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• 'My fake food was good enough for Barbie'

  17-05-2024 23:56 via bbc.com
  
  A fake food artist is "stunned" by the response since her work featured in the hit Barbie film
  
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• Croatia gets new government with a far-right party included ahead of European parliamentary vote

  17-05-2024 23:56 via foxnews.com
  
  Croatian lawmakers on Friday voted into office a new government that marks a tilt to the right in another European Union nation ahead of the 27-nation bloc's parliamentary election next month.Although it is still dominated by conservative Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, the new Croatian government now also includes hard-right Homeland Movement, a relatively new party that emerged as a kingmaker after an inconclusive parliamentary election in April.CROATIA DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT AHEAD OF ELECTIO
  
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• Senegal's new prime minister criticizes French military presence in the West African country

  17-05-2024 23:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Senegal's new prime minister, who was freed from jail weeks before the presidential election earlier this year and propelled his party to victory, has criticized the French military presence in the West African country.Ousmane Sonko also criticized efforts by France and the West to promote values that he said didn't fit with those held by Senegal and other African countries, including LGBTQ rights and monogamy. Polygamy is widely practiced in Senegal.FORMER SENEGAL PRIME MINISTER CONCEDES PRESID
  
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• Usyk and Fury separated at Riyadh weigh-in

  17-05-2024 23:32 via bbc.com
  
  Watch as Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk are separated by security at the weigh-in for Saturday’s undisputed heavyweight title fight in Saudi Arabia.
  
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• Canada police link dead US rapist to four cold-case murders

  17-05-2024 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police said the suspect, who died in an Idaho prison in 2011, may be behind other unsolved killings.
  
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• Supplies arrive in Gaza via new pier but land routes essential, says US aid chief

  17-05-2024 23:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Samantha Power says barely 100 trucks of aid a day enter Gaza, far less than600 needed to address threat of famineHumanitarian assistance has begun to arrive in Gaza along a US-made pier, but the US aid chief said the new sea corridor could not be a substitute for land crossings, and warned that deliveries of food and fuel entering Gaza had slowed to “dangerously low levels”.The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, confirmed on Friday that truckloads of humanitaria
  
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• Spinners on top as England thrash Pakistan

  17-05-2024 23:18 via bbc.com
  
  England spinners Sophie Ecclestone, Sarah Glenn and Alice Capsey share seven wickets as the hosts beat Pakistan in Northampton by 65 runs and win the T20 series with a game to spare.
  
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• Ex-teacher accused of sex abuse denies offences in South Africa

  17-05-2024 23:18 via bbc.com
  
  Iain Wares was arrested in Cape Town last year after a man alleged he was inappropriately touched by the former teacher.
  
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• 'Shocked and shaking' Scheffler warmed up by 'stretching in a jail cell'

  17-05-2024 23:04 via bbc.com
  
  World number one Scottie Scheffler says he prepared for round two at the US PGA Championship by warming up in his jail cell after being arrested.
  
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• I warmed up by stretching in a jail cell - golf star Scheffler

  17-05-2024 23:04 via bbc.com
  
  World number one Scottie Scheffler says he prepared for round two at the US PGA Championship by warming up in his jail cell after being arrested.
  
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• Slovakia's prime minister underwent another operation. He remains in serious condition

  17-05-2024 23:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has undergone another operation two days after being shot multiple times and remains in serious condition, officials said Friday.Fico, 59, was attacked as he was greeting supporters after a government meeting in the former coal mining town of Handlova. A suspected assailant has been arrested.SLOVAKIA PRIME MINISTER ROBERT FICO SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES, IN 'LIFE-THREATENING CONDITION'Miriam Lapuníková, director of the University F. D. Roosevelt hospital
  
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• Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan shot dead in Afghanistan attack

  17-05-2024 22:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Four suspects arrested at the scene of attack in Bamiyan, with four more foreigners and three Afghans reported woundedThree Spanish tourists and an Afghan civilian have been killed in a shooting attack in Bamiyan province, central Afghanistan.The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, wrote on social messaging platform X that he was “shocked by the news of the murder of Spanish tourists in Afghanistan”. Continue reading...
  
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• Do not ask victims to move on - Irish president

  17-05-2024 22:03 via bbc.com
  
  Michael D Higgins says there was a failure to investigate bombings on the deadliest day of the Troubles.
  
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• Subway commuters in Buenos Aires see fares spike by 360% as part of austerity campaign in Argentina

  17-05-2024 21:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Commuters in Buenos Aires on Friday were hit by an abrupt 360% increase in subway fares, one of the most dramatic price hikes in libertarian President Javier Milei's harsh budget austerity campaign in Argentina.After weeks of hearings, a judge on Thursday lifted an order that had temporarily blocked the scheduled increase in subway fares. That cleared the way for the change to take effect Friday morning as office workers across Buenos Aires streamed through the turnstiles of South America's olde
  
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• Gunmen open fire and kill 4 people, including 3 foreigners, in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province

  17-05-2024 21:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Several gunmen opened fire in central Afghanistan late on Friday, killing at least four people, including three foreign nationals, a Taliban spokesman said.Four suspects were arrested at the scene in Bamyan province, a major tourist area, and an investigation was underway, the official said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the late-evening attack.TALIBAN PUBLICLY EXECUTE THREE PEOPLE IN FIVE DAYS AS MEANS OF INTIMIDATION: 'THEIR VERSION OF SHARIA LAW'According to Abdul Mateen Qani,
  
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• Pressure piles on Wales' FM as Plaid ends deal

  17-05-2024 21:39 via bbc.com
  
  Rhun ap Iorwerth says he remains "deeply concerned" by the first minister's £200,000 donation.
  
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• Pressure piles on Wales' first minister as Plaid ends deal

  17-05-2024 21:39 via bbc.com
  
  Rhun ap Iorwerth says he remains "deeply concerned" by the first minister's £200,000 donation.
  
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• French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp

  17-05-2024 21:24 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Bakery scent’ added via microcapsules to postage stamp celebrating ‘jewel of French culture’The French Post Office has released a scratch-and-sniff postage stamp to celebrate the baguette, once described by President Emmanuel Macron as “250 grams of magic and perfection”.The stamp, which costs €1.96, depicts a baguette decorated with a red, white and blue ribbon. It has a print run of 594,000 copies. Continue reading...
  
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• Fury shoves Usyk at weigh-in for super-fight

  17-05-2024 21:18 via bbc.com
  
  Tyson Fury was over 30lb heavier than Oleksandr Usyk in the weigh-in before their undisputed heavyweight fight on Saturday.
  
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• Lawmakers brawl as Taiwan's parliament descends into chaos

  17-05-2024 21:16 via foxnews.com
  
  Taiwan’s parliament descended into a brawl on Friday as lawmakers disagreed over reforms in the chamber. Video of the melee appeared to show punches being thrown, a curtain in the chamber being ripped and a lawmaker who was crawling over other members falling on his head. He was rushed to the hospital. The fight came just days before the country’s new President-elect Lai Ching-te is set to take office on Monday with his party in the minority. Lai Ching-te is succe
  
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• Israeli army finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza killed at Oct. 7 music festival

  17-05-2024 21:13 via foxnews.com
  
  The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.A photo of 22-year-old Louk's twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world and brought to light the scale of the militants’ attack on communities in southern Israel. The military identified the other two bodies as those of a 28-year-old woman, Amit Buskila, and a 56-year-old man, Itzhak Geleren
  
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• Israel's army says three hostages' bodies recovered

  17-05-2024 20:37 via bbc.com
  
  The three had been killed in Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October and their bodies taken to Gaza.
  
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• Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked to California from Mexico

  17-05-2024 20:21 via theguardian.com
  
  In texts received in Spanish and translated to English, the girl tried to describe her location, though she did not know where she wasAuthorities rescued a 17-year old girl after she was trafficked to Ventura county, California, from Mexico two months ago and texted 911 for help.On Thursday, the Ventura county sheriff’s office announced that on 9 May authorities rescued the girl after she sent messages to 911. The text message correspondence began with a call taker at a 911 communication c
  
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• Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally in Mexico

  17-05-2024 20:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Young girl was among six people killed in gunfire in an area of Chiapas where shootings have become common and widespreadA mayoral candidate and five other people have been killed when gunmen opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-racked southern Mexico state of Chiapas.State prosecutors said a young girl was among the six people killed in the gunfire late on Thursday, along with the mayoral candidate Lucero López Maza. Two others were injured, they said. Continue reading...
  
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• Leclerc fastest as Verstappen has 'bad day'

  17-05-2024 20:04 via bbc.com
  
  Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc sets the pace in both Friday practice sessions at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
  
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• Buenos Aires metro fare jumps 360% amid Argentina’s harsh austerity measures

  17-05-2024 19:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Libertarian president Javier Milei has slashed public spending as he wrestles to tame hyperinflation, now at 289% annuallyCommuters in Buenos Aires have been hit by an overnight 360% increase in subway fares, in one of the most dramatic price hikes in a harsh budget austerity campaign launched by Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei.After weeks of hearings, a judge on Thursday lifted an order that had temporarily blocked the scheduled increase in subway fares. That cleared the w
  
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• Mike Pompeo: How could Trump end the war in 24 hours?

  17-05-2024 19:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former secretary of state on his old boss, and US support.
  
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• US says NATO military trainers will eventually be sent to Ukraine: report

  17-05-2024 19:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Gen. Charles Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says it is only a matter of time before NATO military trainers are sent to Ukraine, according to a report in the New York Times.It comes as Ukraine battles to hold the line against Russian offensives in Ukraine's northeast such as the city of Kharkiv as well as in the east and south – and just weeks after the U.S. agreed to send an extra $60 billion in aid to the war-torn country.Ukrainian officials have asked their U.S. a
  
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• Israel recovers bodies of three hostages taken by Hamas, including Shani Louk

  17-05-2024 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Bodies of Amit Buskila and Itzhak Gelerenter also recovered from Gaza as Israel says 129 hostages remain in captivityThe bodies of three hostages kidnapped by Hamas, including the German-Israeli Shani Louk, have been retrieved from Gaza by the Israeli military, it announced.The other two hostages were identified as Amit Buskila, 28, and Itzhak Gelerenter, 56, according to the military spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, who said the three victims were taken to Gaza after being killed by Hamas a
  
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• Refugees fleeing crisis in Haiti and Venezuela face new nightmare as floods ravage southern Brazil

  17-05-2024 19:19 via foxnews.com
  
  Tens of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans who fled hunger, violence and natural disasters to seek refuge in southern Brazil are once again struggling to rebuild their lives following severe flooding in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 46,000 refugees currently live in the state, including 29,000 Venezuelans and 12,000 Haitians.Rio Grande do Sul was the third state to receive the most refugees from a government human
  
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• Putin, Is It Xi You’re Looking For?

  17-05-2024 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russia and China’s leaders meet in Beijing
  
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• King Charles to attend D-Day commemorations

  17-05-2024 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The King, Queen and Prince William will take part in events marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
  
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• WSL title race 'all comes down to this'

  17-05-2024 18:41 via bbc.com
  
  Former England players Ellen White and Katie Chapman say Chelsea have the upper hand on Manchester City going into an 'exciting' final day of the Women's Super League.
  
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• What to know about South Africa's election that could see ruling party of 30 years deposed

  17-05-2024 18:27 via foxnews.com
  
  South Africa's election will determine how weary the country has become of the ruling African National Congress party that has been in power since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC are struggling to keep their parliamentary majority and opinion polls predict that the party will likely receive less than 50% of the national vote for the first time in the May 29 election.That doesn't mean that the beleaguered ANC will be out of
  
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• Binance executive denied bail in Nigeria over money laundering charges

  17-05-2024 17:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Tigran Gambaryan faces allegations of ‘serious criminality’ on behalf of world’s largest cryptocurrency exchangeA Nigerian court has ruled that Tigran Gambaryan, the Binance executive detained on charges of tax evasion and money laundering, can face trial on behalf of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.In a judgment in Abuja on Friday – Gambaryan’s 40th birthday – the presiding judge, Emeka Nwite, denied the American national bail, saying he was
  
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• Ukraine launches biggest drone attack on Russia as Putin courts support from China

  17-05-2024 17:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukraine launched its largest-ever kamikaze drone attack on Russia while Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China, killing two people and causing an oil refinery fire in the Black Sea, according to officials. "Fifty-one UAVs were destroyed and intercepted over Crimea, 44 over the Krasnodar region, six over the Belgorod region and one over Kursk region," Russia’s military said in a press release according to Voice of America. The wave of drones attacked several targets around
  
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• Why thousands of NHS patients were given infected blood

  17-05-2024 17:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C, in the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.
  
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• Putin and Xi no longer have a partnership of equals

  17-05-2024 17:41 via bbc.com
  
  Vladimir Putin’s visit to China was a show of strength, but in reality he needs Beijing's support for his war in Ukraine.
  
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• Rare footage shows deep-sea squid attacking camera

  17-05-2024 17:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch video of the super-fast Dana squid getting a close-up 1km below the Pacific Ocean's surface.
  
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• Francis Ford Coppola: US politics is at ‘the point where we might lose our republic’

  17-05-2024 17:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Speaking at Cannes, the director says Megalopolis, his reworking of ancient Rome’s Catiline conspiracy, has become ever more prescientMegalopolis review – Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboringThe US, whose founders tried to emulate the laws and governmental structures of the Roman republic, is headed for a similarly self-inflicted collapse, director Francis Ford Coppola has said at the premiere of his first film in more than a decade.“What’s happen
  
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• Water parasite in England sickens more than 45 people, residents told to boil tap water before drinking

  17-05-2024 17:18 via foxnews.com
  
  A scenic fishing village in southwest England was under instructions to boil its tap water for a third day on Friday after a parasite sickened more than 45 people in the latest example of Britain's troubled water system.Around 16,000 homes and businesses in the Brixham area of Devon were told to boil water after cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite that causes diarrhea, was found in the water. At least 46 cases of cryptosporidiosis have been confirmed and more than 100 other people have repor
  
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• WATCH: Dragon boats to race in Washington, DC

  17-05-2024 17:15
  
  "GMA" looks at an ancient tradition being brought to life at a festival in the nation's capitol this weekend.
  
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• French security reinforcements ease violent unrest in New Caledonia

  17-05-2024 16:58 via foxnews.com
  
  The number of violent incidents reported in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia fell slightly on Friday, a day after France imposed a state of emergency as 1,000 promised reinforcements for security services were deployed with increased powers to quell unrest in the archipelago that has long sought independence.The top French official in the territory, High Commissioner Louis Le Franc, announced stringent measures Friday under the state of emergency declared by President Emmanuel Macro
  
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• First brewery opens in Abu Dhabi as parts of UAE loosen alcohol laws

  17-05-2024 16:01 via foxnews.com
  
  In 2018, Chad McGehee opened Side Hustle Brews and Spirits, an Abu Dhabi-branded brewery and distillery with funky camels on its cans and playful names familiar to anyone living in the United Arab Emirates.The only problem was it was illegal to produce alcohol in the country, so his company made its hoppy India pale ale in the United States and then imported it to the UAE for sale.That's all changed as Abu Dhabi has overhauled its laws to allow for the micro and craft breweries that have taken t
  
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• Taiwan’s foreign minister calls for global unity against ‘expansionism’ by China and Russia

  17-05-2024 15:32 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia and China are helping each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Associated Press.His comments came as Russian President Vladimir Putin was on a visit to China amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed their "no-limits" partnership as both countries fa
  
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• Biden speaks at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

  17-05-2024 15:06 via nbcnews.com
  Watch live coverage as President Biden delivers remarks at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
  
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• South Africa ends rescue efforts at collapsed building with 33 confirmed dead, 19 still missing

  17-05-2024 14:51 via foxnews.com
  
  An exhaustive rescue operation to find missing construction workers trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in South Africa will end on Friday after nearly two weeks and with 19 people still unaccounted for, authorities said.At least 33 people have been confirmed dead after the collapse of the unfinished five-story apartment complex in the city of George on the country's south coast on May 6.That death toll is expected to ultimately increase to over 50 as it changes to a recovery and clear
  
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• ‘Bullet wounds are common’: crime rife in DRC’s rebel-besieged city of Goma

  17-05-2024 14:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Robberies, shootings, extortion and rapes have surged since the Rwandan-backed M23 militia cut off the eastern Congolese capitalIn broad daylight on 16 April, three armed and uniformed men held up a city centre mobile phone shop.Threatening staff, they helped themselves to about £700 worth of goods, before making off on a motorbike, disappearing into the busy streets of Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Continue reading...
  
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• China to cut mortgage rates as part of plan to prop up property market

  17-05-2024 14:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Local authorities will be allowed to turn unsold homes from developers into affordable housingChina will cut mortgage rates and allow local authorities to turn unsold homes from developers into affordable housing, in a series of drastic measures by Beijing aimed at propping up the country’s faltering property market.The People’s Bank of China said it would scrap the minimum rate of interest and reduce down-payment ratios to 15% for first-time buyers and 25% for second homes. It will
  
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• Energy bills predicted to fall by 7% in July

  17-05-2024 13:47 via bbc.com
  
  If the forecast proves correct, it would mean a typical annual bill could be £500 lower than last summer.
  
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