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• Greek police officer busted on duty with 225 pounds of marijuana

  15-03-2024 21:53 via foxnews.com
  
  A police officer on patrol duty in northwestern Greece was arrested on drugs charges Friday for allegedly using his service car to smuggle marijuana, authorities said.The suspect was detained in the port town of Igoumenitsa following a road chase, together with an Albanian man found to be riding in the unmarked police vehicle.COLOMBIAN DRUG LORD ARRESTED IN TEXASA search of the car uncovered 225 pounds of marijuana, a police statement said.It said the detained officer ignored his colleagues' ord
  
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• US frees up billions in sanctions relief to Iran as Tehran proxies wreak havoc in region

  15-03-2024 21:35 via foxnews.com
  
  White House national security advisor John Kirby on Friday said the funds from a sanction waiver extended this week by the Biden administration to permit Iraq to purchase energy from Iran will not go to its "mullahs." "None of this money goes to the mullahs. None of this money goes into Tehran. The sanctions relief that is provided actually goes to vendors that provide humanitarian assistance to the Iranian people," he told Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, during a Friday
  
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• Congo bringing back death penalty as violence, militant attacks surge

  15-03-2024 21:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Congo has lifted a more than two-decade-old moratorium on the death penalty as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant attacks in the country, according to a justice ministry statement released on Friday.The statement, dated earlier this week, said the ban from 2003 allowed offenders accused of treason and espionage to get away without proper punishment.Eastern Congo has been riddled by conflict for decades, linked to more than 120 armed groups fighting for land and power and in some
  
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• Bolsonaro laid out plan for Brazil coup after defeat by Lula, ex-commanders say

  15-03-2024 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Testimony contained in documents released by supreme court details alleged plot to overturn result of 2022 Brazilian electionBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro presented top military officials with a plan to carry out a coup d’état after his defeat in the October 2022 election, two former commanders have told the police, according to newly released judicial documents.In testimonies made public on Friday, former army commander Marco Antônio Freire Gomes and former a
  
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• Belarus hits Catholic activist with 3-year prison sentence for insulting Lukashenko

  15-03-2024 20:27 via foxnews.com
  
  A Catholic activist in Belarus was handed a three-year prison sentence Friday on charges that Western diplomats have denounced as politically driven, the latest move in the authorities' sweeping crackdown on the country's civil society.Uladzislau Beladzed, 33, who taught the catechism at the city’s Cathedral of the Holy Name of the Saint Virgin Mary, was convicted on charges of insulting the president and inciting social discord.Beladzed actively participated in protests sparked by a 2020
  
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• Biden says Schumer made ‘good speech’ in breaking with Benjamin Netanyahu

  15-03-2024 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  President also condemns US surge in Islamophobia in comments that could portend broader shift in sentiment towards Gaza warJoe Biden on Friday said Senator Chuck Schumer made “a good speech” that reflected many Americans’ concerns when he publicly broke with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, over his handling of the war in Gaza.While the US president announced no changes in his administration’s policy towards Israel, his views on the speech Schumer made Thur
  
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• ‘I saw many people suffer’: former Del Monte Kenya guards speak of violence on pineapple farm

  15-03-2024 20:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Former guards tell of clashes on farm that is facing civil claims over allegations of killing, rape and beatingsFormer security guards at a vast Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya have for the first time described violent clashes between guards and thieves at the plantation, which is facing civil claims over allegations of killing, rape and beatings by its guards.This month Del Monte announced it would outsource its security operations at the farm to G4S, sacking its 214 in-house guard
  
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• Croatia schedules April 17 election for new parliament

  15-03-2024 20:05 via foxnews.com
  
  Croatia will hold a parliamentary election on April 17, the country's president said on Friday.President Zoran Milanovic scheduled the parliamentary vote after Croatia's parliament dissolved on Thursday.The ballot next month will pit the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union against a group of centrist and left-leaning parties who have announced they will run as an alliance.CROATIA DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT AHEAD OF ELECTION SEASONJust hours after setting the election date, Milanovic announce
  
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• Protests in north-west Syria mark 13 years since start of fight for democracy

  15-03-2024 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Rallies take place in Idlib region, held by rebels against Bashar al-Assad, whose repression sparked civil war in 2011Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Syria’s rebel-held north-west to mark 13 years since pro-democracy protests swept the country, chanting against President Bashar al-Assad and the region’s jihadist rulers.The government’s brutal suppression of the 2011 uprising triggered a civil war that has killed more than half a million people, drawn in foreign
  
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• 10 charged in theft of some 43,000 state decorations in Serbia

  15-03-2024 19:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Ten people are facing charges in Serbia for stealing as many as 43,000 state decorations of honor from a government building, prosecutors said on Friday.TOP STATE DEPT. OFFICIAL WORRIES KOSOVO CURRENCY BAN COULD CAUSE 'HUMANITARIAN CRISIS' FOR SERB MINORITYThe suspects colluded to carry out a "grave theft of state property" from the awards office, which is located in a Communist-era administration headquarters in a new part of Belgrade, said a statement from the public prosecutor's office.The sp
  
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• German, French and Polish leaders make joint show of unity over Ukraine

  15-03-2024 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Military powers agree to step up purchase of ammunition for Kyiv in effort to dampen mutual tensions over Russia stanceIn an ostentatious show of unity designed to ease the tensions between France and Germany over the threat posed by a resurgent Russia, leaders of Europe’s three leading military powers agreed to step up the worldwide purchase of ammunition for Ukraine and improve their offer of long-range artillery.The hastily arranged meeting in Berlin between France, Germany and Poland d
  
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• Russian missile attack on Odesa kills at least 20 people

  15-03-2024 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 75 injured in Black Sea city during deadliest attack on Ukrainian civilian area in weeksUkraine war – live updatesA Russian ballistic missile attack has killed at least 20 people and injured more than 75 in the Black Sea city of Odesa, Ukrainian officials have said.President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia would receive a “fair response” from Ukrainian forces for what he said was a “vile” strike on a city that has been attacked by Russian drones or missile
  
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• Canada conducts national security review of Chinese-owned TikTok

  15-03-2024 18:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Industry minister says review of popular video app that is planning to expand in country has been ongoing since September 2023Canada is conducting a national security review of Chinese-owned TikTok’s proposed expansion of the popular video app in the country, the industry minister, François-Philippe Champagne, said on Friday.In a teleconference from Italy after meeting with his G7 counterparts, Champagne said the review under the Investment Canada Act had been quietly initiated in S
  
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• McDonald’s hit by ‘technology outage’ in UK, Australia, Japan and China

  15-03-2024 18:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Fast food chain working to resolve problem but denies it has been hit by cybersecurity attackMcDonald’s restaurants in multiple countries including the UK and Australia have been hit by a “technology outage”, which the fast food chain denied had been caused by a cybersecurity attack.Australia, the UK, Japan and China were among the markets where services were affected, with restaurant, drive-through and online orders hit. Continue reading...
  
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• North Korean defectors expose human rights violations to United Nations, ask for further investigation

  15-03-2024 18:01 via foxnews.com
  
  North Korean defectors spoke at a U.N. event in Geneva on Friday to expose human rights violations in a country one of them described as "hell" and to advocate for a strengthened U.N. mandate to investigate and document them.The defectors came to the U.N. in Geneva where diplomats say the U.N. Human Rights Council will consider an EU-led motion to boost scrutiny by providing an update to a landmark 2014 report that found grave abuses constituting crimes against humanity.Kim, a 33-year-old escape
  
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• EU approves watered-down human rights and supply chain law

  15-03-2024 17:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Revised corporate sustainability directive, first agreed in December, draws criticism from environmental campaignersEU countries have slashed the scope of a law to make companies hunt down human rights abuse and environmental harm in their supply chains.The EU’s corporate sustainability directive, which was agreed in December but nearly scuttled after a minor coalition partner in the German government withdrew its support, was approved by member states on Friday after a month-long search f
  
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• Blinken calls for increased global cooperation to police synthetic drugs as worldwide overdose rates rise

  15-03-2024 17:45 via foxnews.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called for greater international cooperation to fight the booming trafficking of illicit synthetic drugs such as fentanyl, the leading cause of overdose deaths in America.He was speaking at an annual meeting of the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), which reviews global drug regulation and each year adds new so-called precursor chemicals - ingredients used to make illicit drugs - to international lists known as schedules to place strict cont
  
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• Israel's ‘sworn enemy’ Hezbollah tells Iran it would fight alone if conflict escalates

  15-03-2024 17:27 via foxnews.com
  
  With ally Hamas under attack in Gaza, the head of Iran's Quds Force visited Beirut in February to discuss the risk posed if Israel next aims at Lebanon's Hezbollah, an offensive that could severely hurt Tehran's main regional partner, seven sources said.In Beirut, Quds chief Esmail Qaani met Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the sources said, for at least the third time since Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel and Israel's devastating retaliatory assault on Gaza.The conversa
  
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• Violence in Syria rises, aid dries up as civil war begins 14th year

  15-03-2024 17:12 via foxnews.com
  
  For years, Syria’s civil war has been a largely frozen conflict, the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of President Bashar Assad, various opposition groups and Syrian Kurdish forces.But as the conflict entered its 14th year on Friday, observers say violence has been on the rise again while the world’s attention is mostly focused on other crises, such as Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.In the village of
  
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• Subway brawl sees man shot in head with own gun, passengers run for cover

  15-03-2024 17:07 via foxnews.com
  
  Dramatic video has captured a violent fight breaking out on a New York City subway on Thursday where the agitator ended up getting shot in the head as terrified bystanders scrambled for cover. The wild video, taken by a straphanger aboard a northbound A train, shows two men trading punches as the train entered the Hoyt Schermerhorn subway station in Downtown Brooklyn at around 4:45 p.m. It is unclear what sparked the initial argument between the pair. The incident comes just days after Gov.
  
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• NFL investigating Falcons, Eagles for possible tampering violations after Kirk Cousins, Saquon Barkley deals

  15-03-2024 17:06 via foxnews.com
  
  The NFL is investigating the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles for potential tampering violations after comments from quarterback Kirk Cousins and Saquon Barkley’s former college coach raised concerns about possible discussions between the players and their respective organizations before the legal period allowed. Penn State head coach James Franklin suggested in comments made earlier this week that Eagles general manager Howie Roseman had made a sales pitch to Barkley directly,
  
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• Cruise ship passenger accused of exposing himself, propositioning 14-year-old in sauna

  15-03-2024 17:06 via foxnews.com
  
  Florida police arrested a cruise ship passenger after he allegedly exposed himself and propositioned a teen boy in the vessel's sauna. Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas was sailing in international waters on Tuesday when Anish Shan of Columbus, Georgia, approached a 14-year-old boy around 7 p.m., according to an arrest report obtained by Local 10.Shan, 21, allegedly asked the boy how old he was – after learning how old he was, Miami-Dade Police said in the report, Shan "started t
  
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• Judge's 'disjointed' ruling in Fani Willis case raises more questions, 'avoids the cliff problem,' Turley says

  15-03-2024 17:02 via foxnews.com
  
  Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley argued a Georgia judge's decision to leave Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the Trump election case, if she parts ways with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, will only lead to additional questions. The constitutional scholar addressed Judge Scott McAfee's decision during "America's Newsroom" Friday, explaining that the judge avoided having to remove Willis' office from the case entirely. SPECIAL ATTORNEY HIRED BY FANI WILLIS TO HELP PROSECUTE
  
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• Mom hosts hair school for dads who need help perfecting their daughters’ braids and other styles

  15-03-2024 17:01 via foxnews.com
  
  A mom of two is making it her mission to ensure that young girls in her neighborhood never have a bad hair day. Sarah Eaton is a hairstylist from Armadale, Scotland, who recently started a hair workshop business due to demand in her town. Eaton said the idea came to her when she was struggling to create French braids for her two daughters, Ella and Aisling, when they needed Halloween costume wigs, SWNS reported.MOM'S VIDEO OF HER HUSBAND IN A TUTU AT DAUGHTER'S DANCE RECITAL HITS ALL T
  
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• Pope acknowledges health problems and backlash, but says he isn't going anywhere in new memoir

  15-03-2024 16:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so, saying in a new memoir he still has "many projects to bring to fruition."Francis, 87, made the comments in an autobiography, "Life: My Story Through History," which is being published Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of his installation as pope. Extensive excerpts were published Thursday in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.In the memoir, written with Italian journalist Fa
  
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• Netanyahu approves Rafah ground invasion, despite Biden opposition

  15-03-2024 16:56 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel will commence an invasion into the Gaza city of Rafah, despite protests from the United States and other international powers.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced approval of the operation via his office on Friday.The Israeli Defense Force will invade the city in southern Gaza as part of its larger military operations in the region. NETANYAHU VOWS TO INVADE RAFAH REGARDLESS OF POTENTIAL CEASE-FIRE WITH HAMAS: 'IT WILL HAPPEN'The operation will reportedly include an eva
  
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• Republicans hammer Judge McAfee's ruling in Fani Willis case, calling it 'election interference'

  15-03-2024 16:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Congressional Republicans criticized the latest ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, in which he refused to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis, calling it "lawfare," a term used to describe a governing party's wielding the law as a strategic weapon – and alleging "election interference" against former President Trump. "The Atlanta prosecution – like the others – is a political hatchet job aimed at salvaging Joe Biden’s campaign. This law
  
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• Wall Street veteran Marty Dolan explains why he’s running to unseat AOC: ‘Enough is enough’

  15-03-2024 16:52 via foxnews.com
  
  Veteran Wall Street Investor Marty Dolan explained to Fox News on Friday why he is running to unseat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in her New York district, telling Fox News Channel anchor Lawrence Jones that her policies have led to New Yorkers feeling unsafe.When asked why he’s running, Dolan held up the cover of the New York Post and read its large letters, "HELL RIDE." The article explained how dangerous riding the city’s subway system has become due to rampant crim
  
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• Senegal's opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to address supporters after months in prison

  15-03-2024 16:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Senegal's top opposition leader was expected to address supporters on Friday in his first public speech, hours after being released from prison and ahead of the country’s March 24 election in which he has been barred from running.Ousmane Sonko’s release late on Thursday night, after months behind bars, triggered a mix of jubilation and political uncertainty on the streets of the capital, Dakar. His supporters are waiting to see whether authorities will reverse their decision and allo
  
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• Georgia judge tosses key witness’ testimony against Fani Willis, citing ‘inconsistencies’: court order

  15-03-2024 16:50 via foxnews.com
  
  A Georgia judge on Friday said that District Attorney Fani Willis can continue prosecuting the case against former President Trump if she removes her ex-lover from her legal team, after deciding he could put no "stock" in a key witness’ testimony.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued an order Friday that Willis must either withdraw herself and her team from the sweeping 2020 election interference case against former President Trump or remove special prosecutor Nathan Wade
  
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• Corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day may serve up some nutritious benefits

  15-03-2024 16:37 via foxnews.com
  
  St. Patrick’s Day holiday menus often include the traditional corned beef and cabbage meal. Despite the calories and fat content, some nutritional experts say there may be certain health benefits to this savory dish."With any special meal and holiday such as St. Patrick's Day, we should not deny ourselves these delicious meals," Karina Chiddo, a registered dietician and pediatric nutritionist with Cohen Children’s Medical Center at Northwell Health on Long Island, New York, told Fox
  
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• Hungary PM Orbán blasts 'Western world,' calls for Trump victory

  15-03-2024 16:27 via foxnews.com
  
  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sought to mobilize support for his brand of right-wing populism in a holiday speech on Friday, urging his spectators to help him "occupy Brussels" in European Union elections this summer.Orbán’s address, coinciding with a national holiday commemorating Hungary’s failed 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule, railed against the EU and — similarly to other speeches in recent years — compared it to imperial occupiers that ha
  
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• Polish Catholics elect new leader as church grapples with aftermath of sexual abuse

  15-03-2024 16:21 via foxnews.com
  
  The leaders of Poland’s influential Catholic Church on Thursday chose moderate Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda to be their new principal, at a time when the church is still struggling to reckon with the abuse of minors by some Polish clergy, while the number of Poles going to church has fallen sharply.At a two-day conference, bishops and archbishops elected Gdansk Archpishop Wojda, 67, to replace the conservative Archbishop. Stanislaw Gądecki, of Poznan, as the head of the Polish Episcopate,
  
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• 16 dead, including 4 children, after migrant boat sinks off the coast of Turkey

  15-03-2024 16:16 via foxnews.com
  
  At least 16 people drowned, including four children, when a rubber boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey's northwest province of Canakkale, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.Canakkale Governor Ilhami Aktas told Anadolu that four migrants were rescued and admitted to hospital early on Friday, while search and rescue operations continued, involving ten coastguard boats, 2 helicopters, marine police, Turkey's Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) and National Medical Rescue Team
  
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• Trump attorney reacts to Fulton County judge's Fani Willis decision: 'Prosecutorial misconduct'

  15-03-2024 16:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The lead attorney representing former President Donald Trump in his Georgia election interference case says the decision from a judge that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must either step aside or fire special prosecutor Nathan Wade does not lend "appropriate significance" to their "prosecutorial misconduct." Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued the ruling Friday after hearing evidence presented by lawyers for co-defendants in the case who had accused Will
  
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• 'Negligence' by Caribbean police blamed in murders of Americans on yacht: prime minister

  15-03-2024 15:56 via foxnews.com
  
  Three Caribbean prison escapees, who allegedly killed an American couple, were placed in the wrong cells that were less secure, despite warnings they were dangerous and flight risks, the Grenada prime minister said this week.Ron Mitchell, 30, Trevon Robertson, 23, and Abita Stanislaus, 25, were supposed to be placed in individual jail cells that had a "secure locking mechanism," Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said.Instead, they were "in a corridor" with burglar bars that suspects bent and broke
  
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• Tanker crew reportedly unharmed after attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in Red Sea

  15-03-2024 15:51 via foxnews.com
  
  An attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted a tanker in the Red Sea early Friday but the ship's crew was unharmed, authorities said. It was the latest in the rebels’ campaign against shipping over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.The British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center initially reported the ship had been "struck by a missile" off the port city of Hodeida but later Friday said that further inspection of the vessel in daylight found no dam
  
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• Chicago Pro-Palestinian groups reject White House requests to meet before primary in strongly-worded letter

  15-03-2024 15:50 via foxnews.com
  
  More than two dozen Palestinian, Muslim and Arab groups across Chicago boycotted the White House's invitation to several community groups this week, citing the Biden administration's stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict. In a joint letter to the White House on Thursday, leaders of the groups said there was "no point in more meetings" since the administration "already knows the position of the aforementioned groups and our allies across the nation" to have an "immediate and permanent" cease-f
  
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• Self-styled 'prophet' charged with exploiting 251 children through labor in Zimbabwe

  15-03-2024 15:42 via foxnews.com
  
  A man calling himself Prophet Ishmael was charged in a Zimbabwean court Thursday after police raided the compound where he led a religious sect and found more than 250 children being kept away from school and used as cheap labor.Police also discovered 16 unregistered graves, including those of seven infants, at the farm about 21 miles northwest of the capital, Harare.Ishmael Chokurongerwa and seven of his aides were charged with exploiting children and denying them access to education and health
  
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• Squid Game actor O Yeong-su convicted of sexual harassment

  15-03-2024 15:41 via theguardian.com
  
  The 79-year-old actor who won a Golden Globe for his role as Oh II-nam on the hit Netflix show has been handed a suspended prison sentenceThe South Korean actor O Yeong-su, who starred in the first season of the hit Netflix series Squid Game, was convicted on Friday on charges of sexual harassment and handed a suspended prison sentence, a court official said.The Seongnam branch of the Suwon district court sentenced O to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, as well as 40 hours of atte
  
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• Achsah Nesmith, speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, dies at age 84

  15-03-2024 15:40 via foxnews.com
  
  When Achsah Nesmith got the phone call offering her a job writing presidential speeches for Jimmy Carter, she turned it down. As the mother of two young children, she explained to Carter's chief of staff, she just didn't have time.Nesmith quickly changed her mind, however, and called back to accept with encouragement from her husband, a fellow journalist who told her: "I can raise two babies." She arrived at the White House right after Carter's 1977 inauguration, becoming one of the first women
  
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• 5-time California DUI driver charged with murder following hit-and-run, prosecutors say

  15-03-2024 15:35 via foxnews.com
  
  A California man who has five prior DUI convictions is now facing a murder charge after allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian this week while driving under the influence of alcohol. Jonathan Lopez, 31, was seen "drinking alcohol and flipping officers off" after leading law enforcement on a short pursuit Tuesday following the fatal incident in Orange, California, in the Los Angeles area, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. "An innocent man is dead becau
  
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• Minnie Driver confesses Matt Damon breakup left her ‘totally heartbroken’: 'It was so public'

  15-03-2024 15:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Minnie Driver wishes she could give her younger self a hug.During a recent appearance on "The Jennifer Hudson Show," the actress opened up about the range of emotions she was feeling while at the Oscars in 1998, when she was nominated for best supporting actress for her work in "Good Will Hunting."When the host brought up a recently resurfaced clip on Instagram of Driver reacting to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's acceptance speech for writing the movie in which she looks upset, the actress shared
  
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• Judge in Georgia slams Fani Willis' 'improper' church speech, 'playing the race card'

  15-03-2024 15:29 via foxnews.com
  
  The judge in former President Trump's Georgia election interference case has allowed District Attorney Fani Willis to continue leading the prosecution, but he said her racially charged rhetoric about "playing the race card" was "legally improper."Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued a ruling that quashed a motion from one of the case's 19 defendants seeking to remove Wilis from the case due to her alleged improper affair with special counsel Nathan Wade.McAfee ruled that an ins
  
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• Drivers told to 'take the train' during M25 closure

  15-03-2024 15:26 via bbc.com
  
  This weekend's closure of a stretch of the M25 is part of works to improve junction 10 in Surrey.
  
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• McDonald's taking orders again after global outage

  15-03-2024 15:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK and Australia restaurants reopen after tech issues are fixed while Japan's are also reportedly restarting.
  
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• Boeing cockpit seat switch mishap reportedly led to Latam flight incident

  15-03-2024 15:21 via theguardian.com
  
  New scrutiny of planemaker’s 787 Dreamliner over terrifying drop adds to safety crisis after cabin panel blowout on 737 Max 9 jet Another Boeing jet is facing scrutiny after the planemaker told airlines to check the cockpit seats of 787 Dreamliners following a terrifying drop during a flight from Sydney to Auckland.Dozens of people on Latam Airlines Flight 800 were said to have been hurt this week when the plane fell sharply, throwing passengers around the cabin. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Irreplaceable’: will Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s animation auteur, ever retire?

  15-03-2024 15:18 via theguardian.com
  
  The Boy and the Heron’s Oscar win has prompted debate over whether the 83-year-old could put down his pencilIt could have been the perfect send-off – recognition at the Academy Awards of the artistry of Japan’s peerless animator Hayao Miyazaki.The moment The Boy and the Heron was named the winner of best animated feature in Los Angeles last weekend gave Japan a chance to reflect on Miyazaki’s towering influence, and contemplate whether the 83-year-old is truly finished ma
  
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• Five Champions League match-ups to look forward to

  15-03-2024 15:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  This season's Champions League quarter-finals have mouth-watering match-ups wherever you look. Where does Phil McNulty think the ties will be won and lost?
  
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• Buses in west of Scotland to be locally controlled

  15-03-2024 15:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A franchise system would mean fares, routes and ticketing are controlled by a local public body.
  
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