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• Tributes paid to Berkshire newlyweds killed in Uganda terrorist attack

  18-10-2023 23:58 via theguardian.com
  
  David and Celia Barlow were married in South Africa on Saturday and were killed by a group linked to Islamic StateTributes have been paid to a couple who were killed on their honeymoon in Uganda in a “cowardly terrorist attack”.A British businessman, David Barlow, his wife Celia, a South African-born hotel executive, and their Ugandan guide were driving through the Queen Elizabeth national park on Tuesday when they were attacked and killed by a group linked to Islamic State. Continue
  
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• Mexico's AMLO to host multinational immigration summit with Latin American, Caribbean leaders

  18-10-2023 23:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Mexico’s president says the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Honduras will attend a summit on migration that Mexico will host Sunday. The four countries are among the biggest sources of migrants currently showing up at the U.S. border. BLINKEN, OTHER TOP OFFICIALS TO DISCUSS FENTANYL, TRAFFICKING, IMMIGRATION WITH MEXICAN COUNTERPARTS President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba a
  
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• Italy suspends open-border agreement with neighboring Slovenia

  18-10-2023 23:39 via foxnews.com
  
  Italy on Wednesday announced it will suspend an open-border agreement with neighboring Slovenia, citing an increased threat of terrorism in Europe due to violence in the Middle East. ITALIAN LAWMAKERS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVE $10.5M TO BUILD LONG-DELAYED HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IN ROME Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government said authorities in the northeastern border region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia had identified 16,000 people so far this year who had entered Italy illegally across the Slov
  
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• Sikkim India floods: 'I was holding mum's hand but flood water killed her'

  18-10-2023 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Indian state of Sikkim is still reeling from destruction caused by deadly flash floods on 4 October.
  
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• Jeremy Bowen: Joe Biden's search for a Middle East solution just got harder

  18-10-2023 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After the destruction of the Al-Ahli hospital, hopes for an end to the war are even fainter.
  
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• Inside an Israeli 'war room' on the volatile Lebanon border

  18-10-2023 20:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An all-female team of Israeli soldiers monitors cameras along Israel's volatile northern frontier.
  
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• Pakistani journalist's widow files wrongful death suit against elite Kenyan policing unit

  18-10-2023 20:33 via foxnews.com
  
  The widow of a prominent Pakistani journalist who was killed a year ago in Kenya filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against an elite Kenyan police unit she accuses of the wrongful death of her husband. Javeria Siddique said she filed the lawsuit in Nairobi to get justice for her husband Arshad Sharif, a well-known journalist in his home country Pakistan. Sharif was shot dead on October 23, 2022 by officers from Kenya's General Service Unit, according to Pakistani authorities. The officers involved in
  
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• Italian lawmakers unanimously approve $10.5M to build long-delayed Holocaust Museum in Rome

  18-10-2023 20:08 via foxnews.com
  
  Italian lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday to back a long-delayed project to build a Holocaust Museum in Rome, underlining the urgency of the undertaking following the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas fighters in what have been deemed the deadliest attacks on Jews since the Holocaust. The measure includes $10.5 million in funding over three years for construction of the exhibits, and 50,000 euros in annual operational funding to establish the museum, a project that was first envisioned n
  
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• World Food Program appeals for $19 million to aid Afghanistan following a series of powerful earthquakes

  18-10-2023 20:06 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Nations' World Food Program on Wednesday appealed for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan. Ana Maria Salhuana, deputy country director of the World Food Program in Afghanistan, said it was helping survivors but it urgently needed more funding because "we are having to take this food from an already severely underfunded program." The group said it i
  
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• Panic and confusion at scene of Gaza hospital blast

  18-10-2023 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People are still recovering body parts from the Al-Ahli Arab hospital, reports Rushdi Abu Alouf.
  
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• Israeli TV footage appears to show Gaza hospital blast came from Palestinian rocket

  18-10-2023 19:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli media shared footage from their own cameras that appears to show at least one rocket fired from Palestinians in Gaza falling short and landing on a hospital in their own territory. The footage, shared by Keshet 12 News, clearly shows multiple rockets launching toward Israel on Tuesday. Moments later, a blast is seen in Gaza midway along the rockets' trajectory. "This is proof of Israel's claims that it was actually missiles from the Gaza Strip that shot into the direction of the Alahali
  
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• 'Bargaining chips:' Famed UK special forces unit offers help to find Hamas hostages, report says

  18-10-2023 18:56 via foxnews.com
  
  Multiple international partners, including the United Kingdom, stand ready to assist Israeli forces to rescue hostages taken by Hamas during its terrorist attack on Oct. 7 and used as "bargaining chips," according to a report. "The way that Hamas is holding the hostages looks like they’ve scattered them over the territory of Gaza very widely," said Justin Crump, a military veteran and chief executive of security and intelligence group Sibylline. He argued that Western nations with str
  
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• Cambodian regime to jail opposition politician for 3 more years

  18-10-2023 18:52 via foxnews.com
  
  A leading Cambodian opposition politician who was sentenced last month to 18 months in prison on charges of issuing worthless checks was convicted and sentenced on Wednesday to three more years of imprisonment for alleged incitement to commit a felony and incitement to discriminate on the basis of race, religion or nationality. Presiding Judge Chhun Davy of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court also ordered Thach Setha, a vice president of the opposition Candlelight Party, to pay a 4 million riel ($1,0
  
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• Survivor of Hamas terrorists hid in a greenhouse for 16 hours with no food, water: 'I feel like I'm gonna die'

  18-10-2023 18:38 via foxnews.com
  
  On Oct. 7, 2023, at around 6:30 in the morning, a barrage of missiles bombarded Israel.  Around the same time, terrorists paraglided into a music festival for peace. Hundreds of attendees stood alongside friends and family members dancing, singing and celebrating life at an outdoor venue decorated with music and neon lights. Within minutes, hundreds of attendees were slaughtered by Hamas, an Iranian-backed terrorist group. Later that morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared
  
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• Alex Danzig: Fears grow for much-loved historian kidnapped by Hamas

  18-10-2023 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The abduction of Holocaust expert Alex Danzig has caused particular distress in Israel and Poland.
  
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• Israel faces blame from regional allies over Gaza hospital deaths

  18-10-2023 18:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Several Arab states condemn Israel for explosion, which it blames on failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic JihadIsrael and Hamas at war – live updatesIsrael is using media and diplomatic channels to try to convince leaders of Arab countries that Tuesday’s blast at a Gaza hospital was caused by a misfiring jihadist missile, after even its regional allies rushed to blame it for the explosion.Tuesday’s explosion, which killed hundreds, was blamed by Palestinian officials on
  
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• Egyptian president 'rejects' effort to push Palestinians to Egypt, warns it could jeopardize peace with Israel

  18-10-2023 17:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Wednesday said millions in his country are ready to protest in the streets if Palestinians are forced into Egypt, warning that such a move could turn it into a launchpad for "terrorist attacks" against Israel, jeopardizing peace between the two countries. The remarks came at a joint press conference in Cairo with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, during which El-Sisi said that his government views Israel’s siege on Gaza as a scheme to expel the Pales
  
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• Guatemalan Cabinet minister resigns following criticism over not forcefully combatting country’s protestors

  18-10-2023 17:43 via foxnews.com
  
  The sudden resignation of a Guatemalan Cabinet minister appears to signal a division within the administration of President Alejandro Giammattei over how to remove roadblocks by pro-democracy protesters that have stretched into a third week. Interior Minister Napoleón Barrientos, a retired brigadier general, resigned late Monday following a shooting near one of the roadblocks that killed one person and wounded two others. Barrientos had said publicly that he preferred to seek dialogue wit
  
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• Major South African coal plant fires back up as officials aim to ease mass power outages

  18-10-2023 17:19 via foxnews.com
  
  South African officials are hoping that the gradual recovery of one of the country's biggest coal-fired power stations will reduce crippling power blackouts. At least two units at the Kusile power station have been restored in the last three weeks, adding 1,600 megawatts to the national grid and reducing the rolling power blackouts, which can last up to 12 hours a day. The units have been out of service since they broke down in October last year, contributing significantly to the blackouts, know
  
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• Giant tortoise named Frank the Tank seeks new home for next 100 years

  18-10-2023 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Tortoise is ‘bigger than the platter you’d use to serve 24 people a Thanksgiving turkey’ and was found abandoned in a spinach patchFrank the Tank will chew through drywall and grow to the size of a wheelbarrow. He moves at his own meandering pace and will live for nearly a century – outlasting any prospective caregiver.Caring for a 35lb sulcata tortoise is no small task, which is perhaps why Frank was recently abandoned in a patch of spinach in British Columbia. The pligh
  
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• Pause for thought - Israel’s calculations before going into Gaza

  18-10-2023 16:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For days now Israel has been preparing to invade Gaza - but why hasn't it launched it yet?
  
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• Fire destroys Iowa wind turbine after emergency workers fail to reach top

  18-10-2023 16:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Emergency crews in Iowa did not have ladders tall enough to reach the top and put the fire out.
  
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• Palace of Versailles evacuated for third time this week amid terror threat spike

  18-10-2023 16:46 via foxnews.com
  
  The Palace of Versailles was evacuated for security reasons on Wednesday for the third time since the weekend, the former royal chateau said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. It was among a spate of evacuations in the past five days around France, including three airports that were also forced to close for security checks. The Chateau of Versailles apologized to visitors on X for being forced to clear out visitors from the sumptuous 17th-century palace "for security reasons." Three Fren
  
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• WATCH: Destruction after Gaza refugee camp hit by strikes

  18-10-2023 16:39 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Drone footage showed destruction at Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas enters its 11th day.
  
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• Biden says Israel not to blame for Gaza hospital blast, cites data 'shown by my defense department'

  18-10-2023 16:09 via foxnews.com
  
  President Biden revealed Wednesday that data he has seen from the U.S. Department of Defense has made him sure that Israel is not to blame for a blast at a hospital in the Gaza Strip that has left hundreds of people dead.  Biden said earlier that the explosion that rocked the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday -- which Hamas is claiming was the result of an Israeli airstrike – was "done by the other team."  When asked later Wednesday what made him so sure about that
  
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• What is Islamic Jihad, the Iran-funded terrorist group?

  18-10-2023 16:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel claimed that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an Islamic terrorist group based in Gaza, is responsible for the airstrike that claimed the lives of at least 500 Palestinians in a hospital in Gaza City.  Hamas immediately blamed Israel. In response, the Israeli military showed that, based on surveillance and an audio recording, a misfired rocket with intentions of targeting Tel Aviv from the Palestinian terrorist group caused the strike at al-Ahli Baptist hospital. Al-Ahli had hous
  
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• Singapore inspecting Credit Suisse, others in money laundering probe

  18-10-2023 15:58 via foxnews.com
  
  The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) plans to conduct an on-site inspection of a local unit of Credit Suisse to determine whether it properly handled the monitoring of wealthy clients after at least one of its customers was charged with money laundering, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. SINGAPORE POLICE INVESTIGATING MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME UNCOVER MORE GOLD BARS, LUXURY WATCHES Officials from Singapore's financial regulator will review documents and interview personnel from Credit Sui
  
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• US had over 180 risky interactions with Chinese aircraft over last 2 years, DOD warns

  18-10-2023 15:34 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Defense is telling the media that aircraft are experiencing an uptick in "coercive and risky" interactions with Chinese planes. DOD officials outlined the trend at a press conference Tuesday and provided newly declassified photos and videos of relevant incidents. "Since the fall of 2021, we have seen more than 180 such incidents," said Assistant Defense Secretary for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Ely Ratner. "More in the past two years than in the decade before that. That'
  
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• Man shot by police during Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests sentenced to almost 4 years in prison

  18-10-2023 15:26 via foxnews.com
  
  A Hong Kong man who was shot by police during pro-democracy protests in 2019 was sentenced Wednesday to 47 months in prison on charges of rioting, assaulting a police officer and perverting the course of justice, in the latest court ruling that severely punished participants in the anti-government movement. Tsang Chi-kin was the first known victim of police gunfire during the months-long protests beginning in June 2019. Then a secondary school student, he was shot at close range after he swung a
  
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• Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrested while protesting in London

  18-10-2023 15:21 via foxnews.com
  
  Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been arrested in the U.K. during a protest outside a gas and oil industry conference.  The Metropolitan Police force in London said Wednesday that the 20-year-old Swedish activist, who rose to international fame when she addressed a United Nations climate event in New York City, was among dozens of protesters charged amid a demonstration outside the luxury InterContinental Hotel during the Energy Intelligence Forum. She has been detained by police or remo
  
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• Pope Francis on Israel-Hamas war: 'I urge believers to take only one side in this conflict, that of peace'

  18-10-2023 15:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis on Wednesday is urging the world to take "only one side" in the Israel-Hamas war – the one "of peace" – as he called for a special day of prayer at the Vatican next week.  Francis, speaking to his weekly audience, said, "War does not solve any problem, it only sows death and destruction, increases hatred, multiplies revenge. War erases the future," according to Reuters.  "I urge believers to take only one side in this conflict, that of peace, but not with words
  
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• Iran shares chilling message for Israel after Gaza hospital explosion kills 500: 'Time is OVER'

  18-10-2023 15:01 via foxnews.com
  
  Iran’s foreign minister posted an ominous tweet on Wednesday that said time is "running out" for Israel. The post was made hours after a Hamas-run hospital in Gaza suffered an explosion that reportedly left hundreds dead. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian posted the tweet after Hamas blamed Israel for the blast at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where the Gaza health ministry said more than 500 were killed. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) denied attacking the hospital and has since investigated the bla
  
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• US-China chip war: Beijing unhappy at latest wave of US restrictions

  18-10-2023 13:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US is making it tougher for companies like Nvidia, AMD and Intel to sell existing or new chips to China.
  
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• Police department in New Jersey under investigation for possible civil rights violations

  18-10-2023 13:52 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation Tuesday into possible civil rights violations by the police department in New Jersey's capital city. The investigation in Trenton will focus on allegations that officers have used excessive force, stopped motorists and pedestrians without justification, and illegally searched homes and cars. "The public must have trust and confidence that police officers will treat them fairly and with respect," Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, of the
  
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• Jim Jordan loses first round of voting for new House speaker

  18-10-2023 13:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Wed, 18 Oct 2023 06:41:23 -0400[image]Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is gearing up for another vote in his bid to become speaker later on Wednesday morning.Jordan, the second GOP nominee to fill the role this month, fell 17 votes short of the 217 he needed to win Tuesday afternoon."We're gonna keep going. I've had great conversations, great discussions with our colleagues," Jordan said late Tuesday. "No one in our conference wants to see any type of coalition government with De
  
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• Florida cop charged for alleged sex acts with jaywalker in exchange for letting her go with no ticket

  18-10-2023 13:46 via foxnews.com
  
  A Florida police officer was arrested Tuesday after officials said he stopped a pedestrian and told her he would not cite her for jaywalking or charge her for sexual misconduct in exchange for sexual acts with him. Nicolas Paloma, 29, has been charged with sexual battery and false imprisonment, Clearwater Police Chief Eric Gandy said during a news conference. Paloma has been with the department since 2018. "I had to check myself before coming in here, because I'm exceptionally upset at the betra
  
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• WATCH: Netanyahu greets Biden as he arrives in Israel

  18-10-2023 13:41 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed President Joe Biden after Air Force One landed in Tel Aviv.
  
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• Xi gushes over 'dear friend' Putin as duo meet in China

  18-10-2023 13:32 via foxnews.com
  
  Sino-Russian relationships were at the forefront on Wednesday as the leaders of China and Russia met in Beijing for the first time since the Ukrainian invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Beijing, China, this week to meet with his closest ally on the world stage, Chinese President Xi Jinping. "The political mutual trust between the two countries is continuously deepening," Xi said, according to state media outlet Xinhua news agency. PUTIN, NETANYAHU SPEAK BY PHONE ON ISRAEL'S N
  
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• Glamour Women of the Year awards: Halle Bailey, America Ferrera and Lily Allen hit red carpet

  18-10-2023 13:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Little Mermaid actress was awarded the title at the Glamour Women of the Year awards.
  
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• In Gaza's crowded Khan Younis, 90 people live in one house

  18-10-2023 13:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A family have taken in friends and relatives to their home in southern Gaza while the Israeli air strikes continue.
  
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• United Nations to vote on resolution condemning Hamas attack and all violence against civilians

  18-10-2023 13:26 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution Wednesday that will condemn "the heinous terrorist attacks by Hamas" on Israel as well as all violence against civilians. The resolution also calls for "humanitarian pauses" to deliver desperately needed aid to millions of people who have been displaced in Gaza. Brazil holds the Security Council presidency this month and sponsored the Hamas-condemning resolution. Final edits on the resolution continued throughout Tuesday. Th
  
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• Belgian police kill Tunisian man suspected of killing 2 Swedish soccer fans

  18-10-2023 13:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in the Belgian capital shot and killed a Tunisian national on Tuesday hours after they say he gunned down three Swedish soccer fans, killing two of them, and posted a video online in which he claimed credit for the attack and said the Quran was "a red line for which he is ready to sacrifice himself." Investigators are still trying to determine the motive for Monday night's attack, which happened not far from where Belgium's men's soccer team was hosting Sweden in a European Champions
  
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• Berlin synagogue targeted with Molotov cocktails in what Jewish group is calling a 'terrorist attack'

  18-10-2023 13:23 via foxnews.com
  
  A synagogue in Berlin has reportedly been targeted Wednesday by individuals who threw two Molotov cocktails at it in what a German Jewish group is calling a "terrorist attack."  The incident at the Kahal Adass Jisroel community drew a strong condemnation from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who said, "We will never accept when attacks are carried out against Jewish institutions."  "Unknown persons threw two Molotov cocktails from the street," Kahal Adass Jisroel wrote on X.Police s
  
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• Florida man dies following road rage shooting, deputies searching for unknown suspect

  18-10-2023 13:10 via foxnews.com
  
  A Florida man died Tuesday evening after suffering critical wounds in an earlier road rage shooting as deputies search for the unidentified suspect, authorities said. Kevin Berry, 58, was taken off life support and declared dead days after he was found lying in the middle of the road on the I-4 off-ramp to U.S. Highway 27 in Davenport on Sunday, FOX35 Orlando reported. Berry, of Altamonte Springs, was on his way to work as a truck driver for a private contractor just after 2 a.m. when a witness
  
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• Justice Department appeals sentences for Proud Boys already to serve decade plus over Jan. 6 Capitol riot

  18-10-2023 13:07 via foxnews.com
  
  The Justice Department on Monday appealed the sentences for five Proud Boys leaders, including leader Enrique Tarrio, who had been hit with the Civil War-era charge of seditious conspiracy in connection to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, arguing the prison times given are significantly shorter than what prosecutors asked for.  U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Tarrio, the former Proud Boys national leader, and three lieutenants to prison terms ranging from 15 to 22 years afte
  
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• Greta Thunberg charged following Fossil Free London protest

  18-10-2023 13:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The climate campaigner is accused of breaching the Public Order Act at a demonstration in London.
  
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• Biden says Israel innocent in hospital attack, GOP senators seek to freeze Iran's funds and more top headlines

  18-10-2023 13:05 via foxnews.com
  
  ‘DONE BY OTHER TEAM’ – Biden says Israel not to blame for rocket attack on Gaza hospital that left 500 dead. Continue reading … MONEY TALKS – Choir of GOP senators introduce bills to refreeze $6B in Iranian assets. Continue reading … HOUSE IN CHAOS – House gears up for second speaker vote as Jordan navigates rocky path. Continue reading … NIGHTMARE NEIGHBORS – Residents angry after squatters run riot in community, bring in prostitutes, dr
  
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• Biden backs Israel's account of deadly Gaza hospital blast

  18-10-2023 13:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Israeli and Palestinian officials have blamed each other for the explosion in which hundreds may have died.
  
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• Clemson's Dabo Swinney criticizes percentage of fans who bring negativity: 'They're part of the problem'

  18-10-2023 13:02 via foxnews.com
  
  It is not going to be a dream season for Dabo Swinney and the Clemson Tigers. Clemson started the season with a surprising loss to Duke, won two in a row and then came up short against then-No. 4 Florida State. While a College Football Playoff spot probably is not in the cards, Clemson is likely to do more than enough to be bowl eligible and keep fans in the seats. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Swinney welcomed the adversity and took issue with how the praise only seemed to
  
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• Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia

  18-10-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Forest fires leave Manaus with second worst air quality in the world, while low river levels cut off communitiesA withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and rivers at the lowest levels in 121 years.The city of 1 million people, which is surrounded by a forest of trees, normally basks under blue skies. Tourists take pleasure boats to the nearby meeting of the Negro and Amazon (known locally as the Solim&o
  
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