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• Paris St-Germain 2-3 Clermont: Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos sign off with defeat

  03-06-2023 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos play their final games for Paris St-Germain as the Ligue 1 champions lose to Clermont.
  
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• Man City have set the standard - how can Man Utd catch up?

  03-06-2023 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer says Manchester United will have to spend big this summer if they are to challenge Manchester City's supremacy.
  
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• WATCH: Large herd of cattle cross through Colorado town

  03-06-2023 22:57 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A large herd of cattle crossed through a town in Colorado during a six-mile journey to reach their summer grazing grounds.
  
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• Cause of Indian train crash that killed hundreds remains unknown as officials say rescue efforts completed

  03-06-2023 22:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  NEW DELHI, India —Rescuers ended a search for survivors as the death toll from a train crash that killed almost 300 people and injured hundreds more in one of the worst rail disasters in India's history, officials said.
  
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• Federal judge rejects Tennessee drag show ban as unconstitutional

  03-06-2023 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  A federal judge has ruled that Tennessee’s law restricting drag performances in public or where children were present was unconstitutional.
  
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• Spanish Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso rue qualifying errors

  03-06-2023 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso say errors prevented them from joining Red Bull's Max Verstappen on the front row for the Spanish Grand Prix.
  
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• Walt Disney’s Pixar Animation eliminates 75 positions

  03-06-2023 21:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  The cuts, which took place May 23, are part of Walt Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger’s previously announced plan to eliminate 7,000 jobs and slash $5.5 billion in costs. That restructuring combined the film and television groups into a single Disney Entertainment unit and eliminated a division charged with distribution.
  
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• Joran van der Sloot, key suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance, moved to new prison ahead of extradition to U.S.

  03-06-2023 21:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  LIMA, Peru — The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru’s capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing, officials said Saturday.
  
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• Who receives food benefits? It may not be who you think

  03-06-2023 21:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Work-requirement proponents say the problem is unemployment, but nearly 4 out of 5 of households in the SNAP program have at least one person working.
  
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• 'Don’t want to live life anymore without confessing': Man confesses to killing landlord 15 years ago, police recordings show

  03-06-2023 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Police officers found Tony Peralta earlier this month sitting on a curb not far from the convenience store in a small southeastern New Mexico community where he borrowed a cellphone — so he could call 911 and confess to killing his landlord 15 years earlier.
  
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• Hong Kong police detain eight people on eve of Tiananmen anniversary

  03-06-2023 20:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Police say four arrested for ‘seditious’ acts while a further four taken away on suspicion of breaching the peaceHong Kong police detained eight people, including activists and artists, on the eve of the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, a move that signals the city’s shrinking freedom of expression.Police said in a statement late on Saturday that four people had been arrested for allegedly disrupting order in public spaces or carrying out acts with
  
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• Florida mom accused of leaving kids in car that caught fire while she was allegedly shoplifting

  03-06-2023 20:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Florida woman is facing two felony charges after allegedly leaving her two children in a car that caught fire while she was allegedly shoplifting, leaving one child with first-degree burns, court records show.
  
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• Ben Stokes: England captain 'on course' to bowl in first Ashes Test

  03-06-2023 20:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England captain Ben Stokes says he is "definitely on course" to bowl in the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston.
  
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• Biden says debt ceiling deal averted 'economic collapse'

  03-06-2023 19:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US president signs the package into law on Saturday after it cruised through Congress.
  
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• Biden signs bipartisan debt ceiling bill to avert government default

  03-06-2023 19:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a bill extending the debt ceiling for two years, averting a disastrous debt default ahead of Monday’s deadline.
  
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• Russia, China seek world power 'rebalancing' with G7-alternative: 'indispensable mechanism'

  03-06-2023 19:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Foreign ministers of the nations comprising a China and Russia-led economic bloc have made clear that they intend to rebalance global power, claiming to aim for a "multipolar" dynamic even as they work to place themselves at the center.  "At the heart of the problems we face is economic concentration that leaves too many nations at the mercy of too few," Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said following the meeting of the BRICS countries.  Jaishankar stressed t
  
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• War with China over Taiwan would be 'devastating,' says Defense Secretary Austin

  03-06-2023 19:44 via foxnews.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warned that a war over Taiwan would have "devastating" effects on the global economy. Austin made the remark Saturday at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore. "Conflict is neither imminent nor inevitable. Deterrence is strong today – and it’s our job to keep it that way," Austin told attendees. TAIWAN BUYING 400 ANTI-SHIP MISSILES FROM US AS CHINA THREATS PERSIST: REPORT The Shangri-La Dialogue, named after the hotel where the su
  
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• Three Israeli soldiers killed near Egypt border

  03-06-2023 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The incident came after a drug smuggling operation was thwarted at the border, the army says.
  
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• Son of Red Sox Hall of Famer found dead in apparent murder-suicide 4 years after child's mother went missing

  03-06-2023 19:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  A man and his 8 year-old son were found dead in a Massachusetts home in what officials are calling an apparent murder-suicide, four years after the child's mother went missing under mysterious circumstances.
  
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• ‘Wailing for help’: passengers and bystanders tell of India train crash horror

  03-06-2023 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Relatives tell of agony of searching for survivors among what one called ‘heaps of bodies’ as rescue activities draw to a closeThe carriages from three trains sat piled high in an entangled wreck. Some lay sideways, while others had been thrown so high into the air on impact that they had fallen back to earth twisted and upside down.A line of dozens of bodies covered in white sheets were laid out next to the wreckage waiting for vehicles – ambulances, local cars, even tractors
  
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• French Open 2023: Aryna Sabalenka to face Sloane Stephens in Paris night session

  03-06-2023 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aryna Sabalenka will face Sloane Stephens in the first night session at this year's French Open to feature a women's match.
  
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• Tiananmen massacre museum opens in New York despite fear of Beijing backlash

  03-06-2023 18:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Communist party has campaigned for decades to eradicate remembrance events for the 4 June clashes in BeijingWhen Zhou Fengsuo was looking for a space in New York to display his art collection, he couldn’t believe his luck when he stumbled across 894 6th Avenue in the heart of midtown Manhattan. The numbers of the address – 8946 – were the same as the date he wanted to commemorate: 4 June 1989. It was “unbelievable”, the former student leader marvelled.That Zhou&rsqu
  
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• Manchester City 2-1 Manchester United: Ilkay Gundogan double settles 2023 FA Cup final

  03-06-2023 18:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ilkay Gundogan scores twice, including the fastest FA Cup final goal ever, as Manchester City beat Manchester United to secure the second part of a possible Treble.
  
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• Modi has spent billions modernising India’s trains but safety is biggest need

  03-06-2023 17:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Though the number of railway accidents has come down in the past few years, derailment remains the main causeThere is no railway system quite like the Indian railways. Trains remain an essential lifeline in India, the world’s most populous country of 1.4 billion people, carrying about 13 million passengers a day for work, family and leisure on trains that weave across 40,000 miles of track, more than enough to wrap around the Earth.Friday night’s collision involving two passenger tra
  
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• Ukraine is ready to launch long-awaited counteroffensive, Zelenskyy says

  03-06-2023 17:05 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that his forces stand ready to launch their long-promised counteroffensive to reclaim Russian-occupied territory.  "We strongly believe that we will succeed," Zelenskyy told The Wall Street Journal. "I don’t know how long it will take." "To be honest, it can go a variety of ways, completely different," he said. "But we are going to do it, and we are ready." Russian military officials have discussed the potential for a major Ukrainian o
  
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• West Virginia state trooper fatally shot, suspect caught after extensive search

  03-06-2023 16:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  BEECH CREEK, W.Va. —fatally shot Friday in southern West Virginia, and a suspect later was arrested, authorities said.
  
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• Search for survivors ends with more than 260 dead in India train crash

  03-06-2023 16:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Rescue efforts have ended for India's worst train accident in more than two decades, which left at least 261 people dead, officials said Saturday. A passenger train derailed and hit another one on Friday in the eastern district of Balasore in Odisha state. One train also hit a freight train parked nearby, resulting in a disastrous wreck of mangled rail cars and injuring 1,000 people. A preliminary government report identified a possible signal error as the cause of the tragedy, Reuters reported.
  
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• Three Israeli soldiers and one Egyptian killed in rare shootout on border

  03-06-2023 15:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  TEL AVIV, Israel — A shootout in southern Israel killed three Israeli soldiers and an Egyptian police officer Saturday, in a rare instance of deadly violence along the country's normally peaceful border with Egypt.
  
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• Three Israeli soldiers killed along Egyptian border

  03-06-2023 15:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Details about gunman, who Israeli army says was also killed after a manhunt, have not been releasedTwo Israeli soldiers have been killed in a rare shooting along the Egyptian border, triggering a manhunt in which a third soldier and the “assailant” were killed, the army said.A fourth soldier, a non-commissioned officer, was lightly wounded and evacuated to hospital, it added. The military said an assailant was in Israeli territory when he opened fire at troops. The soldiers returned
  
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• South Korea deploying ships, divers to continue salvaging failed North Korean rocket

  03-06-2023 15:00 via foxnews.com
  
  South Korean officials are overseeing an extensive search operation to locate the debris of a failed missile launch from their northern neighbors. The operation continued Saturday in the Yellow Sea, where the aborted rocket fired by North Korea landed on June 1.  South Korea's Sea Salvage and Rescue Unit has been deployed. Military officials said deep sea divers are scanning the area 200 kilometers west of Eocheong, a small island of South Korea. The country has already recovered large piec
  
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• Sexual assault victim ordered to pay abuser's wife damages in twisted court case

  03-06-2023 15:00 via foxnews.com
  
  A Japanese court has ordered a woman to pay damages to the wife of the man she accused of sexual assault since their relationship may have breached the country’s civil code.  Meiko Sano filed a lawsuit against her professor for sexual assault after ending a decade-long relationship with him. Sano argued that Michio Hayashi, an art history professor of the Department of Liberal Arts at Sophia University, had taken advantage of their dynamic to initiate a relationship to which she never
  
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• Montreal: holdout tenant halts developer’s push to force her out

  03-06-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Focus over affordable housing as Carla White says she will not leave unless Mondev provides similar apartment with cheap rentA single holdout tenant in a Montreal apartment block has halted a multimillion-dollar development project, in a standoff which has focused fresh attention on the lack of affordable housing in major Canadian cities.Real estate developer Mondev has been trying for years to persuade Carla White to move from her small, C$400-a-month apartment so it can demolish a row of mostl
  
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• India train crash: at least 288 killed and 803 injured in Odisha state

  03-06-2023 14:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Rescue operation under way with death toll expected to rise in India’s worst rail disaster in more than 20 years‘Wailing for help’: passengers and bystanders tell of India train crash horrorAt least 288 people have been killed and 803 injured after two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha – the country’s deadliest rail disaster in more than 20 years.The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata in West Bengal to Chennai in Tamil Nadu, wa
  
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• Motorists shocked when driver hops out of car, fills up gas tank completely naked

  03-06-2023 14:00 via foxnews.com
  
  A driver in the U.K. shocked fellow motorists at a gas station last month when he hopped out of his BMW completely naked to fill up his tank.  "I thought 'I swear that guy was naked'. I got in my car and had a look. His reg plate said 'naked' as well. He was filling up his car b—ock naked. He was casual about it," witness Quinn Kelly told SWNS of the scene.  Kelly said he had just finished paying at a gas station in Bacup, Lancashire, on May 23 when he did a double-take and reali
  
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• Washington won’t stand for China ‘bullying’ US allies, Lloyd Austin tells summit

  03-06-2023 13:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Defence secretary also criticises Beijing’s unwillingness to engage with US on military crisis managementThe US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, has vowed that Washington will not stand for any “coercion and bullying” of its allies and partners by China, while assuring Beijing that the US remains committed to maintaining the status quo on Taiwan and would prefer dialogue over conflict.Speaking in Singapore at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s top security summit, Austin lob
  
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• California's stolen land could be worth millions, and Black families are fighting for every penny

  03-06-2023 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former slaves who came to California mined for gold and bought property, only for their land to be stolen or seized. Their descendants want a reckoning.
  
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• French Open 2023: Elena Rybakina withdraws from Roland Garros through illness

  03-06-2023 12:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina pulls out of the French Open shortly before her third-round match because of illness.
  
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• Younger people left this U.S. territory for better jobs. Who takes care of the seniors?

  03-06-2023 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Puerto Rico is aging faster than most places and older adults and seniors lack caregivers as younger Puerto Ricans left for jobs in the U.S. mainland.
  
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• British Vogue editor Edward Enninful steps down

  03-06-2023 11:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After six years as editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful will help lead Vogue brands globally in a new role.
  
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• Through bullets and border chaos, they fled Sudan's conflict with $800 and a family of five

  03-06-2023 11:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  The conflict between Sudan’s army and the RSF paramilitary group has forced hundreds of thousands to flee heavy fighting in Khartoum and beyond.
  
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• Here's what's going on with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's impeachment

  03-06-2023 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Everything you need to know about the imperiled Republican's upcoming corruption trial.
  
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• Bordeaux-Rodez Ligue 2 match abandoned after fan attacks player

  03-06-2023 10:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bordeaux's hopes of promotion from Ligue 2 are in doubt after their final match of the season was abandoned after a Rodez player was attacked by a fan.
  
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• U.S. Defense Secretary Austin says Washington won’t stand for ‘bullying’ from China

  03-06-2023 10:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin vowed Saturday that Washington would not stand for any “coercion and bullying” of its allies and partners by China.
  
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• As anti-gay sentiment grows, more LGBTQ+ people seek to flee Uganda

  03-06-2023 09:36 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Frightened LGBTQ+ Ugandans are searching for a way to escape a new law prescribing the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality
  
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• Protests erupted outside Los Angeles elementary school's Pride month assembly

  03-06-2023 08:38 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Police officers had to separate protesters and counterprotesters outside a Los Angeles elementary school that has become a flashpoint for LGBTQ+ issues involving children in California during Pride month
  
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• Imran Khan’s political games leave him isolated as Pakistan army destroys party

  03-06-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Allies desert former prime minister amid disappearances and torture as powerful military reasserts controlIn recent days, Imran Khan has cut an increasingly isolated figure. Since Pakistan’s former prime minister was released from jail, after a brief but explosive attempt to arrest him last month, his return has been marked by a mass exodus of the top leadership of his party, on a scale that has surprised even his critics.Late on Thursday night, Pervez Khattak, the former chief minister an
  
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• Mexican officials say 45 bags of human remains resemble missing call center employees

  03-06-2023 07:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Forty-five bags containing human remains were discovered in Jalisco, Mexico, earlier this week and appear to resemble the features of young missing call center employees, according to state prosecutors. The Jalisco Prosecutor's Office said in a statement that the remains were found in the municipality of Zapopan during a search for the missing people. The remains found in a 40-meter deep ravine will still need to undergo forensic tests to officially identify the bodies. The seven call center wor
  
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• Iraq’s oil boom blamed for worsening water crisis in drought-hit south

  03-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Pollution from gas flaring – the burning of natural gas associated with oil extraction – is also a major concern in the oil-rich but extremely dry southWestern oil companies are exacerbating water shortages and causing pollution in Iraq as they race to profit from rising oil prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Water scarcity has already displaced thousands and increased instability, according to international experts, while Iraq is now considered the fifth most vulnerable
  
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• Cause of death released for BLM co-founder's cousin shocked repeatedly with Taser

  03-06-2023 06:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  A teacher who was repeatedly shocked with a Taser by Los Angeles police died from an enlarged heart and cocaine use, according to an autopsy report released Friday.
  
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• New Hampshire man is charged with threatening to kill a senator

  03-06-2023 06:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Brian Landry of Franklin allegedly told investigators that he was upset after seeing news reports of a senator "blocking military promotions."
  
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