel shortages in Africa's biggest oil producer.
  
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• Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu: Buckingham Palace rejects calls to return royal's body

  22-05-2023 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Exhuming Prince Alemayehu's body would disrupt the remains of others, Buckingham Palace says.
  
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• BBC ordered to Delhi High Court over Modi documentary

  22-05-2023 17:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The documentary focused on the prime minister's role in anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002.
  
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• Ukraine war: Wagner chief vows to hand Bakhmut to Russian army by June

  22-05-2023 16:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The chief of the mercenary group made the claim but Ukraine says it still controls parts of the city.
  
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• Roman Protasevich: Belarus pardons activist hauled off flight

  22-05-2023 16:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Roman Protasevich was jailed for eight years earlier this month, for inciting unrest in Belarus.
  
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• How worrying is debt ceiling for Americans on Social Security?

  22-05-2023 16:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Most Americans think a default is impossible, and few have planned for the potential economic chaos.
  
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• Escaped water buffalo herd wreck Essex swimming pool

  22-05-2023 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A couple win compensation from a farm after the animals cause £25,000 of damage in the garden.
  
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• Cheetah deaths raise questions over India’s reintroduction scheme

  22-05-2023 15:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Three of the 20 big cats brought from Africa have died as critics of the plan say their new habitat is unsuitableA programme to reintroduce cheetahs in India after 75 years has been called into question after three of the animals died in recent weeks and concerns were raised that their new habitat was unsuitable.Since October, 20 cheetahs – which became extinct in the country in 1952 – have been brought over from South Africa and Namibia as part of a much-lauded government programme
  
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• WATCH: Golf pro steals the show with hole-in-one at PGA Championship

  22-05-2023 15:07 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Michael Block, a 46-year-old golf pro, dunked a hole-in-one on the final round and is guaranteed to play the PGA Championship next year.
  
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• Picnics and blooms: The Chelsea Flower Show in pictures

  22-05-2023 14:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Exhibitors are making last-minute adjustments to their displays before the gates open on Tuesday.
  
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• China bans major chip maker Micron from key infrastructure projects

  22-05-2023 14:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is China's first major move against a US chip maker, as tensions increase between Beijing and Washington.
  
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• Ex-Mubarak minister Mohamed Mansour donates £5m to Tories

  22-05-2023 14:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Tory senior treasurer Mansour says he wants to assist ‘very capable prime minister’ Rishi SunakUK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservatives have accepted a £5m donation from an Egyptian-born billionaire who served as a minister in the government of the former president Hosni Mubarak.Mohamed Mansour, who was made senior treasurer of the Conservatives in December, announced he had given the sum to the party, its biggest one-off donation for more than 20 years. Continu
  
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• WATCH: Watch a Lego Ferrari go from zero to hero

  22-05-2023 14:28 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A full-scale Ferrari Monza SP1 built of Lego bricks is on display at Legoland in Denmark.
  
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• Meta: Facebook owner fined €1.2bn for mishandling data

  22-05-2023 14:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The dispute is over Facebook's transfer of European data to US servers.
  
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• China and Saudi Arabia boycott G20 meeting held by India in Kashmir

  22-05-2023 13:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Indian presidency of group becomes mired in controversy as tourism session hosted in disputed territoryIndia’s presidency of the G20 group of leading nations has become mired in controversy after China and Saudi Arabia boycotted a meeting staged in Kashmir, the first such gathering since India unilaterally brought Kashmir under direct control in August 2019.The meeting, a tourism working group attended by about 60 delegates from most G20 countries taking place from Monday to Wednesday, req
  
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