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• Sky's press conference interrupted with hot-mic moment about 'intimate relationship'

  08-07-2024 23:54 via foxnews.com
  
  A Chicago Sky press conference was interrupted by mysterious audio on Sunday night after the team fell to the Seattle Storm, 84-71.Sky coach Teresa Weatherspoon, rookie sensation Angel Reese and starting guard Marina Mabrey were at their desk awaiting questions from reporters when someone appeared to forget to mute their audio. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMVideo from the press conference showed the trio listening in on an apparent conversation about someone’s "int
  
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• Relieve stress instantly with this simple 3-minute stretching routine: 'Feel better in no time'

  08-07-2024 23:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Nearly half of Americans frequently experience stress, according to a recent Gallup poll — and if the condition goes unchecked, it can increase the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and other medical problems.There are some simple ways to reduce the impact of stress — starting with stretching."Your muscles tend to contract and tighten when you are stressed, which causes all sorts of aches and pains," Walter Gjergja, the Switzerland-based co-founder and chi
  
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• Man Utd increase offer for Everton's Branthwaite

  08-07-2024 23:37 via bbc.com
  
  Manchester United make an increased bid of about £45m for Everton defender Jarrad Branthwaite.
  
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• Mayors to visit Downing Street for devolution talks

  08-07-2024 23:30 via bbc.com
  
  Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner says "for too long" Westminster has "tightly gripped control".
  
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• Djokovic expresses frustration to 'disrespectful' Rune supporters

  08-07-2024 23:29 via bbc.com
  
  Watch as Novak Djokovic hits out at “disrespectful” fans on Centre Court at Wimbledon during his straight-sets win over Holger Rune.
  
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• Ice cream van swept out to sea in rising tide

  08-07-2024 22:45 via bbc.com
  
  Coastguard teams rescue an ice cream van that had been swept out to sea in Cornwall.
  
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• Djokovic beats Rune - then accuses fans of 'disrespect'

  08-07-2024 22:43 via bbc.com
  
  Novak Djokovic sweeps aside Denmark's Holger Rune in straight sets to reach his 15th quarter-final at Wimbledon.
  
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• Bradley named surprise 2025 US Ryder Cup captain

  08-07-2024 22:43 via bbc.com
  
  Keegan Bradley is named captain of the US team for the 2025 Ryder Cup in New York.
  
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• Bellamy set to be named Wales manager

  08-07-2024 22:34 via bbc.com
  
  BBC Wales Sport understands former Wales captain Craig Bellamy is the frontrunner to succeed Robert Page as Wales manager.
  
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• Children’s choir gets surprise audience with new PM

  08-07-2024 22:24 via bbc.com
  
  Pupils set to perform for King Charles were rehearsing when Keir Starmer stopped to listen.
  
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• Sunak names new top team as Lord Cameron resigns

  08-07-2024 22:22 via bbc.com
  
  The interim shadow cabinet features some new names after 12 former cabinet ministers lost their seats.
  
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• Great concern over Tata, says Starmer on Wales visit

  08-07-2024 22:16 via bbc.com
  
  Sir Keir Starmer expresses "great concern" over situation at steel maker in talks in Wales
  
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• WATCH: Mom makes Disney height chart to mark daughter's growth by which rides she can ride

  08-07-2024 21:37
  
  Now that’s how to get excited about new milestones!
  
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• Rewards for tourists who litter pick in Copenhagen

  08-07-2024 21:34 via bbc.com
  
  The city hopes to offset the "environmental burden" of tourism with rewards for eco-friendly travellers.
  
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• Justin Bieber performs at India's mega wedding

  08-07-2024 21:08 via bbc.com
  
  Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's wedding party is setting new standards for extravagance.
  
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• UK hopes to recoup cash from scrapped Rwanda scheme

  08-07-2024 20:47 via bbc.com
  
  The Tory government had already sent £220m to Rwanda as part of the deportation scheme, which is now being scrapped.
  
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• After France's election shock comes the real power struggle

  08-07-2024 20:14 via bbc.com
  
  France’s left-wing bloc has won the election - now the real battle begins, writes Andrew Harding.
  
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• France's Macron declines resignation of PM for 'stability of the country' after chaotic election

  08-07-2024 20:03 via foxnews.com
  
  French President Emmanuel Macron refused the resignation of the country’s prime minister, asking him on Monday to remain temporarily as the head of the government after chaotic election results left the government in limbo.French voters split the legislature on the left, center and far right, leaving no faction even close to the majority needed to form a government. The results from Sunday’s vote raised the risk of paralysis for the European Union’s second-largest economy.Macro
  
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• Will England make it? Sutton's semi-final predictions

  08-07-2024 19:39 via bbc.com
  
  BBC pundit Chris Sutton makes his predictions for the semi-finals of Euro 2024 - and you can make yours too.
  
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• Starmer says meetings with NI parties a reset

  08-07-2024 19:37 via bbc.com
  
  Sir Keir Starmer met the main Stormont parties during his first NI visit as prime minister.
  
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• The reformist former heart surgeon now Iran's president-elect

  08-07-2024 19:16 via bbc.com
  
  The former heart surgeon promises to moderate Iran’s outlook and improve relations with the West.
  
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• What's the right punishment for 'too big to fail' Boeing?

  08-07-2024 19:09 via bbc.com
  
  Boeing is one of the largest and most important companies in the US but is it too big to be held to account?
  
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• What is the 'grey belt' and how many homes could Labour build on it?

  08-07-2024 18:53 via bbc.com
  
  Labour has announced plans to build on the "grey belt", as it tries to meet its pledge for 1.5 million homes.
  
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• Tate brothers accused of being serial tax evaders

  08-07-2024 18:39 via bbc.com
  
  Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are accused of failing to pay any tax on £21m of revenue.
  
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• 'First day at school vibes' as new MPs start work

  08-07-2024 18:39 via bbc.com
  
  Parliament has been transformed into a welcome centre for newly-elected MPs, as they get used to life in Westminster.
  
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• Emily Thornberry will have no ministerial role in new government

  08-07-2024 17:53 via bbc.com
  
  The ex-shadow attorney general is the biggest name missing in the latest list of ministerial appointments.
  
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• Israeli forces bombard Gaza City as tanks re-enter central areas

  08-07-2024 17:51 via bbc.com
  
  Residents say they are seeing some of the heaviest strikes since the war began nine months ago.
  
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• Reeves to bring back housebuilding targets

  08-07-2024 17:43 via bbc.com
  
  The new chancellor says Labour is ready to make tough decisions to boost the UK economy.
  
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• Shaw 'fit and ready' to play 90 minutes for England

  08-07-2024 17:41 via bbc.com
  
  England defender Luke Shaw says he is "fit and ready" to play 90 minutes at Euro 2024 after making his bow at the tournament against Switzerland.
  
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• 'You're not welcome here': Australia’s treatment of disabled migrants

  08-07-2024 17:26 via bbc.com
  
  Australia faces pressure to change strict immigration policy blocking disabled people from living there.
  
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• Indian PM Modi visits Russia visit for first time since start of Ukraine war

  08-07-2024 17:19 via foxnews.com
  
  India’s prime minister begins a two-day visit to Russia on Monday, his first since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, a war that has complicated the relationship between the longtime partners and pushed Russia closer to India’s rival China.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit will include a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, whom he last saw in Russia in 2019, in the far eastern port of Vladivostok. The two leaders also met in person in September 2022 in Uzbekistan, a
  
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• Macron asks French PM to stay on as political deadlock continues

  08-07-2024 16:49 via bbc.com
  
  France's president asks his prime minister to remain in post "to ensure the country's stability".
  
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• Japan and Philippines sign defense agreement prompted by concerns over China

  08-07-2024 16:35 via foxnews.com
  
  Japan and the Philippines signed a key defense pact Monday allowing the deployment of Japanese forces for joint drills in the Southeast Asian nation that came under brutal Japanese occupation in World War II but is now building an alliance with Tokyo as both face an increasingly assertive China.The Reciprocal Access Agreement, which similarly allows Filipino forces to enter Japan for joint combat training, was signed by Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro and Japanese Foreign Minister
  
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• China's Xi urges world powers to facilitate direct dialogue between Russia and Ukraine

  08-07-2024 15:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Chinese President Xi Jinping called on world powers to help Russia and Ukraine resume direct dialogue during a meeting Monday with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, state broadcaster CCTV reported.Orbán made a surprise visit to China after similar trips last week to Russia and Ukraine to discuss prospects for a peaceful settlement of more than the two-year war. Hungary assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union this month and Orbán has since embarked on
  
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• Ecowas warns of ‘disintegration’ as juntas split from west African bloc

  08-07-2024 15:26
  
  Breakaway union by military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger exposes growing fissures within the regionThe Ecowas grouping of west African countries has warned the region faces “disintegration” after three military rulers cemented their own breakaway union over the weekend.Parallel meetings of Ecowas, or the Economic Community of West African States, on Sunday in Abuja and the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) – comprising Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – in Niger’
  
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• Education secretary begins push to recruit 6,500 new teachers

  08-07-2024 15:20 via bbc.com
  
  The new education secretary says she is writing to education workforces as her "first priority".
  
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• Zwayer to referee Netherlands v England

  08-07-2024 15:15 via bbc.com
  
  A German referee once criticised over his match-fixing past by Jude Bellingham will officiate England's Euro 2024 semi-final against the Netherlands.
  
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• Explosions triggered by downed Ukrainian drone force evacuation of Russian village

  08-07-2024 15:15 via foxnews.com
  
  A village in a border region of western Russia was evacuated Sunday following a series of explosions after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set fire to a nearby warehouse, local officials said.Social media footage appeared to show rising clouds of black smoke in the Voronezh region while loud explosions could be heard in succession.Gov. Aleksandr Gusev said that falling wreckage triggered the "detonation of explosive objects." No casualties were reported, but residents of a nearby village in
  
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• Landslide at illegal gold mine in Indonesia leaves 11 dead, dozens missing

  08-07-2024 14:59 via foxnews.com
  
  A landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorized gold mining operation on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 11 people, officials said Monday. Dozens of others were reported missing.About 79 villagers were digging for grains of gold on Sunday in the remote Bone Bolango district in Gorontalo province when tons of mud plunged down the surrounding hills and buried their makeshift camps, said Heriyanto, head of the Search and Rescue Office.He said rescuers pull
  
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• American wounded in Hezbollah rocket attack on Israel

  08-07-2024 14:42 via foxnews.com
  
  A U.S. citizen was wounded in Israel on Sunday when Hezbollah terrorists launched a missile attack against the Jewish state, officials said.Two anti-tank guided missiles were fired from Lebanon toward an army post near the northern Israeli community of Zar’it, the Times of Israel reported, citing the Israeli military. The attack wounded a 31-year-old American civilian, an Israel Defense Forces soldier and another civilian.A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem confirmed to Fox Ne
  
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• Who are Westminster's newbie MPs?

  08-07-2024 14:37 via bbc.com
  
  More than half the MPs in the new parliament will be sitting in the Commons for the first time.
  
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• Destruction in Gaza likely pushed Hamas to soften cease-fire demands, officials say

  08-07-2024 14:32 via foxnews.com
  
  Several officials in the Middle East and the U.S. believe the level of devastation in the Gaza Strip caused by a nine-month Israeli offensive has likely helped push Hamas to soften its demands for a cease-fire agreement.Hamas over the weekend appeared to drop its longstanding demand that Israel promise to end the war as part of any cease-fire deal. The sudden shift has raised new hopes for progress in internationally brokered negotiations.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday boast
  
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• Netanyahu's 4 principles Israel agrees to for hostage deal as negotiations pick up

  08-07-2024 14:13 via foxnews.com
  
  The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced four principles that it says must be part of any hostage release deal with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The declaration comes as the "Prime Minister's steadfast position against the attempt to halt IDF action in Rafah is what has led Hamas to enter negotiations," the office says. The city in the southern Gaza Strip has been described as Hamas’ last stronghold following months of fighting in the war-torn te
  
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• Kenyan cult leader goes on trial on terrorism charges over 400 deaths

  08-07-2024 14:00
  
  Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie alleged to have incited acolytes to starve to death to ‘meet Jesus’The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult has gone on trial on charges of terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in a macabre case that shocked the world.The self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie appeared in court in the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa along with 94 co-defendants. Continue reading...
  
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• WATCH: Several injured in shark attacks over July 4th weekend

  08-07-2024 13:46
  
  A series of shark attacks over the holiday weekend have left wildlife officials on alert across the country.
  
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• The Liz Truss moment: What it was like to be in the room

  08-07-2024 13:41 via bbc.com
  
  The former prime minister was impassive after losing her seat - by more than 600 votes - to Labour.
  
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• France's Macron keeps PM in place for "stability" after chaotic election

  08-07-2024 13:34
  
  French President Emmanuel Macron refused the resignation of the country’s prime minister, asking him to remain temporarily as the head of the government after chaotic election results left the government in limbo
  
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• Hurricane Beryl live updates: Storm makes landfall in Texas as Category 1 hurricane

  08-07-2024 13:23
  
  Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall along the Gulf Coast of Texas early Monday morning.
  
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• Russian missiles target Ukraine, killing 21 and striking children's hospital

  08-07-2024 13:14
  
  At least five people were killed Kyiv, early on Monday, as barrage of more than 40 missiles as launched toward Ukraine, officials said.
  
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• Russian missiles hit children's hospital in Kyiv as Ukrainian President Zelenskyy vows retaliation

  08-07-2024 12:50 via foxnews.com
  
  A massive Russian missile attack across Ukraine on Monday has left at least 31 dead and more than 150 injured, officials say, with one projectile slamming into a children’s hospital in Kyiv. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now vowing to "hold Russia accountable for its acts of terror and Putin for ordering the strikes." In a series of messages posted on X, Zelenskyy said more than 40 types of missiles struck the cities of Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Slovyansk, and Kramator
  
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