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• Security forces rescue 14 Nigerian students abducted by gunmen

  25-09-2023 23:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Security forces rescued 14 out of at least 20 students abducted from a university in northwestern Nigeria and were searching for the remaining captives, school authorities said Monday. Gunmen attacked the school in the hard-hit Zamfara state’s Bungudu district last week and fled with the students and some workers in the first mass school abduction in the West African nation since President Bola Tinubu took office in May. Such abductions of students from schools are common in Nigeria’
  
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• Ex-Albanian environment minister gets almost 7 years in bribery case

  25-09-2023 23:43 via foxnews.com
  
  A former Albanian environment minister, seven other officials and four businessmen were sentenced Monday to prison terms in connection with bribery over a contract to build an incinerator in western Albania, court officials said. The Special Court on Corruption and Organized Crime in the Albanian capital, Tirana, sentenced former Environment Minister Lefter Koka to six years and eight months imprisonment on charges of corruption, abuse of power and money laundering. He also was barred from holdi
  
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• Off-duty officer shoots Houston neighbor who he thought was breaking in, officials say

  25-09-2023 23:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  An off-duty highway patrolman in Houston shot a neighbor through a closed door early Monday, thinking the man might have been an intruder, officials said.
  
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• Rain pelts Pacific Northwest — and may end wildfire season

  25-09-2023 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  An atmospheric river storm barreled into the Pacific Northwest on Sunday, bringing several days of heavy rain, most likely ending the wildfire season in many areas and offering a bit of a reprieve for a region suffering from extreme drought.
  
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• ChatGPT update will give it a voice and allow users to interact using images

  25-09-2023 22:51 via theguardian.com
  
  The move will bring the artificial intelligence chatbot closer to popular voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s AlexaOpenAI’s ChatGPT is getting a major update that will enable the viral chatbot to have voice conversations with users and interact using images, moving it closer to popular artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Apple’s Siri.The voice feature “opens doors to many creative and accessibility-focused applications”, OpenAI said in
  
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• Bahraini officer and soldier killed in drone attack on Yemeni-Saudi border

  25-09-2023 22:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Bahrain's military command says one of its officers and a soldier were killed in a drone attack by Yemeni rebels while patrolling the Yemeni-Saudi border. The statement, carried by the official Bahrain News Agency, says "a number" of soldiers were wounded in the attack early Monday. Bahrain is a close ally of Saudi Arabia, which has been at war with the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen for several years. A cease-fire had largely stopped the violence, and the two sides have appeared close to a
  
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• Biden pledges more aid to Pacific islands to counter growing Chinese influence

  25-09-2023 22:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaders of Pacific island states have been given star treatment in Washington but Chinese influence is the spectre at the feastJoe Biden has offered more economic aid to Pacific islands at a White House meeting with leaders from the region aimed at bolstering US engagement in the face of a growing Chinese presence.The president also announced formal US recognition of two new island nations, the Cook Islands and Niue, at the start of the Pacific Islands Forum, two days of Washington meetings with
  
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• European Union member states weaken proposal to lower vehicle emissions

  25-09-2023 22:20 via foxnews.com
  
  European Union member countries have watered down a proposal by the bloc's executive arm aimed at lowering vehicle emissions. The European Commission had proposed last year updated pollution standards for new combustion engine vehicles that are expected to remain on European roads well after the 27-nation bloc bans their sale in 2035, with the aim of lowering emissions from tailpipes, brakes and tires. The Commission hoped that new guidelines would help lower nitrogen oxide emissions from cars a
  
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• Police investigate heist of $1.5m Buddha statue from California gallery

  25-09-2023 22:18 via theguardian.com
  
  The Barakat Gallery reported the theft of the 250lb bronze statue, which the director alleges took place after it was ‘scoped out’Los Angeles police are investigating after a thief carried out an overnight heist and stole a $1.5m Buddha statue, weighing almost 250lb, from an antiquities gallery.Authorities received a report of a burglary on Monday at the Barakat Gallery, which offers “museum quality” ancient art. According to surveillance footage, the thief had stolen the
  
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• Journalist and police officer killed in crossfire in northern Mexico border town, 3 others injured

  25-09-2023 22:18 via foxnews.com
  
  A journalist who ran a community Facebook news page was killed in the northern Mexico border town of San Luis Rio Colorado on Monday, when he was apparently caught in the cross-fire of an attack aimed at police. Jesús Gutiérrez ran Notiface Prensa Digital De San Luis, a Facebook page that included recommendations for local businesses as well as local news stories. Notiface confirmed his death, writing in a tribute "we think they killed the best journalist." Prosecutors in the north
  
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• Zambia police accuse ex-president of 'political' jogging

  25-09-2023 21:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Morning runs by Edgar Lungu and party supporters amount to ‘activism’ that requires clearance, police sayA former president of Zambia has been warned that his morning jog is turning into “political activism” for which he must seek police approval.The police said the runs by Edgar Lungu and some of his party supporters requires their clearance to ensure the safety of the man who lost power in 2021. Continue reading...
  
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• At least 3 dead, 15 missing after Guatemala landslide

  25-09-2023 21:35 via foxnews.com
  
  Heavy rains set off a landslide in Guatemala’s capital early Monday sweeping several humble homes into a river and leaving three people dead and at least 15 people missing, including 10 minors. 6.5 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE SHAKES CENTRAL AMERICA Guatemala's National Disaster Reduction Coordinator confirmed the three dead, including a young girl, in a statement Monday. The 5-year-old girl was recovered by firefighters partially buried in debris and mud some 3 miles down the Naranjo river. The l
  
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• ‘I will never go back’: death stalks the exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh

  25-09-2023 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 6,000 ethnic Armenian refugees have left region following Azerbaijan victoryAzerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh victory highlights limits of Russia’s powerThe day the shelling began, Genadi Hyusunts had just taken his four-day-old son home from the hospital.Within hours, he had to hustle his wife, the newborn child and his six other children to the shelter in his native Martakert, which sits in Nagorno-Karabakh on the frontline of a three-decade conflict with Azerbaijan. Continue
  
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• Before Jan. 6, the FBI predicted extremists would be 'very willing to take action' over a 2020 election dispute

  25-09-2023 21:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Before the 2020 election and Jan. 6, an FBI analysis concluded that extremists were “very willing to take action” but were likely too disorganized to do so.
  
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• Mom whose sons drowned after she plunged into pond while intoxicated gets 5 years in prison

  25-09-2023 21:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Leticia Gonzales had pleaded no contest in August to operating while intoxicated causing serious injury and three misdemeanor charges of a moving violation causing death.
  
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• Mexican president addresses town isolation due to drug cartel turf battles in Chiapas

  25-09-2023 21:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Drug cartel turf battles cut off a series of towns in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, near the Guatemala border, Mexico’s president acknowledged Monday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the cartels have cut off electrical power in some towns, and forbidden government workers from coming in to the largely rural area to fix power lines. He said the cartels were fighting for control of the drug smuggling routes that lead into southern Mexico from Central Ame
  
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• Commercial building blaze south of Benin's capital kills at least 35 people

  25-09-2023 21:23 via foxnews.com
  
  A fire in a commercial building south of Benin's capital has killed at least 35 people, authorities said, as they started an investigation. The gutted and burned ruins of a building in Seme-Podji, 6 miles south of the capital Porto-Novo, and the charred remains of cars and motorcycles was all that could be seen in the aftermath of the fire in footage by Benin’s public broadcaster. A fire official told broadcaster ORTB that the accident happened at a site known for the storage and handling
  
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• Japan's Kishida teases new economic package amid waning support for conservative government

  25-09-2023 21:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday unveiled the gist of his new economic package that focuses on wage increases and measures to soften the impact of rising prices. Support for his Cabinet has dwindled despite the latest reshuffle less than two weeks ago. Kishida said at the Prime Minister's Office that he will instruct his Cabinet on Tuesday to start putting together the package and promptly compile a supplementary budget to fund it. Details and the size of the package were yet to b
  
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• Coal mine fire claims 16 lives in southern China despite industry safety improvements

  25-09-2023 21:18 via foxnews.com
  
  A coal mine fire in southern China killed 16 people on Sunday, according to local authorities. The blaze broke out at the Shanjiaoshu coal mine in Panguan, a town in Guizhou province. An initial investigation suggested the people who died were trapped after a conveyor belt caught fire, the Panzhou city government said in a statement posted on social media. MAN ARRESTED AFTER FIGHT WITH FATHER-IN-LAW TAKES GRUESOME, DEADLY TURN China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, continu
  
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• Poland's foreign minister accuses Germany of interference over visa allegations

  25-09-2023 21:16 via foxnews.com
  
  Poland's foreign minister accused Germany of trying to interfere in his country's internal affairs after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Warsaw needs to clarify allegations that Polish consulates in Africa and Asia sold temporary work visas to migrants for thousands of dollars each. Poland's right-wing ruling party, Law and Justice, is facing questions about the alleged scheme ahead of an Oct. 15 national election in which it is seeking a third term in power. Scholz, whose government is under
  
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• Mali junta postpones 2024 election, delaying return to democratic rule

  25-09-2023 21:01 via foxnews.com
  
  Mali’s military government has postponed a presidential election that was expected to return the West African nation to democracy following a 2020 coup, a government spokesperson said Monday. The presidential election scheduled for February 2024 is being delayed for "technical reasons" to allow the transitional government to review its election data and to address a new constitutional provision that would delay the second round of the vote, government spokesman Abdoulaye Maiga told reporte
  
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• Amusement park guests left 75 feet upside down for nearly 30 minutes on 'Lumberjack' ride

  25-09-2023 20:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Guests at Canada's Wonderland amusement park founded themselves stranded upside down on a ride for nearly 30 minutes this past weekend. Numerous amusement park guests were riding the "Lumberjack" when park officials said it became "inverted" at 10:40 p.m. local time on Saturday. A spokesperson for Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, told Fox News Digital that the ride's passengers were safely unloaded by 11:05 p.m. "Guests were unloaded safely and assessed by First Aid staff before being re
  
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• Nagorno-Karabakh: Thousands flee as Armenia says ethnic cleansing under way

  25-09-2023 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The exodus comes as the Armenian PM warns that ethnic cleansing is under way in Nagorno-Karabakh.
  
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• Pediatric cancer drugs in shortage as drug supply crisis drags on

  25-09-2023 20:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pediatric cancer doctors are sounding the alarm about a growing shortage of chemotherapy drugs for children.
  
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• British university employees stage another round of strikes as new term begins

  25-09-2023 20:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Lecturers and other staff at some 40 U.K. universities staged a new round of strike action on Monday in a long-running dispute over pay and work conditions, disrupting college students as many turned up at campus for "freshers' week," or their first week at university. The University and College Union, which represents thousands of academic staff, said strike action will take place until Friday at many institutions. LONDON POLICE FORCE PLEDGES TO REFORM FOLLOWING REPORT ACCUSING DEPARTMENT OF RA
  
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• Egypt sets December presidential election date

  25-09-2023 20:28 via foxnews.com
  
  Egypt will hold a presidential election over three days in December, officials announced Monday, with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi highly likely to remain in power until 2030. Waleed Hamza, the chairman of the National Election Authority, said the vote will take place on Dec. 10-12, with a runoff on Jan. 8-10 if no candidate secures more than 50% of the vote. Egyptian expatriates will vote on Dec. 1-3, and in the runoff on Jan. 5-7, he added. A handful of politicians have already announced th
  
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• A timeline of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's budding romance

  25-09-2023 20:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Taylor Swift created a media frenzy when she appeared at a Kansas City Chiefs game and left with the tight end, which seemed to confirm dating rumors.
  
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• El Paso Walmart shooter who targeted Hispanics agrees to pay more than $5 million to families

  25-09-2023 20:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  The El Paso, Texas, Walmart shooter who killed 23 people in a racist rampage against Hispanics in 2019 has agreed to pay over $5 million in restitution to the victims’ families.
  
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• Burmese army ambush kills 2 dozen local resistance force fighters

  25-09-2023 20:04 via foxnews.com
  
  About two dozen members of local resistance forces in central Burma were killed in an army ambush as they sought to evacuate villagers ahead of a feared attack by the military, according to resistance members and media reports. The total number of resistance fighters killed last Friday near Chay Yar Taw village in Sagaing region’s Myinmu township, if confirmed, would be one of the highest totals in a single armed confrontation in the ongoing strife in Burma since the army seized power in F
  
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• Police probe after Russell Brand sexual offence claims

  25-09-2023 19:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Met will investigate claims of "non-recent" offences from London and elsewhere in the country.
  
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• Renewed clashes erupt in Ethiopia's Amhara region over disarmament dispute

  25-09-2023 19:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Fresh fighting erupted in the second-biggest town of Ethiopia’s turbulent Amhara region as militiamen clashed with the military over government plans to disarm local forces. Fighters from a militia called Fano fought against military units Sunday in the town of Gondar, an important tourist and commercial hub, residents told The Associated Press. "It was very heavy," said one person reached by telephone who declined to give their name because of safety concerns. Calm had mostly been restore
  
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• Pakistani journalist advocating for jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan finally freed from captivity

  25-09-2023 19:48 via foxnews.com
  
  A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing after his arrest more than four months ago was freed Monday and returned home, police and his colleagues said. It was widely believed that security agencies had held Imran Riaz Khan, who is known for publicly supporting jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The two men are not related. Imran Riaz Khan was arrested at an airport in Sialkot city in Punjab province in May as he tried to leave Pakistan. The arrest followed him sharing a
  
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• In Libya, 8 officials detained after the collapse of 2 dams that caused thousands of deaths

  25-09-2023 19:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Libya’s chief prosecutor said Monday he ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams earlier this month, a disaster that sent a wall of water several meters high through the center of a coastal city and left thousands of people dead. The two dams outside the city of Derna broke up on Sept. 11 after they were overwhelmed by Storm Daniel, which caused heavy rain across eastern Libya. The failure of the structures inundate
  
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• London police are looking into 'a number' of sexual allegations against Russell Brand

  25-09-2023 19:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  British police confirmed Monday they are looking into "a number of allegations of sexual offenses" against controversial comedian Russell Brand both in London and in the rest of the country.
  
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• Locals in Hawaii return to sites of homes wrecked by August’s Lahaina wildfire

  25-09-2023 19:22 via foxnews.com
  
  From just outside the burn zone in Lahaina, Jes Claydon can see the ruins of the rental home where she lived for 13 years and raised three children. Little remains recognizable beyond the jars of sea glass that stood outside the front door. On Monday, officials will begin lifting restrictions on entry to the area, and Claydon hopes to collect those jars and any other mementos she might find. "I want the freedom to just be there and absorb what happened," Claydon said. "Whatever I might find, eve
  
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• Watch elderly man air rescued after cliff fall

  25-09-2023 19:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities responded to a hiker who had fallen from a cliff next to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
  
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• Russia puts International Criminal Court president on wanted list: reports

  25-09-2023 19:19 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia has added Piotr Hofmanski, the president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to its wanted list months after the organization issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on alleged war crimes in Ukraine, according to reports. A notice in the Russian interior ministry database showed that Hofmanski was placed on the wanted list, though it did not specify any details on allegations, according to the Russian state-run news website TASS. "Hofmanski Piotr Jozef, Polish. Wanted under an
  
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• Over 340 first responders have died from 9/11 illnesses

  25-09-2023 19:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As many have now died from complications as died in the attacks, the Fire Department of New York says.
  
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• US senator: 'I will be exonerated' on fraud charges

  25-09-2023 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Democratic senator says he kept nearly half a million dollars in cash at home for "emergencies".
  
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• What's in that smartphone? Chinese tech giant's secretive launch adds to nationalist fervor

  25-09-2023 19:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Chinese tech giant Huawei launched its new Mate 60 smartphone series on Monday but offered few details about a possible semiconductor chip breakthrough for 5G speeds.
  
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• ECB publishes response to ICEC report and says it wants to 'change the game'

  25-09-2023 19:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The England and Wales Cricket Board says it is "on a journey to change the game" as it publishes a response to a report detailing racism, sexism, classism and elitism in the sport.
  
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• Trump breaks with Kevin McCarthy, pushing Republicans to shut down the government

  25-09-2023 18:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump endorsed a government shutdown if his allies in Congress don't get major spending cuts in a fight with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
  
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• UN says Russian troops torturing Ukrainians to death, reveals 1 survivor suffered shocks for ‘an eternity’

  25-09-2023 18:36 via foxnews.com
  
  A U.N. commission tasked with investigating the behavior of Russian troops in Ukraine revealed Monday that Putin’s forces are "committing war crimes" and torturing people to death, including speaking with as survivor who said they suffered electric shocks for what "felt like an eternity."  In the Kherson region alone, "Russian soldiers raped and committed sexual violence against women of ages ranging from 19 to 83 years," often with family members being "kept in an adjacent room
  
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• Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner agree to temporarily keep children in New York

  25-09-2023 18:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have agreed to temporarily keep their two children in New York, according to documents filed Monday in federal court.
  
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• Canada's House Speaker apologises for praising Ukrainian who fought for Nazis

  25-09-2023 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The House of Commons Speaker apologises for honouring a Ukrainian who served in the Waffen-SS.
  
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• Tamil refugees on Diego Garcia win fight against forcible return to Sri Lanka

  25-09-2023 18:14 via theguardian.com
  
  British territory’s commissioner withdraws decision after supreme court challengeA group of Tamil asylum seekers stranded on a tiny British territory in the Indian Ocean have won their fight against being forcibly returned to Sri Lanka after a government climbdown.The group are on Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands, which the UK calls the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and over which it continues to claim sovereignty despite a UN court ruling that they are part of Mauritius. C
  
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• Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing?

  25-09-2023 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two years ago, the metaverse was billed as the next big thing - but many in the tech world have already moved on.
  
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• Eddie Jones: Australia sacking under-fire coach is 'the worst thing' they can do, says Stirling Mortlock

  25-09-2023 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sacking Eddie Jones would be "the worst thing" Australia could do despite their troubles at the Rugby World Cup, says former captain Stirling Mortlock.
  
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• Jermaine Jenas apologises after posting criticism about referee Rob Jones

  25-09-2023 17:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Football pundit Jermaine Jenas has apologised for criticising referee Rob Jones saying he "got it wrong".
  
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• Ajax v Feyenoord: Abandoned De Klassieker to be completed behind closed doors on Wednesday

  25-09-2023 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ajax's abandoned match at home to rivals Feyenoord will be completed behind closed doors on Wednesday, the Dutch FA confirm
  
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