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• Abused and stalked, US election workers are bracing for 2024

  17-08-2023 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Threats to blow up polling stations. Police protection. Ballot counters in hiding. A grim new reality.
  
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• Himachal Pradesh floods: More rain, less snow are turning Himalayas dangerous

  17-08-2023 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Landslides and flash floods have killed dozens in India's Himalayan states this month.
  
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• Pakistan: More than 100 arrested after churches burned

  17-08-2023 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Public gatherings in the area are also banned for seven days after violence in the city of Jaranwala.
  
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• Transgender women banned from women's chess events

  17-08-2023 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ruling by the International Chess Federation is drawing criticism from some players.
  
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• A meteor shower and a satellite 'train' caught on camera

  17-08-2023 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  This camera was recording a meteor shower from Hawaii when a parade of satellites passed through
  
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• WATCH: Rainbow appears in the sky between mountains on Maui

  17-08-2023 22:12 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A sign of hope in the sky.
  
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• Pascale Ferrier jailed for 22 years for mailing Donald Trump ricin

  17-08-2023 21:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pascale Ferrier, a dual citizen of Canada and France, said she regretted that her plan to "stop Trump" failed.
  
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• Hawaii wildfires: Here's what we know about the victims

  17-08-2023 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities have formally identified five wildfire victims so far. Here's what we know about them.
  
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• 'Oh my God, a bear!' Woman gets surprise visitor

  17-08-2023 20:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A doorbell camera recorded a woman and her dog coming face-to-face with a bear outside her home
  
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• China’s army filmed apparently preparing for conflict in Taiwan strait

  17-08-2023 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Propaganda video shows troops running past anti-landing barricades similar to those that dot Taiwan’s coastChina’s army released a propaganda video showing soldiers preparing for a conflict in what appears to be the Taiwan strait.The one-and-a-half-minute video, published on the Eastern Theatre Command’s official WeChat account on Thursday, is titled “Reading the Strait” and shows soldiers in combat gear doing press-ups under crashing waves, a tank battalion driving
  
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• Iran’s foreign minister visits Saudi Arabia as diplomatic thaw continues

  17-08-2023 19:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Talks in Riyadh declared successful by Tehran after years of hostility between regional rivalsIran’s foreign minister has visited Saudi Arabia, the first such trip in years, marking the continuing thaw in relations between two powers who recently have been locked in destabilising competition.The visit by Hossein Amir-Abdollahian comes as the countries have been trying to ease tensions including over Iran’s nuclear programme, the Saudi-led war in Yemen and security across the region&r
  
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• Cape Verde boat disaster: vessel drifted for month after alarm raised, says NGO

  17-08-2023 19:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Walking Borders said it told authorities in four countries on 20 July about vessel with more than 100 asylum seekers onboardA Spanish NGO alerted authorities from four countries on 20 July about a boat carrying an estimated 130 asylum seekers that was found earlier this week with just 38 survivors and the bodies of seven dead people on board.Relatives of those onboard said the large fishing vessel had left Fass Boye, a seaside town in Senegal on 10 July, and was heading for Spain’s Canary
  
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• Rishi Sunak and Saudi crown prince hope to meet ‘at earliest opportunity’

  17-08-2023 19:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaders discuss plans to ‘progress UK-Saudi cooperation’ amid reports that Mohammed bin Salman has been invited to UK this autumnDowning Street has confirmed Rishi Sunak plans to meet the Saudi crown prince “at the earliest opportunity”, following reports that the UK has invited Mohammed bin Salman to visit this autumn.A No 10 readout of Thursday’s conversation between the prime minister and Prince Mohammed gave more indications of the shift towards a renewed UK emb
  
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• China renews crackdown on corruption in healthcare

  17-08-2023 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  At least 177 officials reportedly under investigation amid revival of Xi Jinping’s decade-old anti-corruption driveChina’s graft-busters have set their sights on the country’s healthcare sector, in what has been described as the biggest crackdown on corruption in the history of the industry.At least 177 hospital bosses and Chinese Communist party (CCP) secretaries have been placed under investigation this year according to local media reports – more than double the number
  
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• Cape Verde boat disaster: 'My brother died for a dream we all have'

  17-08-2023 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man whose brother was among around 60 Senegalese feared drowned says he would take the same risk.
  
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• Andy Farrell: Ireland coach calls row over son Owen's red card a 'disgusting circus'

  17-08-2023 18:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ireland coach Andy Farrell describes the controversy over son Owen's current disciplinary process as a "circus" that is "absolutely disgusting".
  
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• Belarus declares 19th Century nationalist poems 'extremist'

  17-08-2023 17:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The move comes as part of a deepening crackdown by authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
  
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• Colorado hiker stumbles across WWII-era land mine in forest near former US Army training facility

  17-08-2023 17:46 via foxnews.com
  
  A Colorado hiker discovered a forgotten land mine while trekking through a forest near an old U.S. Army training facility used during World War II, authorities said Tuesday. The hiker, who was only identified as being from the Denver area, found what he believed to be an old training land mine while hiking near Camp Hale on July 20, the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office said. He took care to stay clear and avoid tampering with the mine while photographing the device and documenting its locatio
  
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• Hawaii governor vows to protect locals from outside buyers seeking real estate opportunities in Maui

  17-08-2023 17:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Hawaii's governor vowed to protect local landowners from being "victimized" by opportunistic buyers when Maui rebuilds from deadly wildfires that incinerated a historic island community and killed more than 100 people. Gov. Josh Green said Wednesday that he instructed the state attorney general to work toward a moratorium on land transactions in Lahaina, even as he acknowledged the move would likely face legal challenges. "My intention from start to finish is to make sure that no one is victimiz
  
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• Could Trump pardon himself if convicted of Georgia charges? Experts weigh in

  17-08-2023 17:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Former President Trump was indicted earlier this week on 13 felony counts in Georgia in connection with an alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Legal experts told Fox News Digital that Trump cannot pardon himself in this case, but the process of actually incarcerating him is a complicated one. "The president…shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment," Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of th
  
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• Top conservative previews next government spending showdown, unveils demands to curb Biden 'abuse of power'

  17-08-2023 17:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is calling on House Republicans to oppose any government spending agreement that does not confront what he calls an "abuse of power" by President Biden and Congressional Democrats.  "To preserve the American Dream, we are morally obligated [and] empowered by the founders…to withhold funding for government as means to force change to stand athwart the devastating abuse of power by Biden Democrats," Roy said in a lengthy social media statement overnight Thursday
  
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• Jerry Moss, legendary A&M founder and executive, dead at 88

  17-08-2023 17:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Jerry Moss, a music industry giant who co-founded A&M Records with Herb Alpert and rose from a Los Angeles garage to the heights of success with hits by Alpert, the Police, the Carpenters and hundreds of other performers, has died at 88. Moss, inducted with Alpert into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, died Wednesday at his home in Bel Air, California, according to a statement released by his family. He died of natural causes, his widow Tina told The Associated Press. The Associated
  
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• DeSantis won't say what he'd do if one of his children is gay or trans: report

  17-08-2023 17:35 via foxnews.com
  
  GOP presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis would not say how he would respond if one of his children is gay or transgender, in a Wednesday interview.  Speaking with Time magazine at the Iowa State Fair, the Florida governor said, "[his] children are [his] children." "We'll leave that – we’ll leave that between my wife and I," DeSantis replied.  DeSantis and his wife Casey have three young kids, referenced in the article. FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS: THE FRONTRUNNER AND CONTENDERS IN
  
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• Liberal columnists seize on 'Blind Side' controversy: 'White savior' story looks 'even more fake' 'than before

  17-08-2023 17:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Liberal columnists attacked the 2009 film "The Blind Side," as a "White savior" tale that looks "even more fake than before," after former NFL player Michael Oher came out with bombshell claims against the Tuohy family. Oher's allegations dominated headlines this week, after he claimed the Tuohys, who took him in as a youth, never legally adopted him and tricked him into a conservatorship from which they solely benefited. The Tuohy family has denied these allegations. An attorney representing th
  
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• Beverly Hills musician who co-wrote Katy Perry song vanishes without a trace: 'Could be anywhere'

  17-08-2023 17:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Friends and family are begging for the safe return of a Beverly Hills musician, who seemingly vanished after she was evicted nearly two months ago. Camela Leierth-Segura, 48, a musician who is best known for co-writing the 2013 Katy Perry song "Walking on Air," hasn't been seen or heard from since June 29, and her car was last seen in Beverly Hills the same night, the California Department of Justice said.  But her friends say she "could be anywhere," and laid out concerning details surroun
  
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• 'Tan Mom' Patricia Krentcil is running for the US Senate in Florida

  17-08-2023 17:26 via foxnews.com
  
  "Tan Mom" Patricia Krentcil, a 55-year-old media sensation from New Jersey, is running for the U.S. Senate in Florida, she announced this week. Krentcil, a former Nutley resident who now lives in Boca Raton, said on Tuesday that she officially filed to run for the Senate. She first garnered fame during a viral arrest in 2012, when she took her then-5-year-old daughter to a tanning salon. She also starred in her own extreme makeover television show, "Tan to 10." "I know that I am different. And I
  
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• Family of slain pregnant CO woman files suit against the police who mistook 27-year-old as robbery suspect

  17-08-2023 17:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Destinee Thompson was supposed to be on her way to lunch with her stepmother in August 2021 when Colorado police, mistaking her for a robbery suspect, fatally shot the pregnant mother as she fled in her minivan. Frustrated by the district attorney's decision last year not to charge the officers, Thompson's family filed a wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit on Tuesday against five officers from the Denver suburb of Arvada who were present when she was killed. "I want their badges," said Fr
  
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• Prominent Haitian gang leader vows to fight foreign armed forces as PM calls for international intervention

  17-08-2023 17:22 via foxnews.com
  
  An ex-police officer considered by many to be Haiti’s most powerful gang leader warned Wednesday that he would fight any international armed force deployed to the Caribbean country if it committed any abuses. Jimmy Chérizier, best known as "Barbecue," also urged Haitians to mobilize against the government. "We are asking the population to rise up," he said at a news conference. Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who has led Haiti since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Mo&iu
  
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• Maine man sentenced to 25 years for death of infant son; Case renews criticism of state's child welfare agency

  17-08-2023 17:22 via foxnews.com
  
  A father who’d faced a series of domestic violence charges was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the death of his 1-year-old son in a case that renewed criticism of Maine's child welfare agency. Reginald Melvin, 30, of Milo, was sentenced Wednesday after entering a plea that had a similar consequence to a guilty plea to a charge of manslaughter. Under an agreement, prosecutors dropped a murder charge. His son, Sylus, died in August 2021 from blunt force trauma that left him with multiple
  
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• KS prosecutor claims police raid of newspaper wasn't supported by evidence, police should return seized items

  17-08-2023 17:22 via foxnews.com
  
  A police raid that drew national attention to a small Kansas newspaper over threats to press freedoms wasn’t supported by evidence, a prosecutor said Wednesday, as the paper’s staff scrambled to print its first weekly edition since their cellphones and computers were seized. Forced to rewrite stories and reproduce ads from scratch, the four-person newsroom toiled overnight to print Wednesday's edition, with a defiant front-page headline that read: "SEIZED … but not silenced."
  
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• Russian authorities open criminal investigation into leader of prominent election monitoring group

  17-08-2023 17:21 via foxnews.com
  
  The Russian authorities have opened a criminal investigation into one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group, his lawyer said Thursday. The case against Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia's leading election watchdog Golos, is the latest step in the months-long crackdown on Kremlin critics and rights activists that the government ratcheted up after sending troops into Ukraine. Melkonyants' lawyer Mikhail Biryukov told The Associated Press that his client is facin
  
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• Out-of-control wildfire on Spanish island leads to thousands of evacuations

  17-08-2023 17:15 via foxnews.com
  
  An out-of-control wildfire on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife has burned thousands of acres and affected some 7,600 people who are either evacuated or confined, Regional President Fernando Clavijo said Thursday. He said some 250 firefighters and members of the Spanish army are tackling the blaze, located in the north of the island. Clavijo said the fire had a nearly 19-mile perimeter. "This is probably the most complicated blaze we have had on the Canary Islands, if not ever, at least in t
  
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• Vlatko Andonovski: US coach resigns after earliest Women's World Cup exit

  17-08-2023 17:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US head coach Vlatko Andonovski resigns after the team's worst performance at a Women's World Cup.
  
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• Interior secretary accused of 'apparent ethical breaches' over oil and gas drilling ban

  17-08-2023 17:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is accused of "apparent ethical breaches" over a ban on oil and gas drilling in New Mexico, according to a complaint from a watchdog group. Protect the Public's Trust (PPT), a government watchdog, filed an official complaint with the Department of Interior's Inspector General against Haaland regarding the drilling ban near Chaco Canyon National Historic Park, her participation in a film "and her own public statements." "Secretary Haaland apparently feels no compunc
  
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• Spain's Queen Letizia to attend World Cup final against England

  17-08-2023 17:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  FA President Prince William and other British royals will not be going to Sydney for the event.
  
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• Top international chess federation bars transgender females from competing in women's events

  17-08-2023 17:08 via foxnews.com
  
  The International Chess Federation (FIDE) ruled that transgender women are barred from competing in the organization’s official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by officials. FIDE said the organization and its member federations "more often" received recognition requests from players who identify as transgender. The participation of transgender women would depend on an analysis of individual cases that might take up to two years. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS CO
  
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• Russian & Belarusian track and field athletes 'unlikely' to be at Paris Olympics - Lord Coe

  17-08-2023 17:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russian and Belarusian track and field athletes are "unlikely" to be able to compete at the 2024 Olympics, says World Athletics president Lord Coe.
  
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• Potential candidate to lead Chicago health department apologizes for lying about having Harvard PhD

  17-08-2023 16:59 via foxnews.com
  
  A progressive who may be in line to lead Chicago’s Department of Public Health was forced to issue an apology for publicly "misrepresenting" himself as holding a Ph.D. from Harvard.  "I am writing to publicly apologize for misrepresenting the completion of a PhD on my personal website for a period in Summer 2021," Eric Reinhart said in a statement posted to his account on X Sunday evening. He added in his post that he is "deeply sorry and embarrassed" by the incident.  Reinhart i
  
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• GOP candidate fighting for debate stage spot says candidates 'shouldn't stay' in race if they don't qualify

  17-08-2023 16:52 via foxnews.com
  
  RYE, N.H. - Mayor Francis Suarez of Miami, Florida, is optimistic he'll make the stage at next week's Fox News-hosted first Republican presidential nomination debate. "We’re planning as if we’re going to be there and we’re excited about being there. It’s the first opportunity for me to introduce myself to the country and it’s important," Suarez emphasized in an interview with Fox News Digital. But Suarez said on Wednesday that candidates who fail to qualify for the
  
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• Footage shows wildfire threatening Canadian city

  17-08-2023 16:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Firefighters are struggling to contain the blaze as 20,000 residents have been told to evacuate.
  
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• Yellowknife wildfire: traffic clogs road out of town as residents race to evacuate

  17-08-2023 16:47 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 20,000 residents given until noon on Friday to leave home in face of advancing wildfire that could arrive by weekendLong lines of traffic have clogged the only road out of the Canadian city of Yellowknife, after authorities ordered the first ever evacuation of a capital in the face of an advancing wildfire.More than 20,000 residents – the entire population – have been given until noon on Friday to leave their homes, as water bombers flew throughout the night and authorities
  
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• CNN legal analyst doubts Fani Willis, says there is 'no planet' where Trump is tried in March: 'Not happening'

  17-08-2023 16:47 via foxnews.com
  
  CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Wednesday that there was "no planet" that Donald Trump is tired in March, as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has proposed.  CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Honig Wednesday night about the trial timeline for Willis' indictment.  "There is no earth. There is no planet on which this case will be tried in March. Due to the log jam that we just saw," Honig said, referring to the several other indictments. "Now we see all of these four different i
  
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• Chicago man seen sexually assaulting girl during remote-learning class sentenced to 11 years

  17-08-2023 16:46 via foxnews.com
  
  A Chicago man arrested for molesting his 7-year-old relative while the girl participated in an online learning session has been handed an 11-year jail sentence. Catrell Walls, 21, was sentenced Wednesday for the sexual assault, which took place three years ago in the home of the girl's grandmother during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The crime was caught on video during a break in the girl's online class, FOX 32 Chicago reported. The girl had been staying at her grandmother's house
  
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• Buffalo shooting survivors sue social media giants they argue 'addicted,' 'radicalized' killer gunman

  17-08-2023 16:38 via foxnews.com
  
  A new pair of lawsuits announced Wednesday on behalf of a victim’s family and survivors of the May 2022 mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, alleges that the gunman became "addicted" to social media platforms that "shepherded him along the path of radicalization."  The complementary lawsuits were filed by Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, in state court in Buffalo.  They allege that YouTube – as well as its parent
  
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• Police say possible murder-suicide left 5 Oklahoma City family members dead, including 3 children

  17-08-2023 16:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in Oklahoma City are investigating a possible murder-suicide after police said a shooting Wednesday night left five victims dead, including three children. According to FOX 25 Oklahoma City, a family member visited a residence near Melrose Lane and Rockwell, where they found several other family members dead, including one adult female and three children. A male adult who shot himself was initially hospitalized, but he has since died, police said. Oklahoma City police said the shooti
  
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• Russian lunar probe enters moon’s orbit, first time since 1976

  17-08-2023 16:27 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia's Luna-25 moon probe has entered orbit after a thus-far successful spaceflight. The lunar spacecraft entered the moon's orbit on Wednesday, according to the country's space command. It will circle the moon for approximately 5 days before it is expected to touchdown on Aug. 21. RUSSIA LAUNCHES MOON PROBE FOR FIRST TIME IN HALF-CENTURY The probe is searching for frozen water on the lunar surface, but the international prestige of the mission is far more important for the Russian government
  
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• Drunken Calif. judge gunned down wife in front of son, asked cops to shoot him, court docs say: 'I f---ed up'

  17-08-2023 16:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Jeffrey Ferguson, the Orange County judge who allegedly texted a confession to court staffers after killing his wife in front of their son, made a mumbling drunken confession to responding Anaheim police officers captured on bodycam video and asked them to shoot him, according to court filings. The son who allegedly witnessed the shooting told investigators his parents had been fighting for most of the evening and that his father was drinking heavily. "The shooting stemmed from an argument that
  
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• West African bloc prepared for military intervention after Niger coup

  17-08-2023 15:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Ecowas says it is ready to restore democracy and describes president Mohamed Bazoum as a hostageA west African regional political grouping has reiterated it is prepared to intervene militarily in Niger following last month’s coup, describing the country’s detained president, Mohamed Bazoum, as a hostage.Ecowas’s commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, Abdel-Fatau Musah, made the comments as military chiefs of staff from the bloc met in the Ghanaian capital, Accr
  
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• Sarina Wiegman: FA says any approaches would be '100% rejected'

  17-08-2023 15:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chief executive Mark Bullingham says the Football Association wants England manager Sarina Wiegman to remain in charge "for a very long time".
  
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• Ten killed as light plane crashes on street in Malaysia

  17-08-2023 14:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Eight onboard and two motorists on ground killed as aircraft comes down in ElminaA light plane crashed into a street in Malaysia’s central Selangor state on Thursday, killing eight people on board and two motorists on the ground.“For now, I can say at least 10 people were killed in the plane crash. Two passing motorists – one in a car and one on a motorcycle – also perished together with the eight onboard the plane,” said the local police chief, Mohamad Iqbal Ibrahi
  
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