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• Why Pee-wee Herman icon Paul Reubens kept his cancer battle quiet

  31-07-2023 23:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Mark Holton, who played Francis Buxton in "Pee-wee’s Big Adventure" called his co-star Paul Reubens a "good man" on "Fox Across America." Holton agreed with radio host Jimmy Failla that Reuben's desire to bring joy and positivity into the world fueled his quiet battle with cancer. Reubens, better known as Pee-wee Herman, died at age 70 Monday after a six-year fight with cancer. PAUL REUBENS: 'PEE-WEE HERMAN' ACTOR'S LIFE IN PICTURES MARK HOLTON: Oh, yeah. He kept it quiet from me right up
  
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• Body found in a barrel that washed up on Malibu beach

  31-07-2023 23:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  A body was found in a 55-gallon drum Monday near Malibu's famous Surfrider State Beach, authorities said.
  
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• Oklahoma Legislature overrides Stitt veto, upholds tribal tobacco compact

  31-07-2023 23:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Native American tribes in Oklahoma will get to keep their existing agreements on how they share money from tobacco sales with the state. The Oklahoma House voted on Monday to override Gov. Kevin Stitt's veto of a bill that extends agreements on selling tobacco for another year. In a bipartisan vote during a special session, the Republican-controlled House met the two-thirds vote needed to override. The Senate overrode the governor's veto last week. As a result, any tribe with an existing agreeme
  
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• In pictures: Scotland's champion tree huggers

  31-07-2023 23:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Scottish Tree Hugging Championships were held near Loch Sunart in the Highlands at the weekend.
  
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• Biden opts to keep Space Command in Colorado, reversing Trump’s decision to move it to Alabama

  31-07-2023 23:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Biden has decided to keep Space Command headquarters in Colorado, reversing plans by President Trump to shift the headquarters to Alabama.
  
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• Jets' Aaron Rodgers on darkness retreat flak: Critics 'might benefit the most'

  31-07-2023 23:42 via foxnews.com
  
  Aaron Rodgers’ darkness retreat to decide whether he was going to continue his NFL career or retire from football altogether was routinely criticized even as it ended with a trade to the New York Jets. Rodgers was still a member of the Green Bay Packers at the time, but it appeared his relationship with the front office had soured enough that he was going to leave one way or the other. The four-time MVP talked about the criticism he received in the latest edition of "Football Morning in Am
  
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• Suzanne Somers reveals breast cancer returned: 'This is familiar battleground'

  31-07-2023 23:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Suzanne Somers has battled breast cancer for the second time, Fox News Digital can confirm. Somers was diagnosed with cancer twice before: skin cancer in her 30s and breast cancer in her 50s.  Now, the 76-year-old TV star tells Fox News Digital, "I have been living with cancer for decades now, using the best of alternative and conventional medicine to keep it at bay. Every time that little f----- pops up, I continue to bat it back. As one of millions of cancer patients, we do our best not t
  
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• Mississippi woman found guilty of threatening federal judge with violent emails

  31-07-2023 23:40 via foxnews.com
  
  A Mississippi woman has been found guilty of threatening to kill a federal judge last fall. Jurors on Wednesday convicted Candra Clark, 41, of Ridgeland, of sending two threats-filled emails to U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy Percy, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported. She faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves set sentencing for Oct. 23. The first profanity-laced email, sent at 1:34 a.m. Monday, Sept. 26, asked Percy to meet her in publi
  
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• House Republicans demand answers from DOJ on Hunter Biden plea agreement

  31-07-2023 23:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  A letter signed by three committee chairmen called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to answer their questions by Aug. 14 about the derailed plea deal.
  
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• Princeton University student pleads guilty to joining mob's Jan. 6 attack on Capitol

  31-07-2023 23:39 via foxnews.com
  
  A man who was a Princeton University student when the FBI arrested him on charges related to the U.S. Capitol riot pleaded guilty on Monday to joining a mob's attack on police officers during one of the most violent clashes on Jan. 6, 2021. Larry Fife Giberson was on the front lines when rioters attacked police officers in a tunnel on the Capitol's Lower West Terrace. Giberson, 22, of Manahawkin, New Jersey, waved other rioters into the tunnel and then joined in a coordinated push against office
  
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• Pipeline operators agree to $12.5M payout for Montana, North Dakota oil spills

  31-07-2023 23:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Two pipeline operators have agreed to pay a $12.5 million civil penalty related to crude oil spills in Montana and North Dakota. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced the settlement in a 2022 federal court lawsuit. Belle Fourche Pipeline Company and Bridger Pipeline LLC will pay the $12.5 million to resolve the claims made under the Clean Water Act and Pipeline Safety Laws, EPA said. The affiliated companies own and operate oil pipelines in Montana, North Dakota and Wyomin
  
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• WATCH: LeBron James shares video of son playing piano

  31-07-2023 23:36 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The NBA star posted the video of his son Bronny on social media days after the 18-year-old experienced a cardiac emergency.
  
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• Boston suspect arrested for allegedly stealing car with toddler inside: police

  31-07-2023 23:32 via foxnews.com
  
  A Massachusetts suspect has been arrested for allegedly stealing a pickup truck with a child inside this month. Boston resident Cristofanes Mendes, 33, was charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon and larceny of a motor vehicle on Monday morning. He was arrested without incident. The Boston Police Department reported that they located Mendes in the South End of Boston at around 10:30 a.m. on Monday. The suspect was in the vicinity of Massachusetts Avenue and Chesterton Street in Roxbu
  
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• Canada's Allysha Chapman goes on explicit tirade toward Australia coach, caught on hot mic

  31-07-2023 23:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Canada’s frustrations during their Women’s World Cup loss to Australia boiled over on Monday as defender Allysha Chapman went on an expletive tirade against Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson. The incident occurred in the 64th minute of the match with Australia leading 3-0. Chapman challenged Australia’s Hayley Raso for the ball. Raso was on the ground in pain after the scuffle and then Chapman turned and delivered some harsh words to Gustavsson. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE
  
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• Kerala lottery: Indian women sanitation workers hit jackpot

  31-07-2023 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eleven women from India's Kerala state win a 100m rupee ($1.2m) lottery after pooling their money.
  
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• Ohio police chief arrested in Florida after allegedly assaulting homeless man

  31-07-2023 23:20 via foxnews.com
  
  A police chief from a small village in Ohio was arrested in Florida after allegedly attacking a homeless man last week. Boston Heights Police Chief Chad McArdle, 40, was charged with misdemeanor-level battery early on Friday morning. He was arrested by police officers in Key West. According to an arrest report obtained by Fox News Digital, a taxi driver called police at around 1 a.m. and told them that a shirtless man was banging on his door. The man, who was identified as McArdle, told the driv
  
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• Biden administration distances itself from Pentagon official who bashed UFO hearing

  31-07-2023 23:19 via foxnews.com
  
  Behind-the-scenes tensions appear to be boiling to the surface after last week's congressional hearing on UFOs after a top Pentagon official's "personal opinion" ripping the witnesses' testimonies became public. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), said the hearing "was insulting" to the officers in the Department of Defense and intelligence community who joined AARO, which is a specialized department of the DoD tasked with studying UFOs. "Many (
  
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• JT Poston misses out on $260,000 after risky play at 3M Open: 'We’re not coming here to finish second'

  31-07-2023 23:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Two-time PGA Tour winner J.T. Poston was going for broke at the 3M Open this past weekend. Unfortunately, his bold play cost him an extra $260,000. Entering the final round at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota, Poston was five strokes behind leader and eventual champion Lee Hodges, but by the 18th hole, he managed to get within three strokes of his playing partner. "I had to try and give it a shot and see if there was some way I could make three there at the end and put some pressure on Lee,"
  
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• Gallium and germanium: What China’s new move in microchip war means for world

  31-07-2023 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world's second largest economy is putting controls on gallium and germanium exports.
  
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• Virginia veterinary technician sentenced to 20 months for role in dogfighting scheme

  31-07-2023 23:10 via foxnews.com
  
  A Virginia veterinary technician who once distributed a magazine nationwide on the illegal dogfighting business was sentenced to 20 months in prison, federal prosecutors said Monday.  Carlos Warren, 49, a resident of Rapidan, was charged with conspiring to fight dogs and promote dogfighting using interstate publications and ordered to forfeit all dogs and animal-fighting equipment that was seized during a March 2022 search of his home."Dog fighting is savage and inhumane, and it will not be
  
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• Missing Indiana woman Andi Wagner's mother pleads for answers 1 year after disappearance

  31-07-2023 23:02 via foxnews.com
  
  The mother of Andi Wagner, a missing 25-year-old Indiana woman who disappeared nearly one year ago, is still pleading for answers regarding her daughter's whereabouts. Wagner vanished from Evansville, Indiana, around Aug. 6, 2022, when she was 24, and has not been heard from since.  "I always said Evansville’s going to swallow her whole," Wagner's mother, Elane Garcia, told Fox News Digital while holding back tears. Police believe she was last seen in Oakland City, Indiana, about 40 m
  
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• Paul Reubens helped usher in a surreal new era of comedy

  31-07-2023 23:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Paul Reubens all but vanished from the public eye in the 1990s and 2000s. But in his absence, a rising generation of comic talents illustrated his influence was vast.
  
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• Florida may become first state to accept a ‘classical’ alternative to the SAT and ACT

  31-07-2023 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Florida’s embrace of the Classic Learning Test follows a high-profile dispute between the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the makers of the SAT.
  
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• Paul Reubens: ‘Pee-wee Herman’ actor’s life in pictures

  31-07-2023 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  "Pee-wee Herman" actor Paul Reubens died on July 30 following a battle with cancer, his rep confirmed. Here's a look at his life in pictures.
  
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• Goldman Sachs senior analyst missing after attending NYC concert

  31-07-2023 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  A Goldman Sachs senior analyst vanished after leaving a New York City concert early Saturday morning, weeks after another man who disappeared from the same venue turned up dead, according to police and his friends. John Castic, 27, was last seen about 2:30 a.m. outside The Brooklyn Mirage near the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn after an electronic music show, according to police. A missing-person flyer says he was wearing a navy and white button-down floral shirt. "One of my best friends,
  
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• 15-judge bench to hear anti-judicial reform petitions, Israeli Supreme Court says

  31-07-2023 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel's Supreme Court said Monday that a full panel of 15 justices would hear petitions in September against a contentious law that was passed last week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and which has spurred mass protests. The law was one of a series of proposed changes to Israel's judiciary put forward by Netanyahu's government earlier this year that seek to curb the power of the Supreme Court. The judicial overhaul plan has been met with months of sustained mass protest again
  
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• USA vs Portugal: Everything you need to know about Women's World Cup match

  31-07-2023 22:40 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. women’s national team enters a pivotal match against Portugal on Tuesday as they look to avoid a stunning defeat and exit from the Women’s World Cup. The United States will need at least one point to ensure they get out of Group E and move onto the knockout stage and at least get a chance to make a run in defending their back-to-back World Cup titles. The U.S. defeated Vietnam in their first match and tied with the Netherlands in the second. The youth of the Americans’
  
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• Devon Archer: Hunter Biden, Burisma execs ‘called DC’ to get Ukrainian prosecutor fired

  31-07-2023 22:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Devon Archer testified Monday that Hunter Biden and top executives of Burisma Holdings "called D.C." in 2015 to ask the Obama administration to help fire the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the firm, a source familiar with his testimony told Fox News Digital. Archer, a former business associate and longtime friend of Hunter Biden, testified for hours before the House Oversight Committee Monday. Archer testified that Hunter put his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone while m
  
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• Wisconsin judge drops GOP lawmaker's military voting records suit

  31-07-2023 22:33 via foxnews.com
  
  A Wisconsin judge has dismissed a GOP state lawmaker's lawsuit over military voting records, saying Friday that the challenge should have been brought against a local elections official, not the statewide elections commission. Rep. Janel Brandtjen, the former head of the Assembly elections committee who has promoted election conspiracy theories, and a local veterans group sued the Wisconsin Elections Commission in November in an attempt to stop military absentee ballots from being counted in the
  
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• Jury to deliberate death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers

  31-07-2023 22:32 via foxnews.com
  
  A jury is set to deliberate whether to impose the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison without parole on a man who spewed antisemitic hate before fatally shooting 11 worshippers at a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh's Jewish community. The same jurors who convicted 50-year-old Robert Bowers in June on 63 criminal counts listened to closing arguments Monday in the penalty phase of his federal trial, held nearly five years after the truck driver from suburban Baldwin perpetrated the d
  
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• Devon Archer confirms Joe Biden 'lied' about knowledge of Hunter's business dealings, Comer says

  31-07-2023 22:29 via foxnews.com
  
  FIRST ON FOX: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Devon Archer confirmed in his appearance Monday that President Biden "lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge about his son’s business dealings and was not involved." Comer’s comments come after Archer, a former business associate and longtime friend of Hunter Biden, sat for hours before the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door hearing Monday.  DEVON ARCHER: HUNTER BIDEN, BURISMA EXECS &
  
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• Top US adviser to attend Saudi talks in bid to attract support for Ukraine plan

  31-07-2023 22:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukraine and allies seek to draw countries such as Brazil and India off the fence and back Kyiv’s proposals for ‘just and durable peace’Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, is expected to attend a meeting in Saudi Arabia this weekend at which Ukraine and its allies will try to persuade countries from the global south to back Kyiv’s proposals for ending the war.According to officials involved in planning for the meeting, it is primarily aimed at drawing neutral
  
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• Former Bed Bath & Beyond investor Ryan Cohen must face emoji-inspired shareholder suit

  31-07-2023 22:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  A U.S. judge ruled former Bed Bath & Beyond investor Ryan Cohen can be sued by investors over a tweeted emoji that seemed indicate an endorsement of the home goods retailer before it declared bankruptcy earlier this year.
  
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• Nearly 400 Pakistani migrants rescued in eastern Libya from trafficking warehouses

  31-07-2023 22:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Security authorities in eastern Libya freed at least 385 Pakistani migrants who were held in trafficking warehouses in an overnight raid, a migrant rights group said Monday. Al-Abreen, a group which helps migrants in Libya, said the Pakistani nationals were released early Monday from smugglers' warehouses in the al-Khueir area, roughly 5 miles south of the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk. The migrants — among them children — were later transferred to a nearby police headquarters, it sa
  
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• Iraq calls for Islamic Cooperation Committee to address Quran desecration in European countries

  31-07-2023 22:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Iraq’s foreign minister called Monday for the Organization for Islamic Cooperation to form a committee for talks with the European Union over its member countries permitting the desecration of the Quran and to enlist volunteers to file lawsuits to halt the practice. Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein also called on the United Nations to "take measures to prevent these incidents." Hussein made his statement during an emergency online meeting of foreign ministers from the Jeddah-based organizati
  
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• Kentucky education commissioner leaves for Western Michigan University job

  31-07-2023 22:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Kentucky's education commissioner is leaving to take a job at a university in Michigan. POPULAR DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR BREAKS WITH PARTY, SPEAKS OUT AGAINST SEX CHANGE SURGERIES FOR MINORS Commissioner of Education Jason Glass said Monday that he will step down on Sept. 29 to become an associate vice president of teaching and learning at Western Michigan University. Glass was appointed to the state education department's top job in 2020. Glass arrived in the job six months into the COVID-19 pandemic
  
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• Phoenix welcomes respite from record-breaking 31-day heatwave as monsoon rains arrive

  31-07-2023 22:20 via foxnews.com
  
  A hellish and historic 31-day run of temperatures cracking 110 degrees in Phoenix appeared headed for a welcome end on Monday, as monsoon rains moved through the region from Mexico. The relief wasn't all that great — the day's highs were forecast near 108 degrees, or about 42 Celsius — and the heat was expected to rise past 110 again later in the week. But residents and visitors were taking what they could get. "It’s not going to last more than a couple of days, but I’m e
  
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• 'Improvised and atrocious': Italy looks to leave China deal, reversing decision of previous government

  31-07-2023 22:13 via foxnews.com
  
  Italy will pull out of the controversial Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in an interview Sunday. "The issue today is: how to walk back (from the BRI) without damaging relations [with Beijing]. Because it is true that China is a competitor, but it is also a partner," Crosetto said in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper, according to a report from Reuters. Crosetto's comments come after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's visit wit
  
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• Body camera footage shows Black family held at gunpoint after police typo IDs car as stolen

  31-07-2023 21:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Texas police held a Black family at gunpoint last week after a typo lead police to wrongly believe their car was stolen.
  
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• Lori Vallow Daybell receives multiple life sentences in murders of her 2 children and romantic rival

  31-07-2023 21:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Lori Vallow Daybell received multiple life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole in the deaths of her two children and that of her husband’s previous wife, a case that drew national intrigue after her children disappeared nearly four years ago.
  
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• Fan files police report after Cardi B hurled microphone into crowd during Las Vegas show

  31-07-2023 21:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  A woman who says she was hit by a microphone rapper Cardi B hurled into the crowd at a Las Vegas concert has filed a police report for battery, authorities say.
  
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• Jason Aldean defends 'Try That In A Small Town,' compares it to Boston Marathon aftermath

  31-07-2023 21:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jason Aldean defended his song "Try That in a Small Town" in Massachusetts over the weekend, comparing the tune's ethos to Bostonians who came together following the Boston Marathon bombings.
  
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• State Department addresses reported kidnapping of 2 US citizens in Haiti as nurse, her daughter remain missing

  31-07-2023 20:27 via foxnews.com
  
  With few details available about the reported kidnapping of a New Hampshire woman and her young daughter in Haiti, the U.S. State Department says it is aware of the reports surrounding an apparent abduction. Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for the nonprofit El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped from the organization’s campus in Port au Prince on Thursday, the nonprofit said in a statement Saturday. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program's director, Sandro Dorsainvil. A State Departmen
  
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• Ousmane Sonko: Senegalese opposition leader charged - again

  31-07-2023 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ousmane Sonko is charged with stoking insurrection and his party dissolved amid increasing tensions.
  
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• ECB President Christine Lagarde: Economic data in France, Germany, Spain is 'encouraging'

  31-07-2023 19:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Latest data about economic output in France, Germany and Spain is "quite encouraging" and confirms the European Central Bank's expectations, ECB President Christine Lagarde said in an interview published on Sunday. "The second quarter GDP figures for France, Germany and Spain are quite encouraging," Lagarde told French daily Le Figaro. "They support our scenario of GDP growth of 0.9% in the euro area this year."
  
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• Discovery of whale carcass in Hong Kong sparks outpouring of grief, residents blame sightseers

  31-07-2023 19:46 via foxnews.com
  
  The discovery of a whale carcass in Hong Kong waters on Monday has sparked an outpouring of grief on social media, with many comments blaming the mammal's death on sightseers. Many residents thought the dead mammal was the whale that has attracted groups of sightseers since it was first spotted in the city’s waters in mid-July. Compass Chan, scientific officer of Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong, didn't confirm whether it was the same whale. But he said an initial check on the
  
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• Environmental campaigners vow to persist as tree-felling for coal-mining in Turkish woodlands concludes

  31-07-2023 19:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Campaigners fighting to protect woodlands earmarked for coal-mining in southwest Turkey on Monday pledged to maintain their fight as tree-felling came to an end. Locals have held a four-year vigil in Akbelen forest to hold off logging that paves the way for a lignite mine near the village of Ikizkoy in Mugla province. Chainsaw teams that arrived to start felling trees a week ago have now finished their work, following violent confrontations between police dispatched to guard the operation and re
  
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• Mourners gather for funerals in Pakistan after deadly suicide bombing at election rally where 54 were killed

  31-07-2023 19:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Hundreds of mourners attended funerals in Pakistan on Monday after a suicide bombing killed at least 54 people at an election rally for a pro-Taliban cleric, carrying caskets draped in colorful cloths to burial sites in the hills. No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday’s bombing in Bajur that killed at least five children and wounded nearly 200 people. The attack appeared to reflect divisions between Islamist groups, which have a strong presence in the district in Khyber Pakh
  
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• British man freed after Cyprus court rules killing wife to spare her pain was manslaughter act of love

  31-07-2023 19:40 via foxnews.com
  
  A British man was freed immediately despite a Cyprus court sentencing him on Monday to two years in prison for killing his wife in their retirement home because he wanted to spare her the pain from her illness. Defense lawyer Nicoletta Charalambidou told The Associated Press that Cyprus Prisons Department authorities tabulated the time 76-year-old David Hunter had already spent in custody since the December, 2021, killing and decided to release him immediately. The court had earlier this month c
  
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• Ceva drops appeal over French bird flu vaccine tender

  31-07-2023 19:37 via foxnews.com
  
  French animal health group Ceva has withdrawn a legal challenge over a tender to supply France with a bird flu vaccine in which Ceva lost out to German company Boehringer Ingelheim. France chose Boehringer Ingelheim to supply 80 million doses of bird flu vaccines needed for its initial vaccination campaign for ducks due to start in October. The plan will make France the first country in the European Union to vaccinate poultry against the virus that has ravaged flocks worldwide. DEADLY BIRD FLU T
  
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