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• A Canadian serial killer who brought victims to a pig farm is hospitalized after a prison assault

  21-05-2024 23:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who brought female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s, was assaulted in prison and has been hospitalized in life-threatening condition, authorities said Tuesday.A 51-year-old inmate was in custody for the assault Sunday at a prison in Quebec, police spokesman Hugues Beaulieu said.JURY TO DELIBERATE IN CANADIAN PIG FARMER SERIAL KILLINGS CASEThe 74-year-old Pickton was convicted of six counts of
  
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• Graceland is not for sale, Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough says in lawsuit

  21-05-2024 23:25
  
  Elvis Presley’s estate is fighting what it says is a fraudulent scheme to auction off Graceland to the highest bidder
  
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• France is trying Syrian ex-officials for the torture and killing of a father and son. Here's why

  21-05-2024 23:25 via foxnews.com
  
  The Syrian soldiers came first, at night, for the son, Patrick, a 20-year-old psychology student at Damascus University, and said they were taking him away for questioning.They came back the next night for his father, Mazen.Five years later, in 2018, death certificates from Syrian authorities confirmed to the Dabbagh family that the French-Syrian father and son would never come home again.In a landmark trial, a Paris court is seeking this week to determine whether Syrian intelligence officials &
  
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• New filings allege additional obstruction effort by Trump in classified docs case

  21-05-2024 23:10
  
  The special counsel appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Trump to obstruct the government's classified documents probe, according to a filing.
  
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• Parole delayed for former LA police detective convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986

  21-05-2024 22:52
  
  A chance for parole has been delayed for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986
  
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• Thailand welcomes the return of trafficked antiquities from New York's Metropolitan Museum

  21-05-2024 22:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Thailand's National Museum hosted a welcome-home ceremony Tuesday for two ancient statues that were illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were returned from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.The objects -- a tall bronze figure called the "Standing Shiva" or the "Golden Boy" and a smaller sculpture called "Kneeling Female" -- are thought to be around 1,000 years old.EXPLORING THAILAND'S TAPESTRY OF TRADITION, ADVENTURE, TIMELESS B
  
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• Report says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of rural Tibetans

  21-05-2024 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  An extensive report by Human Rights Watch says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, adding to state government and independent reports of efforts to assimilate them through control over their language and traditional Buddhist culture.The non-profit organization cited a trove of Chinese internal reports contradicting official pronouncements that all Tibetans who have been forced to move, with their past homes destroyed on departure, did so voluntary.CHIN
  
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• The bodies of 4 men and 2 women were found strangled, piled up in Mexican resort of Acapulco

  21-05-2024 22:45
  
  The bodies of four men and two women have been found strangled and dumped in a pile in Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Acapulco
  
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• Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty to charges in Arizona fake electors case

  21-05-2024 22:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Former New York mayor one of 12 defendants charged with illegally trying to keep Trump in power after 2020 election defeatRudy Giuliani denied charges of illegally trying to keep Donald Trump in power after his 2020 election defeat as he was arraigned to appear before a court in Arizona along with 10 other defendants on Tuesday.Giuliani’s not guilty plea to nine felony charges came days after he was served an indictment as he left a party to celebrate his 80th birthday last Friday. Continu
  
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• Kamala Harris calls Trump’s mention of ‘unified reich’ in video ‘appalling’ – as it happened

  21-05-2024 22:02 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. For the latest on 2024 US elections coverage, you can read more here.Sign up for our free US elections newsletterA group of Democratic and Republican US senators has condemned the international criminal court (ICC) after its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, yesterday requested arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, defense minister Yoav Gallant and the leaders of Hamas.In a statement, the Democrats Ben Cardin, Richard Blumenthal, Jeanne Sha
  
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• Israeli officials cancel decision to confiscate camera from US news agency

  21-05-2024 22:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Backtrack on Gaza live feed camera follows widespread condemnation from media groups and Israel’s closest ally, the USIsraeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to the Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, before reversing course in the face of widespread condemnation from media groups and criticism from its closest ally, the United States.Officials had accused the US-based wire service, which has subscribers around the globe, of violating a new media
  
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• Biden releasing 1M barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices

  21-05-2024 21:50
  
  The sale will be allocated in increments of 100,000 barrels at a time.
  
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• It's so hot in Mexico, howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees

  21-05-2024 21:34
  
  At least 83 howler monkeys were found dead in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
  
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• Woman found living in Michigan store sign told police it was a little-known 'safe spot'

  21-05-2024 21:31
  
  Police in Michigan have released body camera video of an encounter with a woman who was living inside a sign on the roof of a grocery store
  
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• Matthew Perry: Los Angeles police launch investigation into actor’s death

  21-05-2024 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  LAPD and DEA begin joint criminal inquiry into how Friends star, who died of acute effects of ketamine, got the prescription drugHalf a year after the death of Matthew Perry from acute effects of anesthetic ketamine, the Los Angeles police department (LAPD) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have launched a joint criminal investigation looking into how the Friends star got the prescription medication, law enforcement sources confirmed to the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.Perry died at the
  
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• Some Iranians celebrate 'Butcher of Tehran' Raisi's death in the streets despite oppressive regime

  21-05-2024 21:17 via foxnews.com
  
  Video shows several Iranians celebrating President Ebrahim Raisi's death in the streets even as thousands participate in mass demonstrations mourning the controversial leader.Fireworks are launched in the night, a woman passes out sweets and several people can be heard cheering in the video posted online by opponents of the regime after Raisi died Sunday in a helicopter crash that also claimed the lives of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials. Ali Safavi, a m
  
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• Serbian woman dead after tree falls on car during storm

  21-05-2024 21:16 via foxnews.com
  
  A falling tree killed a woman in Serbia in a heavy storm Tuesday that also caused power cuts and pummeled towns with hail.KOSOVO CLOSES 6 SERBIAN BANK BRANCHES OVER CURRENCY CRACKDOWNInterior Minister Ivica Dacic said the tree fell on the woman's car in the northern town of Sombor.Dacic urged caution during extreme weather conditions, which experts say is partly caused by climate change.Earlier, hail and heavy rain fell in western Serbia, briefly cutting electricity in the southwestern town of N
  
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• Trump insists defense ‘had a great case’ as court resumes for jury instructions – as it happened

  21-05-2024 21:14 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. For the latest on this trial, read our full report:Defense rests without Trump testifying in hush-money trialSign up for our free Trump on Trial newsletterDonald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial entered its 19th day on Monday in Manhattan with what has become a routine procession, with a phalanx of supporters that included his son, Eric, Kash Patel and the law professor Alan Dershowitz, a former leader of the New York Hells Angels chapter, and a disgraced for
  
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• TV meteorologist attacks Ron DeSantis over Florida’s ‘don’t say climate change’ law

  21-05-2024 21:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Steve MacLaughlin of WTVJ in Miami urges viewers to vote – because ‘there are candidates that believe in climate change’A TV meteorologist condemned the Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s so-called “don’t say climate change” law on air and urged viewers to vote.Steve MacLaughlin of WTVJ in Miami addressed viewers on Saturday amid rising heat records across the state, saying: “On Thursday, we reported … that the government of Florida was beginni
  
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• Investigation continues into Matthew Perry's death, source of ketamine: Sources

  21-05-2024 21:01
  
  The death investigation into "Friends" star Matthew Perry remains ongoing, law enforcement sources said.
  
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• STIs, including syphilis, gonorrhea, increasing globally, WHO report finds

  21-05-2024 20:28
  
  The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report Tuesday that found the number of sexually transmitted infections have increased around the world.
  
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• Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave

  21-05-2024 20:18 via theguardian.com
  
  High temperatures in Mexico have been linked todozens and perhaps hundreds of deaths of howler monkeysIt’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees.At least 83 of the midsize primates, who are known for their roaring vocal calls, were found dead in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. Others were rescued by residents, including five that were rushed to a local veterinarian who battled to save them. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The place was a mess’: Australians arrive home after evacuation from New Caledonia

  21-05-2024 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 100 Australians and other tourists airlifted to Brisbane to escape deadly riots and unrestFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMore than 100 Australians and other tourists have landed in Brisbane from New Caledonia after the government arranged two repatriation flights due to the worsening security situation there.In a statement on X, the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said 108 Australians
  
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• Kenyan special forces police to arrive in Haiti to help combat gang violence

  21-05-2024 20:04 via theguardian.com
  
  An advance group of Kenyan officers, part of a larger UN-backed ‘support mission’ to stabilize Haiti, landed in Port-au-PrinceKenyan special forces police who have spent time battling al-Shabaab fighters in east Africa are expected to arrive in Haiti in the coming days, as the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, warned the Caribbean country was “on the precipice of becoming an all-out failed state”.A small advance group of Kenyan officers – part of a larger UN-ba
  
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• Attorneys stop representing a Utah mom and children's grief author accused of killing her husband

  21-05-2024 20:02
  
  She allegedly killed her husband, then published a kids book about loss, grief.
  
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• Summary of advice that UK arms sales to Israel not unlawful to be released

  21-05-2024 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Andrew Mitchell preparing to share details of assessment that there is no clear risk in breaching international human lawThe British government is preparing to publish a summary of its legal advice stating there are no clear risks that selling arms to Israel will lead to a serious breach of international humanitarian law (IHL).In a pre-prepared concession to the business select committee, the deputy foreign secretary, Andrew Mitchell, said: “In view of the strength of feeling in the IHL as
  
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• UK to distribute final compensation payments for victims of deadly infected blood scandal

  21-05-2024 19:52 via foxnews.com
  
  Victims of the U.K.'s infected blood scandal, in which tens of thousands of people were infected by contaminated blood or blood products provided by the public health service, will start receiving their final compensation payments this year, the government said Tuesday.Officials announced the compensation plans a day after the publication of a report that found civil servants and doctors exposed patients to unacceptable risks by giving them blood transfusions or blood products tainted with HIV o
  
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• IDF troops raid Hamas compound, seize weapons cache from hidden tunnel in Rafah

  21-05-2024 19:40 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli forces conducted a raid against a Hamas compound in Gaza on Tuesday, uncovering a tunnel and a significant cache of weapons and explosives.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released footage and images from the operation, which targeted a building Israel says Hamas troops used to fire on their forces. IDF soldiers eliminated "dozens" of Hamas terrorists during the operation, the military said."Soldiers searched a building and located many weapons including protective equipment, explosives,
  
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• Russian physicist accused of treason sentenced to 14 years in prison

  21-05-2024 19:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia has brought a string of treason cases against scientists researching super-high flight speeds, an area that underpins its development of hypersonic missiles. In the latest, physicist Anatoly Maslov was sentenced to 14 years on Tuesday.President Vladimir Putin has boasted of Russia's prowess in hypersonic missiles and Moscow has acknowledged using them in the Ukraine war.RUSSIA'S MILITARY CLAIMS TO HAVE SHOT DOWN 10 U.S.-SUPPLIED MISSILES OVER CRIMEA AS BLINKEN VISITS UKRAINEHere is a
  
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• Russia begins tactical nuclear weapon drills near Ukraine border

  21-05-2024 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Vladimir Putin announced the exercises earlier this month ‘as a warning to the west not to escalate tensions further’Russian forces have started military drills near Ukraine simulating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in response to what Moscow deems threats from western officials about increased involvement in the conflict.Vladimir Putin ordered the drills earlier this month in a move Russian officials said was a warning to the west not to escalate tensions further. Continue read
  
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• First Australian flight evacuating citizens from New Caledonia touches down

  21-05-2024 18:58 via foxnews.com
  
  The first Australian government flight from New Caledonia landed in Brisbane on the evening of Tuesday, May 21, after evacuating people from the French territory which has experienced a week of deadly riots, sparked by electoral changes by the French government in Paris.Around 3,200 people are waiting to leave or enter New Caledonia as commercial flights were canceled due to the unrest that broke out last week, the local government has said.FRANCE'S MACRON TO MAKE UNEXPECTED VISIT TO VIOLENCE-HI
  
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• Climber found dead after falling off highest peak in North America

  21-05-2024 18:48
  
  A climber has died at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska after park rangers found a body at an elevation of over three miles, officials said.
  
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• US allies France, Belgium defend ICC prosecutor's request for Israeli arrest warrants

  21-05-2024 18:38 via foxnews.com
  
  France, Belgium and other European allies are expressing support for the International Criminal Court amid ongoing demands from the U.S. to drop accusations of war crimes against Israel.Protestations from the U.S. and Israel began after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan filed applications for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders for alleged "war crimes.""France supports the International Criminal Court, its independence and th
  
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• Ukraine's Zelenskyy urges faster aid, direct Western involvement to counter Russian advances

  21-05-2024 18:35 via foxnews.com
  
  Western allies are taking too long to make key decisions on military support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Monday.He also said he was pushing partners to get more directly involved in the war by helping to intercept Russian missiles over Ukraine and allowing Kyiv to use Western weapons against enemy military equipment amassing near the border.The call to accelerate aid and push so-called "red lines" of engagement in the conflict refl
  
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• Ursula von der Leyen, Nicolas Schmit, Anders Vistisen and Sandro Gozi debate economy – as it happened

  21-05-2024 18:32 via theguardian.com
  
  European leaders participate in debate hosted by Bruegel and the Financial TimesKarl Nehammer, the Austrian chancellor, hosted the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak.“The leaders committed to implementing stronger frameworks to deal with migration, and that new innovative solutions are crucial to this end,” Nehammer said. Continue reading...
  
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• Thousands of Russians flee Turkey due to residency struggles and soaring costs

  21-05-2024 18:32 via foxnews.com
  
  Tens of thousands of Russians who fled to Turkey after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine have moved on to other countries in the last year, squeezed by residency issues and soaring costs, according to data and interviews, including with nine Russian citizens.When the war began in February 2022, Turkey, Russia's Black Sea neighbour and a NATO member, emerged as a magnet for Russians, especially its largest city Istanbul and the Mediterranean resort of Antalya.Some of them had opposed the invasion, oth
  
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• Spain withdraws ambassador after diplomatic spat with Argentina's president

  21-05-2024 18:30 via foxnews.com
  
  A diplomatic crisis between historic allies Spain and Argentina expanded Tuesday as Spain announced the official withdrawal of its ambassador from Buenos Aires and Argentine President Javier Milei lambasted the move as "nonsense typical of an arrogant socialist."Spain said its ambassador to Argentina would remain indefinitely in Madrid, where she had been recalled for consultations Sunday in response to comments made by President Milei during a contentious weekend visit he made to the Spanish ca
  
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• UN Security Council calls for responsible arms transfers amid Ukraine-Russia war

  21-05-2024 18:27 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.N.’s High Representative for Disarmament Affairs on Monday cautioned all states involved in arms transfers in the context of the war in Ukraine to act responsibly in order "to prevent diversion, illicit trafficking and misuse."Izumi Nakamitsu told the United Nations Security Council that, "over the last months, the provision of military assistance and transfers of arms and ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces have continued" and have reportedly included "heavy conventional weapon
  
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• Nine on trial in Frankfurt on charges of plotting to overthrow German state

  21-05-2024 18:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Self-styled aristocrat, a former judge and retired military officers among suspected Reichsbürger members appear in courtA group including a self-styled aristocrat, a former far-right politician and retired military officers sought the approval of the Russian state as it plotted a violent “seizure of power” in covert meetings at motorway service stations and a hunting lodge, a court in Germany has heard.On the first day of their trial, nine defendants appeared in court in Frankf
  
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• Critics slam UN after it lowers flag to half-staff in honor of 'mass murderer' Iranian president

  21-05-2024 18:23 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Nations flag was lowered to half-staff Tuesday in honor of the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash Monday.Raisi, nicknamed the "Butcher of Tehran" for his oversight of mass executions of political prisoners in 1988, died along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other Iranian officials who were in the helicopter when it crashed in a mountainous region to the country's northwest. Several U.N. member nations have offered condolences to the
  
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• Body of Ebrahim Raisi taken to Tehran before state ceremony

  21-05-2024 18:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Bodies of helicopter crash victims taken to capital via Qom, while power struggle is under way before electionThe bodies of the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and the other victims of Sunday’s helicopter crash were taken by plane to the holy city of Qom and then to Tehran before a state ceremony on Wednesday.Iranian state TV reported on large crowds gathering to pay their respects, while behind the scenes a power struggle was under way as the regime attempts to unify around a single candi
  
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• Macron to visit New Caledonia to ‘set up mission’ after deadly riots

  21-05-2024 17:41 via theguardian.com
  
  French leader to leave for archipelago on Tuesday night with intention of restoring ‘calm and order’People in New Caledonia: how have you been affected by the riots?Why is there unrest in New Caledonia? Everything you need to knowThe French president will travel to the Pacific island of New Caledonia on Tuesday, just over a week after riots erupted in the French overseas territory leaving six dead and hundreds injured.The unrest over plans for an electoral overhaul has resulted in do
  
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• Israel calls on ‘civilised nations’ to boycott ICC arrest warrants against its leaders

  21-05-2024 17:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Government urges ‘free world’ to oppose warrants against Netanyahu and defence minister for war crimes in GazaIsrael has urged what it called “nations of the civilised world” to refuse to implement any international criminal court arrest warrants issued against its leaders.Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the world’s top court, announced on Monday that his office had applied to a pre-trial panel for arrest warrants for three senior Hamas officials, as well as the
  
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• WATCH: Teacher and student have dance-off

  21-05-2024 17:18
  
  Eight-year-old Ahmad, a student a Deep Roots Charter School outside Philadelphia, said he never knew his teacher, Mrs. Laurie, “could dance like that.”
  
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• Singapore Airlines flight: British man dead and 30 injured after severe turbulence – as it happened

  21-05-2024 17:02 via theguardian.com
  
  One man dies and 18 hospitalised, with a further 12 requiring treatment in hospital, after plane encounters severe turbulence. This live blog is closedOne person dies after severe turbulence on London to Singapore flightIn the US, there has been a recent spate of headlines about turbulent flights. Guardian columnist Emma Brockes wrote this piece on the topic.In March, a Lufthansa flight en route from Texas to Germany diverted to Dulles airport in Washington DC after turbulence injured seven peop
  
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• Replicas of weight loss drugs like Ozempic to be banned in Australian crackdown

  21-05-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mark Butler says pharmacies selling medication similar to brand-name weight loss drugs increases risk of safety problemsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe government will crack down on replicas of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs, closing a loophole that allowed pharmacies to make and sell them to about 20,000 Australians.Widespread and ongoing shortages of the brand-name drugs from pharmacies &nda
  
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• Spain permanently recalls ambassador from Argentina amid feud with Milei

  21-05-2024 16:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei sparks diplomatic row with remarks about Spanish prime minister’s wifeSpain has said it is permanently withdrawing its ambassador from Argentina as a result of a growing diplomatic feud with the South American country’s radical rightwing president, Javier Milei.Milei – a notoriously pugnacious ally of the fellow populists Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro – sparked the row last weekend by insinuating that Begoña G&oa
  
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• Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ law could be dropped in return for US support bill

  21-05-2024 16:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Draft bill tabled in Congress would open talks on trade deal with Georgia in return for commitments on civil rights A “foreign agents” law in Georgia that has brought hundreds of thousands of protesters on to the streets of Tbilisi could be dropped in return for a package of economic and security support from Washington, the ruling party has hinted.In response to a draft bill tabled in the US Congress that would open up talks on a trade deal in return for fresh commitments on civil r
  
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• China criticizes South Korea, Japan for lawmakers' visits to Taiwan

  21-05-2024 16:09 via foxnews.com
  
  China on Tuesday scolded South Korean and Japanese lawmakers for visiting Taiwan despite its strong opposition, chiding both neighbors for attending Taiwan's "so-called inauguration ceremony of the leader".Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te, regarded by China as a "separatist", was officially sworn in on Monday after winning a January election.China, claiming Taiwan as part of its territory, resolutely opposes the visits, its embassies in South Korea and Japan said, and has lodged solemn representa
  
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• Israel-Gaza war: ICC arrest warrant ‘attempt to deny Israel the right to defend itself’, says Israel defence minister – as it happened

  21-05-2024 16:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Yoav Gallant, named alongside Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, criticises decisionCrowds have gathered in Tabriz in Iran to pay respects to those killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday, including the late president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.Associated Press reports that a procession led by a vehicle carrying the caskets of the dead slowly moved through the narrow streets of the city, which is the closest major one near to the
  
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