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• Biden officials worry Iran might hit targets inside Israel as payback for killing general

  05-04-2024 23:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden administration officials are worried Iran may plan to hit targets inside Israel as payback for Israeli strikes in Syria that killed several top Iranian officials.
  
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• Iowa beats UConn 71-69 to face undefeated South Carolina in NCAA championship

  05-04-2024 22:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Follow along for the latest March Madness news and live updates as South Carolina and NC State go head-to-head in the Final Four, followed by Iowa vs. UConn.
  
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• The pictures didn’t even rattle: Earthquake veterans unfazed by East Coast tremor

  05-04-2024 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Many whose loved ones are from Taiwan, which just suffered a 7.4-magnitude quake, and those from earthquake-prone areas of the U.S. said more preparedness would've help.
  
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• Paul McCartney praises Beyoncé’s cover of ‘Blackbird’ as others try to tear it down

  05-04-2024 22:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Paul McCartney has weighed in on Beyoncé’s cover of “Blackbird,” which comes near the beginning of her latest album “Cowboy Carter.”
  
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• Your last-minute guide to Monday's total solar eclipse

  05-04-2024 22:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  A total solar eclipse will cross North America on Monday, offering millions a rare opportunity to see afternoon skies darken as the moon blocks the sun.
  
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• WATCH: Unhurried alligator moseys across state park road

  05-04-2024 21:57
  
  A large alligator lazily crossed a road in Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina, stopping onlookers in their tracks.
  
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• People who didn't feel the East Coast earthquake have major FOMO: 'I feel so left out'

  05-04-2024 20:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  While millions of people recover from the morning wakeup call of a 4.8-magnitude earthquake on East Coast, a small group of people are feeling left out.
  
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• Watch: Moment New York landmarks shaken by earthquake

  05-04-2024 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck New York City and surrounding areas, the region's most significate quake in decades.
  
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• Peru's president arrives to testify before prosecutors amid expanding 'Rolexgate' probe

  05-04-2024 19:13 via foxnews.com
  
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte testified to prosecutors behind closed doors Friday as authorities investigate whether she illegally received hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, luxury watches and jewelry.Prosecutors have been investigating the highly unpopular leader on charges of illicit enrichment and failures to declare assets. Boluarte rolled up to the building Friday morning in a car with tinted windows surrounded by armed police, passing throngs of journalis
  
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• In upcoming meeting with Biden, Japan's Kishida looks to bolster US defense ties

  05-04-2024 19:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday he wants to strengthen military and weapons development cooperation with the United States as well as with other countries such as the Philippines, as he prepares for a visit to the U.S. next week to meet with President Joe Biden."Defense industry cooperation between Japan and the United States, as well as with like-minded countries, are extremely important," Kishida said in an interview Friday with selected foreign media, including The Associate
  
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• X becomes 'earthquake Twitter' as users flood site with memes and jokes

  05-04-2024 18:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Social media users on the East Coast flooded X on Friday with emotions, jokes and memes after a rare earthquake shook the region.
  
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• An aftershock centered in New Jersey rattles the tri-state area again

  05-04-2024 18:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  The USGS tentatively measured the quake as a 4.8 temblor near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. It struck a little before 10:30 a.m. ET.
  
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• Taiwan earthquake survivors recall destruction, rescue from sealed tunnels

  05-04-2024 18:33 via foxnews.com
  
  Taiwan residents endured harrowing experiences on Wednesday when the ground shook with the strongest earthquake to hit the island in 25 years. People saw rocks tumble onto roadways, watched parts of their homes fall around them and waited for rescuers to free them from rubble.The historic quake killed at least 12 people and injured more than 1,000. Several hundred people remained stranded after vital highways were damaged and the walls of some structures cracked.The quake’s epicenter was j
  
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• Israeli to expand aid access to Gaza, but Blinken says it still might not meet US demands

  05-04-2024 18:15 via foxnews.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the measures the Israeli government has announced to expand the flow of aid into Gaza are welcome but may not be enough to meet the Biden administration’s demands for dramatic improvements in humanitarian conditions in the territory.Blinken said that opening more border crossings, if fully implemented, has the potential to surge assistance to Palestinians caught in the fighting between Israel and Hamas. However, the U.S. also wants to
  
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• Turkish authorities arrest 2 suspected of spying for Israel

  05-04-2024 18:14 via foxnews.com
  
  Turkish authorities have arrested two people suspected of providing information to the Israeli spy agency, a top official said Friday, in the latest in a series of such arrests in Turkey.Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the suspects allegedly gathered information about people and companies of interest to Israel and passed on the data and documents to Israeli intelligence officials.Six other people who were also detained in the operation, codenamed "Mole-3," were released following questionin
  
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• Israeli inquiry findings on aid worker killings lack credibility, charity says

  05-04-2024 18:08 via theguardian.com
  
  WCK renews call for independent investigation as former general blames incident on ‘grave errors’World Central Kitchen has rejected as lacking credibility the findings of an Israeli investigation led by a former general into a coordinated series of Israeli drone strikes on the charity’s vehicles in Gaza this week that killed seven aid workers.As the Israel Defense Forces blamed a series of “grave errors” by officers for the deadly attack that killed three Britons, t
  
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• India and Pakistan tried to meddle in Canada elections, spy agency says

  05-04-2024 17:50 via theguardian.com
  
  CSIS intelligence report suggests growing number of countries targeting country’s large diaspora populationsCanada’s spy agency has declared that the governments of India and Pakistan probably attempted to meddle in its elections.As a closely watched public inquiry investigates the scope of foreign interference, on Thursday night the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) released a report suggesting a growing number of countries see Canada – and particularly its large d
  
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• India appears to confirm extrajudicial killings in Pakistan

  05-04-2024 17:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Defence minister’s comments after Guardian report are first time India has acknowledged any assassinations on foreign soilIndia’s defence minister has appeared to confirm that the government carried out extrajudicial killings in neighbouring Pakistan, after a Guardian report on the alleged assassinations.Intelligence officials from India and Pakistan who spoke to the Guardian had alleged that India’s foreign intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (Raw), had been involv
  
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• Israelis fear Biden’s 'intolerable' cease-fire demand means victory for Hamas

  05-04-2024 17:35 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM - President Biden’s push Thursday in a telephone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for an immediate cease-fire in the Jewish state’s six-month war campaign to defeat the terrorist movement Hamas in Gaza unleashed fierce criticism from Israeli experts."A ceasefire now would be a victory to Hamas. It would show the terrorist organization that terrorism pays. The world needs to remain aligned behind Israel in its campaign to further weaken Hamas," Yaakov Katz
  
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• German investigators seize $103M in counterfeit US bills linked to Turkey

  05-04-2024 17:26 via foxnews.com
  
  German investigators said Friday they have seized counterfeit U.S. dollar bills with a face value of over $103 million, which apparently came from Turkey and were being stored ahead of transport to the United States.The criminal police office in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's northernmost state, said officers found 75 cartons of fake dollars in searches of an apartment and two company addresses after tips from U.S. authorities led them to firms run by a man who is suspected of exporting counterfe
  
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• UK lawmaker 'manipulated' into giving personal numbers of colleagues in sexting blackmail scam

  05-04-2024 17:24 via foxnews.com
  
  British lawmakers who may have been targeted in a sexting scam were urged Friday to go to police, after a senior Conservative admitted disclosing the personal phone numbers of some colleagues to an unknown individual who held "compromising" material on him.William Wragg, who chairs the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in Parliament, told The Times of London newspaper that he had handed over the phone numbers to a man he met on a gay dating app, after he had sent intimat
  
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• Denmark's top military chief dismissed after incident involving ship deployed to Red Sea

  05-04-2024 17:19 via foxnews.com
  
  A series of scandals has blighted Denmark's Armed Forces at a time when the Scandinavian country and member of the NATO alliance is building up its defenses, chiefly as a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The events have so far led to the dismissal this week of Denmark’s top military chief, Gen. Flemming Lentfer, who failed to inform the defense minister about an incident on the frigate HDMS Iver Huitfeldt last month while deployed to the Red Sea, where it was part of a U.S.-l
  
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• UK doctors accept government pay offer, ending longest strike in National Health Service history

  05-04-2024 17:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Senior doctors in England have accepted a pay offer from the British government that ends a yearlong dispute with unprecedented strike action.The British Medical Association and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, which represent the senior doctors, who are known as consultants, said Friday that 83% of those casting a vote backed the offer.The pay increases will see those who have been consultants between four and seven years getting a 2.85% uplift. It also addresses some gende
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: 20 members of Russian airfield personnel killed or injured in drone attack, Kyiv says – as it happened

  05-04-2024 17:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukraine led attack on to military airfield near town of Morozovsk in Rostov region in RussiaThe Kremlin has called French President Emmanuel Macron’s assertions that Russia plans to disrupt the Olympics “absolutely unfounded.”Macron said on Thursday that he had “no doubt” that Russia would target the Paris Olympics this summer. Continue reading...
  
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• Boy, 15, dies after attack outside school in France

  05-04-2024 16:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Teenager was assaulted by several people who fled scene in country’s latest incident of school violenceA 15-year-old boy has died after he was badly beaten in a town south of Paris, in the latest incident of school violence in France.Thursday’s attack comes at a time of heightened tensions in French schools. Earlier this week a teenage girl was temporarily left in a coma after being beaten outside her school in Montpellier, in the south of the country. In that case, three alleged att
  
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• Where in the UK can you see Monday's solar eclipse?

  05-04-2024 16:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People in the UK can also see the solar eclipse happening in the US next week
  
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• Fears parliamentary behaviour watchdog could be curbed by confidentiality agreements

  05-04-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Greens senator Larissa Waters vows to ensure the new process expected to open in October should be led by the complainantGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Greens senator Larissa Waters has vowed to push for a powerful complainant-led sanctions body in parliament following reports those coming forward about bad behaviour in Canberra could be forced to sign confidentiality agreements.After years of Parliament House’s poor workplace culture being in
  
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• Middle East crisis: World Central Kitchen says only ‘systemic change’ can stop military failures as IDF sacks officers over aid worker deaths – as it happened

  05-04-2024 15:57 via theguardian.com
  
  WCK says IDF deployed deadly force without regard to protocols in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers. This live blog is closedIsraeli inquiry blames WCK aid killings on ‘grave errors’ by military personnelThe United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Gaza Strip.Twenty-eight countries voted in favour, 13 abstained and six voted agains
  
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• Norway plans 'historic increase' in defense spending of $56B over next 12 years

  05-04-2024 15:43 via foxnews.com
  
  The Norwegian center-left government said Friday it plans "a historic increase" in defense spending of $56 billion over the next 12 years."We need a defense that is fit for purpose in the emerging security environment," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said."As our security environment is deteriorating, we need to spend more on and pay more attention to defense and preparedness," Gahr Støre said, adding that his two-party government wants to spend a total of $152 billion between now
  
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• Nigerian film raises awareness about dozens of girls abducted from school in 2014

  05-04-2024 15:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Not a day goes by without Lawan Zanna remembering his daughter Aisha in prayers. She was among the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped 10 years ago when Islamic extremists broke into their school in northeastern Nigeria’s Chibok village."It makes me so angry to talk about it," said Zanna, 55, whose daughter is among the nearly 100 girls still missing after the 2014 kidnappings that stunned the world and sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign.The Chibok kidnapping was the first m
  
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• Hundreds of mass graves unearthed in Rwanda decades after 1994 genocide

  05-04-2024 15:05 via foxnews.com
  
  The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often finding — human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence.The digging goes on, a scene that's become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural southern Rwanda, where the discovery in October of human remains at the site of a house under construction triggered another search for new mass graves believed to hold victims of the 1994 genocide against Rwand
  
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• Von der Leyen’s re-election chances hit by €17k-a-month job for ally

  05-04-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  European Commission defends appointing adviser Markus Pieper afterselection process is questionedUrsula von der Leyen’s run for a second term as president of the European Commission has been dented after accusations of favouritism in the selection of a fellow party member for a lucrative new job.Some of the highest-ranking people in Brussels, including the EU’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, and the French commissioner Thierry Breton, have written to von der Leyen to complain that th
  
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• 'Drunk' airplane passenger fined for reportedly urinating in cup during delay at Australia airport

  05-04-2024 15:00 via foxnews.com
  
  A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport.The incident, after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland, occurred last December and a Sydney court fined the 53-year-old man $395 for offensive behavior in February, officials said Friday.The incident only came to public attention on Friday, when New Zealand news website Stuff reported that a passenger in the same row, identified only as Hollv, said she had reported the behavio
  
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• The U.S. economy rolls on, adds 303,000 jobs in March

  05-04-2024 14:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. economy added 303,000 jobs in March, blowing past expectations and indicating that economic growth remains on a firm footing.
  
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• WATCH: Thief disguised as trash bag steals package

  05-04-2024 14:06
  
  Door camera footage captured a thief disguised as a trash bag stealing a package from a home in Sacramento, California.
  
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• ‘I get emotional thinking about it’: US and Canada ready for total solar eclipse

  05-04-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Cities expect huge crowds with millions gathering in 115-mile wide ‘path of totality’ for Monday’s exceptionally large and long eclipseShould the weather gods grant their blessing, a celestial show for the ages will darken the heavens over a large swathe of the US from Texas to Maine on Monday, giving tens of millions of people a grandstand view of a rare phenomenon being billed as “the Great American Eclipse”.It will be another 20 years until the next total solar e
  
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• Taiwan earthquake: shock and grief take hold in Hualien

  05-04-2024 13:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Residents of tourist city near epicentre of 7.2-magnitude Taiwan earthquake face destruction and despairLying in his bed, Liao Xiu Bo wondered if he was about to die. As a powerful earthquake rocked the ground beneath him, he tried to escape his house. “Am I going to be crushed?” he asked himself, before gathering the courage to run down the stairs, which swayed beneath his feet.Outside, he could see that the wall surrounding his house had collapsed, its bricks littered across the ro
  
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• No more monkey business: Thai city’s macaques to be put in enclosures

  05-04-2024 13:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Primates are symbol of Lopburi but residents have had enough as monkeys resort to violence to get foodMischievous long-tailed macaques are, for many, a symbol of the Thai city of Lopburi. Tourists flock to the city’s ancient temple to feed the macaques fresh fruit and photograph them as they maraud the streets. But, increasingly, residents say they have had enough.This week, after growing complaints from residents, wildlife officials announced a plan to round up 2,500 of the urban monkeys
  
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• Crowds flock to Tokyo to see cherry blossoms after delayed bloom

  05-04-2024 12:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Crowds gathered Friday to enjoy Japan's famed cherry blossoms in Tokyo, where cold weather has delayed their bloom.Cherry blossoms, known as "sakura" in Japanese, are the nation's favorite flower. People often have sakura viewing parties beneath the falling petals, where there are also picnics and sake drinking.Vidyuth Lakshman, 36, a tourist from Canada, said she’d seen cherry blossoms in her homeland but "not on this scale. The scale here is crazy."WASHINGTON, DC, TO LOSE MORE THAN 100 C
  
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• IDF: Strike that killed World Central Kitchen workers was 'serious failure due to a mistaken identification'

  05-04-2024 12:47 via foxnews.com
  
  The Israel Defense Forces on Friday released the results of an investigation into a missile strike that killed several World Central Kitchen aid workers in the Gaza Strip.IDF investigators said the incident "should not have occurred" and that the authorities who approved the strike had been mistakenly convinced they were targeting Hamas operatives. Two officers, a brigade fire support commander and brigade chief of staff, will be dismissed from their positions. "The strike on the aid vehicl
  
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• How much is the state pension going up by?

  05-04-2024 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The state pension rises by 8.5% following a pledge to protect the value of the benefit.
  
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• Hunt praises MP's apology over dating app incident

  05-04-2024 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The chancellor says William Wragg showed courage in admitting he gave out MPs' phone numbers.
  
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• McDonald's to buy back all its Israeli restaurants following boycott

  05-04-2024 12:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The deal follows protests against the firm after franchisee Alonyal gave free food to Israeli soldiers.
  
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• Fugitive former US city councillor enlists with Russia for war in Ukraine

  05-04-2024 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Wilmer Puello-Mota, wanted on child sexual abuse image charges, enlists after apparently volunteering for assault on AvdiivkaA former city councillor and member of the Massachusetts national guard who is wanted in the US on child sexual abuse image charges has fled the country and joined the Russian army fighting in Ukraine.Wilmer Puello-Mota, 28, former city councillor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, went missing on 7 January, two days before he was scheduled to appear in court in Rhode Island in po
  
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• Senior doctors end pay dispute with government

  05-04-2024 12:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Union members vote for offer, which sees pay rise by nearly 20% in 2023-24 for some.
  
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• Tories investigate ex-minister over Israel comments

  05-04-2024 12:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ex-MP is accused of using "antisemitic tropes" but says he was defending international-law aims.
  
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• Richardson to leave Today programme after 43 years

  05-04-2024 12:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Broadcaster Garry Richardson is to step down from presenting the sports news on BBC Radio 4's Today programme after 43 years.
  
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• Stolen son: A hostage’s mom fights to bring her child home from Gaza

  05-04-2024 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  Rachel Goldberg-Polin's son, 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. In the six months since, she has become a vocal advocate in the effort to free the over 100 hostages that remain in Gaza — all while bearing the daily burden of pretending to be normal.
  
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• Snow, rain and wind warnings ahead of Storm Kathleen

  05-04-2024 12:00 via bbc.com
  
  People have been urged to prepare for flooding, travel disruption and possible power cuts this weekend.
  
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• Storm Kathleen to bring gales and warmest day so far for some

  05-04-2024 11:57 via bbc.com
  
  After the recent wet weather it is going to turn very warm and windy this weekend as Storm Kathleen hits the UK.
  
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