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• Red panda recaptured after escaping from Newquay zoo

  30-05-2023 23:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Police were called when the female, called Sundara, was spotted roaming the town on MondayAn 11-month-old red panda surprised workers in Cornwall after escaping from Newquay zoo.Police received a call on Monday morning about the escaped red panda strolling down the streets of Newquay. Workers at a fruit wholesaler had spotted the creature, whose name is Sundara, and distracted her with an apple to keep her from running off again. Continue reading...
  
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• Chinese jet flew past nose of U.S. plane, Pentagon says

  30-05-2023 23:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Chinese fighter jet flew directly in front of the nose of a U.S. plane over the South China Sea, said the Pentagon, one of a rising number of incidents.
  
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• Chinese fighter jet caught on video intercepting US Aircraft over South China Sea: ‘unnecessarily aggressive’

  30-05-2023 23:55 via foxnews.com
  
  A Chinese fighter jet was captured on video intercepting a U.S. aircraft Thursday over the South China Sea.  U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said a People's Republic of China J-16 fighter pilot performed an "unnecessarily aggressive maneuver" while intercepting a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft.  Video provided by USINDOPACOM shows the PRC pilot flying about 400 feet in front of the RC-135 spy plane, forcing it to fly through the wake turbulence of the Chinese jet.  USINDOPACOM said the
  
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• Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia

  30-05-2023 23:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Former Senate staffer who made claim in 2020 appears on Russian media alongside convicted Russian agent in US Maria ButinaTara Reade, a former Senate staffer who in 2020 accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, said on Tuesday she had defected to Russia.“I’m still kind of in a daze a bit but I feel very good,” Reade told Sputnik, a Russian press outlet supportive of President Vladimir Putin, while sitting with Maria Butina, a convicted Russian agent jailed in the US but now a membe
  
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• Florida elections officials quietly made it easier for Ron DeSantis to fund his 2024 bid

  30-05-2023 23:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ron DeSantis’ administration has quietly changed key guidance in a state elections handbook.
  
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• UN warns of unprecedented humanitarian stress as 70% of Syria's population requires aid

  30-05-2023 23:45 via foxnews.com
  
  For the first time in Syria’s 12-year war, people in every district are experiencing some degree of "humanitarian stress," and a staggering 15.3 million — nearly 70% of the population — need humanitarian aid, the United Nations said Tuesday. A U.N. appeal for $5.4 billion to help over 14 million people in Syria is less than 10% funded and the U.N. World Food Program has warned that without additional money, 2.5 million people are at risk of losing food or cash assistance from J
  
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• Scottie Pippen says Michael Jordan was 'horrible to play with' on Chicago Bulls, more focused on scoring over winning

  30-05-2023 23:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Michael Jordan was a "horrible player" who was "horrible to play with," Scottie Pippen, the top wingman for His Airness on the Chicago Bulls, said recently.
  
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• Far-right members, unhappy with debt deal, float threatening McCarthy's speakership

  30-05-2023 23:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Some Freedom Caucus members have floated ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy over his debt ceiling deal with President Joe Biden, or threatening to.
  
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• Chinese pilot performed ‘aggressive maneuver’ near US plane, military says

  30-05-2023 23:27 via theguardian.com
  
  The incident is the latest in a season of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing this yearA Chinese fighter pilot performed an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” near an American surveillance aircraft operating over the South China Sea last week, according to US military.The incident – which the Pentagon says is part of a pattern of behavior by China – comes at a time of already heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over issues including Taiwan a
  
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• US debt ceiling deal: House rules committee debates bill amid criticism on both sides – as it happened

  30-05-2023 23:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Committee debate comes amid opposition from both sides to agreement that would stave off a catastrophic defaultMembers of the House Freedom Caucus have said they will rethink the House speaker leadership if the debt ceiling agreement passes.During a Tuesday press conference outside of the Capitol, several House Freedom Caucus members spoke out against the Biden-McCarthy deal. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Ball of fluff’: rare white bison born in Wyoming is first in park’s 32-year history

  30-05-2023 23:25 via theguardian.com
  
  One of Bear River state park’s white heifers gave birth to a snowy calf, which is healthy and runs in circles called ‘zoomies’Staffers at the Bear River state park in south-west Wyoming welcomed four brown bison calves this spring and thought the birthing season was finished.But earlier this month, as staff visited the animals’ pasture, they saw a “little white ball of fluff”, park superintendent Tyfani Sager said. Continue reading...
  
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• UK ministers could ban flavoured vapes to deter sales to children

  30-05-2023 23:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Tighter rules could also demand plain packaging and more curbs on promotion of products• Vaping: quitter’s aid or addiction risk?Ministers are considering further vaping laws, such as a ban on colourful branding or flavours, to deter their sale to children amid calls for plain packaging to be extended to the products.No 10 said the government was considering “further steps” on vaping, with a call for evidence due to close next week. The government announced on Tuesday that
  
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• Myanmar coup: The soldiers refusing to fight

  30-05-2023 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Despite Russia's help, the Myanmar military is still failing to control the country and its soldiers are defecting.
  
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• Man arrested in the death of New Jersey council member shot and killed in her car

  30-05-2023 23:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  A man has been arrested in the death of a New Jersey borough council member who was shot in her car in February, officials said Tuesday.
  
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• McCarthy insists Republican support for debt deal ‘easy’ despite vocal opposition

  30-05-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  House speaker says he isn’t worried the agreement will fail as prominent rightwinger Chip Roy calls it a ‘turd sandwich’The Republican speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarthy, insisted on Tuesday that supporting the debt ceiling deal would be “easy” for his party and it was likely to pass through Congress despite one prominent rightwinger’s verdict that the proposed agreement is a “turd sandwich”.Amid loud denunciations from the Republican right an
  
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• Teen fatally shot in back by S.C. store owner who wrongly accused him of shoplifting, sheriff says

  30-05-2023 22:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot in the back Sunday by a South Carolina convenience store owner who wrongly accused him of shoplifting and chased him after a confrontation, authorities said.
  
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• After a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, can a community heal?

  30-05-2023 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The trial for the alleged perpetrator of the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history has begun.
  
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• Sunak accused of trying to cover up ministers’ actions during pandemic

  30-05-2023 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  PM challenged as Cabinet Office battles to withhold Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages from Covid inquiryRishi Sunak has been accused of attempting to cover up the actions of ministers during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office intensified its battle to withhold Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages from the Covid inquiry.The prime minister insisted his government has been cooperating with the investigation but is facing increasing calls from experts and MPs – with some coming from w
  
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• Why it’s not quite back to the 70s with talk of food price controls

  30-05-2023 22:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Statutory caps were brought in under Heath, now the government wants a voluntary store scheme to meet Sunak’s pledge to halve inflationA cost-of-living crisis. Pressure on the government to step in to help hard-pressed consumers. Calls for supermarkets to cut prices on staple food items. Substitute Rishi Sunak for Ted Heath, step into a time capsule and journey back to Britain in 1972.Let’s be clear: ministers are not considering imposing the sort of statutory price controls on a loa
  
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• MPs ‘to question ITV’ over Phillip Schofield’s affair with younger colleague

  30-05-2023 22:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Reports say members of CMS committee will discuss the handling of the issue with executivesMPs are reportedly planning on questioning ITV executives over This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield’s affair with a younger male colleague.It came as the Prince’s Trust said it had dropped Schofield as an ambassador. “In light of Phillip’s recent admissions, we have agreed with him that it is no longer appropriate to work together,” a spokesperson for the charity said on T
  
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• Young engaged couple shot dead by landlord over tenancy dispute, police say

  30-05-2023 21:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  A young Canadian couple who were reportedly soon to be married were shot dead by their landlord before the suspect barricaded himself in the house and died in a shootout with police, authorities said.
  
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• North Korea to launch spy satellite for monitoring US military drills with South

  30-05-2023 21:27 via foxnews.com
  
  North Korea is reportedly planning to launch its first military spy satellite into orbit for monitoring U.S. military drills with South Korea.  The announcement came a day after North Korea informed Japan that it plans to launch a satellite sometime between May 31 and June 11 — despite the United Nations prohibiting it from engaging in such activity.  It’s not clear whether North Korea’s satellite will be advanced enough to track and monitor U.S. and South Korean acti
  
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• Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes begins 11-year prison sentence

  30-05-2023 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Theranos founder, 39, was convicted last year of defrauding investors and wire fraud.
  
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• British paddleboarder killed by lightning strike was told to get out of water

  30-05-2023 21:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Scott Seddon, 26, from Liverpool was being filmed by his partner as the tragedy happened off coast of RhodesThe partner of a British tourist who died when he was struck by lightning while paddleboarding off Rhodes had beseeched him to return to shore when the storm hit.Scott Seddon’s girlfriend repeatedly shouted “come out” when it became clear the 26-year-old from Liverpool was struggling in the waters off Agathi beach. The woman, who has not been named, was on land filming Se
  
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• India lacking jobs as country is set to become most populous nation in the world

  30-05-2023 20:44 via foxnews.com
  
  On a hot summer afternoon, 23-year old Nizamudin Abdul Rahim Khan is playing cricket on a muddy, unpaved road in the Rafiq Nagar slum in India's financial capital, Mumbai. Here, there is scant evidence of India's fast-growing economy. Bordering what was once Asia largest garbage dumping ground, Rafiq Nagar and surrounding areas are home to an estimated 800,000 people, most living in tiny rooms across narrow, dark alleys. The young men and women in the area struggle to find jobs or work, and they
  
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• 11-month-old dies after being left in car while parents went to church: Police

  30-05-2023 20:30
  
  An 11-month-old baby girl has died after being left in a car for three hours while her parents attended a Florida church service, police said.
  
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• Teenage girl charged with killing 19 in school dorm fire after cellphone confiscated: report

  30-05-2023 20:28 via foxnews.com
  
  A 15-year-old schoolgirl from Guyana was charged as an adult Monday in the murder of 19 people after police accused her of purposefully setting fire to a school dormitory in retaliation for her cellphone being confiscated. The fire killed 18 of her schoolmates and a 5-year-old boy trapped inside the building after a dorm matron locked the doors from the inside to prevent the female students, aged 12-18, from sneaking out to socialize with males from a nearby mining town. How the fire was started
  
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• Kosovo: ‘fascist mobs’ guided by Serbia causing violence, says country’s PM

  30-05-2023 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 30 Nato peacekeeping soldiers were injured in clashes on Monday after ethnic Albanian mayors took officeKosovo’s prime minister has blamed violence in the north of the country on “fascist mobs” controlled by the government of neighbouring Serbia, and said he had rejected a US request to relocate recently installed mayors out of their official offices.More than 30 Nato peacekeeping soldiers were injured in clashes on Monday, prompting the alliance to announce it would
  
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• Uganda enacts law to stop the theft of human organs and tissues

  30-05-2023 20:17 via foxnews.com
  
  Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved a law to stop the stealing of human organs and tissues, the health minister said on Tuesday, in a nation where women have been reportedly duped into unnecessary surgeries. Local media have in recent years reported cases of women recruited for domestic work in the Middle East being conned into medical procedures after which their kidneys are sold in global trafficking rings. In a tweet, Health Minister Jane Aceng thanked Museveni for signing the Ugan
  
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• Foodborne illness outbreaks at restaurants are often linked to sick workers, CDC finds

  30-05-2023 20:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sick food workers are major contributors to the spread of illnesses at restaurants, according to the CDC. Paid sick leave policies can help, research suggests.
  
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• Boko Haram fighters kill 8 in northern Cameroon

  30-05-2023 20:10 via foxnews.com
  
  Extremist fighters killed eight people including soldiers in multiple attacks in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, a regional official said. Fighters with Boko Haram killed three customs officers, three soldiers and two civilians in separate attacks in the towns of Mora and Zigage on the border with Nigeria, said Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of the region. "The Boko Haram fighters are in huge numbers along the border with Nigeria and we are counting on collaboration between the military and civilians
  
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• Notre Dame’s roof gets rebuilt with medieval techniques

  30-05-2023 20:06 via foxnews.com
  
  If time travel was possible, medieval carpenters would surely be amazed to see how woodworking techniques they pioneered in building Notre Dame Cathedral more than 800 years ago are being used again today to rebuild the world-famous monument's fire-ravaged roof. Certainly the reverse is true for the modern-day carpenters using medieval-era skills. Working with hand axes to fashion hundreds of tons of oak beams for the framework of Notre Dame's new roof has, for them, been like rewinding time. It
  
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• Australian man frees his head from the jaws of a crocodile after he's attacked while snorkeling

  30-05-2023 20:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Australian man suffered head injuries in a harrowing encounter with a crocodile in Queensland over the weekend.
  
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• 9 dead after Turkish migrant boat sinks off Greek resort island Mykonos

  30-05-2023 20:02 via foxnews.com
  
  The death toll from a migrant boat sinking last week off the Greek resort island of Mykonos has tripled to nine after another six bodies were found in the sea and on a nearby island, authorities said Tuesday. Others remain missing. A coast guard statement said that divers on Tuesday found the bodies of four women and a man at a depth of 100 feet inside the sunken speedboat that had departed from Turkey. It said the body of an 18-year-old woman from the boat was also found Monday on a rocky stret
  
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• Pakistan’s pro-Imran Khan television journalist returns home after being released by his captors

  30-05-2023 19:48 via foxnews.com
  
  A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing last week, apparently because of his public support to former Prime Minister Imran Khan, returned home early Tuesday after being released by his captors, his family and his employer said. Sami Abrahim’s brother, Ali Raza, took to Twitter to confirm his release. BOL TV confirmed his release in a news announcement. Abrahim went missing Thursday when eight people in four vehicles intercepted his car on his way back home from work in
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes has gone to prison. Will she ever pay victims too?

  30-05-2023 19:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts say victims often never get their money back from those who defrauded them.
  
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• Former first lady Rosalynn Carter is diagnosed with dementia

  30-05-2023 19:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, the Carter Center said Tuesday.
  
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• India's top wrestlers hold off on protest against sexual harassment after community leaders intervene

  30-05-2023 19:37 via foxnews.com
  
  India's top wrestlers held off from throwing their medals into the country's sacred Ganges River on Tuesday — as part of an ongoing protest against sexual harassment — after a community leader intervened and persuaded them against doing so. The wrestlers, who have been demanding the resignation and arrest of the president of the wrestling federation for allegedly sexually harassing young female athletes, had said they would throw their medals into the river and then begin a hunger st
  
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• California warehouse where a fire killed 36 people acquired by community group

  30-05-2023 19:32 via foxnews.com
  
  A converted artists' warehouse in Oakland that burned down in 2016, killing 36 people, was quietly razed this month in preparation for possible development into badly needed low-income housing. The property that housed the Ghost Ship warehouse was acquired by The Unity Council, a nonprofit community development organization based in Oakland. The council's CEO Chris Iglesias told the Bay Area News Group last week that they plan to move forward with care, knowing how sensitive the issue is for the
  
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• Ukrainian woman trying to reach godson detained in Russia and deported to Belarus

  30-05-2023 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Olga Guruli was heading to occupied Kherson province to arrange repatriation of boy and his brotherUkraine war – latest news updatesA Ukrainian woman who travelled to Russia hoping to arrange the repatriation of her godson and his brother from Russian-occupied Kherson province was arrested, interrogated for two days and threatened with being sent to a penal colony before being deported to Belarus.The detention of Olga Guruli was initially reported by Russian media outlets who wrongly sugge
  
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• Iranian president hacked as group claims data shows expanded security around nuclear site

  30-05-2023 19:23 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM—Iranian dissident hackers have allegedly claimed they penetrated the servers of the office of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, revealing on Monday highly sensitive data about an increased security zone around the underground nuclear facility Fordow, northeast of the holy city of Qom. The hacktivist group, Rise to Overthrow, claimed as part of the trove of documents secured that the head of security for Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Facility wrot
  
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• Nato to send 700 more troops to Kosovo to try to quell violence

  30-05-2023 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Nato chief announces further measures as situation in Serb-majority north remains ‘fragile’Nato has said it will send 700 extra troops to try to curb the violence in Kosovo a day after 30 alliance-led peacekeeping soldiers and more than 50 ethnic Serbian protesters were injured in clashes.On Monday, Nato peacekeepers in riot gear had secured a town hall in the town of Zvecan as the situation remained tense. Continue reading...
  
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• 153 people arrested during El Salvador’s crackdown on street gangs die in custody, report says

  30-05-2023 19:13 via foxnews.com
  
  At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country’s powerful street gangs have died in state custody, according to a report released Monday by the human rights group Cristosal. None of those who died had been convicted of a crime they were accused of at the time of their arrest. There were four women among the victims and the rest were men. The deaths were the result of torture, and systematic and serious injuries, the report sai
  
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• Italian and Israeli agents among four dead after boat capsizes in Lake Maggiore

  30-05-2023 19:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Tourist boat was reportedly carrying more than 20 people when it was struck by a whirlwind on SundayTwo agents from the Italian intelligence services and a retired member of the Israeli security forces were among the victims when a tourist boat capsized and sank in a sudden, violent storm in a northern Italian lake, it has emerged.Claudio Alonzi, 62, and Tiziana Barnobi, 53, who worked for Italian intelligence, were officially named among the dead on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• China launches new crew for orbiting space station, looking to put astronauts on moon by end of decade

  30-05-2023 18:53 via foxnews.com
  
  China launched a new three-person crew for its orbiting space station on Tuesday, with an eye to putting astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade. The Shenzhou 16 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China atop a Long March 2-F rocket just after 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The crew, including China’s first civilian astronaut, will overlap briefly with three now aboard the Tiangong station, who will then return to Earth after
  
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• Former German tax inspector sentenced to over 8 years in prison for one of biggest frauds in country's history

  30-05-2023 18:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Hanno Berger, a former tax inspector turned legal tax expert, was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years and three months in jail by a court in Wiesbaden, as the nation comes to terms with one of its biggest post-war frauds. Berger had already been sentenced to eight years in jail in December after a similar trial. He has been the most high-profile professional to be convicted after sprawling investigations into the cum-ex dividend stripping scheme, which some experts estimate has cost German taxpa
  
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• Extremist rebels in eastern Congo kill at least 17 civilians

  30-05-2023 18:46 via foxnews.com
  
  At least 17 people were killed by extremist rebels in eastern Congo's North Kivu province, local authorities said. Civilians were killed by fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces — believed to be linked with the Islamic State group — in the Bambuba-kisiki area in Beni territory, said Sabiti Njiamoja, a deputy to the local governor, on Monday. "We buried 10 bodies on Sunday. The victims are civilians killed by ADF between Thursday and Friday in Kainana. Seven others were found on
  
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• Uyghur student did not go missing in Hong Kong after being interrogated at airport, rights group says

  30-05-2023 18:43 via foxnews.com
  
  Amnesty International said Tuesday that a Uyghur student who it had said was missing in Hong Kong after being interrogated did not travel to the city, easing concerns over his safety but raising questions over how the allegations first emerged. The human rights group said last Friday that Abuduwaili Abudureheman, who was born in Xinjiang in western China, had traveled to Hong Kong from South Korea to visit a friend on May 10 and had not been heard from since he texted his friend about being ques
  
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• Russia, Kenya sign trade pact in effort to offset worsening relations with West prompted by Ukraine invasion

  30-05-2023 18:40 via foxnews.com
  
  Kenya will sign a trade pact with Russia aimed at boosting cooperation between businesses, President William Ruto's office said on Monday, after hosting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Nairobi. Russia has stepped up its drive to boost economic ties with Africa to help offset a big chill in relations with the West prompted by its invasion of Ukraine, and plans to hold an Africa-Russia summit in St Petersburg in July. Kenya's presidency said in a statement that bilateral trade with Russi
  
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• Underage ISIS terrorist planned bomb attack in northern Italy, authorities allege

  30-05-2023 18:34 via foxnews.com
  
  Italian authorities have arrested a minor suspected of being a supporter of the ISIS terror network who was allegedly planning an explosive attack in the area where he lived, police said Tuesday. The minor, identified as an Italian citizen of foreign origin, was arrested in the province of Bergamo on suspicion of association with the aim of terrorism, terrorist training, extolling the virtues of terrorism and instigation to commit a crime. Italian authorities said others in the network of young
  
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