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• Proud Boys could get record sentences this week in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case

  29-08-2023 23:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Enrique Tarrio could face the longest prison sentence of any Jan. 6 defendant when a judge hands down punishments this week for members of the Proud Boys.
  
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• E coli outbreak at University of Arkansas sends five students to hospital

  29-08-2023 23:51 via theguardian.com
  
  About 100 students have reported symptoms of infection, and officials are trying to pinpoint the source of the outbreakHealth officials are investigating an outbreak of E coli food poisoning among students at the University of Arkansas, with dozens reporting symptoms and five people needing treatment in the hospital.Among those affected are two 19-year-old sorority members who developed serious complications that can lead to kidney failure after being infected with the E coli strain O157:H7. Tha
  
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• Christian official faces second 'hate speech' trial over Twitter post quoting the Bible

  29-08-2023 23:22 via foxnews.com
  
  A respected member of Finland's parliament is set to reappear in court for a second time facing "hate speech" charges for a social media post citing Bible verses, more than a year after a district court dismissed the charges against her. In a press release, Parliament Member Päivi Räsänen, a 62-year-old medical doctor and grandmother of seven, said that she is "ready to defend her freedom of expression in all necessary courts." Her second court hearing is set to span two days and
  
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• Biden privately admitted feeling ‘tired’ amid concerns about his age, book says

  29-08-2023 23:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician, also says experience and calming presence make US president ‘a man for his age’Amid relentless debate about whether at 80 Joe Biden is too old to be president or to complete an effective second term, an eagerly awaited book on his time in the White House reports that Biden has privately admitted to feeling “tired”, even as it describes his vast political experience as a vital asset.“His advanced years were a hindrance, d
  
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• Ron DeSantis faces the challenge of governing while running for president

  29-08-2023 23:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The responsibilities of being Florida governor are colliding with Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign for the first time.
  
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• Families of service members killed in 2021 Kabul airport attack demand accountability from Biden

  29-08-2023 22:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Gold Star families of the American service members killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack demanded answers from President Joe Biden and his administration.
  
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• UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student charged with murder in shooting of faculty member

  29-08-2023 22:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A graduate student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was charged Tuesday with fatally shooting a professor — the latest incident in a spate of national gun violence — leaving a college community reeling and authorities trying to determine a motive.
  
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• Ukrainian farmers hold steady on winter wheat sowing despite export challenges

  29-08-2023 22:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian farmers are not expected to reduce the area of winter wheat they sow for the 2024 harvest despite higher logistics costs due to the wartime export crisis, a senior farming official told Reuters on Tuesday. Ukraine is a major wheat producer and the demise of the Black Sea corridor used to safely export grain during the war spurred speculation that farmers could sow less wheat because of shrinking profit margins due to costlier export routes. On Monday, the agriculture ministry quoted su
  
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• Irish hotel group sees lasting travel trend amidst post-pandemic consumer spending shifts

  29-08-2023 22:22 via foxnews.com
  
  The post-pandemic trend of people prioritising travel could be a more permanent change in consumers' spending habits, the head of Ireland's largest hotel group Dalata said on Tuesday. The company, which operates the Maldron and Clayton brands and also runs 19 hotels in the United Kingdom, reported a 24% year-on-year jump in first half adjusted core profit to $111 million, and said it saw no sign of a slowdown in resurgent demand for rooms. "Certainly 2, 3, 4 years before COVID people in their 20
  
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• Top EU official to nominate Dutch foreign minister for climate czar post

  29-08-2023 22:17 via foxnews.com
  
  The EU's top official said Tuesday she would nominate the foreign minister of the Netherlands as the commissioner in charge of climate action to fill the void left by the departure of Frans Timmermans, who resigned last week to run in the Dutch general election. European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen interviewed Wopke Hoekstra, who was named by the Dutch government as its preferred candidate to replace Timmermans. After their talks, she said he "showed strong motivation for the post
  
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• Guatemalan President Giammattei calls for peaceful transition of power to leftist successor

  29-08-2023 22:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei called Tuesday for a democratic transition of power to anti-corruption campaigner and president-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his Seed Movement party, which have faced waves legal attacks in attempts to invalidate his rise to power. The president's statement came after a night of political chaos in the Central American nation following one of its most tumultuous elections in recent history. Hours before the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal
  
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• Killer in nearly 50-year-old 'Lady of the Dunes' case identified as victim's husband

  29-08-2023 21:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  The killer in Massachusetts' oldest unsolved slaying dubbed "The Lady of the Dunes," whose maimed body was found on a Cape Cod beach in 1974, was identified as her husband, prosecutors announced Monday.
  
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• FBI agents reportedly search for Uzbeks helped into US by smuggler with IS ties

  29-08-2023 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Episode reported by CNN required emergency memo to senior officials and suggests agency does not know migrants’ locationFederal agents are reportedly trailing a group of more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who entered the US as asylum seekers aided by a smuggler with ties to Isis.The extraordinary episode, which multiple US officials confirmed to CNN on Tuesday, was considered so serious that it required an emergency intelligence report to senior Biden administration figures. Continue readin
  
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• Famed carnival terrorized by men with giant knives, 8 stabbings, 275 arrests: 'Marred by serious violence'

  29-08-2023 21:31 via foxnews.com
  
  The final day of the Notting Hill Carnival was "marred by serious violence," police said after hundreds of arrests and several hospitalizations overshadowed the famed-event. An estimated 2 million people packed the streets of West London on Sunday and Monday for the festival, Europe’s largest street party and one of the world’s biggest celebrations of Caribbean music and culture. Violent riots took over the streets Monday, during which eight people were stabb
  
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• Jamaican authorities charge female dental assistant with abducting, killing 8-year-old

  29-08-2023 21:19 via foxnews.com
  
  A female dental assistant in Jamaica was charged with murder and kidnapping after police said she abducted an 8-year-old girl from school and killed her. JAMAICAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN PENNSYLVANIA COURT TO SWEEPSTAKES SCHEME THAT TARGETED ELDERLY AMERICANS The woman was arrested roughly two weeks ago but wasn’t charged until Monday, nearly three months after the body of Danielle Rowe was found in the town of Portmore, just west of the capital of Kingston, according to Jamaica’s Const
  
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• Dutch prosecutors want 12-year sentence for cricketer accused of placing bounty on populist figurehead Wilders

  29-08-2023 21:14 via foxnews.com
  
  Dutch prosecutors demanded a 12-year prison sentence Tuesday for a former Pakistani cricketer accused of incitement to murder firebrand anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders. The suspect, identified by Wilders as Khalid Latif, is accused of offering a bounty of some 21,000 euros ($23,000) to anybody who killed Wilders. Latif did not appear in the high-security courtroom near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport for the trial. He is believed to be in Pakistan. NETHERLANDS AND DENMARK TO GIVE LONG PLEAD
  
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• Deepfake scams have arrived: Fake videos spread on Facebook, TikTok and Youtube

  29-08-2023 20:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Long feared, the deepfake scam has finally arrived on social media.
  
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• 21 arrested in Cyprus after Greek Cypriots attempt to attack Syrian migrants

  29-08-2023 20:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Police in Cyprus say they have arrested 21 people and used tear gas and a water cannon after a group of Greek Cypriots wearing hoods and brandishing bats tried to attack protesting Syrians in a small village that has been a hotbed of tensions between locals and migrants. Police said Tuesday parallel protests by some 250 Syrians and an equal number of Greek Cypriots in the village of Chloraka in the island’s southwest Monday evening degenerated into violence, as smaller numbers of protester
  
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• China extends tax breaks for foreign workers until 2027

  29-08-2023 20:24 via foxnews.com
  
  China will extend preferential tax policies for foreign nationals working in the country through to the end of 2027, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, in a boon to foreign firms struggling to attract talent post-COVID. The government proposed scrapping the provision of non-taxable allowances for foreign workers in 2022, but decided to extend the scheme on a review basis until the end of this year. Foreign chambers of commerce and business organizations in China had been seeking urgent clarif
  
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• Global air pollution persists as leading health risk, hitting Asia and Africa the hardest

  29-08-2023 20:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Despite improvements in China, air pollution across the globe continues to pose the greatest external risk to human health, with countries in Asia and Africa suffering most of the impact, new research showed on Tuesday. Around three quarters of the adverse health effects of air pollution is concentrated in just six countries - Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China, Nigeria and Indonesia, the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) said in its annual Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) repo
  
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• South Korea unveils smallest budget increase in 20 years amidst weakened tax revenue

  29-08-2023 20:21 via foxnews.com
  
  South Korea's government plans to raise budget spending to nearly $497 billion for 2024, but the proposed increase is the smallest in two decades as authorities prioritise fiscal discipline amid weakening tax revenue due to slower economic growth. In its annual spending plan released on Tuesday, the finance ministry set total government expenditure for 2024 at $496.70 billion, up 2.8% from 2023. That is smaller than this year's 5.2% increase and the smallest-ever boost since fiscal statistics we
  
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• Photos show Prigozhin’s gravesite after burial in St. Petersburg, Russia

  29-08-2023 20:19 via foxnews.com
  
  New images taken Friday show the gravesite of late Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin following his burial at a cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia.  The scenes showing Russian police standing guard at the Porokhovskoye cemetery come as it remains unexplained what caused the aircraft carrying Prigozhin to crash outside of Moscow last week.  "The farewell to Yevgeny Viktorovich took place in a closed format. Those who wish to say goodbye may visit Porokhovskoye cemetery," Pr
  
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• German woman, who was a member of the Islamic State, sentenced for allowing 5-year-old slave to die of thirst

  29-08-2023 20:10 via foxnews.com
  
  A Munich court on Tuesday sentenced a German woman who was a member of the Islamic State group to 14 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. The decision replaced an earlier prison sentence of 10 years. A German appeals court had ordered a new sentencing hearing for the woman, who has been identified only as Jennifer W. in line with German privacy rules, after the country's Federal Court of Justice threw out a
  
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• Watch: BBC gets as close as possible to Prigozhin grave

  29-08-2023 19:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russia editor Steve Rosenberg is at the cemetery in St Petersburg where it is believed Prigozhin is buried.
  
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• Documents show Putin’s order to move superyacht before Ukraine invasion

  29-08-2023 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Russian president ordered urgent removal of Graceful from Hamburg shipyard, investigation claims Vladimir Putin moved his $100m (£75m) superyacht from a German shipyard to Russia just weeks before he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, according to secret documents released in a new investigation.A Russian anti-corruption organisation set up by the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny claims emails show that the Russian president ordered the urgent moving of the 82-metre superyacht, called
  
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• Former Algerian defense minister indicted in Switzerland for alleged crimes against humanity

  29-08-2023 19:52 via foxnews.com
  
  Swiss federal prosecutors said Tuesday they have indicted a former Algerian defense minister, now aged 85 and reportedly "on his deathbed," for his alleged role in crimes against humanity during the bloody insurrection in the North African country in the 1990s. The Swiss attorney general's office accuses former Gen. Khaled Nezzar of violating the laws of armed conflict under the Geneva Conventions, alleging that he knew of or willingly condoned, coordinated and encouraged activities such as tort
  
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• Japanese financial regulator to monitor BOJ amid shifting central bank policies

  29-08-2023 19:50 via foxnews.com
  
  Japan's financial regulator will closely monitor how central bank policy impacts regional banks, as the world's third-largest economy approaches the normalisation of its monetary settings after years of massive easing. The Financial Services Agency (FSA) "will monitor how potential changes in the financial markets and client situations will affect regional banks' profits and health," the regulator said in its annual policy outlook released on Tuesday. The Bank of Japan last month modified its yi
  
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• French soldier killed in counterterrorism operation alongside Iraqi forces north of Baghdad

  29-08-2023 19:47 via foxnews.com
  
  A French soldier serving alongside Iraqi forces was killed in combat during a counterterrorism operation north of Baghdad, according to the French military. Such losses among foreign forces in Iraq have been rare in recent years. Two Iraqi soldiers and four other French troops were also wounded in the operation, which an Iraqi official said was targeting a cell of the Islamic State group. Sgt. Nicolas Mazier of parachute commando No. 10 was on a reconnaissance mission Monday with Iraqi forces ab
  
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• ‘Farewell ceremony’ for Yevgeny Prigozhin takes place in St Petersburg – as it happened

  29-08-2023 19:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Spokesperson says ‘those who wish to bid their farewell’ to the mercenary leader should go to the Porokhovskoye cemetery. This live blog is closedRussia-Ukraine war at a glanceMy colleague Dan Sabbagh has a special dispatch from Kupiansk, a town in the Kharkiv region where some residents have abandoned their homes because of renewed shelling.In its latest intelligence update, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said military service in the Russian armed forces has become inc
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 552 of the invasion

  29-08-2023 19:45 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 1,300 schools destroyed in Ukraine since war began; ‘farewell ceremony’ held Yevgeny PrigozhinA “farewell ceremony” for Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, took place behind closed doors, his spokespeople said on Tuesday in a statement on social media.More than 1,300 schools have been destroyed in government-held areas of Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion, Unicef has said.Vladimir Putin has no plans to attend the f
  
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• European court condemns Bosnia's ethnic-based political system for undermining democracy, amplifying divisions

  29-08-2023 19:45 via foxnews.com
  
  A top European court ruled in an opinion published Tuesday that Bosnia's political system, set up under a U.S.-brokered peace deal in 1995, amplifies ethnic divisions and undermines the Balkan country's democratic elections. The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, sided with Slaven Kovacevic, a Sarajevo-born political scientist, who sued Bosnia last year arguing that it prevents people who refuse to affiliate with one of Bosnia’s three dominant ethnic groups from voting for candidates of
  
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• Late founder of Japanese boy band talent agency sexually assaulted teenagers, investigation team finds

  29-08-2023 19:41 via foxnews.com
  
  A team investigating sexual assault allegations by the late founder of a powerful talent agency for boy bands has found the charges credible, calling Tuesday for compensation for the victims and the resignation of the current chief executive. The three-month probe, which included speaking with 23 victims, concluded that Johnny Kitagawa sexually assaulted and abused boys as far back as the 1950s and targeted at least several hundred people. The investigative panel said Johnny & Associates mus
  
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• Russian court rules prominent nationalist who accused Putin of weakness, indecision should remain in prison

  29-08-2023 19:37 via foxnews.com
  
  A Moscow court has ruled that a prominent hard-line nationalist who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of weakness and indecision in Ukraine should remain in prison on charges of extremism. Igor Strelkov, a retired security officer who led Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and was convicted of murder in the Netherlands for his role in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that year, has argued that a total mobilization is needed for Russia to achieve victory.
  
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• Chess rivals settle long-running cheating dispute

  29-08-2023 19:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  World champion Magnus Carlsen's accusations against Hans Niemann left the world of chess in turmoil.
  
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• Gangs rope thousands in Southeast Asia into online scams, UN says

  29-08-2023 19:23 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.N. human rights office says criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia into participating in unlawful online scam operations, including false romantic ploys, bogus investment pitches, and illegal gambling schemes. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a new report, cites "credible sources" that at least 120,000 people in strife-torn Myanmar and roughly 100,000 in Cambodia "may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out
  
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• US Marine veteran jailed in Russia seen in rare video on state media

  29-08-2023 18:52 via foxnews.com
  
  American citizen and Marine veteran Paul Whelan was seen in a rare video on Russian state media from the prison where he is currently serving a 16-year sentence on espionage charges long dismissed by the U.S. government. The video, aired on Monday by Russia Today, a Kremlin-backed television network, shows Whelan in black overalls and a black hat at a penal colony in the country's Mordovia region. The Marine veteran was charged by Russia with espionage in 2018 and convicted in 2020, accusations
  
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• Nigerian police detain at least 67 people celebrating gay wedding

  29-08-2023 18:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Police in Nigeria said Tuesday they detained at least 67 people celebrating a gay wedding in one of the largest mass detentions targeting homosexuality, which is outlawed in the West African country. The "gay suspects" were arrested in southern Delta state's Ekpan town at about 2 a.m. on Monday at an event where two of them were married, state police spokesman Bright Edafe told reporters. He said that homosexuality "will never be tolerated" in Nigeria. Arrests of gay people are common in Nigeria
  
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• Canadian police charge man with 12 additional counts of aiding suicide for selling lethal substances

  29-08-2023 18:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Canadian police said Tuesday they are charging a man with 12 additional counts of counseling and aiding suicide for allegedly selling lethal substances on the internet to people at risk of self harm. An international investigation is underway following the arrest in Canada earlier this year of Kenneth Law, who was initially charged with two counts of counseling and aiding suicide. Canadian police say Law, from the Toronto area, used a series of websites to market and sell sodium nitrite, a subst
  
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• Hurricane Idalia closes in on Florida with warnings of 125mph winds

  29-08-2023 18:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Rapidly strengthening hurricane nears Gulf coast as officials warn of significant storm surge and destructive windsHurricane Idalia path live updatesA rapidly intensifying Hurricane Idalia was closing in on Florida’s Gulf coast on Tuesday as residents in more than a dozen counties rushed to evacuate amid warnings of a life-threatening storm surge and destructive 125mph winds.Landfall of the first major hurricane to strike the US this year was expected early on Wednesday, following Idalia&r
  
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• Farewell film of Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died from cancer, to premiere at Venice Film Festival

  29-08-2023 18:42 via foxnews.com
  
  Sitting alone before a grand piano in a stark studio, Ryuichi Sakamoto takes the listener on a journey of his life, playing 20 of his compositions. Shot entirely in black and white, on three 4K cameras, the film "Opus," directed by Neo Sora, is the Japanese composer’s farewell, poetic yet bold, and deeply heartfelt. Its world premiere is set for the Venice International Film Festival next month. The filming took place over several days, just a half year before his death on March 28 at 71.
  
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• Rabbi turned 'Tinder swindler' used fake IDs to trick women into sex: police

  29-08-2023 18:34 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM – A Brooklyn-born rabbi is currently in police custody in Jerusalem on charges of rape by deception after allegedly duping women into having sexual relationships with him using a false identity, a spokesman for the Israeli Police confirmed to Fox News Digital.Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Paryzer, who moved to Israel some 10 years ago, allegedly used the alias Jake Segal, as well as other fake names, exchanging his religious garb in favor of more secular clothing to create a profile on d
  
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• US gains authority to unilaterally enforce maritime law in Pacific amid regional tensions with China

  29-08-2023 18:18 via foxnews.com
  
  The United States has been given authority to unilaterally enforce maritime regulations around Palau after signing a new agreement with the tiny Pacific island country, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday. In the new agreement, U.S. Coast Guard ships can enforce regulations inside Palau's exclusive economic zone on behalf of the nation without a Palauan officer present, according to a Coast Guard official. "This agreement helps Palau monitor our exclusive economic zone, protect against Illegal, un
  
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• New charges for Canadian accused of selling drugs to people at risk of suicide

  29-08-2023 18:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Police say Kenneth Law, 57, linked to 88 deaths in Britain, may have shipped as many as 1,200 packages to 40 countriesThe Canadian man accused of selling sodium nitrite to people at risk of suicide is believed to have shipped as many as 1,200 packages to 40 countries, police said as they laid a dozen new charges in a sprawling investigation.Kenneth Law, 57, previously charged with two counts of counselling or aiding suicide in the province of Ontario, is now facing 12 new charges in connection w
  
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• Are hurricanes in the US getting worse?

  29-08-2023 18:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Warming oceans have led to more powerful storms forming over the Atlantic in recent years.
  
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• Daughter says former Thai PM Thaksin is fatigued as criticism rises over his transfer from prison to hospital

  29-08-2023 17:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is suffering from stress and fatigue but is in good spirits, his daughter said Tuesday as criticism grew of his transfer to a hospital just hours after he began serving an eight-year prison sentence. Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 military coup, returned to Thailand last week after 15 years of self-imposed exile and was immediately sent to prison over several criminal convictions he has decried as politically motivated. Corrections officials said
  
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• Memorial service for Wagner chief Prigozhin held, his spokespeople say

  29-08-2023 17:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  A memorial service has taken place for mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, his spokespeople said Tuesday.
  
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• Former Algerian minister of defence indicted in Switzerland on war crime charges

  29-08-2023 17:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Khaled Nezzar is to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity during 1991-2002 Algerian civil warVictims of the 1991-2002 Algerian civil war have been given hope that they will finally receive justice after the highly unusual announcement by Swiss authorities that a former Algerian minister of defence is to stand trial in Switzerland on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.Khaled Nezzar is set to be the highest-ranking military official ever tried for war crimes under the
  
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• German government presents plans for 'German-Polish House' to serve as memorial for Polish Holocaust victims

  29-08-2023 17:26 via foxnews.com
  
  The German government on Tuesday presented plans for a "German-Polish House" in Berlin to serve as a memorial to Polish victims of World War II and detail Germany's brutal occupation of its neighbor between 1939 and 1945. The documentation center is intended to inform visitors about the past, be a space for encounters between Germans, Poles and others, and at the same time become a memorial with a "striking artistic element," according to the plans, which were presented by German Culture Ministe
  
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• Live worm plucked from woman's brain in Australia in a world first

  29-08-2023 17:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  A woman who was admitted to hospital with mystery symptoms in Australia had a live, parasitic worm plucked from her brain.
  
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• Republicans demand answers from Merrick Garland on Covid relief fraud

  29-08-2023 17:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  A House committee probing Covid relief fraud is demanding the Justice Department provide documents showing how much those programs were looted by international criminal groups.
  
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