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• Christian-owned Texas business shielded from LGBTQ bias claims, appeals court rules

  21-06-2023 23:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Christian-owned wellness center is exempt from federal law prohibiting employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
  
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• At least 37 injured after gas explosion sparks blaze in Paris

  21-06-2023 23:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Police tell people to avoid Val-de-Grâce area after several buildings catch fire in fifth arrondissementAt least 37 people have been injured, four of whom are in a critical condition, after a gas explosion sparked a blaze in buildings in the Latin Quarter of Paris.The blast happened in the fifth arrondissement at about 5pm on Wednesday and resulted in several buildings catching fire, local officials said. Continue reading...
  
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• Ava Max says she was slapped onstage during Los Angeles performance

  21-06-2023 22:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Singer Ava Max said an audience member attacked her during her performance Tuesday in Los Angeles.
  
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• US Senate asks governor of Saudi wealth fund to testify over LIV-PGA merger

  21-06-2023 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Invitation raises possibility Yasir al-Rumayyan could be questioned under oath about execution of Jamal KhashoggiThe powerful governor of Saudi Arabia’s state-backed investment fund has been invited to testify before a Senate committee in the wake of a proposed merger between the Saudi-backed LIV Tour and the PGA, raising the possibility the executive could be questioned under oath about issues ranging from the future of golf to the execution of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Yasir al-Ruma
  
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• Armed Israeli settlers rampage through Palestinian town in revenge attack

  21-06-2023 21:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Palestinians say man was killed and 10 were injured after settlers rampaged through West Bank town and army opened fireA large group of Israeli settlers have attacked a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to homes, cars and fields in a revenge rampage that left one Palestinian dead from gunfire and 10 others injured, according to Palestinian witnesses and officials.Many of the hundreds of settlers who raided the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, on Wednesday were armed
  
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• Death toll reaches 16 in Canada bus crash carrying seniors to casino

  21-06-2023 20:45 via foxnews.com
  
  A woman injured on a bus that collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba has died in hospital, police said Wednesday, bringing the crash death toll to 16. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Manitoba confirmed the latest death from last Thursday's crash. The group of 25 seniors was on a day-trip to a casino from rural Dauphin, Manitoba, when the crash happened on the Trans-Canada Highway. CANADIAN BUS CRASHES INTO DAYCARE CE
  
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• Wimbledon to use AI commentary during tournament, considering other high-tech changes down the line

  21-06-2023 20:42 via foxnews.com
  
  Wimbledon’s All England Club will introduce artificial intelligence (AI)-powered commentary and captions for its coverage at this year’s tournament.  "This new insight will help tennis fans to uncover anomalies and potential surprises in the singles draw, which would not be apparent by looking only at the players’ ranking," IBM, which developed the technology, said.  IBM trained its watsonx AI platform to utilize the "unique language of tennis," and the All England Cl
  
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• Gang members locked women in cells before Honduras prison riot fire

  21-06-2023 20:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Armed people went into rival gang’s cell block, opened fire and doused survivors in flammable liquid, officer says after 46 killedGang members at a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other female inmates by spraying them with gunfire, hacking them with machetes and then locking survivors in their cells before dousing them with flammable liquid, a senior police officer has said.The carnage in Tuesday’s riot was the worst atrocity at a women’s prison in recent memory
  
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• Fatal helicopter crash during Hungarian military training mission in Croatia kills 2

  21-06-2023 20:06 via foxnews.com
  
  A Hungarian military helicopter crashed on Wednesday during a training mission in neighboring Croatia, killing at least two people on board, the country's defense ministry said. Two Hungarian Air Force’s Airbus H145 helicopters were on a training flight when one of them crashed, the Defense Ministry told the MTI news agency. Three people were on board the helicopter that crashed in the area of the Cikola River canyon, some 180 miles south of the capital, Zagreb. Rescue teams have recovered
  
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• French cave markings said to be oldest known engravings by Neanderthals

  21-06-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds of faint stripes, dots and wavy lines at Loire valley site were created more than 57,000 years ago, say scientistsHundreds of faint stripes, dots and wavy lines that adorn a cave wall in central France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to scientists who analysed the ancient markings.The patterns, called finger flutings, appear on sections of the longest and most even wall of the cave in La Roche-Cotard in the Loire valley, and were created more than 57,000
  
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• EU agrees new package of sanctions against Russia; Putin says Sarmat nuclear missiles ready soon – as it happened

  21-06-2023 19:57 via theguardian.com
  
  EU members agree new sanctions against Russia; Russian president says warheads can soon be deployed for duty. This live blog is closedZelenskiy admits Ukrainian counter-offensive going ‘slower than desired’Ukrainian forces are gaining some ground towards Melitopol and Berdiansk in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, Andriy Kovalev, a spokesman for the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, has said according to Reuters.“They had partial success, they are gaining ground,&rdq
  
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• Police frantically search for young girl kidnapped from Italy hotel in suitcase: report

  21-06-2023 19:50 via foxnews.com
  
  Italian authorities believe a 5-year-old Peruvian girl was kidnapped from a former hotel housing some 140 illegal immigrants, according to global reports. Kataleya Mia Chicillo Alvarez was reportedly stuffed into a suitcase and kidnapped from the former Hotel Astor in Florence, where she and her family lived illegally with about 140 other migrants, on June 10, according to Italian news outlet La Repubblica.  A 3-year-old girl who lived in the same hotel as Kataleya reportedly said she
  
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• Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’

  21-06-2023 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Religious site contains burial mound serving as a solar calendar as well as remains of about 60 peopleDutch archaeologists have unearthed an approximately 4,000-year-old religious site – nicknamed the “Stonehenge of the Netherlands” – that includes a burial mound that served as a solar calendar.The mound, which contained the remains of about 60 men, women and children, had several passages through which the sun shone directly on the longest and shortest days of the year.
  
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• Russian assassination attempt of CIA asset on US soil shows major security shift: ‘This is a game changer’

  21-06-2023 19:42 via foxnews.com
  
  A 2020 attempt by Russian agents to target and kill a CIA asset on U.S. soil signals a major shift in how the U.S. intelligence community assesses the threat faced by foreign informants who are vital to U.S. intelligence gathering.  Earlier this week The New York Times revealed an unprecedented attempt by Moscow to pursue Aleksandr Poteyev, a former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer turned informant for the CIA who was living in Miami. According to information set to be released in
  
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• Search party finds 2 Canadian Air Force members dead after helicopter crash near the Ottawa River

  21-06-2023 19:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Two members of the Royal Canadian Air Force who had been missing were found dead after a military helicopter crashed near the Ottawa River, officials said on Wednesday. The Department of National Defence said the two bodies were recovered Tuesday night. Four Royal Canadian Air Force members were on board a CH-147 Chinook helicopter that crashed, after midnight Tuesday, near the Ottawa River close to Petawawa, Ontario, about 99 miles northwest of Canada’s capital of Ottawa. DRUGS KILLING MO
  
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• American missile defense system in South Korea cleared for full deployment despite China's outrage: report

  21-06-2023 19:10 via foxnews.com
  
  A U.S. missile defense system in South Korea that has drawn condemnation from China has been cleared for full deployment, according to a report.  Last week, South Korea’s defense and environmental ministries conducted a review that cleared the way for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the Wall Street Journal reported. The U.S. Department of Defense says THAAD "gives the Ballistic Missile Defense System a globally transportable, rapidly deployable ability to
  
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• Zelenskiy admits counteroffensive may be going ‘slower than desired’

  21-06-2023 19:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukraine president says war is not a Hollywood movie, as Putin announces nuclear-capable ICBMs will soon enter service Ukraine-Russia war: latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskiy has conceded that Ukraine’s counteroffensive may be going “slower than desired” but has insisted that he will not needlessly risk soldiers’ lives to meet international expectations.The comments from Ukraine’s president came as Vladimir Putin suggested that there appeared to have been a break in th
  
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• German prosecutors charge Iranian man with plotting Islamist attack involving ricin or cyanide

  21-06-2023 19:07 via foxnews.com
  
  An Iranian man arrested in western Germany earlier this year after a tip from U.S. officials has been charged with plotting an Islamist attack using ricin or cyanide, German prosecutors said Wednesday. The 26-year-old, identified only as J.J. in line with Germany's privacy rules, was arrested in January along with his brother in Castrop-Rauxel, a city in the industrial Ruhr region. Prosecutors in Duesseldorf said he was charged with preparing a serious act of violence and terror financing. An in
  
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• WATCH: Toddler dressed as Flounder from 'The Little Mermaid' meets Ariel at Disneyland

  21-06-2023 19:06 via abcnews.go.com
  
  This cutie is no guppy!
  
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• Kazakhstan surprises participants by ending hosting of Syrian conflict talks

  21-06-2023 19:05 via foxnews.com
  
  Kazakhstan abruptly said on Wednesday it will stop hosting talks aimed at resolving the Syrian conflict that erupted 12 years ago. The decision was a surprise to Russia and other participants at the wrapping up of the 20th round of talks held in the capital, Astana Since 2017, the former Soviet nation has provided a venue for talks to representatives of Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iran on ways to resolve the Syrian conflict. Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said that the talks have fulfilled their mi
  
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• EU migration chief calls Mediterranean shipwreck 'worst ever tragedy' as hundreds feared dead

  21-06-2023 19:04 via foxnews.com
  
  The shipwreck last week off Greece that is feared to have killed hundreds of people may be the "worst ever tragedy" of its kind in the Mediterranean Sea, the European Union’s migration chief said Wednesday. The tragedy comes as migrant crossings from eastern Libya to Europe have surged, said Ylva Johansson, the EU's migration and home affairs commissioner. As many as 750 people may have been on board the migrant ship that sank in the Mediterranean a week ago, and just over 100 people survi
  
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• Paris explosion ignites massive fire in France's capital, several injured as smoke plume visible across city

  21-06-2023 18:58 via foxnews.com
  
  An explosion in Paris Wednesday sent firefighters rushing to put out a blaze that engulfed the central area of France's capital city.  Paris police chief Laurent Nunez told reporters there were 16 people injured, including seven in "emergency condition." The fire was contained but not extinguished, he said. Firefighters fought the flames on Paris' Left Bank on Wednesday that sent smoke soaring over the domed Pantheon monument and prompted evacuation of buildings in the neighborhood, police
  
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• Clashes resume in Sudan as cease-fire expires, military and paramilitary forces engage in fierce battle

  21-06-2023 18:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Clashes resumed between Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary force after a three-day cease-fire expired Wednesday morning, a protest group and residents reported. Sudan descended into conflict in mid-April after months of worsening tensions exploded into open fighting between rival generals seeking to control the African nation. The war pits the military, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, against the Rapid Support Forces, a militia-turned-paramilitary force commanded by Gen. Mohammed Hamd
  
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• German woman convicted of keeping Yazidi woman as slave in Iraq

  21-06-2023 18:55 via foxnews.com
  
  A German woman was convicted Wednesday of keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave during her time with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, and sentenced to nine years and three months in prison. The state court in the western city of Koblenz convicted the 37-year-old of crimes against humanity, membership in a foreign terrorist organization and being an accessory to genocide, German news agency dpa reported. Authorities have identified her only as Nadine K. in line with German privacy rules. Th
  
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• Former OceanGate passenger says everyone on Titanic mission was informed how ‘dangerous’ it was

  21-06-2023 18:34 via foxnews.com
  
  A former passenger who visited the Titanic wreck site on board OceanGate’s now-missing Titan submersible craft says everyone involved in the deep sea journey was "intimately informed" how much of a "dangerous mission" it was.  Fred Hagen spoke to "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning as the Coast Guard estimates there is less than 24 hours of oxygen remaining in the Titan, which vanished Sunday on an expedition to visit what remains of the Titanic.  "There were safety protoc
  
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• Massive prison riot erupts as MS-13 gang clash leaves dozens dead: 'Monstrous murder'

  21-06-2023 18:05 via foxnews.com
  
  A fight between rival gangs at a women’s prison in Honduras on Tuesday quickly escalated into a riot that killed dozens of inmates.  The riot at the prison in Tamara, around 30 miles outside the capital city of Tegucigalpa, started after rival gangs Barrio 18 and MS-13 clashed inside the facility early Tuesday morning.  Sandra Rodríguez Vargas, the assistant commissioner for Honduras’ prison system, said attackers cleared out security guards at 8 a.m. Tuesday then op
  
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• Drugs killing more than homicides, suicides, natural disease combined after British Columbia decriminalization

  21-06-2023 17:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Half a year after the Canadian province of British Columbia decriminalized a wide range of hard drugs, including fentanyl, drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for the majority of Canadians in the region. In a press release on Monday, the office of Public Safety and Solicitor General said that 1,018 British Columbians were "lost" to drug overdoses between January and May, which represents a 2.9% increase since the same time last year.  "Unregulated drug toxicity is now the leading
  
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• Who is on the OceanGate Titanic sub?

  21-06-2023 17:30 via foxnews.com
  
  A search for the missing OceanGate Titan submersible craft, which disappeared on Sunday, June 18 during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean, has yet to yield results.More details are emerging about those onboard the vessel and of the Titan itself.  The five passengers on board the missing submarine have been identified as OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French mariner Paul-Henry Nargeolet, British businessman and explorer Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada D
  
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• Stepson of Titanic submarine passenger attends Blink-182 concert amid search: 'Helped me through hard times'

  21-06-2023 17:22 via foxnews.com
  
  The stepson of British billionaire Hamish Harding defended going to a Blink-182 concert as rescuers search for his stepfather and other passengers on a missing sub.  Brian Szasz stood by his decision on social media, writing that he is "not sorry" he went to see the band which has "helped me through hard times" while Harding and four other passengers on board OceanGate Expeditions' Titanic tourist submersible remain missing. "Yes I went to @blink-182 last night," Szasz, a San Diego-based au
  
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• WATCH: Rembrandt museum offers visitors souvenir tattoos

  21-06-2023 16:03 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Visitors to Amsterdam's Rembrandt House Museum are being offered a memento beyond the usual gift shop fare.
  
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• North Korea state media mocks US for Blinken's 'disgraceful begging trip' to meet with Xi

  21-06-2023 15:44 via foxnews.com
  
  North Korean state media ran political analysis this week mocking the U.S. government for its "disgraceful begging trip" to meet with Chinese leadership.  North Korean political analyst Jong Yong-hak's ridiculed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to China in a report from the Korean Central News Agency — the nation's government-run news outlet, according to Yonhap News Agency. "It is the height of the double-dealing and impudence peculiar to the U.S. to provoke first and th
  
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• Could Russia really play nuclear roulette in Ukraine?

  21-06-2023 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steve Rosenberg looks at how discussion of the use of nuclear weapons has crept into Russian media.
  
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• EU unveils massive, multi-year plan to rebuild Ukraine

  21-06-2023 15:06 via foxnews.com
  
  The European Union unveiled a massive $55 billion, multi-year proposal to rebuild Ukraine this week as the war with Russia still rages on.  On the eve of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London Wednesday, the European Commission announced a proposal for a dedicated financing instrument to foresee up to €50 billion ($55 billion) from 2024 to 2027, "to help Ukraine resist the aggression and rebuild a modern, prosperous country."  The European Commission, the executive arm of the E
  
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• Maya civilisation: Archaeologists find ancient city in jungle

  21-06-2023 14:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The remains of the city were found in an ecological reserve in a mostly unexplored area of jungle.
  
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• ‘India is now a linchpin’: US looks to Narendra Modi’s visit to counter China

  21-06-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Biden administration will try to strengthen US-India ties while the Indian leader looks to shore up votes for next year’s electionThe symbolism of the visit will be hard to avoid. As Narendra Modi arrives in Washington DC on Wednesday – the capital of a country he was once prohibited from visiting for almost 10 years – he will join the ranks of Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Volodymyr Zelenskiy as one of the few leaders to address a joint session of Congress more tha
  
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• China is state most dangerous to its own citizens’ civil rights, report finds

  21-06-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  China scores better on food, health and housing, while crackdowns have worsened Hong Kong’s ratingsChina has been ranked as the worst country in the world for safety from the state and the right to assembly, in a human rights report that tracks social, economic and political freedoms.The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), a New Zealand-based project, has been monitoring various countries’ human rights performance since 2017. Continue reading...
  
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• China fires back at Biden for calling President Xi Jinping a dictator: 'Extremely absurd and irresponsible'

  21-06-2023 12:19 via foxnews.com
  
  China responded Wednesday after President Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator, criticizing the comment as "extremely absurd and irresponsible." During a fundraiser in California Tuesday night, Biden said Xi was embarrassed after the U.S. Air Force shot down the Chinese spy balloon, "The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it was he didn't know it was there. That’s a great embarrassment fo
  
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• Teachers at Taiwan kindergarten accused of drugging children

  21-06-2023 11:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Anger over handling of scandal threatens opposition party’s presidential election chancesParents of toddlers in Taiwan have accused teachers at a preschool of drugging their children, in a scandal that threatens to dent the opposition party’s chances at the upcoming presidential election.Teachers at Baoren kindergarten, a private preschool in New Taipei City, have been accused of sedating children with addictive cough syrups. Police launched an investigation this month after parents
  
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• Modi US visit: Why Washington is rolling out the red carpet for Indian PM

  21-06-2023 10:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The White House is pulling out all the stops to welcome India's PM. What does that signify?
  
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• The Ashes 2023: England hand debut to pace bowler Lauren Filer for Australia Test at Trent Bridge

  21-06-2023 10:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Western Storm pace bowler Lauren Filer is set to make her England debut in the Ashes Test against Australia, that starts at Trent Bridge on Thursday.
  
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• Thousands welcome summer solstice at Stonehenge

  21-06-2023 10:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some 10,000 people gather at the ancient site to mark the start of the longest day of the year.
  
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• WATCH: Dad scales waterslide to help his stuck daughter

  21-06-2023 10:09 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A British dad stepped up to scale a waterslide to help his daughter, who was stuck.
  
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• US-China tensions: Biden calls Xi a dictator a day after Beijing talks

  21-06-2023 09:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US leader makes the remark just after talks aimed at easing tensions between the countries.
  
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• Ukraine war: Push to rebuild economy starts with UK's $3bn

  21-06-2023 09:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The World Bank says many years of financial support are needed as London hosts a major conference.
  
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• ‘The signs aren’t good’: Bolsonaro may face ban on running for office in 2026

  21-06-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Judges to decide whether to impose eight-year ban on Brazil’s former president, after attack on electoral systemThe political future of one of the big names of the global populist right is on the line this week as Brazilian judges prepare to decide whether Jair Bolsonaro should be banned from running for office.Members of Brazil’s superior electoral court will gather on Thursday to consider the first of 16 cases being brought against the far-right former president, who failed to win
  
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• British adventurer among missing

  21-06-2023 08:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An adventurer and a British businessman travelling with his son are among those on the Titanic sub.
  
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• Titanic tourist submersible: Search relocated after noises heard

  21-06-2023 08:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A tourist sub missing during a dive on the wreck of the Titanic has just over a day’s oxygen left.
  
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• Tortoise does a runner - a mile across busy town

  21-06-2023 07:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tommy the tortoise crosses busy roads, a town centre and even a bridge in bid for freedom
  
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• Billionaires and the Titanic: the allure of extreme expeditions

  21-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The more adventurous of the world’s wealthiest take trips to the edge of space and Antarctica in their strideTitanic sub: latest updatesThe disappearance of the submersible en route to the wreck of the Titanic has highlighted the businesses that offer extreme expeditions – and their clienteles.Among the five people on the missing Titan submersible are two billionaires – Hamish Harding, a 58-year-old businessman who made his fortune selling private jets and holds three Guinness
  
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• Modi in US: Elon Musk says Tesla to come to India 'as soon as possible'

  21-06-2023 06:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Indian prime minister met Mr Musk on Tuesday during his three-day state visit to the US.
  
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