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• How St Patrick’s says it was tricked into hosting trans activist funeral, why it held Mass of Reparation

  18-02-2024 23:58 via foxnews.com
  
  New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral said it was tricked in hosting a controversial funeral for a transgender activist on Thursday and performed a rare Mass of Reparation as a result.The funeral was for Cecilia Gentili, an Argentinian-born atheist and activist who advocated for the trans community as well as sex workers and HIV/AIDs patients.The event drew more than 1,000 mourners who stoked the ire of the Catholic community for what many regarded as their rowdy and "scandalous" b
  
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• Colorado police identify 2 killed in college dorm shooting

  18-02-2024 23:55 via foxnews.com
  
  Two people found dead inside a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus dorm room on Friday have been identified by police, after revealing the incident appears to be isolated and is being investigated as a homicide, not a murder-suicide.The Colorado Springs Police Department, on Sunday, identified the victims as 24-year-old Samuel Knopp of Parker, Colorado, and 26-year-old Celie Rain Montgomery of Pueblo, Colorado.Knopp, police added, was enrolled at the university as a student while M
  
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• Maritime authorities investigate reported attack on UK-registered cargo ship near Yemen

  18-02-2024 23:50 via theguardian.com
  
  UK Maritime Trade Operations says military authorities exploring apparent explosion near vesselThe UK is investigating reports that a cargo ship has come under attack off the coast of Yemen, after an apparent explosion close to the vessel on Sunday.Following the reports of damage to the vessel, the UK Maritime Trade Operations said: “Military authorities are investigating. UKMTO has received a report of an incident 35 NM [nautical miles] south of Al Mukha, Yemen. Continue reading...
  
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• Michael J Fox brings people to tears in Baftas surprise appearance

  18-02-2024 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The actor, who lives with Parkinson's disease, got up from his wheelchair to present best film award.
  
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• Kremlin accused of ‘covering tracks’ as whereabouts of Alexei Navalny’s body remain uncertain

  18-02-2024 23:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Outrage over jailed opposition leader’s death grows with detention of over 350 people in Russia who attended vigilsAlexei Navalny – obituaryAlexei Navalny’s allies have accused the Kremlin of “covering their tracks” as, two days after the imprisoned opposition leader’s death in custody, uncertainty continued to surround the whereabouts of his body and what it may reveal about how he died.Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, and his lawyer travelled over
  
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• Rangers honor FDNY, NYPD with jerseys while arriving in firetrucks, police cars before Stadium Series game

  18-02-2024 23:27 via foxnews.com
  
  The New York Rangers decided to arrive in New York style at MetLife Stadium ahead of their Stadium Series game against the New York Islanders on Sunday afternoon.The Rangers arrived in East Rutherford, New Jersey, accompanied by members of the FDNY and NYPD while wearing jerseys for each first responders’ hockey clubs.Each player walking into the arena was next to either an NYPD officer or FDNY firefighter after traveling to the game on firetrucks and in police cars.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPO
  
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• Shakira releasing new music following tax fraud case

  18-02-2024 23:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Shakira revealed her 12th studio album will hit shelves next month, nearly seven years after the release of her last catalog.The "Whenever, Wherever" singer announced a March 22 release date for "Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women Don't Cry Anymore)" on Instagram.Shakira's latest work debuts months after she took a plea deal and admitted to multiple counts of failing to pay the Spanish government 14.5 million euros (about $15.8 million) in taxes between 2012-14. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, SHAKI
  
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• Minnesota shooting: 2 police officers, paramedic killed responding to Burnsville domestic call identified

  18-02-2024 23:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Two police officers and a paramedic who were shot and killed in Burnsville, Minnesota on Sunday morning have been identified by city officials. The city said a gunman killed police officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge and firefighter-paramedic Adam Finseth.According to the city, just before 2 a.m., officers responded to a domestic situation where an armed man was reportedly barricaded inside a home with family members. Drew Evans, Superintendent at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal
  
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• Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko booed at Worlds in Qatar after winning silver medal

  18-02-2024 23:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko won a silver medal in the 400-meter medley at the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar on Sunday but didn’t receive a warm reception on the podium when she received her prize.Gorbenko, the 20-year-old from Haifa, Israel, faced boos from the crowd in Doha as she was making poolside comments after the race.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"I’m just so happy to be here and represent my country in this hard time," she said. "Being here
  
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• Baftas 2024 highlights: The big winners... in two minutes

  18-02-2024 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Laughter and tears for winners at the Bafta Awards 2024 in London.
  
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• Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao denied exemption to participate in 2024 Summer Olympics

  18-02-2024 23:02 via foxnews.com
  
  Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao wanted to participate in this year’s Summer Olympics, but the International Olympic Committee has let him know he’s been denied to represent the Philippines. Pacquaio, 45, needed an exemption from the IOC to participate because the age limit for boxers is 40. But the IOC sent him a letter denying his request for the exemption. It was also reported the Philippines themselves tried to get a "universality" entry, which is given directly to the Olym
  
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• Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib tells fellow Democrats: reject Biden in primary

  18-02-2024 22:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Michigan representative tells state voters to pick ‘uncommitted’ option over White House support for Israel’s strikes on GazaThe progressive US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has called on her fellow Michigan Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the state’s presidential primary election – at the expense of the party’s incumbent, Joe Biden – in late February.Appearing in a video posted to X on Saturday by Listen to Michigan, a political campaign to
  
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• Oppenheimer's Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr scoop Bafta Film Awards

  18-02-2024 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr and Christopher Nolan all win Bafta Film Awards for Oppenheimer.
  
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• ‘Oppenheimer’ wins seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards

  18-02-2024 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Atom bomb epic “Oppenheimer” has won seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards.
  
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• Joel Osteen preaches about living without fear in first Sunday service at Lakewood Church since shooting

  18-02-2024 22:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  HOUSTON — Joel Osteen preached about living without fear in the first Sunday service at his Lakewood Church since a shooting last week that left a child in critical condition and a man injured.
  
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• Teen at Indiana car wash sprays rude customer with water after lemonade thrown at her

  18-02-2024 22:14 via foxnews.com
  
  A teen in Indiana is going viral after she defended herself against a rude customer who threw lemonade in her face inside a car wash.The video shows Anna Harycki, 18, spraying water from a powerful hose through the open window of a rude customer’s vehicle while working at a car wash.The 14-second clip shows Harycki power-washing a white sedan when the driver suddenly rolls down her window and chucks lemonade from a plastic cup at her.In response, Harycki swiftly retaliates, without mi
  
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• Israeli swimmer Gorbenko booed at world championships as GB’s Colbert wins gold

  18-02-2024 22:05 via theguardian.com
  
  20-year-old won silver in 400m individual medleyJeers were partially drowned out by cheers and applauseIsraeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko was jeered by some of the crowd after finishing second in the women’s 400m medley on the closing day of the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar on Sunday.The 20-year-old Gorbenko was being interviewed after the race when the jeers rang out at the Aspire Dome in Doha. She smiled and then sighed when she was booed again, this time as she mounted the podi
  
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• 2 officers, 1 first responder killed responding to domestic violence call in Minnesota; shooter also dead

  18-02-2024 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two police officers and a first responder were killed in Burnsville, Minnesota, responding to “a call of a family in danger” Sunday morning, according Minnesota Gov.
  
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• US and UK ambassadors to Russia lay Navalny tributes

  18-02-2024 21:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Diplomats in Moscow pay their respects to the Russian opposition leader who died in prison on Friday.
  
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• Ronald Reagan’s daughter says he would be ‘appalled’ by current political tenor

  18-02-2024 20:54 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘He didn’t understand lack of civility. He didn’t understand attacking another person,’ says Patti Davis of former US presidentThe daughter of former president Ronald Reagan has hit out at contemporary White House politics, saying she thinks her late father would be “appalled” by the personal tenor of current political discourse.“I think he’d be appalled … it was just more civilized,” Patti Davis told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sund
  
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• New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’

  18-02-2024 20:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being ‘mother of all whores’The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York City has condemned a funeral service for the transgender activist Cecilia Gentili at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral after congregants cheered her for being celebrated as “the mother of all whores”.The packed funeral – organisers reported 1,400 mourners – took place on Thursday, 10 days a
  
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• Biden’s allies are stepping forward to vouch for him amid age questions

  18-02-2024 19:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden’s approach to deflecting questions about his age has pivoted from “watch me” to vouch for me.
  
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• Baftas red carpet in pictures: Stars turn on style at British film awards

  18-02-2024 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Big names from films like Barbie, Oppenheimer and Saltburn step out at the British awards ceremony.
  
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• US man sues Powerball lottery after being told his apparent $340m win was error

  18-02-2024 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Game’s administrators said their website only showed John Cheeks’s numbers as the winning combination by mistakeA man who thought he had won a $340m Powerball jackpot is suing the lottery after the game’s administrators said their website only showed his numbers as the winning combination by mistake.Washington DC resident John Cheeks purchased a Powerball lottery ticket at the center of the dispute on 6 January 2023. Although Cheeks did not see the Powerball drawing the followi
  
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• New York governor seeks to quell business owners’ fears after Trump ruling

  18-02-2024 18:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Kathy Hochul says law-abiding businesspeople have ‘nothing to worry about’ after question on state’s commercial climateThe New York governor has told business owners in her state that there is “nothing to worry about” after Donald Trump was fined $355m and temporarily banned from engaging in commerce in the state when he lost his civil fraud trial Friday.In an interview on the New York radio show the Cats Roundtable with the supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis
  
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• What next for Putin? After Navalny’s death, many fear what leader will move on to

  18-02-2024 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  With Ukraine retreating and western sanctions having little impact, the Russian president is growing bolder and may embark on more reckless moves Vladimir Putin smiled and looked unusually festive on Friday as he praised factory workers and joked with state reporters at an industrial plant in the Ural city of Chelyabinsk.Putin’s confidence was unmistakable – a sign of his full belief that he would get away with the death that day of his biggest critic in jail while outlasting Ukraine
  
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• Rep. Jim Clyburn: Biden ‘feels about the way I feel’ that Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘leadership is not good for Israel’

  18-02-2024 18:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rep. Jim Clyburn said Sunday that President Joe Biden “feels about the way I feel” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “leadership is not good for Israel.”
  
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• Israel-Gaza war: Relief and guilt after Gazans find safety in Egypt

  18-02-2024 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tala Abu Nahla and her family have finally made it to Cairo - now the work to rebuild their lives begins.
  
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• Gaza doctors: ‘We leave patients to scream for hours and hours’

  18-02-2024 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Doctors in Gaza say the healthcare system is broken and they are operating on people without anaesthetic.
  
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• Gang of alleged armed robbers in their 60s and 70s arrested in Italy

  18-02-2024 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Six were known to Rome’s criminal underworld for tenacity in carrying outburglaries at post officesA gang of six alleged robbers in their 60s and 70s known in Rome’s criminal underworld for their tenacity in carrying out a series of armed burglaries at post offices in the city have been arrested by police in Italy.The gang’s leaders were 70-year-old Italo De Witt, nicknamed “the German”, who became renowned in the mid-1990s after a sophisticated heist of a bank near
  
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• Palestinian factions to meet in Moscow as west rejects Hamas role in ruling Gaza after war

  18-02-2024 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Palestinian Authority ‘ready to engage’, says prime minister ahead of talks on formation of new Gaza governmentWestern powers have rejected suggestions that Hamas as an entity can be allowed a role in governing Gaza at the end of the war, saying only that they recognise that Palestinian militancy will still exist.Speculation that a weakened Hamas might be willing to form a partnership with the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, and govern Gaza and the West Bank jointly, have been reviv
  
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• Hillary Clinton warns Trump will seek to withdraw U.S. from NATO if elected

  18-02-2024 17:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Saturday that former President Donald Trump will seek to withdraw the U.S. from NATO if he wins a second term in the White House.
  
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• Rain pushes Daytona 500 to Monday in first outright postponement since 2012

  18-02-2024 17:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  NASCAR has postponed the season-opening Daytona 500 until Monday because of two days of rain at Daytona International Speedway.
  
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• Middle East crisis: Nasser hospital in Gaza ‘not functional’, says WHO chief; US likely to veto UN vote calling for ceasefire – as it happened

  18-02-2024 17:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Hospital in Khan Younis no longer functional due to Israeli forces’ ‘week-long siege’; US ambassador to UN says text could jeopardise negotiationsIsrael’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said his government would vote on a “declaratory decision” regarding Israel’s opposition to any unilateral imposition of Palestinian statehood, Reuters reports.Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting that the move comes after “recent talk in t
  
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• Ronald Reagan’s daughter: Cognitive tests for president would ‘probably be a good idea’

  18-02-2024 16:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  The daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, who was the oldest president ever elected when he assumed office, on Sunday endorsed the idea of cognitive tests for presidential candidates.
  
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• German space commander warns Russian nuclear weapon could destroy 'global commons': 'Nobody would survive'

  18-02-2024 15:42 via foxnews.com
  
  The commander of German Space Command, Maj. Gen. Michael Traut, said a Russian nuclear weapon detonating in orbit could permanently destroy "global commons." Speaking at an event Friday night on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Traut said he was left with "more questions than answers" regarding U.S. intelligence reportedly indicating that Russia is developing an anti-satellite weapon in space with a nuclear component. Traut spelled out the consequences of a worst-case s
  
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• Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India

  18-02-2024 15:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Controversy in West Bengal centres around Akbar and Sita, named for a Hindu deity, being placed in the same enclosureAn Indian Hindu nationalist organisation has launched a court petition to stop two lions named after a Hindu deity and a 16th-century Muslim emperor from sharing a zoo enclosure.Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a prominent rightwing Hindu organisation, went to court in the state of West Bengal after reports a lioness named Sita had been put with a lion called Akbar. Continue reading..
  
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• France should return much more looted African art, film-maker says

  18-02-2024 14:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Mati Diop, the director of Dahomey, which charts the restitution of 26 objects to Benin, says the tiny number involved is ‘humiliating’The first major return of looted treasures from Europe to Africa in the 21st century has left a lingering feeling of humiliation because of the lack of follow-up action, a French-Senegalese film-maker who accompanied a hoard of artefacts on their journey from Paris to their country of origin has said.In her film Dahomey, which premiered at the Berlin
  
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• Young adults are getting used to living on a financial cliff

  18-02-2024 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Many young adults are pulling in bigger paychecks, but much of their spending power is going to short-term purchases like groceries and vacations, not savings.
  
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• A popular gun influencer conspired to illegally import machine guns. He still has a home on YouTube.

  18-02-2024 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Gun influencer Larry Vickers faces possible prison time after he pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to import machine guns. Online, his star hasn’t fallen.
  
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• British Museum’s Instagram flooded with calls to return Easter Island statue

  18-02-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Chilean social media users target institution, forcing it at one point to close comments on postsThe British Museum is tackling an influx of social media trolls from Chile, who have flooded the museum’s Instagram posts calling for the return of a moai statue, one of the stone monuments from Easter Island.The museum has two moai, which were taken from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by British surveyors in 1868, and there have been longstanding demands for the British to return them to Rapa Nui, w
  
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• Over 400 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny

  18-02-2024 12:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Over 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported.
  
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• Australian show jumper under review for competing in mankini

  18-02-2024 12:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australian three-time Olympic medallist Shane Rose is stood down from competition for wearing a mankini during a show jumping event.
  
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• This prominent conservative activist helped oust Ronna McDaniel at the RNC. Now the knives are out for him.

  18-02-2024 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Charlie Kirk's antics — including attacks on Martin Luther King Jr., Black pilots and Taylor Swift — have caused a rift in Trump world.
  
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• Nicolaus Copernicus: The man who stopped the sun and moved the Earth

  18-02-2024 12:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Frombork is a small, quiet town perched on the shore of the Vistula Lagoon in northern Poland. Fishermen keep their boats in a cozy port. In the summer, a ferry shuttles passengers across the bay to the narrow slip of land called the Vistula Split, famous for white sandy beaches on the Baltic Sea coast. Up on a hill, overlooking the bay, sits an impressive medieval cathedral and castle complex constructed entirely of red brick. These days, life goes on at a slow pace in picturesqu
  
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• F1 testing - Verstappen quickest so far on day one in Bahrain

  18-02-2024 11:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Follow live text commentary from day one of 2024 pre-season testing at the Bahrain International Circuit.
  
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• Hostage release negotiations possible through ‘strong military action,’ Netanyahu says

  18-02-2024 11:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hostage release negotiations possible through ‘strong military action,’ Netanyahu says
  
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• Are US nuclear weapons set to return to RAF Lakenheath?

  18-02-2024 07:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prospect of nuclear weapons being stored in Suffolk causes concern that they could become a target.
  
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• Donald Trump launches own-brand shoes after $355m fraud fine

  18-02-2024 07:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ex-president promoted gold-coloured shoes priced at $399 at a sneaker convention in Philadelphia.
  
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• Bafta 2024 nominations: The full list of film contenders

  18-02-2024 04:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Oppenheimer and Poor Things are the leading contenders for this year's British Academy Film Awards.
  
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