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• WATCH: Dads celebrate 1st Father's Day after adopting 6 siblings

  16-06-2023 23:37 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Daniel and Dustin Johnson started their journey of becoming dads six years ago. Now they're a family of eight.
  
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• Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Anna Wintour honoured in king’s birthday list

  16-06-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Knighthood for late novelist Amis is dated 18 May as honours cannot be given posthumouslyTwo giants of the literary world, the novelists Ian McEwan and the late Martin Amis, are recognised in the king’s first official birthday honours along with the fashion colossus Dame Anna Wintour.The Booker prize-winning McEwan, whose acclaimed titles include Amsterdam, On Chesil Beach and Atonement, becomes a companion of honour, the highest award for outstanding achievement, of which there are only 6
  
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• ‘Bittersweet’: bereaved charity founder honoured in King’s birthday list

  16-06-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Bullying campaigner and founder of UK buddy system for Ukrainian refugees also among hundreds recognisedSuzanne Richards lost her son Joel, 19, brother Adrian, 49, and father, Pat, 78, in the 2015 terrorist attack in Sousse, Tunisia. Her other son Owen, then 16, was also shot and injured by the gunmen but survived the attack in which 38 people were killed.Their memories live on in the Smile for Joel charity, supporting families who are victims of homicide, which she and Owen run from her home in
  
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• Hunter Biden deposed in Arkansas child support case over 4-year-old daughter

  16-06-2023 23:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Hunter Biden, the 53-year-old son of President Joe Biden, was deposed in his fiery child support case in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday. Lunden Roberts, mother of 4-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, had made an agreement with the president's son regarding paternity and child support payments in 2020. Roberts gave birth to Navy in August 2018, filing a paternity suit less than a year later.  A judge ruled that Biden was Navy's father "with near scientific certainty" in January 2020. Roberts, who
  
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• Pittsburgh synagogue gunman found guilty on all federal charges

  16-06-2023 23:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  The jury has reached a verdict for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, who is accused of carrying out the deadliest anti-semitic attack in U.S. history.
  
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• Inside the $100 million door-knocking effort to boost Ron DeSantis

  16-06-2023 23:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis see their large-scale door-knocking program as the centerpiece of an effort to overtake former President Donald Trump.
  
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• Leela Row Dayal: The first Indian woman to win a match at Wimbledon

  16-06-2023 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leela Row Dayal, an artist and athlete, led an extraordinary life - yet little is known about her.
  
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• Indigenous plane crash searchers turned to ayahuasca to find missing kids

  16-06-2023 22:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  In Colombia Indigenous searchers turned to drinking yabé, known as ayahuasca, the hallucinogenic cocktail used as a sacred ritual for centuries.
  
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• Ukraine counteroffensive has 'no chance,' Putin says as Russians brace for long war

  16-06-2023 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Friday that Ukraine’s counteroffensive had “no chance” and talked up Russia’s financial health at his country’s main international economic forum.
  
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• Mali's top diplomat demands UN peacekeepers leave the country after more than 10 years

  16-06-2023 22:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Mali’s top diplomat demanded Friday that U.N. peacekeepers who have been in this West African country grappling with an Islamic insurgency for more than a decade leave immediately, claiming they had failed in their mission. Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop made the request in a speech to the United Nations Security Council. He said the U.N. mission had not achieved its objectives and was sowing distrust among the people. Mali has struggled to contain an Islamic extremist insurgency since 20
  
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• Environmental activist shot to death in Honduras 6 months after activist brother slain

  16-06-2023 22:02 via foxnews.com
  
  An environmental activist was killed by unidentified gunmen Thursday in northern Honduras, six months after his younger brother and another activist were killed in a similar attack, a relative and an environmental group said. Oquelí Domínguez was shot by two men on a motorcycle at his family’s home in Tocoa, his eldest brother, Reynaldo Domínguez, said. The Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, a local environmental defense organization, also
  
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• Joe Biden says mass shootings plague the US ‘every damn day’ – as it happened

  16-06-2023 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  President makes speech in Connecticut at summit marking passage of tougher gun control law last yearThe Minneapolis police force use excessive force and discriminate against marginalized groups, including Black and Native Americans and people with behavioral issues, attorney general Merrick Garland said as he announced the findings of the justice department’s investigation following George Floyd’s death.“We found that MPD … engages in a pattern or practice of using exces
  
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• Home invasions and roadblocks: New Zealand on alert as ‘seal silly season’ begins

  16-06-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Public notice issued to watch out for the flippered creatures as they start to leave their breeding colonies and venture out into New ZealandSunbathing on roads, breaking through catflaps, visiting film sets, invading homes and taking in the heat of backyard spa bath covers – New Zealand’s “seal silly season” has officially begun and the country is bracing for an influx of adolescent marine mammals exploring the country’s highways, patios and golf courses.This week,
  
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• German police appeal for images taken of attack in which Americans were pushed down steep slope

  16-06-2023 22:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Police in southern Germany are appealing for photos and videos taken by witnesses of an attack near Neuschwanstein castle in which an American man allegedly pushed two women down a steep slope, killing one of them. A suspect was arrested following the attack. German news agency dpa quoted police as saying Friday that they have so far received about a dozen submissions on a specially created website, but assume many more images were taken by tourists present at the site. "We are looking for photo
  
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• Lebanese man suspected of trafficking stolen antiquities faces Interpol warrant

  16-06-2023 21:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Interpol has issued an international warrant for a Lebanese man suspected of trafficking stolen antiquities, weeks after he was questioned in Lebanon, judicial officials said Friday. The Red Notice was unsealed 10 months after a criminal court in New York issued an arrest warrant for Georges Lotfi, 82, charging him with criminal possession of stolen property as well as possessing looted artifacts. The officials did not give further details about the Interpol warrant, which is a non-binding reque
  
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• WATCH: Illegal fireworks warehouse explodes, incident caught on camera rocks neighborhood

  16-06-2023 21:54 via foxnews.com
  
  An illegal fireworks warehouse in the Philippines exploded Thursday morning, sending powerful shockwaves that shook buildings in the surrounding area.  The stockroom exploded at around 2:10 a.m., with some residents reporting that they saw electrical wiring outside the building spark against the concrete before the explosion occurred occurred, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported.  Firefights reported that 16 houses were destroyed, seven "partially damaged" and 22 "slightly damaged"
  
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• Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock the platform

  16-06-2023 21:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Twitter owner Elon Musk may have had an influence on Reddit’s CEO ahead of changes to the website that have resulted in a user-led rebellion on the platform.
  
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• Germany returns 600-year-old indigenous masks to Colombia

  16-06-2023 21:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Germany handed over to Colombia on Friday two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum's collection for more than a century, another step in the country's restitution of cultural artifacts as European nations reappraise their colonial-era past. The wooden "sun masks," which date back to the mid-15th century, were handed over at the presidential palace during a visit to Berlin by Colombian President Gustavo Petro. The decision to restitute them follows several yea
  
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• George Floyd murder: Minneapolis police have pattern of aggression and discrimination, DoJ inquiry finds

  16-06-2023 21:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Merrick Garland announces findings of Department of Justice investigation into department after Floyd’s killing by officersThe US attorney general, Merrick Garland, on Friday announced that the 2020 murder of George Floyd was part of a “pattern or practice” ofexcessive force used by the department and years of unlawful discrimination against Black Americans.Garland held a press conference to reveal the findings of the two-year investigation by the Department of Justice (DoJ) in
  
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• Meet the drag nuns caught up in the culture war over Pride events

  16-06-2023 21:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Los Angeles chapter will receive an award at the Dodger's LGBTQ Pride Night Friday after weeks of controversy.
  
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• Father charged with killing 3 sons as surviving daughter fled home screaming

  16-06-2023 21:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Ohio man has been charged with murder after his three young sons were shot and a young girl was seen running in the street screaming her father “was killing everyone,” authorities say.
  
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• Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, dies aged 92

  16-06-2023 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Analyst who leaked studies showing US government knew the Vietnam war was un-winnable became activist and writerDaniel Ellsberg, a US government analyst who became one of the most famous whistleblowers in world politics when he leaked the Pentagon Papers, exposing US government knowledge of the futility of the Vietnam war, has died. He was 92. His death was confirmed by his family on Friday.In March, Ellsberg announced that he had inoperable pancreatic cancer. Saying he had been given three to s
  
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• Germany’s return of sacred Kogi masks to Colombia may have health risks

  16-06-2023 20:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Wooden artefacts dating from 15th century and bought from indigenous people were treated with pesticides while in museumGermany has returned two wooden masks of the indigenous Kogi community to Colombia but conceded that wearing the sacred artefacts in ceremonies may come with a health risk because they were treated with toxic pesticides during their time in German museums.The masks, which date back to the mid-15th century and have been held in ethnological collections in Berlin for over a centu
  
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• Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, dies at 92

  16-06-2023 20:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed the U.S. government's lies about the Vietnam War by leaking the Pentagon Papers to some of the nation's top newspapers, has died, his family said in a statement on Friday.
  
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• Expert report fuels election doubts as Georgia waits to update voting software

  16-06-2023 20:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  An unsealed expert report argues that Georgia’s Dominion Voting Systems machines are vulnerable to vote switching and hacking, even as the state downplays risks.
  
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• Six-week abortion ban blocked by Iowa Supreme Court

  16-06-2023 20:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  The state Supreme Court deadlocked 3-3, meaning the governor's attempt to implement a stricter ban failed. Abortion remains legal up to 20 weeks in pregnancy.
  
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• An 'angel on earth' and 11-year-old boy among those killed by tornado that flattened a Texas town

  16-06-2023 20:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  The tornado that destroyed a small city in the Texas Panhandle and killed three people claimed the life of a woman whose daughter-in-law said she was "an angel on earth."
  
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• 3,000-year-old sword so well-preserved it 'almost still shines' found in Germany

  16-06-2023 20:13 via foxnews.com
  
  A bronze sword made more than 3,000 years ago that is so well-preserved it "almost still shines" has been unearthed in Germany, officials say. FRANCE'S HISTORIC MONT-SAINT-MICHEL TURNS 1,000 Bavaria's state office for the preservation of historical monuments says the sword, which is believed to date back to the end of the 14th century B.C. — the middle of the Bronze Age — was found during excavations last week in Noerdlingen, between Nuremberg and Stuttgart in southern Germany. It ha
  
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• Canada’s supreme court upholds pact with US restricting asylum claims

  16-06-2023 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Safe Third Country Agreement does not infringe refugee claimants’ rights to liberty and security of the person, court rulesCanada’s top court has ruled that an agreement with the United States aiming to control the flow of refugees across the shared border is constitutional, ending a lengthy legal challenge by advocacy groups who argue the deal violates the rights of asylum seekers.In a unanimous judgment released on Friday morning, the supreme court found the controversial Safe Thir
  
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• Greek coast guard defends its response to shipwreck where up to 500 passengers are feared dead

  16-06-2023 20:01 via foxnews.com
  
  Greece's coast guard defended its actions in responding to a ship carrying hundreds of migrants that ended up sinking off the country's south coast, as criticism mounted Friday over the European Union's years-long failure to hammer out a comprehensive migration and asylum policy. Patrol boats and a helicopter spent a third day scouring the area of the Mediterranean Sea where the packed fishing vessel capsized and sank early Wednesday. The International Organization for Migration said as many as
  
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• Court artists on their three, very different Trumps

  16-06-2023 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sketching the former president under the greatest scrutiny possible. It's a tough job, so how do they do it?
  
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• China condemns EU Parliament resolution addressing Hong Kong’s deteriorating freedoms

  16-06-2023 20:00 via foxnews.com
  
  China’s Foreign Ministry condemned a resolution passed by the European Parliament concerning Hong Kong’s shrinking rights to free speech, even as Beijing seeks to restore economic links with the EU. The EU body overwhelmingly adopted a resolution Thursday citing the deterioration of the city’s freedoms since the imposition by Beijing of a sweeping national security law in 2020. It urged the Hong Kong government to release and drop all charges against activist publisher Jimmy La
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine offensive moving towards Mariupol, minister says – as it happened

  16-06-2023 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Centre of fighting has moved as Ukrainian forces slowly push back Russians, says Hanna Maliar, a deputy defence ministerWhat we know on day 478 of the invasionKherson’s regional authority has said that 1,649 houses in 17 settlements on the right bank of the Dnipro remain flooded after the collapse of the Kakhovka dam. They also claim that 17 settlements remain flooded on the opposite bank, which is occupied by Russian forces.Suspilne, Ukraine's state broadcaster, offers this news update on
  
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• NHS Providers boss warns of health service ‘looking into abyss’ if consultants strike

  16-06-2023 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  BMA’s junior doctors’ committee says government can end dispute by ‘paying doctors what they are worth’The NHS will be “looking into the abyss” if hospital consultants follow the example of junior doctors and go on strike over pay, the leader of England’s hospital bosses has said.Hospitals will be left unable to function normally if consultants – the most senior doctors on wards – stage walkouts in pursuit of their pay claim, Sir Julian Hartl
  
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• Biden gambles that delaying sanctions and playing down espionage will improve China relations

  16-06-2023 19:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Biden administration has delayed punitive economic measures against China and played down Beijing’s spying to protect efforts to revive a diplomatic dialogue.
  
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• Brutal attack by extremist rebels kills 7 farmers in northeast Nigeria, heightening food security concerns

  16-06-2023 19:39 via foxnews.com
  
  Islamic extremist rebels killed at least seven farmers in northeast Nigeria, an attack that further threatens food security in the hard-hit region, local authorities told The Associated Press on Friday. The militants attacked the farmers on Thursday as they worked on their crop fields near Borno state's Molai area, the authorities said. Security forces deployed to the scene "were met with a horrifying sight; some victims had their throats slit while others were completely beheaded," Abudulmumeen
  
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• ‘Almost still shines’: 3,000-year-old sword unearthed in Germany

  16-06-2023 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Object from mid-bronze age, in ‘extraordinary’ state of preservation, was found in grave in BavariaA bronze sword more than 3,000 years old , which is so well-preserved that it “almost still shines”, has been unearthed in southern Germany, officials say.The Bavarian state office for the preservation of historical monuments (BLfD) said the sword, which is believed to date back to the end of the 14th century BC — the middle of the bronze age — was found during e
  
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• Japan raises age of consent from 13 to 16

  16-06-2023 19:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Japan's parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world's lowest, amid calls for greater protection of children and women. The revision was part of a revamping of laws related to sex crimes. Separately, Parliament passed a new law on Friday to increase awareness of LGBTQ+ issues which activists criticized for not guaranteeing equal rights for sexual minorities. Reforms providing greater prot
  
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• US energy department and other agencies hit by hackers in MoveIt breach

  16-06-2023 19:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Data ‘compromised’ when hackers thought to be Russia-linked criminal gang gained access through security flaw – departmentThe US Department of Energy and several other government agencies were hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used file-transfer software, officials said this week.Data was “compromised” at two entities within the energy department when hackers – attributed to a Russia-linked criminal gang – gained a
  
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• Robert Bowers found guilty of deadly Pittsburgh synagogue attack

  16-06-2023 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Robert Bowers has been found guilty in the 2018 attack - the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.
  
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• Former Ofsted chief: school inspections should change after headteacher’s death

  16-06-2023 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Sir Michael Wilshaw says he now thinks differently about use of one-word headline grades in EnglandThe former chief inspector of schools in England Sir Michael Wilshaw has said Ofsted’s style of school inspections needs to change after the death of the headteacher Ruth Perry.Wilshaw, who led Ofsted until 2016, said Perry’s death, following an inspection that downgraded her school from “outstanding” to “inadequate”, had changed his mind over the use of one-word
  
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• Most of 108 drowning victims in Nigeria boat accident were women and children

  16-06-2023 19:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Most of the 108 people who drowned after a boat broke apart in north-central Nigeria were women and their children, survivors and local authorities told The Associated Press on Thursday as search efforts ended. The wooden boat was carrying more than 250 people across the Niger River in Kwara state as they returned home from a late-night wedding when the craft hit a log and split early Monday, survivors said. One of the survivors, Ibrahim Mohammed, said they carried some little children to shore,
  
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• US nuclear submarine arrives to South Korea a day after North Korea resumes missile tests

  16-06-2023 19:18 via foxnews.com
  
  The United States deployed a nuclear-powered submarine capable of carrying about 150 Tomahawk missiles to South Korea on Friday, a day after North Korea resumed missile tests in protest of the U.S.-South Korean live-fire drills. The USS Michigan’s arrival in South Korea, the first of its kind in six years, is part of a recent bilateral agreement on enhancing "regular visibility" of U.S. strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula in response to North Korea's advancing nuclear program, accordi
  
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• Man charged with triple murder in Nottingham knife and van attack

  16-06-2023 19:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Police have charged a 31-year-old man with three counts of murder in the knife and van attack that killed two student athletes and a school caretaker earlier this week in the English city of Nottingham. The suspect, Valdo Calocane, is also accused of three counts of attempted murder after he allegedly drove a stolen van at pedestrians during the rampage that began before dawn on Tuesday. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19 and students at Nottingham University, were stabbed to
  
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• French officials fight for possession of French Revolution-era letter

  16-06-2023 19:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Government blocks sale of Charlotte Corday’s 1793 manifesto justifying murder of Jean-Paul MaratFrench officials are fighting for possession of a 1793 manifesto by a woman justifying her decision to stab a revolutionary leader to death, with local authorities saying they will take the case to court.Charlotte Corday was a 24-year-old member of a moderate faction during the French Revolution, who became alarmed at the way it was being taken over by violent extremists. Continue reading...
  
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• 15 dead after Canadian bus full of seniors collides with semi-trailer while heading to casino

  16-06-2023 19:11 via foxnews.com
  
  A bus carrying seniors to a casino collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba Thursday, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police said. Rob Hill, Commanding Officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the bus was carrying 25 people and authorities in Manitoba were deploying all their resources to the scene. Ten people were taken to hospitals. TV broadcasters aired images of what looked like a large van or
  
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• Greek coastguard denies claims refugee boat capsized after tow rope attached

  16-06-2023 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  UN calls for urgent action to prevent further tragedies as police believe up to500 people remain missingGreek authorities have rejected claims that a fishing boat that sank in the Mediterranean this week with the loss of potentially hundreds of lives capsized after the coastguard attempted to tow it, as the UN called for urgent action to prevent further tragedies.Authorities have confirmed 78 deaths and said 104 survivors – mostly from Syria, Egypt and Pakistan – had been brought ash
  
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• How many people are watching Tucker Carlson’s new show on Twitter?

  16-06-2023 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tucker Carlson's new show on Twitter has drawn headlines. How many people are watching the ex-Fox News host's monologues?
  
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• Kylie Minogue scores her first top 10 hit since 2010 - but what does Padam Padam mean?

  16-06-2023 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The star ends a decade-long dry spell in the charts - but what does Padam Padam actually mean?
  
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• Huge mass of rock slides down Swiss mountainside, narrowly misses small village

  16-06-2023 18:41 via foxnews.com
  
  A huge mass of rock slid down a mountainside above a Swiss village that was evacuated last month, stopping just short of the settlement, which remained unscathed, relieved local officials said Friday. Some 67 million cubic feet of rock had been deemed at risk of breaking away — and potentially of destroying the village of Brienz, in the southeastern Graubuenden region of Switzerland. Brienz was evacuated on May 12 after geologists warned that the Alpine rock looming over the village could
  
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