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• Run outs and Duckett's ramp six - The Hundred plays of the day

  12-08-2024 22:45 via bbc.com
  
  Watch the plays of the day, including a ramp six from Ben Duckett, from The Hundred as Birmingham Phoenix took on Trent Rockets at Edgbaston.
  
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• State Department cries false over WSJ report claiming US offered Venezuela’s Maduro amnesty

  12-08-2024 22:28 via foxnews.com
  
  The State Department on Monday denied a Wall Street Journal report that claimed the Biden administration had offered Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro amnesty in exchange for him stepping down from his 11-year reign."That is not true," Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters during the question-and-answer portion of a press briefing Monday. "We have not made any offers to Maduro or others since this election."Patel’s comments were in stark contrast to claims made by "th
  
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• Israel accuses Iran of smuggling weapons into Jordan as region braces for possible retaliatory strike

  12-08-2024 22:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel on Monday accused Tehran and its Palestinian terrorist proxy Hamas of smuggling weapons into Jordan and the West Bank to destabilize those areas as the world braces for a possible retaliatory strike from Iran. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Monday that a "serious and dangerous situation is unfolding in Iran." Katz alleged that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Units are collaborating with Hamas operatives in Lebanon to smuggle weapons and funds into Jordan "with the aim of
  
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• How will Putin Respond to Ukraine’s Attack in Russia?

  12-08-2024 20:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  And, we look at the tensions rising in the Middle East
  
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• US election live: former House speaker urges Trump to ‘stop questioning’ size of Harris’s crowds

  12-08-2024 18:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Kevin McCarthy urges former president not to attack Harris on personality issues after he falsely claimed VP used AI toinflate rally attendanceWhen Kamala Harris picked the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as veep for the Democratic presidential ticket, advocates for healthcare reform felt a jolt of electricity.Here, they saw a man who proclaimed healthcare a “basic human right”, reformed medical debt collections, and who laid the groundwork for expanded government insurance and denied
  
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• Boris Johnson ‘courted for Telegraph role’ as Nadhim Zahawi plots bid

  12-08-2024 18:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Backers are reportedly told the former prime minister has been sounded out as paper’s global editor-in-chief Boris Johnson has reportedly been courted for an executive role with the Daily Telegraph by a potential bidder for the newspaper group.The former Conservative prime minister is said to have been sounded out by his former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, who has approached a number of wealthy backers about assembling a potential bid for the Telegraph newspapers and Spectator magazine. Conti
  
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• Temperature reaches 34.8C on UK’s hottest day of year

  12-08-2024 18:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Yellow health alert in place until 9am on Tuesday as temperatures soar across much of countryTemperatures in the UK have surged to their highest point of the year so far with 34.8C recorded in Cambridge on Monday, the Met Office said.The previous highest UK temperature in 2024 was 32C, recorded at Heathrow and Kew Gardens, south-west London, on 29 July. Continue reading...
  
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• Tanzania opposition leaders and supporters arrested in crackdown

  12-08-2024 18:18 via theguardian.com
  Senior Chadema party figures including vice-chair detained as well as about 400 people heading to youth gatheringPolice in Tanzania have arrested leaders of the country’s main opposition party and hundreds of its supporters in a crackdown that started at the weekend.Police detained Tundu Lissu, the vice-chair of the Chadema party and a former presidential candidate, as well as the party’s secretary general, John Mnyika, before a gathering in the country’s south-west. Continue r
  
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• Project 2025 mainly led by ex-Trump officials, leaked videos reveal

  12-08-2024 18:16 via theguardian.com
  Documents show organization’s staffing initiative is going strong as it seeks to replace government employeesUS politics – live updates Newly leaked training videos confirm how the staffing initiative of Project 2025, the controversial rightwing plan for the next Republican presidency, is gearing up for a major effort to replace non-partisan civil servants with conservative loyalists, and is being led by many former Trump administration officials.The videos, created for Project 2025&
  
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• Harms linked to drinking may be greater for people in worse health, study finds

  12-08-2024 17:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Research finds even moderate alcohol consumption more damaging to health of the economically deprivedHarms associated with moderate or even low levels of drinking may be greater among people who are poorer or in worse health, research suggests.The study comes just weeks after another piece of research indicated the benefits of booze had been exaggerated and its harms downplayed by previous studies. Continue reading...
  
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• Bin strikes due to disrupt Edinburgh festivals called off amid new pay offer

  12-08-2024 17:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Unite, Unison and GMB suspend industrial action in Scotland to consult members on ‘improved’ dealThe strikes by refuse and recycling workers due to disrupt the Edinburgh festivals this week have been called off, after a new pay offer was made.Edinburgh faced a repeat of the strikes during the festival in 2022, with mounds of uncollected bin bags, overflowing recycling bins and unsightly food-covered pavements. Continue reading...
  
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• Tommy Robinson’s passport may be invalid, say Irish parliamentarians

  12-08-2024 17:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Dáil members call for investigation after far-right leader gave false country of birth to Canada’s immigration officersIrish parliamentarians have called on their government to investigate how an Irish passport was obtained by Tommy Robinson, who has been accused of inciting riots from abroad.The Luton-born far-right leader travels on an Irish passport in his real name – Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – and was believed to have qualified for it via his mother, an Irish immigrant
  
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• A Nightmare on Elm Street rating change defended by BBFC

  12-08-2024 17:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Certificate lowered from 18 to 15 after 1980s classic is deemed ‘relatively discreet in terms of gore and injury detail’ The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has defended its decision to change the certificate of horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street from an 18 to a 15, saying that its audience research showed “strong support for older content to be reclassified in line with modern standards”.The classic 1980s horror, featuring the malevolent, razor-gloved Fred
  
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• Breastfeeding women try to show orangutan how to care for baby at Dublin zoo

  12-08-2024 17:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Thirty mothers take turns with their babies in front of Mujur, 19, to try to encourage her to bond with newbornWhen staff at Dublin zoo discovered an orangutan named Mujur was pregnant they decided to stage maternal workshops.The 19-year-old female had not sufficiently bonded with either of her previous infants, who died in 2019 and 2022, so when she became pregnant earlier this year the zoo enlisted breastfeeding human mothers to try to show her how it was done. Continue reading...
  
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• WATCH: Tom Cruise performs epic stunt at Paris Olympics closing ceremony

  12-08-2024 17:20
  
  The Hollywood star rappelled down from the top of Stade de France, rode off on a motorcycle and jumped from a plane during the changeover ceremony ahead of the 2028 games in Los Angeles.
  
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• Cleverly claims Labour’s ‘rhetoric encouraged people smugglers’ after 700 people cross Channel on Sunday – as it happened

  12-08-2024 17:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Tory leadership hopeful and former home secretary says government has shown ‘poor early decision making’Phillip Inman and Graeme Wearden report:The UK should not be “seduced” into thinking the battle to calm inflation is over despite price rises easing to the Bank of England’s target, according to an interest rate setter at the central bank. Continue reading...
  
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• Fire at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant extinguished, Russia, Ukraine exchange blame

  12-08-2024 17:02 via foxnews.com
  
  The fire that erupted at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant over the weekend has been extinguished, Russian state media reported on Monday while citing Russia’s nuclear energy agency Rosatom. But both Moscow and Kyiv continue to point the blame at each other as concerns over a nuclear meltdown remain high. Russian forces have illegally occupied Europe’s largest nuclear power plant for more than two years and on Sunday, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the Inte
  
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• Patients seriously affected by flu or Covid may have high levels of crucial enzyme, research finds

  12-08-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Australian-led discovery may help explain why otherwise healthy people die from infectious diseases while others fight off viruses unscathedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSome patients who fall seriously ill or die from common respiratory viruses have abnormally high levels of a crucial enzyme, new Australian-led research has found.The discovery may help provide part of the answer as to why otherwise healthy people sometimes die from infectiou
  
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• No baby or toddler foods in Australian supermarkets meet WHO standards, study finds

  12-08-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers say stricter regulations needed to improve nutritional quality of products and stop deceptive labellingGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNot a single infant or toddler food product stocked in Australian supermarkets meets standards set by the World Health Organization, a study has found.More than three-quarters of the products failed overall nutritional requirements, while all items flunked the promotional requirements, research led by the Georg
  
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• Melbourne lawyer obtained more than $250,000 from will he urged cognitively impaired 91-year-old to sign, tribunal finds

  12-08-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  John O’Brien received 15% of former client’s estate after encouraging her to sign will he drafted months before her death, Vcat findsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Melbourne lawyer urged an elderly former client to sign a will while in hospital that made him the beneficiary of 15% of her estate and later made threats of physical violence to the state’s Legal Services Commissioner, a tribunal has found.John O’Brien, obtained more
  
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• Heat aggravated by carbon pollution killed 50,000 in Europe last year – study

  12-08-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Continent is warming at much faster rate than other parts of world, leading to fires, drought and health problemsHot weather inflamed by carbon pollution killed nearly 50,000 people in Europe last year, with the continent warming at a much faster rate than other parts of the world, research has found.The findings come as wildfires tore through forests outside Athens, as France issued excessive heat warnings for large swathes of the country, and the UK baked through what the Met Office expects wi
  
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• Conviction of Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai ‘unjust’, says Chris Patten

  12-08-2024 16:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Former governor speaks out after appeal court upholds convictions of seven activists over 2019 protestChris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, has decried as “unjust” a decision by the Chinese city’s top court to uphold the conviction of Jimmy Lai and other prominent pro-democracy activists for participating in a peaceful protest in 2019.On Monday, Hong Kong’s court of final appeal unanimously agreed to uphold the convictions of seven activists who participated in
  
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• Charlie Kirk badgers Christian pastors to do more to elect Donald Trump

  12-08-2024 16:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Rightwing activist urges conference of Protestant leaders to enlist congregants into ‘deployments’ to swing statesUS politics - live updatesAt a three-day political training session for pastors in a Dallas suburb this month, Charlie Kirk – the powerful rightwing activist and executive director of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) – railed at faith leaders, who he complained had not been doing enough to get Donald Trump elected, and begged them to enlist congregants into “de
  
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• Israel spokesperson accuses BBC’s Mishal Husain of pro-Palestinian bias

  12-08-2024 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Broadcaster defends Radio 4 presenter’s ‘legitimate’ questions to David Mencer, who claimed she was parroting ‘terrorist organisations’Middle East crisis – live updatesThe BBC has defended Mishal Husain, a presenter on its Radio 4 Today programme, after she was accused by an Israeli government spokesperson live on air of “blindly repeating what terrorist organisations … feed you”.In a tetchy interview on Monday’s programme, David Mence
  
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• Children among up to 200 Rohingya killed in Myanmar drone attack

  12-08-2024 16:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Witnesses say people killed in artillery and drone attack that targeted civilians fleeing violenceMany dozens of Rohingya people, including children, were killed in an artillery and drone attack that targeted civilians as they tried to flee Myanmar last week.Civilians were trying to escape violence in Maungdaw town, Rakhine state, by crossing the Naf River into Bangladesh when they were targeted last Monday. Videos shared on social media, which appeared to have been taken in the aftermath of the
  
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• 2 stabbed, including 11-year-old, in London's Leicester Square, 1 man in custody

  12-08-2024 16:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Two people, including an 11-year-old girl, were rushed to the hospital after they were injured in a stabbing attack in London's Leicester Square in the United Kingdom on Monday.In addition to the young girl, a 34-year-old woman was also attacked. Police have not identified either person and have not said whether they are related. Police took a man into custody in relation to the attack, but they have not offered any details about his identity.The victims are now in the hospital, but police have
  
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• Israel prepares for likely retaliatory attack by Iran as tensions mount

  12-08-2024 16:18 via theguardian.com
  
  US deploys submarine to region as Iran stresses right to ‘appropriate and deterrent response’ to assassinationsMiddle East crisis – live updatesIran has insisted on its right to an “appropriate and deterrent response” against Israel as the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told his US counterpart that Tehran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack.It comes as the US announced it had ordered the deployment of the USS Georgia, a nuclear-powered
  
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• Greece has brought in the army to help extinguish fires raging out of control in eastern Attica – as it happened

  12-08-2024 16:02 via theguardian.com
  Eighty-eight soldiers had been seconded in the battle to contain blazes with firefighting effortsAFP reports from Penteli:Thick smoke from burning trees filled a small square in Penteli where local resident Mariana Papathanasi said they could only pray that their houses would be saved.“There is still a strong fire. Some houses were burned after midnight and we are trying to protect our local restaurant,” the 49-year-old supermarket employee told AFP. Continue reading...
  
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• New York Times says it received hacked Trump campaign documents

  12-08-2024 15:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Politico first reported getting emails with internal communications and a 271-page dossier on JD VanceThe New York Times has confirmed it received the same or similar trove of Donald Trump presidential campaign documents as other media outlets did, after Microsoft confirmed that a “high-ranking official” at a presidential campaign was a hacking target.For the third US election in a row, hacked campaign information by a foreign power is now likely to feature as potential disruption. T
  
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• Middle East crisis: US accelerates military deployment to region amid reports Iran may attack within days – as it happened

  12-08-2024 15:48 via theguardian.com
  
  US defence secretary Lloyd Austin orders USS Abraham Lincoln strike group to quicken transit to Middle East and deploys guided missile submarine, says PentagonSee all our Middle East crisis coverageA hospital in southern Gaza has received the bodies of 13 people, including a child, who were killed in Israeli strikes on Khan Younis, the Associated Press reports.
  The strikes came as Israel has ordered mass evacuations from Gaza’s second-largest city in recent days, claiming Palestinian milit
  
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• Sweden closes investigation into barred Eurovision contestant Joost Klein

  12-08-2024 15:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Prosecutor says it cannot be proved the Dutch contestant caused ‘serious fear’ in backstage incident involving camera operatorSweden has closed an investigation into the Dutch Eurovision contestant Joost Klein, who was disqualified from the 2024 final in Malmö after a camera operator accused him of “threatening” behaviour, the prosecution authority has announced.The singer was barred from performing his song Europapa hours before the Eurovision final on 11 May, after
  
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• Chicago woman gets nine-year sentence for stealing $1.5m in chicken wings

  12-08-2024 15:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Routine audit found school food service director took more than 11,000 cases of wings intended for remote learnersA school district official in Chicago was given nine-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to stealing a staggering $1.5m worth of chicken wings.Vera Liddell, the food service director for Harvey School District 152 near Chicago, stole the huge amount of fast food during the pandemic and its aftermath, when the wings were meant for children doing remote learning but who were still
  
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• Italian hospitals report rise in heat cases as weather fails to deter tourists

  12-08-2024 15:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Number of people seeking emergency care for heat-related illnesses is up in cities including Rome, Florence and VeniceThe number of people accessing emergency care for heat-related illnesses has risen sharply in some of Italy’s most popular tourist cities, as the country experiences an intense heatwave that is failing to deter visitors.Italy has been engulfed in consecutive heatwaves since around the middle of June. Some central and southern areas are expected to record temperatures above
  
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• Iran could attack Israel in less than 24 hours, sources say, as Western powers issue Tehran a warning

  12-08-2024 15:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Western powers have issued a joint statement Monday warning Iran and its allies to "refrain from attacks that would further escalate regional tensions" in the Middle East as they appear to soon be heading toward a breaking point. Regional sources told Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Monday that they are concerned Iran and its proxies could attack Israel within the next 24 hours in retaliation for the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran late last mon
  
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• ‘No longer in awe of my own genius’: Nick Cave talks about how he changed after sons’ deaths

  12-08-2024 14:58 via theguardian.com
  
  In revealing ABC interview conducted on anniversary of elder son’s death, singer-songwriter acknowledges ‘disgraceful self-indulgence’ in earlier yearsNick Cave has described how the deaths of two of his four sons have made him prioritise being “a father and a husband and a kind of person of the world” over “the concept of being an artist” in an interview conducted in May on the anniversary of his son Jethro’s death, and aired in a 30-minute Austra
  
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• California teacher shocked to find bear enjoying a snack in classroom

  12-08-2024 13:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Bear, which was eating granola bars that come as part of class’s emergency earthquake kit, was safely removedA California school teacher got a shock when she discovered a bear had broken into her classroom to eat the granola bars that come with the class’s emergency earthquake kits.Local TV station KGET reported that Elaine Salmon of Peak to Peak charter school in Pine Mountain Club, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles, was in the school main office printing out paperwork when the be
  
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• Exclusive: Hamas document reveals devious paraglider terrorism attack plan

  12-08-2024 13:51 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM - The Hamas terrorist movement’s use of paragliders as part of its mass murder of nearly 1,200 people, including over 30 Americans, in southern Israel on Oct. 7 was laid out in a methodical plan that Fox News Digital can disclose for the first time.A Hamas military plan obtained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Gaza Strip reveals the great lengths the Iranian regime-backed terrorist organization Hamas went to deceive the world about its use of the aerial sports devi
  
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• Doctors strike in India after rape and murder of trainee medic at hospital

  12-08-2024 12:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Call for better safety measures as ‘civic volunteer’ arrested after attack on female trainee doctor in KolkataDoctors at government hospitals in several Indian states have gone on strike in a protest after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata on Friday.The 31-year-old woman was attacked at the state-run RG Kar medical college, where she was a resident doctor, after she went to rest in a seminar room following dinner with colleagues. Her brutalised body was found with mu
  
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• ‘Labor doesn’t care what we think’: doctor to take on Tony Burke in safe western Sydney seat

  12-08-2024 11:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Dr Ziad Basyouny is the first of several independents expected to challenge federal Labor seats amid the Israel-Gaza warGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhile there are many things driving the independent candidate Dr Ziad Basyouny to challenge Tony Burke for the seat of Watson in Sydney, there is one word that wraps them all together.“Injustice,” Basyouny declared, speaking from his medical practice in Lakemba.Sign up for Guardian A
  
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• Linda Reynolds believed Lehrmann rape trial was politically motivated, psychologist tells defamation trial

  12-08-2024 11:01 via theguardian.com
  April Jones tells Perth court she started counselling Reynolds after reports of Brittany Higgins’ accusations senator mishandled her rape complaintFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLiberal senator Linda Reynolds believed Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial was politically motivated and Peter Dutton undermined her, a psychologist’s notes read to a defamation trial have revealed.Senator Reynolds
  
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• South Korea and US will start summer military drills next week to counter North Korean threats

  12-08-2024 10:38
  
  Joint military exercises focus on defense against North Korean nuclear threats.
  
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• 2 people found dead, 1 injured after Maryland house explosion: Authorities

  12-08-2024 10:37
  
  Two people were found dead after an explosion Sunday morning leveled a home and rocked a suburban Baltimore neighborhood, authorities said.
  
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• Hong Kong's top court upholds convictions of 7 prominent pro-democracy activists over 2019 protest

  12-08-2024 08:54
  
  They were convicted for their roles in anti-government protests in 2019.
  
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• US orders strike group to accelerate deployment to Middle East amid fears of Iran attack on Israel

  12-08-2024 08:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Secretary of defence also announces deployment of guided missile submarine, as Hamas appears to push back against resuming ceasefire negotiationsThe US has ordered a strike group of fighter jets and navy warships to accelerate its deployment to the Middle East, as the region braces for possible attacks by Iran and its allies after the killing of senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah.The US secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin, ordered the Abraham Lincoln strike group to accelerate its deployment t
  
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• Pantanal waterway project would destroy a ‘paradise on Earth’, scientists warn

  12-08-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The South American wetland, which falls within Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, would be vulnerable to biome loss and increased wildfires‘Losing Noah’s Ark’: Brazil’s plan to turn the Pantanal into waterway threatens world’s biggest wetlandDozens of scientists are sounding the alarm that carving a commercial waterway through the world’s largest wetlands could spell the “end of an entire biome”, and leave hundreds of thousands of hectares of land to be
  
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• Israel-Gaza live updates: US is 'strengthening' military force in Middle East

  12-08-2024 06:06
  
  As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the US military announced it is moving more forces to the Middle East.
  
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• Hezbollah launches 30 rockets into Israel, no casualties reported: IDF

  12-08-2024 04:02 via foxnews.com
  
  Hezbollah launched 30 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel early Monday, though no casualties were reported, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed. "Following sirens that sounded a short while ago in northern Israel, approximately 30 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon toward the area of Kabri, a number of which fell in open areas," an IDF spokesman said. "No injuries were reported." The barrage came amid anticipation of retaliatory strikes by Iran and its proxy
  
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• Fatal weekend shootings jolt growing Denver-area suburb

  12-08-2024 02:22
  
  Four men were fatally shot and a woman was hospitalized.
  
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• Hamas refuses to attend Gaza cease-fire talks as Biden says it’s ‘still possible’ to reach deal

  12-08-2024 01:58 via foxnews.com
  
  The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas said Sunday it would not participate in new negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza this week unless mediators presented a plan based on previous talks. "The movement calls on the mediators to present a plan to implement what was agreed upon by the movement on July 2, 2024, based on [President] Biden’s vision and the UN Security Council resolution," Hamas said in a statement posted on Telegram. The terrorist group, which is still holding dozens
  
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• Triumphs, challenges and unity in Paris: A glorious farewell to the 2024 Olympics

  12-08-2024 00:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Paris Games culminated in a spectacular closing ceremony, providing a fitting end to more than two weeks of spectacular competition.
  
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