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• Pennsylvania nurse accused of killing 2 patients, injuring another with insulin injections

  26-05-2023 23:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Pennsylvania nurse is accused of administering lethal doses of insulin to two patients, the state attorney general said.
  
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• English couple sentenced to life in prison for murdering baby son in case of "unimaginable cruelty"

  26-05-2023 23:29 via foxnews.com
  
  An English couple who fought to get their baby son back from child services and then abused him so severely the 10-month-old was dead just over a month later were sentenced to life in prison for murder Friday in what a judge described as a case of "unimaginable cruelty." Stephen Boden, 30, and Shannon Marsden, 22, showed no emotion as family members wept and a gasp sounded in the gallery when the sentence was handed down in Derby Crown Court. Finley Boden, who the judge said had been a lovely, h
  
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• Iowa Gov. Reynolds signs bill restricting instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity

  26-05-2023 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov.
  
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• Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation

  26-05-2023 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Native American Lena Black says she was not allowed to wear her sacred eagle plume at graduation.
  
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• US customs finds hatched parrot eggs in carry-on

  26-05-2023 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parrots from the Amazon go on quite the adventure when they showed up at Miami International Airport.
  
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• Hikikomori: Why S Korea is paying young recluses to leave home

  26-05-2023 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Money only "touches the surface" of a deeper problem, former recluses and youth workers say.
  
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• WATCH: California police officer rescues runaway horse

  26-05-2023 22:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A police officer in Burbank, California, utilized his horseback riding skills while on duty when rescuing a runaway horse.
  
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• The U.S. now has until June 5 to act on the debt ceiling, Yellen says

  26-05-2023 22:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  The United States has a few more days to raise the debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a letter Friday afternoon, setting the deadline to June 5.
  
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• Over 30 women held hostage by Cameroonian rebels released

  26-05-2023 22:55 via foxnews.com
  
  More than 30 women abducted by separatist rebels for protesting illegal taxes imposed on them were released, the government said Friday. The women were taken earlier this month from Babanki, a farming village in the Northwest Region, along the border with Nigeria. "We have taken the women to hospitals where they are being treated for injuries and supported psychosocially," said Simon Emil Mooh, a local government official. MORE THAN 30 WOMEN IN CAMEROON ABDUCTED BY SEPARATIST FIGHTERS The separa
  
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• U.S. accuses Russia's Wagner Group mercenaries of fueling war in Sudan

  26-05-2023 22:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Russian mercenary outfit Wagner Group is sending surface-to-air missiles to one side in Sudan’s war, fueling the conflict, part of a growing presence in Africa.
  
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• China enters waters off of Vietnam near Russian gas block in 'worrying escalation'

  26-05-2023 22:33 via foxnews.com
  
  China on Friday once again disregarded Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and deployed a research ship along with five escort vessels to an area where a Russian state firm jointly operates a gas block with Hanoi in the energy rich South China Sea.  The move is Beijing’s latest escalatory step in the region after it first sent in the research vessel earlier this month along with at least one Chinese coast guard ship and nearly a dozen other vessels, Reuters reported. TA
  
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• Court suspends euthanization order for bear involved in fatal attack

  26-05-2023 22:03 via foxnews.com
  
  A ruling by an administrative court in Italy’s Alpine region on Friday spared, for now, the life of the bear who fatally attacked a runner last month. The brown bear, identified as Jj4, was captured on April 18 following an intensive, two-week, hunt launched after a 26-year-old local man was killed while running on a mountain trail. The court panel in the city of Trento requested more details about the dynamics of the attack by the 17-year-old female bear and thus suspended an order by loc
  
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• WATCH: Kid comforts dog after bath

  26-05-2023 22:01 via abcnews.go.com
  
  This parent captured footage of their child holding and comforting their Italian greyhound with sweet words after its bath.
  
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• Italian rescuers find no trace of distressed vessel carrying 500 migrants in Mediterranean

  26-05-2023 22:01 via foxnews.com
  
  A day after searching a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea, an Italian humanitarian group said Friday that its rescue vessel found no trace of a boat said to be in distress and carrying 500 migrants, including a newborn. The vessel "Life Support found no wreckage of any shipwreck, and the 500 persons didn't disembark in Italy,'' the nongovernmental organization Emergency said in a written statement from Milan. "It's hard to believe that no coastal authority knows where those 500 persons are." Emer
  
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• At least 19 dead in Cameroon bus crash

  26-05-2023 21:58 via foxnews.com
  
  A passenger bus collided with a truck in Cameroon, killing at least 19 people, the government said Friday. MORE THAN 30 WOMEN IN CAMEROON ABDUCTED BY SEPARATIST FIGHTERS The bus was headed to the southern town of Eseka when it lost control and struck a "heavy duty truck," which was transporting sand, Transport Minister Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe said. The majority of people on board died on the spot. The crash happened on the Douala-Edea road near a police checkpoint and the injured were
  
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• UK parents sentenced to life in prison for horrific murder of 10-month-old son on Christmas day

  26-05-2023 21:37 via foxnews.com
  
  U.K. parents convicted of killing their 10-month-old son in a "savage and brutal" campaign of abuse have been sentenced to life in prison for his murder.  Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden will serve a minimum of 27 years and 29 years, respectively, after they were found guilty in the murder of Finley Boden, who died on Christmas Day 2020. The couple were tried and convicted at Derby Crown Court, where a judge described the horrific details of Finley's torture at their hands. During sentenc
  
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• Damaged yacht among 2 dozen vessels targeted by rogue orca whale pod this year

  26-05-2023 21:05 via foxnews.com
  
  A pod of killer whales repeatedly rammed a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar this week, damaging it enough to require Spanish rescuers to come to the aid of its four crew members. It was the latest episode in a perplexing trend in the behavior of orcas populating the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula that has left researchers searching for a cause. Spain’s Maritime Rescue service said that killer whales repeatedly ran into the Mustique, a 65-foot vessel sailing under a U.K. flag, late
  
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• 18 Belgian students found guilty in fatal initiation ritual, sentenced to community service

  26-05-2023 21:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Eighteen Belgian students were found guilty on Friday for their role in the 2018 death of a freshman university student during a brutal and degrading initiation ritual and were sentenced to community service and fines. Sanda Dia was 20 when he died in a hospital in December 2018 after he, and two other first-year students, endured two days of vicious hazing to enter an elite student fraternity, Reuzegom. Dia was forced to drink excessive amounts of alcohol and fish oil, and made to sit in freezi
  
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• 6 migrant traffickers arrested after opening fire on Albanian border police

  26-05-2023 21:01 via foxnews.com
  
  Albanian police on Friday said they have arrested six migrant traffickers for allegedly organizing an illegal border crossing for people from Arab countries and opening fire on border police. No injures were reported. A police statement said that the traffickers were operating late Thursday in Morine village, close to the Kosovo border, around 100 miles north of the capital, Tirana, where they were conducting "criminal activity assisting emigrants from third countries to cross the border illegal
  
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• Uyghur student missing for weeks after being interrogated by police at airport in Hong Kong

  26-05-2023 20:32 via foxnews.com
  
  A Uyghur student has been missing in Hong Kong for more than two weeks since he sent a message saying he was being interrogated by Chinese police at the city's airport, a human rights group said Friday. Amnesty International said Abuduwaili Abudureheman, who was born in Xinjiang in western China, traveled to Hong Kong from South Korea to visit a friend on May 10 but has not been heard from since he texted his friend about being interrogated after his arrival. "The unknown fate of Abuduwaili Abud
  
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• Tragedy strikes as dinghy overturns near Greek island of Mykonos leaving 3 dead, several missing

  26-05-2023 20:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Three people have died and up to 12 others are missing after a dinghy carrying migrants overturned near the Greek resort island of Mykonos, officials said. The incident in the Aegean Sea occurred early Friday. The search involving two rescue helicopter along with coast guard and private vessels was launched after two men, a Palestinian and a Syrian, swam to rocks near the shore and were spotted by authorities. The bodies of two adult women and an adult man were recovered at sea several hours lat
  
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• Clashes erupt as ethnic Serbs block municipal buildings in northern Kosovo, Serbian troops mobilized

  26-05-2023 20:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Small groups of ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo on Friday clashed with police while trying to block the entrance of municipal buildings to prevent recently-elected officials from entering them, according to local media. Police fired tear gas and several cars were set ablaze. In response to the clashes, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in a written statement carried on state-run RTS television that he put the army on a "higher state of alert." Vucic also said that he ordered an "urgent" mo
  
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• Sudan conflict: Improved adherence to cease-fire reported by Saudi Arabia and US

  26-05-2023 20:23 via foxnews.com
  
  Saudi Arabia and the United States said Friday the warring sides in Sudan's conflict are adhering better to a new, weeklong cease-fire following days of sporadic fighting. The truce, brokered by Riyadh and Washington, went into effect on Monday, but fighting continued in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and the western Darfur region. Particularly intense clashes flared up on Wednesday, the two mediators said in a joint statement. The conflict in Sudan erupted in mid-April after months of escalat
  
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• Neuralink: Why is Elon Musk’s brain chip firm in the news?

  26-05-2023 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk’s brain chip firm Neuralink has received the US regulatory green light for its first human clinical trial, after earlier controversies.
  
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• Baseball player fatally struck in the face while dismantling unapproved dugout

  26-05-2023 19:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A coroner in Pennsylvania ruled that a college baseball player died accidentally when a makeshift dugout collapsed and he was struck in the face
  
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• 12 injured after passenger opens emergency exit door during flight

  26-05-2023 19:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Some people aboard the Asiana Airlines aircraft tried to stop the person.
  
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• Crash of private Japanese moon lander blamed on software, last-minute location switch

  26-05-2023 19:49 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Tokyo company whose lunar lander slammed into the moon says a software issue and a last-minute switch in the touchdown location led to the crash
  
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• India official drains entire dam to retrieve phone

  26-05-2023 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The man, who has now been suspended, was taking a selfie when he dropped his phone into the water.
  
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• Locals in Spanish seaside destination have message for tourists: 'Go home'

  26-05-2023 19:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Barcelona residents are saying enough to the mass amounts of tourists pouring into the top destination city along Spain’s northeastern coastline and have called on officials to take counteractive measures.  As tourist rates once again near pre-pandemic levels, locals are pushing back with signs reading, "Go home" and "Tourism kills neighborhoods" sprawling across city districts, including major sightseeing locations like the La Rambla boulevard and the city’s opera house, report
  
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• Indiana reprimands doctor for talking publicly about Ohio 10-year-old's abortion

  26-05-2023 19:28 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The Indiana Medical Licensing Board decided late Thursday to reprimand and fine a doctor who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio.
  
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• Negotiators have 'made progress' but no debt limit deal as deadline nears: McCarthy

  26-05-2023 19:17 via abcnews.go.com
  
  With potential default just six days away, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy arrived at the Capitol Friday telling reporters he remained optimistic a deal could be reached.
  
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• Former Oath Keeper sentenced for role in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

  26-05-2023 19:03 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Jessica Watkins was given more than eight years in prison.
  
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• Court says Hugh Grant's lawsuit alleging illegal snooping by tabloid can go to trial

  26-05-2023 17:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A London court has rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun newspaper to throw out a lawsuit by actor Hugh Grant alleging that journalists and investigators it hired illegally snooped on him
  
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• Serbians converge in country's capitol for pro-government rally following mass shootings

  26-05-2023 17:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Tens of thousands of people converged on the Serbian capital on Friday for a major rally in support of President Aleksandar Vucic, who is facing an unprecedented revolt against his autocratic rule amid the crisis triggered by two mass shootings that stunned the nation. The event was somewhat overshadowed by a new crisis in Serbia's former province of Kosovo, where ethnic Serbs clashed with Kosovo police on Friday and Vucic ordered Serbian troops to be put on a "higher state of alert." Vucic also
  
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• Thousands of residents in Poland forced to evacuate due to discovery of 550-pound unexploded WWII bomb

  26-05-2023 17:48 via foxnews.com
  
  A large unexploded bomb from World War II discovered in the Polish city of Wroclaw forced the evacuation of 2,500 residents on Friday. The bomb weighing 550 pounds was found near a railway overpass in the city in southwestern Poland during construction work. Poland's armed forces said it was a German SC-250 aerial bomb from the war. WWII VET, 101, ‘FINALLY’ WALKS AT GRADUATION 80 YEARS AFTER HAVING TO MISS CEREMONY AMID GLOBAL WAR  The city organized buses to take the evacuated
  
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• Britain's Treasury chief is prepared for UK economy to slip into recession if it means bringing down inflation

  26-05-2023 17:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Britain's Treasury chief said he would be prepared to see the U.K. economy slip back into recession if further interest rate hikes are necessary to bring down inflation. With the Bank of England expected to keep raising rates following higher-than-anticipated inflation figures this week, Jeremy Hunt said it was necessary to prioritize measures to slow the pace of price increases. In an interview with Sky News that aired Friday, Hunt said the "only path to sustainable growth" is to bring inflatio
  
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• Madeleine McCann search in Portugal over, items collected for testing: police

  26-05-2023 17:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Portuguese, German and British authorities have ceased their search for items relating to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann – a British girl who went missing as a toddler from Praia da Luz, Portugal, 16 years ago. Madeleine was abducted from a ground-floor apartment while on a family vacation in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, when she was three years old. Portugal's Judicial Police said in a Thursday evening statement that a search request from German authorities has been completed and "
  
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• British Cycling publishes new transgender policy with 'open' and 'female' categories

  26-05-2023 17:10 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Riders who were born male will be prevented from racing in British Cycling’s elite female events under a new transgender and non-binary participation policy published by the governing body
  
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• Rare survivor 1970 Plymouth Superbird 'Six Barrel' up for auction and worth six-figures

  26-05-2023 17:05 via foxnews.com
  
  This bird is ready for takeoff. A rare 1970 Plymouth Superbird muscle car owned by the same family for nearly a half-century is coming up for auction and expected to pull a huge price. The Superbird was only built for one year, but remains one of the most iconic American cars of all time. Its aerodynamic nosecone and high rear wing were designed to help Plymouth dominate on the NASCAR circuit with the likes of Richard "The King" Petty behind the wheel. CLASSIC ‘RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM’
  
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• A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve increased in April

  26-05-2023 16:54 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A key index of U.S. prices ticked higher in April, and consumer spending rebounded, a sign that inflationary pressures in the economy remain high
  
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• Underwater creatures: 5,000 new species found in the Pacific Ocean

  26-05-2023 16:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A study in the Pacific Ocean has found 5,000 new species in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.
  
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• Wisconsin protestor who helped pull down abolitionist's statue sentenced to 6 months in jail

  26-05-2023 16:52 via foxnews.com
  
  A man who drove the car that helped pull down the statue of a Civil War hero and abolitionist outside of the Wisconsin state Capitol during a night of protests in 2020 has been sentenced to six months in jail. The statute of Hans Christian Heg was toppled and beheaded during a protest in downtown Madison in June 2020 against police brutality. Protests began a month earlier over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and flared up again that June after Madison police arrested a Black ac
  
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• Where Ron DeSantis stands on key issues

  26-05-2023 16:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  DeSantis is Trump's main rival as they do battle to be their party's 2024 pick. So what are his policies?
  
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• 3 convicted of fatally shooting former Indiana University football player following George Floyd protest

  26-05-2023 16:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Three people have been convicted in the fatal shooting of a former Indiana University football player who was gunned down during unrest in Indianapolis following the death of George Floyd. Marcus Anderson, Alijah Jones and Nakeyah Shields were found guilty of murder and multiple counts of armed robbery, Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced Friday. Businessman Chris Beaty, 38, was shot and killed May 30, 2020, as he walked through an alley near his apartment building during violence that
  
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• Alabama’s grocery sale tax may be cut in half under bill approved by the state House

  26-05-2023 16:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation to remove half of the state’s 4% sale tax on groceries, a proposal that garnered broad bipartisan support in the face of soaring food prices. The House of Representatives voted 103-0 for the legislation that would gradually remove the tax by one percentage point a year, provided there is enough growth in tax collections to offset the revenue loss, until the tax drops to 2%. The bill now moves to the Alabama Senate, where all senators have
  
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• Harry and Meghan's one success, a scandal that's bigger than Watergate and more Fox News Opinion

  26-05-2023 16:39 via foxnews.com
  
  SEAN HANNITY – Biden's White House has done an awful job on 'every facet of American life'… Continue reading…  SPECIAL FORCES FOCUS – We're ex-SEALs who know all Americans need to do hard things and challenge ourselves to restore our nation… Continue reading… NEWT GINGRICH – The scandal that's hit America and will be bigger than Watergate… Continue reading… ROGUE DHS – Documents reveal DHS ‘dirty tricks’ operation
  
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• Steelers’ TJ Watt jokes ‘lesser athlete’ would’ve been injured after viral pool slip

  26-05-2023 16:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end T.J. Watt is still laughing at himself days after posting a video of himself accidentally falling into his pool, a video he says friends encouraged him to share on social media.  Following OTAs on Thursday, reporters could not help but ask Watt about the video that showed him falling into his family pool after he seemingly misjudged how far the ledge extended out.  "I don’t know how I missed the step but I did and a lesser athlete would’ve
  
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• Brooklyn Democrat faces bipartisan accusations of anti-Italian bias after comments about landscaping company

  26-05-2023 16:36 via foxnews.com
  
  A Brooklyn Democrat councilmember in New York City is facing bipartisan accusations of anti-Italian bias over comments he made about a landscaping company. Councilman Chi Ossé, a 25-year-old Democrat from Brooklyn, was accused of anti-Italian racism after his comments about Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, a firm that had to pay out $1 million in restitution after pleading guilty to insurance fraud last year. "I just want to say on Dragonetti — that name alone should have been the f
  
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• Celine Dion cancels all tour dates amid health battle with incurable neurological disorder

  26-05-2023 16:34 via foxnews.com
  
  Celine Dion has officially announced the cancelation of her Courage World Tour after her continuous battle with an incurable neurological disorder. The iconic 55-year-old singer took to Instagram to update fans on her health condition. "It is with tremendous disappointment that we have to announce today the cancelation of the Courage World Tour," Dion began her in-depth post. "I’m so sorry to disappoint all of you once again. I’m working really hard to build back my strength, but tou
  
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• Belgium aid worker freed in prisoner swap with Iranian diplomat jailed for bomb plot

  26-05-2023 16:34 via theguardian.com
  Deal to release Olivier Vandecasteele in exchange for Assadollah Assadi raises concerns Tehran’s hostage diplomacy has been rewardedA Belgian aid worker jailed in Tehran has been released in a prisoner swap with an Iranian diplomat who had been sentenced to 20 years in jail for his role in a plan to bomb an Iranian opposition rally in Paris in 2018.Assadollah Assadi had served just over two years of his 20-year sentence, and his release will raise questions about whether Iranian hostage di
  
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