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• Watch a parking lot fill with water in seconds in flash flood

  17-07-2023 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A security camera caught the moment a parking lot in Ludlow, Vermont filled with flood water.
  
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• 1,200 children evacuated from summer camp as wildfire nears

  17-07-2023 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two separate blazes are tearing through the country as it suffers the effects of a scorching Mediterranean heatwave.
  
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• Heatwaves are new normal as 50C hits US and China - UN

  17-07-2023 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European heatwave may last into August, the World Meteorological Organisation warns.
  
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• Tourists flock to Death Valley hoping to experience heat record

  17-07-2023 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Death Valley in California did not reach its previous record but that didn't stop the tourists.
  
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• White House ends months-long snub to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to visit US

  17-07-2023 21:14 via theguardian.com
  
  No date set for far-right Israel PM’s visit as arrival of President Isaac Herzog highlights over creeping annexation of West BankThe White House has finally invited Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the US after months of snubbing the Israeli prime minister over his government’s creeping annexation of the West Bank and deepening oppression of the Palestinians.Netanyahu’s office said President Joe Biden extended the invitation in a call between the two leaders on Monday ahead of a vis
  
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• California crews battle wildfires in extreme heat

  17-07-2023 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One woman reportedly suffered severe burns and was airlifted to hospital amid the brush fires.
  
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• UN unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month amid ‘catastrophic’ conditions

  17-07-2023 20:47 via theguardian.com
  
  The World Food Programme’s Haiti response is only 16% funded with more than half of the country’s population regularly hungryThe World Food Programme (WFP) will be unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month as the UN agency has insufficient funding to meet burgeoning humanitarian needs in the embattled Caribbean nation.Haitians grappling with dire malnutrition will have to endure the absence of vital food and financial support amid the worst hunger crisis the country has ever witness
  
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• Arsenal: Declan Rice can be a 'lighthouse' for Gunners, says Mikel Arteta

  17-07-2023 20:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says £100m signing Declan Rice can be a "lighthouse" for the Gunners and the midfielder is "exactly what we needed".
  
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• Putin vows response after 'terrorist' Crimea bridge attack

  17-07-2023 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Moscow blames Ukraine for the incident, which killed two people, but Kyiv has not said it was responsible.
  
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• Taiwan’s vice president plans to visit the US in August, raising concern of potential rebuke from China

  17-07-2023 20:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Taiwan’s Vice President Lai Ching-te, who is running for president next year, is to visit the United States next month, and the Biden administration is reportedly attempting to downplay the "transit" stop in order to stave off condemnation from Beijing.At a press conference Monday, Taiwan’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Tah-ray Yui revealed that Lai will stop in the U.S. while traveling to attend the Paraguay president’s inauguration.  Lai is expected to arriv
  
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• Kenyan authorities seize performance-enhancing medication; woman arrested for suspected smuggling

  17-07-2023 20:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Kenyan authorities seized a smuggled shipment of medication which can be used by athletes as performance-enhancing drugs, the country's national anti-doping body said on Monday. A woman was arrested on suspicion of smuggling and will appear in court this week, the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya said. She was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi in a joint operation by police and anti-doping officials. The operation happened last Thursday, the anti-doping body said in a statement. It said th
  
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• Wildfires threaten vacation homes near Athens, Greece

  17-07-2023 20:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Greek authorities issued evacuation orders for at least six seaside communities Monday as wildfires threatened vacation homes near Athens, with gusts of wind up to 45 mph pushing flames through hillside scrub and pine forests parched by extreme heat. Water-dropping planes and helicopters tackled the flames near Lagonisi, some 25 miles southeast of the capital, in an area with thousands of seaside vacation homes. The fire service reported a second large wildfire in a wooded area near the resort t
  
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• Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali

  17-07-2023 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some of the emails reportedly contain sensitive information such as passwords and medical records.
  
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• 'Massive' search on for children swept away by Pennsylvania floods

  17-07-2023 19:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A nine-month-old boy and his two-year-old sister were swept away as their family drove to a barbecue.
  
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• Russia officially pulls out of Ukraine grain deal

  17-07-2023 19:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After months of threats to not renew the deal, Moscow has officially announced it will come to a de facto end.
  
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• Mallory Beach's family wins $15m over Murdaugh boat crash

  17-07-2023 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mallory Beach died when a boat owned by the prominent South Carolina family crashed in 2019.
  
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• 100K Haitians won't receive help from UN World Food Program due to shortage of funds

  17-07-2023 19:02 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.N.’s World Food Program announced Monday that it is facing a shortage of funds and won’t be able to help 100,000 people in Haiti this month who urgently need assistance. The 25% cut comes as a record 4.9 million people in the country of nearly 11 million need help with finding food, the agency said. "These cuts could not come at a worse time, as Haitians face a multi-layered humanitarian crisis, their lives and livelihoods upended by violence, insecurity, economic turmoil and c
  
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• American woman fined for trying to bribe German passport officer with $100

  17-07-2023 18:54 via foxnews.com
  
  An American woman was fined after attempting to bribe a police officer at the Munich airport’s passport control over the weekend, according to German federal police. The 70-year-old was traveling from Athens to Washington with a stopover in Munich when she attempted to go through passport control without presenting a valid ID, police said. When the passport control officer told her she needed a passport to enter the flight area, the woman said she had accidentally left her passport on her
  
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• Moldovan police launch homicide investigation after fatal shooting of opposition leader

  17-07-2023 18:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Moldova's national police force has opened a homicide investigation after an opposition leader in the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria was found fatally shot at his home, authorities said Monday. The police force said it was taking "all appropriate investigative measures regarding the crime of murder" in the violent death of Oleg Khorzhan, 47, the leader of the Transnistrian Communist Party. Moldovan authorities did not say when he was slain or provide details about possible eviden
  
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• Man killed, woman critically injured in 'very brutal' gondola accident at popular Canadian resort: police

  17-07-2023 18:53 via foxnews.com
  
  A man was killed and a woman is fighting for her life in the hospital following a gondola-related accident at a resort in Canada on Sunday. Authorities said the two were knocked out of a sightseeing gondola at the Mont-Tremblant resort near Montreal, Quebec, when a piece of equipment struck the car, according to The Associated Press. The CBC reported that police in Quebec said the accident was caused by a drilling machine, but that they are unsure why the machine was being operated under the gon
  
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• Timed Teaser: Which song made Jane Birkin an icon?

  17-07-2023 18:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Test your knowledge of the news these last few days - 10 questions, 10 seconds each. Go!
  
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• Armed separatists kill 10 civilians in attack in northwest Cameroon

  17-07-2023 18:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Armed separatists wearing military uniforms killed 10 civilians and wounded three in an attack at a crowded intersection in Cameroon's volatile northwest, the regional governor said on Monday. The killings took place on Sunday in Bamenda, the region’s capital, according to the governor, Debben Tchoffo. The victims included a couple of newlyweds, he said. Eight people died at the scene and two more later in hospital. For the past six years, the protracted armed conflict known as the Angloph
  
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• Wimbledon 2023: Novak Djokovic fined for smashing racquet in men's final

  17-07-2023 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Novak Djokovic has been fined 8,000 US dollars (£6,117) for smashing his racquet against a net post in the Wimbledon men's final.
  
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• Iran’s ‘morality police’ resume patrols 10 months after nationwide protests

  17-07-2023 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Authorities announce new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf, after period of scaled-back policingAlmost 10 months after Mahsa Amini died in police custody, triggering weeks of protest across Iran, police vans are again patrolling the country’s streets looking for women who are not wearing the hijab “correctly”. Now, however, the vans and officers will not bear the name “morality police”, and patrolmen will be wearing body cameras.The announcement
  
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• Russian warplane crashes into sea during training mission; pilot safely evacuated

  17-07-2023 18:44 via foxnews.com
  
  A Russian warplane crashed into the sea on Monday during a training mission in southern Russia and its pilot bailed out to safety, Russian authorities said. The regional administration of the Krasnodar region said that the Su-25 ground attack jet crashed into the Sea of Azov. It said that pilot ejected and was evacuated by emergency teams. Russian media carried a video of the plane falling into the sea just off a crowded beach on the Yeysk Spit. US IGNORES IRAN’S ACTIVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ACT
  
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• Deadly collision of 2 buses on Czech highway leaves 1 dead, 50 injured; investigation underway

  17-07-2023 18:43 via foxnews.com
  
  Two buses collided on a Czech highway in the southeast of the country, killing at least one person and injuring about 50, officials said on Monday. One of the bus drivers was killed, police said, according to preliminary information from the site. The regional rescue service said the accident took place near the second-largest Czech city of Brno, on the D2 highway. HOTEL RESTAURANT SHOOTING IN DOWNTOWN POLISH CITY LEAVES 2 MEN DEAD Some of the seriously injured people were transported by helicop
  
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• Country music star Jason Aldean suffers heat exhaustion mid-performance

  17-07-2023 18:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jason Aldean was seen sprinting off stage in the middle of his Connecticut concert.
  
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• Pod of 55 whales found washed ashore on Scottish beach

  17-07-2023 18:24 via foxnews.com
  
  A pod of 55 pilot whales have died after they were found washed ashore on a beach in Scotland in the worst mass whale stranding in the area, marine experts said Monday. Marine rescuers, the coast guard and police were called to Traigh Mhor beach on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland after receiving reports that dozens of the mammals were in difficulty there early Sunday. The British Divers Marine Life Rescue found that only 15 of the whales — a mixture of adults and calves — wer
  
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• Pakistan, Iran to work together to stop militant border attacks

  17-07-2023 18:10 via foxnews.com
  
  The top military leadership of Pakistan and neighboring Iran agreed to step up cooperation and intelligence sharing and take "effective actions" to prevent attacks by separatist militants along their porous border, Pakistani officials said Monday. The agreement was reached during a visit by Pakistan’s powerful army chief Gen. Asim Munir to Tehran over the weekend, officials said. Munir traveled to Tehran on a two-day visit following a surge in attacks in the country's southwestern Baluchis
  
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• 9 dead in Cairo following a 5-story apartment building collapse

  17-07-2023 18:09 via foxnews.com
  
  A five-story apartment building collapsed Monday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, leaving at least nine people dead, authorities said, as rescuers searched through the rubble. Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction and a lack of maintenance are widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods and rural areas. The state-run MENA news agency reported that rescue teams recovered at least nine bodies from under the rubble of the building in Cairo’s neighborhood of
  
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• Swatch sues Malaysia over Pride watch seizures

  17-07-2023 17:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The move comes after officials impounded 172 watches worth £10,700 from its rainbow-coloured Pride collection.
  
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• Drug donanemab seen as turning point in dementia fight

  17-07-2023 17:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The antibody treatment donanemab slows clinical decline by around a third, a large trial confirms.
  
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• Global weather forecast as temperatures near record highs across the world

  17-07-2023 17:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tomasz Schafernaker shows us where the high temperatures are in the US, China and across Europe.
  
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• Another journalist killed in Mexico as country’s drug cartel violence intensifies

  17-07-2023 17:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Another journalist was killed in Mexico on Saturday, adding to a growing list of reporters who have lost their lives amid an intensifying drug war in the country, authorities and a press freedom organization said. Nelson Matus was shot to death on the fringes of Acapulco in southwestern Mexico, officials and Article 19 confirmed. Matus had been the director of a local news organization, Lo Real de Guerrero, which covered the intensifying violence in the Mexican state of Guerrero. He had already
  
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• Millions on alert as wildfire smoke from Canada to spread to US

  17-07-2023 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Officials issue air quality advisories across US and with nearly 900 forest fires – many of them ‘out of control’ – burning to the northRelated: Canada mourns deaths of firefighters as wildfires ravage millions of acresAs they did last month, wildfires in Canada are again expected to spread increased air pollution to the US this week, as millions in the country are under air quality advisories.About 70 million people could be under air quality alerts as wildfire smoke fro
  
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• Israelis brace for disruption amid renewed push for judicial overhaul

  17-07-2023 17:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Knesset races to pass bill eliminating ‘reasonableness’ standard before summer recessIsraelis are bracing for a turbulent week of protests and potential strike action as the country’s governing coalition races to pass a key component of its wide-ranging judicial overhaul before the parliamentary summer recess.The Knesset’s constitution, justice and law committee on Monday discussed sending a bill eliminating the “reasonableness” standard that allows the suprem
  
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• Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes Argentina, felt in neighboring Chile

  17-07-2023 17:24 via foxnews.com
  
  A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck deep in the Earth under Argentina on Sunday and was felt in neighboring Chile, but authorities didn't report any damage. The quake occurred at a depth of 106 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was in the province of Neuquen, in western Argentina, 15.5 miles east-southeast of the town of Loncopue. MAGNITUDE 7.1 EARTHQUAKE HITS REMOTE PACIFIC, NO TSUNAMI THREAT The earthquake was felt in the central and southern parts of neighboring Chil
  
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• 6 men arrested for alleged gang rape of teen tourist at European vacation hotspot

  17-07-2023 16:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Spanish authorities arrested six German tourists accused of raping an 18-year-old woman on an island renowned as a vacation destination.  Police in Playa de Palma on Spain’s Mallorca island arrested the six German tourists on Thursday after an alleged gang rape in a hotel room earlier that morning. The detained men are all between the ages of ​​20 and 21. Mallorca is known for its Mediterranean beaches, wineries and nightlife, making it a top European tourist destination.
  
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• US Navy’s 19K-ton cargo ship runs aground in Bahrain

  17-07-2023 16:21 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. Navy has launched an investigation into how its 19,000-ton cargo ship USNS Alan Shepard ran aground in the Middle Eastern country of Bahrain over the weekend.  In a statement to Fox News, U.S. 5th Fleet spokesperson Cmdr. Tim Hawkins said USNS Alan Shepard "ran aground while moving under its own propulsion from ASRY shipyard in Al Hidd to a pier at Khalifa Bin Salman Port.  "Assisted by tugboats, Alan Shepard maneuvered under its own power this morning at high tide and is safe
  
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• Australian sailor and his dog survive two months at sea

  17-07-2023 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tim Shaddock and his dog Bella ate raw fish and drank rainwater during their ordeal in the Pacific.
  
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• US ignores Iran’s active nuclear weapons activities by using ‘defective’ definition: Expert

  17-07-2023 16:15 via foxnews.com
  
  A leading American expert on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program asserts the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s new report applied an obsolete definition when it assessed last week that Tehran is not currently pursuing atomic weapons. The two-page unclassified U.S. intelligence report, which was released last week, stated "Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities that would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear
  
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• South Korean rescuers pull 9 bodies from flooded tunnel where 15 vehicles were trapped

  17-07-2023 16:06 via foxnews.com
  
  South Korean rescuers on Sunday pulled nine bodies from a flooded tunnel where around 15 vehicles were trapped in muddy water, as days of heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides and destroyed homes across the country, officials said. A total of 37 people have died and thousands have been evacuated since July 9, when heavy rain started pounding South Korea's central regions. Nearly 900 rescuers including divers were searching the tunnel in the central city of Cheongju, where the vehicles
  
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• Is Turkey planning October surprise over Sweden's NATO membership bid?

  17-07-2023 16:05 via foxnews.com
  
  On Friday Greek media reported that two Turkish F-16s entered Athens' flight information region without permission and were intercepted by Greek jets. Some 48 hours earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan noted in a statement that there would be no such incursions. This latest move will likely complicate efforts for the Biden administration to assure Congress that Turkey can be trusted with 40 new F-16 fighter jets. Erdogan has prioritized securing the F-16s prior to green lighting Swede
  
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• Hotel restaurant shooting in downtown Polish city leaves 2 men dead

  17-07-2023 16:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Two men have died in a shooting in a downtown restaurant in the Polish city of Poznan, local police said Sunday. A spokesman for Poznan police, Andrzej Borowiak, said the incident took place in the hotel restaurant garden on St. Martin street, in Poznan Old Town, an area popular with tourists. Borowiak said one of the two men was killed on the spot while the other died in hospital. The men were Poznan residents, aged 30 and 31. SHOOTING UNFOLDS AT BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA FIRE STATION; 2 FIREFIGHTERS
  
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• Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beach

  17-07-2023 16:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The item is under police guard as state and federal authorities work to identify its origin.
  
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• Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits UAE to discuss energy, commerce

  17-07-2023 15:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited the United Arab Emirates on Monday as part of a swing through the Arab Gulf states focused on energy and commerce. He met with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the president of the UAE, which will be hosting the COP28 U.N. climate summit later this year. Kishida visited Saudi Arabia over the weekend, where he met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The two launched a joint initiative aimed at promoting clean energy. He will visit gas-rich Qata
  
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• United Kingdom government calls for vape ban by 2024 on both environmental, health grounds

  17-07-2023 15:56 via foxnews.com
  
  Councils in England and Wales have called on the UK government to ban the sale of single use vapes by 2024 on both environmental and health grounds. The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils in England and Wales, said it was crucial a ban came into effect rapidly, as with the European Union proposing a ban in 2026 and France rolling out a ban in December this year, there was a risk that as markets close disposable vapes could flood into the UK. The LGA said 1.3 million di
  
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• The Ashes 2023: England's Moeen Ali looking for fan who cured finger injury

  17-07-2023 15:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England spinner Moeen Ali wants to find the fan who helped him cure the cut finger that was affecting his bowling at the beginning of the Ashes series.
  
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• Tunisia-EU migration: Deal signed to strengthen borders

  17-07-2023 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The memorandum of understanding includes $118m to stop smuggling and return irregular migrants.
  
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• Putin warns of Russia's cluster bomb 'stockpile' after Ukraine receives its own shipment from US

  17-07-2023 15:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia's military has a "sufficient stockpile" of cluster munitions in response to Ukraine receiving a shipment of similar munitions from the United States. Speaking on the issue of the U.S. shipment to Ukraine for the first time in a Sunday interview, Putin said that Russia has yet to use the controversial weapons in the ongoing conflict but warned the country would "reserves the right to take reciprocal action" if Ukraine uses cluster bombs on the bat
  
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