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• Nearly 140 migrants have reportedly entered Greece in 24 hours

  24-05-2024 23:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Nearly 140 migrants have reached Greek shores over the past 24 hours, making the dangerous sea voyage across the Mediterranean Sea, authorities said Friday. One man, who had set off from North Africa, drowned off the southern island of Crete.Greece, along with Spain and Italy, is a key entry point for people from the Middle East or Africa who are seeking a better life in the European Union. To get to Greek shores, most make the risky crossing in flimsy boats from neighboring Turkey or Libya.4 AR
  
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• In Brazil, mangrove reforestation proves crucial in fight against climate risks

  24-05-2024 23:52 via foxnews.com
  
  At the rear of Rio de Janeiro's polluted Guanabara Bay, thousands of mangroves rise as tall as 13 feet from a previously deforested area.The 30,000 trees, planted by non-profit organization Instituto Mar Urbano over four years in the Guapimirim environmental protection area, stand as an example for cities seeking natural means to improve climate resilience.Such ecosystems are vital for protection against floods that have become increasingly frequent around the world. Brazil’s southern stat
  
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• UN warns of 'frightening and disturbing' activity by military, rebels in western Burma

  24-05-2024 23:45 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.N. human rights office warned Friday of "frightening and disturbing reports" about the impact of new violence in Burma's western state of Rakhine, pointing to new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the military and an ethnic armed group fighting it.Spokesperson Liz Throssell of the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights cited the burning of the town of Buthidaung, as well as air strikes, reports of shootings at unarmed fleeing villagers, beheadings and disappearances as part o
  
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• Ex-Post Office boss Vennells' five big inquiry moments

  24-05-2024 23:25 via bbc.com
  
  Ms Vennells gave testimony over three days, watched by those affected by the Post Office scandal.
  
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• ROTC cadets don't receive military death benefits. Families who lost loved ones are trying to change that.

  24-05-2024 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The military does not provide death benefits for families of ROTC cadets or Delayed Entry Program enlistees, but Congress is trying to change that.
  
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• Pledges delayed and some early slip-ups: Sunak's first days on the campaign trail

  24-05-2024 21:40 via bbc.com
  
  As is often the case in political campaigns, things don’t always stick to the script.
  
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• French court finds three Syrian officials guilty of crimes against humanity

  24-05-2024 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Members of Assad regime sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment on Friday after landmark trial in ParisA French court has found three Syrian officials of the regime of Bashar al-Assad guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes, sentencing them in absentia to life imprisonment on Friday after a landmark trial in Paris.The verdicts against Ali Mamlouk, head of the Syrian secret services and security adviser to Assad, Jamil Hassan, who was head of the Syrian air force intelligence unit unt
  
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• Israel-Gaza war: Netanyahu rejects genocide claims as ‘false and outrageous’; Palestinian Authority welcomes ICJ ruling – as it happened

  24-05-2024 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest full report below:UN’s top court orders Israel to immediately halt Rafah offensivePower outages have forced the shutdown of the generators at Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deri el-Balah in the Gaza Strip. A hospital spokesperson, Khalil al-Deqran, told Al Jazeera that doctors are unable to use many of its facilities and are treating patients manually.“This will lead to the death of so many sick and wounded people”, said al-Deq
  
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• US and UK to back Israel over ICJ ruling after blurring their Rafah red lines

  24-05-2024 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Having initially vowed to oppose any offensive, Washington and London are showing signs of having backed downUN’s top court orders Israel to immediately halt Rafah offensiveThe US and the UK will reject the international court of justice order directing Israel to end its offensive on Rafah after slowly blurring their red lines that once stated that they could not support a military offensive in Rafah.The line was first adapted by saying they could not support a major ground offensive witho
  
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• WATCH: Dog loves to play with tomatoes

  24-05-2024 19:41
  
  Marlee the golden retriever has been playing with tomatoes since she was a puppy.
  
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• Haiti gang kills US politician’s missionary daughter and her husband

  24-05-2024 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Missouri state representative Ben Baker’s daughter and her husband were reportedly ambushed when leaving a churchThe daughter and son-in-law of a US Republican politician are among three Christian missionaries who have been killed by gang members in Haiti as it emerged that the long-awaited deployment of an multinational security force tasked with rescuing the Caribbean country from months of bloodshed had been delayed.Ben Baker, a Republican state representative from Missouri, announced t
  
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• Corbyn confirms he will stand against Labour

  24-05-2024 19:17 via bbc.com
  
  The former Labour leader will run as an independent in the London seat he has represented since 1983.
  
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• American missionary couple killed in Haiti, agency says

  24-05-2024 19:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Two American Christian missionaries were killed by gang violence in Haiti on Thursday, said Missouri State Rep. Ben Baker, whose daughter, Natalie, died in the attack.Davy and Natalie Lloyd, full-time missionaries to Haiti, were shot and killed at 9 p.m. Thursday, according to Missions In Haiti, Inc. Baker posted about the attack on Facebook."My heart is broken in a thousand pieces. I’ve never felt this kind of pain," Baker wrote. "They went to Heaven together. Please pray for my family we
  
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• Italian anti-fascist goes on trial in Hungary accused of attacking neo-Nazis

  24-05-2024 19:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Ilaria Salis, 39, says she is being persecuted for her beliefs in case that has led to tensions between two countriesAn Italian anti-fascist activist has gone on trial in Hungary for allegedly attacking neo-Nazis, in a case that has sparked tensions between the two EU allies.Ilaria Salis, 39, arrived at the Budapest court accompanied by her father, with Italy’s ambassador and a throng of Italian journalists also in attendance. She left to applause after the court heard testimony from one o
  
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• Tens of thousands flee camp in Sudan after attacks by RSF paramilitaries

  24-05-2024 19:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Concerns grow that Darfur is facing another genocide as Rapid Support Forces besiege city of El FasherTens of thousands of people have fled their homes in a displacement camp in the city of El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region after attacks by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, as concern grows that Darfur is facing another genocide.The RSF has besieged the city for weeks, aiming to take the last major population centre in Darfur that it does not control. Hundreds of thousands are
  
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• UN’s top court orders Israel to immediately halt Rafah offensive

  24-05-2024 19:07 via theguardian.com
  
  ICJ president says humanitarian situation in Gaza’s southernmost city is now classified as ‘disastrous’ICJ ruling underlines risks for Israel as its isolation growsThe UN’s top court has ordered Israel to halt its assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah in a ruling that will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.The president of the international court of justice, Nawaf Salam, said the humanitarian situation in Rafah had deteriorated further and
  
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• Russia removes buoys on Estonian border, EU demands explanation

  24-05-2024 18:51 via foxnews.com
  
  European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday called the removal of Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from Russia "unacceptable," and demanded an explanation from Moscow and the immediate return of the orange floating devices.Early Thursday, Estonian border guards noticed that their Russian counterpart had removed 25 of the 50 buoys that Estonia had installed on the Narva River to prevent boats from accidentally crossing the border.Bor
  
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• 2 arrested for allegedly plotting knife attack at German synagogue

  24-05-2024 18:50 via foxnews.com
  
  German authorities said Friday that they have arrested two men suspected of plotting a knife attack on worshipers at a synagogue in the southwestern city of Heidelberg.The suspects, who are 24 and 18 years old, were detained during separate police operations in the state of Baden-Wuerttember earlier this month, German news agency dpa reported, citing state prosecutors and police.The pair discussed "the killing of one or more visitors in the attack on the synagogue followed by death as martyrs, w
  
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• Canada to restore right of citizens born abroad to pass citizenship to children also born outside country

  24-05-2024 18:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Federal government to amend Citizenship Act, removing ‘second-generation cut-off’ introduced by Conservative governmentCanada plans to restore the right of citizens born abroad to pass their citizenship to children also born outside the country, following a court ruling that a “first-generation limit” in the law was unconstitutional.The federal government announced legislation to amend the Citizenship Act, removing a “second-generation cut-off” introduced by t
  
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• British woman, 3 children allegedly linked to ISIS repatriated from Syrian camp

  24-05-2024 18:32 via foxnews.com
  
  A British woman and three children linked to the militant Islamic State group in Syria were handed over to a U.K. delegation that visited the region this week, Syrian Kurdish-led authorities said Friday.The handover, which took place on Wednesday, is the latest in a push to repatriate people from al-Hol and Roj camps in northeastern Syria that house tens of thousands, mostly wives and children of IS militants but also supporters of the extremist group.The Kurdish authorities did not release the
  
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• ICJ ruling underlines risks for Israel as its isolation grows

  24-05-2024 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Court order is a warning that Israel’s offensive in Gaza risks creating conditions that could be framed as potentially genocidalUN’s top court orders Israel to immediately halt Rafah offensiveThe provisional measures issued by the international court of justice ordering an immediate halt to Israel’s military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah represent the starkest warning yet to Israel that its offensive risks creating conditions that could be framed as potentially g
  
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• University of Toronto gives pro-Palestinian activists 24 hours to end encampment

  24-05-2024 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Canadian university gives protesters one day to close up protest camp on downtown campus or potentially face police actionThe University of Toronto (UofT) has warned pro-Palestinian activists that they have 24 hours to accept a proposal to end a three-week protest camp on the schools’ downtown campus – or risk being treated as trespassers and potentially face police action.In a statement Meric Gertler, the university president, cited harassment, discrimination and lack of inclusion a
  
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• Top Russian military officials are being arrested on corruption charges as Putin begins fifth term

  24-05-2024 17:52 via foxnews.com
  
  It began last month with the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister. Then the head of the ministry’s personnel directorate was hauled into court. This week, two more senior military officials were detained. All face charges of corruption, which they have denied.The arrests started shortly before President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term and shuffled his ally, longtime Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, into a new post.They immediately raised questions about whether Putin was reassert
  
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• More than 300 dead in Papua New Guinea landslide, local MP says

  24-05-2024 17:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Emergency response teams sent in to village in remote Enga province, but blocked road is hampering effortsMore than 300 people have been killed in a landslide in a remote region in northern Papua New Guinea, a local politician has said.Amos Akem, an MP for Enga province, said the landslide struck Yambali village, about two hours’ drive from the provincial capital, Wabag, in the early hours of Friday. The road to Yambali from the capital is blocked, hampering relief efforts. Continue readin
  
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• WATCH: Check out this heartwarming moment of a dad and his sons mowing the lawn

  24-05-2024 17:02
  
  Each week, this dad spends quality bonding time with his sons as they tend to the lawn.
  
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• Melbourne Fringe drops the Butterfly Club over allegations of verbal abuse and threatening behaviour

  24-05-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Fringe investigation finds complaints from two performers about Simone Pulga’s behaviour to be substantiatedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMelbourne Fringe will not use the Butterfly Club as a festival venue this year, after complaints alleging verbally abusive, intimidating and threatening behaviour made against its owner by two artists were found to be substantiated in an investigat
  
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• Albanese labels some rightwing media a ‘cheer squad’ for Dutton

  24-05-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  PM expresses frustration with unspecified newspapers and commentators, saying many articles ‘essentially about clickbait these days’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has accused some rightwing media of being “stenographers” and a “cheer squad” for his opponent, the Liberal leader Peter Dutton.The prime minister expressed his frustration with unspecifie
  
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• Popular protest anthem 'Glory to Hong Kong' to be pulled from all platforms, creator says

  24-05-2024 16:54 via foxnews.com
  
  The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all platforms because of a court ban in the city, the group that created the song said Friday, a week after YouTube blocked access to its videos.Dgxmusic said on Instagram that it expressed its opposition to the decision by EmuBands, the distributor, to remove "Glory to Hong Kong," which was widely sung by demonstrators during huge anti-government protests in 2019.The group said the song has already been
  
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• New Caledonia unrest continues as police shoot man dead – as it happened

  24-05-2024 16:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Police officer detained after shooting of 48-year-old man as death toll reaches seven following days of upheaval linked to proposed voting changesPenny Wong, the Australian foreign minister, has said that “282 Australians and their family members have now returned from New Caledonia.”“We are planning further flights from Noumea tomorrow,” she added. Continue reading...
  
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• UN court demands Israel halt Rafah offensive, but government vows 'we will destroy Hamas'

  24-05-2024 16:37 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Nations’ top court has issued an order Friday demanding Israel "immediately halt its military offensive" against Hamas in Rafah, the Palestinian terrorist group’s final stronghold in the Gaza Strip. The message from the International Court of Justice comes hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News host Sean Hannity that there are four Hamas battalions remaining in Rafah and his country refuses to "leave them there." "The military ground
  
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• Trial set for UK men accused of collaborating with Hong Kong intelligence service

  24-05-2024 16:36 via foxnews.com
  
  The office manager of the Hong Kong trade office in London and another man will go on trial in February for allegedly helping Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in the U.K. a judge said Friday.Chung Biu Yuen, 63, and Chi Leung Peter Wai, 38, appeared at London’s Central Criminal Court for a preliminary hearing, charged with agreeing to undertake information gathering, surveillance and acts of deception that were likely to materially assist a foreign intelligence service between Dece
  
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• Olympic Games’ €1.4bn clean-up aims to get Parisians swimming in the Seine

  24-05-2024 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Organisers expect 75% of identified bacterial pollution will be gone by the time the starting gun fires for the open water eventsBeside a sign saying “No swimming”, Pierre Fuzeau defiantly pulled on his swimming cap, slipped into the green water of the Ourcq canal on Paris’s northern edge, and set off with a strong front-crawl.The 66-year-old company director regularly joins his open-water swimming group for well-organised illegal dips, including in the River Seine, where swimm
  
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• Thai town overrun by wild monkeys launches capture and relocation operation

  24-05-2024 16:29 via foxnews.com
  
  A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, launched an offensive against the simian raiders on Friday, using trickery and ripe tropical fruit.Several high-profile cases of monkey-human conflict recently convinced authorities in Lopburi in central Thailand that they had to reduce the animals' numbers.If all goes well, most will end up behind bars, before starting a new life elsewhere.HOWLER MONKEYS DROPPING DEAD, FALLING FROM TREES DUE TO EXCESSIVE HEAT WAVE
  
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• Russian attack destroys train tracks in Ukrainian border region amid evacuation of children

  24-05-2024 16:22 via foxnews.com
  
  A nighttime Russian attack destroyed trains and tracks in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said Friday, and authorities organized the evacuation of children from the area as it is being pummeled by the Kremlin’s forces in a powerful new offensive.The overnight strike on rolling stock and railway tracks also damaged buildings, according to Ukraine’s national railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia. No injuries were reported.Authorities have evacuated more than 11,000 peo
  
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• Scotland central to Labour mission for government - Starmer

  24-05-2024 16:21 via bbc.com
  
  The Labour leader outlined his vision at a Scottish campaign launch event in Glasgow.
  
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• Hundreds reportedly dead after severe landslide strikes Papua New Guinea village

  24-05-2024 16:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Hundreds are feared dead after a massive landslide leveled dozens of homes and buried families alive in a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea early on Friday, a resident said.More than 50 homes, many with people still asleep inside, were buried when the landslide hit Kaokalam village around 3 a.m., villager Ninga Role told Reuters by phone. The death toll was nearly 300, among them his brother and cousin, he said.The Australian Broadcasting Corp and other local media reported that more t
  
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• US and allies say Taiwan should be allowed at important WHO meeting, despite China's objections

  24-05-2024 15:19 via foxnews.com
  
  The United States and several of its allies, including Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany and Japan, issued a joint statement on Friday calling on Taiwan to be allowed to take part in a key meeting of the World Health Organization next week.Taiwan is excluded from most international organizations because of objections by China, which considers the democratically governed island its territory.Taiwan attended the WHO's World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer from 2009 to 2016 under the adminis
  
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• Hungary PM Orbán declares intent to opt out of NATO efforts to support Ukraine

  24-05-2024 15:14 via foxnews.com
  
  Hungary will seek to opt out of any NATO operations aimed at supporting Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday, suggesting that the military alliance and the European Union were moving toward a more direct conflict with Russia.Orbán told state radio that Hungary opposes a plan NATO is weighing to provide more predictable military support to Ukraine in coming years to repel Moscow's full-scale invasion, as better armed Russian troops assert control on the battlefield."We d
  
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• MP decides not to seek re-election after sepsis

  24-05-2024 15:08 via bbc.com
  
  Tory MP Craig Mackinlay returned to Parliament this week after disease led to amputation of his hands and feet.
  
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• State Department re-issues dire 'Do Not Travel' warning for Venezuela

  24-05-2024 14:40 via foxnews.com
  
  The State Department is again warning Americans not to travel to Venezuela due to high levels of crime and civil unrest under the socialist dictatorship of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The department has re-issued a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" travel advisory, its most serious warning."Do not travel to Venezuela due to crime, civil unrest, kidnapping, and the arbitrary enforcement of local laws," the notice on the State Department’s website reads. "Re
  
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• Nurse convicted of murdering 7 babies at hospital neonatal unit loses bid to appeal

  24-05-2024 14:32 via foxnews.com
  
  A British neonatal nurse who was convicted of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has lost her bid to appeal.Lucy Letby, 34, had asked for permission to challenge the verdict after she was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last year. A three-judge panel of Britain's Court of Appeal heard the case in April and released its decision on Friday.'COLD-BLOODED' NURSE LUCY LETBY FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING 7 BABIES AT HOSPITAL NEONATAL UNIT"Having heard her applicat
  
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• Excess weight may have caused Mallorca building collapse, officials say

  24-05-2024 14:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Investigation under way after four people killed and 16 injured in Medusa Beach Club in PalmaInvestigators on the Spanish island of Mallorca are looking into whether overloading and structural issues caused the collapse of a beachfront restaurant and club, killing four people and injuring 16 others.The two-storey Medusa Beach Club in Palma de Mallorca collapsed at about 8.30pm local time (7.30pm BST) on Thursday night. One firefighter told the local newspaper Última Hora he had arrived to
  
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• Barcelona police criticised for baton charge at protest over fashion show

  24-05-2024 14:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Police response to protest over closure of Park Güell for glitzy event was ‘totally out of proportion’, resident saysCatalan police have been criticised for baton-charging people protesting against the closure of Barcelona’s Park Güell for it to host a Louis Vuitton-organised fashion show, as anger grows that the city is being overrun by tourists and glitzy international events to the detriment of local life.A residents association complained that in the lead-up to th
  
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• Police officer in custody after fatally shooting man in France's New Caledonia amid unrest

  24-05-2024 14:13 via foxnews.com
  
  The French prosecutor for New Caledonia says a police officer has been taken into custody after shooting and killing a man when the officer was set upon by a group of about 15 people.Yves Dupas says the officer is believed to have fired one shot, killing a 48-year-old man on Friday afternoon. It’s the seventh shooting death reported since unrest erupted May 13 on the archipelago over contested voted reforms.It comes a day after French President Emmanuel Macron made an emergency round-trip
  
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• North Korea may be preparing to launch military satellite, South Korea says

  24-05-2024 14:13 via foxnews.com
  
  South Korea's military said on Friday it had detected signs in North Korea of possible preparations for a satellite launch in what would be the nuclear-armed North's effort to place a second military reconnaissance craft in orbit.South Korea and U.S. intelligence authorities are closely monitoring North Korea's activities, a South Korean military official said.The activities were spotted at Dongchang-ri, a northwestern area of the country where North Korea's main space flight center is based, th
  
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• UN treaty reached to protect indigenous knowledge on genetic resources from exploitation

  24-05-2024 13:57 via foxnews.com
  
  U.N. member countries on Friday concluded a new treaty to help ensure that traditional knowledge about genetic resources, like medicines derived from exotic plants in the Andes mountains, is properly traced.It marks the first time the 193 member states of the U.N.’s World Intellectual Property Organization have reached agreement on patent protections about historic knowledge from indigenous cultures, which have long been exploited by colonists, traders and others.The treaty doesn’t a
  
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• Ex-Marine fighter pilot accused of training Chinese aviators can be extradited to US, Australian judge rules

  24-05-2024 13:57 via foxnews.com
  
  A Sydney judge on Friday ruled that former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan can be extradited to the United States on allegations that he illegally trained Chinese aviators, leaving the attorney-general as Duggan’s last hope of remaining in Australia.Magistrate Daniel Reiss ordered the Boston-born 55-year-old to remain in custody awaiting extradition.While his lawyers said they had no legal grounds to challenge the magistrate’s ruling that Duggan was eligible for extradition, th
  
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• Chad's military leader sworn in as president after disputed election

  24-05-2024 13:56 via foxnews.com
  
  Chad swore in Mahamat Deby Itno as the president on Thursday after holding elections earlier this month, completing a disputed transition to democratic rule after he seized power three years ago.Deby Itno, also known as Mahamat Idriss Deby, took power after his father Idriss Deby Itno was killed fighting rebels in 2021 after ruling the country for three decades. The long-delayed May 6 election came after three years of military rule.His main rival, Succès Masra, who contested the results
  
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• Starmer agrees to TV election debates with Sunak

  24-05-2024 13:51 via bbc.com
  
  The Conservatives are pushing for six TV debates, but Labour officials will only commit to two run by the BBC and ITV.
  
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• Peruvian reporter is target of smear campaign after taking on political elite

  24-05-2024 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Gustavo Gorriti, who has long exposed corruption, is the target of a criminal investigation campaigners call ‘politically motivated’For more than four decades, Gustavo Gorriti has been a thorn in the side of corrupt elites, relentlessly uncovering government wrongdoing in Latin America – most recently exposing an unprecedented level of graft in Operation Car Wash, the continent-wide scandal that has ensnared nearly every elected Peruvian president of this century.Gorriti made h
  
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