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• Dallas police officer killed and two wounded in apparent ambush

  31-08-2024 23:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Suspect, 30, killed in shootout with police after officials say he opened fire on officer sitting in patrol carThe Dallas police chief said on Friday that a man intentionally set out to shoot police when he killed an officer sitting in his patrol car and wounded two others in a late-night ambush that set off a highway chase and ended with officers fatally shooting the attacker.The shooting on Thursday night brought fresh anguish and anger in a city where a gunman’s ambush on police in 2016
  
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• Oasis fans frustrated by technical issues in battle to nab reunion show tickets

  31-08-2024 23:17 via theguardian.com
  
  High demand crashes ticket-selling websites amid scramble to secure place on 17-date tourThere was frustration and disappointment for many Oasis fans earlier as they struggled for hours to buy the million-or-so tickets available for the Manchester band’s 17-date reunion tour.Tickets went on sale at 9am and were expected to be snapped up in minutes, but instead many waited in online queues for hours, only to be kicked off booking websites. Continue reading...
  
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• Explosive experts safely detonate a rare World War II bomb at major chemical plant

  31-08-2024 23:07 via foxnews.com
  
  Czech explosive experts detonated a World War II bomb on Friday at a major chemical plant in northwestern Czech Republic where it was found last week, authorities said.Besides a few broken windows, the controlled explosion didn’t immediately seem to cause serious damage, police said in a statement. The plant near the city of Litvinov belongs to Polish oil company PKN Orlen.WWII-ERA BOMB DISCOVERED BY COLORADO CONSTRUCTION WORKERSThe bomb was found during construction work last week on Aug.
  
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• WATCH: Officer carries sloth to safety

  31-08-2024 23:04
  
  A police officer in French Guiana lifted a sloth to safety, potentially moving it out of the way of a fast-paced cycling race.
  
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• Seven people killed and dozens injured in Mississippi bus crash

  31-08-2024 22:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Siblings among those killed as police say bus left Interstate 20 near Bovina in western Mississippi and flipped overSeven people have been killed and dozens more injured in western Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20, according to the state’s highway patrol.Six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene and another died at a hospital, according to a news release. The bus was traveling west on Saturday morning when it left the highway near Bovina in Warren count
  
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• US rapper Fatman Scoop dies after collapsing on stage mid-performance

  31-08-2024 22:23 via theguardian.com
  
  New York-born artist, 53, known for collaborating with Missy Elliott, was performing in Connecticut on FridayThe US rapper Fatman Scoop has died after he collapsed mid-performance during a free concert in Connecticut on Friday night, according to reports.The New York-born artist, whose real name is Isaac Freeman III, was headlining the so-called Green & Gold Party in Hamden, Connecticut, when he had what was described as a medical emergency. He was seen in a video posted on X to have collaps
  
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• Elizabeth Warren condemns Trump for ‘changing his tune’ on IVF

  31-08-2024 22:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Democratic senator says Republican nominee trying to have it ‘both ways’ and adapting position to his audienceThe US senator Elizabeth Warren has accused Donald Trump of trying to have it “both ways” with in vitro fertilization (IVF), two days after the former president vowed to force health insurance companies or the federal government to pay for the treatments if he is elected in November.Speaking on MSNBC, Warren said Trump was simply adapting his positions according t
  
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• Three children and man found dead in Surrey house

  31-08-2024 21:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Police believes no third party involved in incident after bodies found in Staines-Upon-Thames Three children and a man have been found dead in a house in Surrey.Police discovered their bodies in a property in Bremer Road, Staines-Upon-Thames, at about 1.15pm on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘My work sells for millions but only a fraction of that came to me,’ says Scottish painter

  31-08-2024 21:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Peter Doig says ‘crazy prices’ on the secondary market must be reined in to protect young artistsPeter Doig became the most expensive living painter in Europe in 2007, when White Canoe, his atmospheric painting of a a moonlit lagoon, sold for £5.7m.The Scot then saw his auction record broken in 2017 and in 2021 respectively, when Rosedale, his depiction of a house in a snow storm, and Swamped, another enigmatic painting of a canoe, sold for the eye-watering prices of £21m
  
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• Police say a man will face charges after storming into the press area at a Trump rally

  31-08-2024 20:46
  
  Police say a man will face misdemeanor charges after he stormed into the press area at Donald Trump’s rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, before being surrounded by authorities as the former president spoke at the campaign stop
  
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• ‘There was no mercy, even on children’: trauma in the West Bank after Israeli raids

  31-08-2024 20:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Israel accused of using a 10-year-old girl as a human shield as it carried out its devastating attack on the occupied Palestinian territoryWhen Israeli soldiers arrived at the modest house along an alleyway in Nur Shams camp on Wednesday night, they sent the women and four of the children out into the street, but kept hold of Malak Shihab.They took the muzzle off their dog and it went straight up to the slight 10-year-old girl and sniffed her. Terrified, she pleaded to be with her mother, but th
  
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• Vladimir Putin to make first ICC member state visit since arrest warrant issued for alleged child abduction

  31-08-2024 19:46 via foxnews.com
  
  The Kremlin has dismissed concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming trip to Mongolia, which will expose him to arrest under a criminal court warrant. "There are no worries, we have a great dialogue with our friends from Mongolia," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday, according to the Moscow Times. He added that "all aspects of the visit were carefully prepared."The attention to Putin’s latest trip derives from the fact that Mongolia is a mem
  
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• ‘Written in the stars’: Norwegian princess and California shaman tie the knot, with Netflix in waiting

  31-08-2024 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Unconventional marriage of Princess Märtha Louise and Durek Verrett celebrated with three-day schedule of events and a documentary to followShe is the clairvoyant daughter of one of Europe’s longest-serving monarchs; he is a self-styled sixth-generation shaman from California. The wedding of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway to Durek Verrett on Saturday on Saturday afternoon wasn’t your conventional royal affair, but that didn’t stop spectators lining the overcast stre
  
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• Human remains found after neighbor arrested for murder of couple from nudist ranch

  31-08-2024 19:17
  
  Days after a couple went missing from a house in a nudist community in California, police believe the couple is dead.
  
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• WHO to deliver 1.3M polio vaccine doses to 640K children in Gaza

  31-08-2024 19:11 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an ambitious effort amid a devastating war that has destroyed the territory's healthcare system.The campaign comes after the first polio case was reported in Gaza in 25 years — a 10-month-old boy, now paralyzed in the leg. The World Health Organization says the presence of a paralysis case indicates there could be hundreds more who have been infected
  
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• Holy See urges 'moratorium' on development of autonomous killing weapons at United Nations

  31-08-2024 18:42 via foxnews.com
  
  A delegation representing the Holy See urged the United Nations this week to put a moratorium on autonomous weapons designed to kill without human decision-making.Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva, gave the warning Monday during an expert session on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)."For the Holy See, autonomous weapons systems cannot be considered as morally responsible entities," Balestrer
  
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• NHL star hit, killed by alleged drunk driver night before sister's wedding

  31-08-2024 18:36
  
  Columbus Blue Jackets star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother were killed Thursday night when they were riding bikes and struck by a driver.
  
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• WATCH: Ukraine fighter ace bombing run destroys river crossing in Kursk

  31-08-2024 17:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Stunning footage shows a celebrated Ukrainian fighter pilot making a bombing run in the disputed Kursk region, where Kyiv’s forces have made major gains.  "Precision strike, objective control, and thanks from the commander. And this happens every day! Relentlessly and selflessly," the Ukrainian Air Force said in a release alongside the footage, which follows a high-profile incident involving one of the recently acquired F16s. Vadym Voroshylov, Ukraine’s 30-year-old fig
  
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• WATCH: Singing dog joins in with sax player

  31-08-2024 17:29
  
  In New York’s Central Park, a dalmation on a walk spotted a saxophone player and joined in.
  
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• 7 US personnel injured in Iraq raid that killed 15 ISIS members: Officials

  31-08-2024 17:10
  
  Seven U.S. personnel injured in Iraq raid that killed 15 ISIS members, officials said.
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: five killed after Russia targets Chasiv Yar in Donetsk – now closed

  31-08-2024 17:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Official says strike hit a house and a high-rise building, killing five young menThe US has decided against a proposal to deploy American contractors to Ukraine to maintain Western military equipment, including F-16 fighter jets.A Wall Street Journal report carried by Euromaiden stated that the Biden administration elected not to send contractors due to safety concerns, after Ukraine lost the first F-16 fighter jet it received from Western allies earlier this month. Continue reading...
  
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• S.C. man charged with murder after body of woman missing for 2 years found in backyard firepit

  31-08-2024 16:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  A man has been charged with murder after the remains of a woman missing for two years were found buried in the yard of a South Carolina home earlier this summer.
  
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• 'You are my forever': Johnny Gaudreau's wife speaks out after NHL star is killed by suspected drunk driver

  31-08-2024 16:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Johnny Gaudreau's wife is speaking out for the first time since the NHL star and his younger brother were fatally struck by a suspected drunk driver while biking in New Jersey.
  
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• X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws

  31-08-2024 16:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Millions of users shut out and 500,000 switch to rival platform Bluesky as providers enact supreme court banCarole Cadwalladr: Don’t rejoice yet,Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truthOne of the world’s most popular social networks, X, has gone offline in Brazil – the country with the fifth largest digital population – after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws meant it was blocked by the supreme court.Millions of Brazilia
  
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• Former Mexican drug cartel leader who generated 'new era' of organized crime is released from US prison

  31-08-2024 16:28 via foxnews.com
  
  Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, a former drug cartel leader described as having "generated a new era of organized crime" in Mexico, has now been released from U.S. prison and may be heading back over the border, reports say. Cárdenas Guillén, the past leader of the Gulf cartel who created the Zetas — a gang of former Mexican special forces soldiers who became his private army and hit squad — was transferred into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enf
  
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• San Francisco State University divests from arms makers in deal with pro-Palestinian students

  31-08-2024 16:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  Students for Gaza SFSU announced Thursday that San Francisco State University has pulled investments from three companies the university claims do not meet its human rights standards following demonstrations from pro-Palestinian activists and groups.
  
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• Friendly relationship with Kim Jong Un is 'not a bad thing,' Trump says

  31-08-2024 16:17 via foxnews.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump touted his relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un recently, calling friendly relations with the cloistered country a "good thing."Trump made the comment at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania this week, reflecting on what some see as among the greatest accomplishments of his administration."I got along with Kim Jong-un of North Korea. Remember I walked over [...] the first person to ever walk over from this country," the former president said to the crowd.
  
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• Body of woman missing for 2 years found under firepit, roommate charged with murder

  31-08-2024 16:10
  
  A man has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of his former roommate whose body was missing for over two years and found buried under a firepit in June.
  
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• The Apple Mac Mini is 17% off and half the price of a MacBook Air

  31-08-2024 15:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Now’s the time to upgrade your tech with the Apple Mac Mini, an under the radar all-purpose desktop PC.
  
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• Travelers hit the road for the long Labor Day weekend

  31-08-2024 15:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Airports, highways, beaches and theme parks are expected to be packed across the U.S. this Labor Day weekend as a lot Americans mark the unofficial end of summer the same way they celebrated the season’s unofficial start: by traveling.
  
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• Middle East crisis: aid agency says four men killed by Israeli airstrike were a local escort – as it happened

  31-08-2024 15:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Anera says four men who died in Gaza were locals who asked to serve as escort for convoy, but IDF describes them as ‘armed assailants’See all our coverage of the Israel-Gaza war Continue reading...
  
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• Search for tourist swallowed by sinkhole in Kuala Lumpur stalls amid safety fears

  31-08-2024 15:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Officials say it is too dangerous to send in divers to look for the Indian woman who has now been missing for eight daysThe search for an Indian tourist who was swallowed by a sinkhole in Malaysia’s capital has stalled after being deemed “too risky”.Vijaya Lakshmi Gali was walking along a road in Kuala Lumpur on 23 August when the pavement beneath her suddenly collapsed. She plunged into an 8-metre-deep (26ft) sinkhole and disappeared. Rescuers have found no trace of her so far
  
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• Boy, four, who broke bronze age jar returns to museum in Israel

  31-08-2024 15:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The family watched the rare 3,500-year-old jar, believed used for wine or oil, being restored at the Hecht MuseumSmashing a rare museum artefact dating back thousands of years would probably earn you a lifetime ban at the very least.But a four-year-old who accidentally toppled a jar from the bronze age, leaving it broken into pieces, was welcomed back to the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, a week after the unfortunate incident. Continue reading...
  
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• Tucker Carlson takes his show on the road for a 16-day cross-country tour

  31-08-2024 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson begins a 16-date cross-country tour next week featuring a slate of Donald Trump loyalists and conservative provocateurs.
  
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• Activists join US, NYC officials in effort to name street outside North Korea's UN office after Otto Warmbier

  31-08-2024 14:31 via foxnews.com
  
  FIRST ON FOX — Otto Warmbier would have been a 29-year-old New Yorker by now, living in Manhattan and working as a financial analyst, perhaps a resident of the Turtle Bay apartment building where he was last photographed waiting for a friend.But instead, the then University of Virginia college student was arrested because he was an American, falsely accused of stealing a political poster, put on a show-trial in the unforgiving dictatorship of Kim Jong Un and ultimately tortured to be sent
  
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• The 10 states where abortion rights will be on the ballot this fall

  31-08-2024 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Voters will decide on 10 ballot measures that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution this fall after the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
  
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• Portugal declares day of mourning after four die in helicopter crash

  31-08-2024 13:27 via theguardian.com
  
  One person still missing after aircraft that was returning from a firefighting mission crashed into riverPortugal has declared a day of mourning after a firefighting helicopter crashed in the Douro River leaving at least four dead and one missing.The pilot survived the accident, which happened in Lamego a little after 12.30pm on Friday afternoon while the helicopter was returning from fighting a fire near Baião, just inland from the city of Porto. Continue reading...
  
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• Keir Diary… A Week in the Life of the PM

  31-08-2024 13:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Recapping a busy week for Sir Keir Starmer.
  
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• Threats of mass violence against one of the world’s most persecuted minorities are growing

  31-08-2024 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  In interviews, Yazidi civilians and activists said hardline clerics have stirred up hatred and targeted their community, reawakening memories of ISIS’s 2014 onslaught.
  
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• West Virginia has one of the country's worst voter turnout records. Will this election be different?

  31-08-2024 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  In West Virginia, many young voters express apathy and pessimism about casting their ballots. But several groups are working to persuade them to go to the polls in November.
  
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• 3 years after US withdrawal, Afghan resistance still ignored by US, West

  31-08-2024 12:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The Taliban has been in power for three years since the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021, and the country's only pro-Western opposition force, the National Resistance Front (NRF), tries to make gains against the increasingly extremist authorities, all without much-needed U.S. and international support.Even without external support, the NRF has increased its capabilities and expanded military operations throughout the country.Ali Maisam Nazary, head of foreign relatio
  
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• Simple blood test could predict a person’s heart disease risk 30 years out, study finds

  31-08-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  A new approach to a routine blood test could predict a person’s 30-year risk of heart disease, research published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine found.
  
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• Far-right group that invokes Nazi past on the verge of state election success in Germany

  31-08-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  A far-right group that for some has evoked Germany’s Nazi past may be on the verge of becoming the strongest party for the first time in a state election.
  
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• Woman arrested after six hurt in knife attack on bus in Germany

  31-08-2024 10:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Bus was heading to festival in Siegen near Cologne when incident took place on Friday eveningA 32-year-old woman has been arrested after six people were hurt in a knife attack on a bus headed to a festival in western Germany. Authorities said there was no evidence of a political or religious motive.Three of those attacked are in life-threatening condition, police said on Friday evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Defending champion Novak Djokovic is shocked at the US Open one night after Carlos Alcaraz's loss

  31-08-2024 10:06
  
  Defending champion Novak Djokovic has lost at the U.S. Open one night after Carlos Alcaraz did
  
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• US, Iraq team up to kill 15 ISIS operatives in early morning raid, US military says

  31-08-2024 06:57 via foxnews.com
  
  A joint operation by American and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, the U.S. military announced. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) tweeted on Friday that in the early hours of Thursday, Aug. 29, U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 15 ISIS operatives. The operatives were "armed with numerous weapons, grenades, and explosive ‘suicide’ belts," the agency announced.At least seven U.S. service members were injured in the raid — five during one
  
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• US and Iraq launch joint raid killing 15 Islamic State militants

  31-08-2024 06:26 via theguardian.com
  Seven American troops injured during battle in Anbar desert, says central commandThe US military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the Iraqi western desert that killed at least 15 people while seven American troops were hurt, officials said on Saturday.The US military’s central command said the militants were armed with weapons, grenades and explosive belts during the battle on Thursday, which Iraqi forces said happened in the Anbar desert.
  
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• Defending champion Novak Djokovic loses to Alexei Popyrin in U.S. Open

  31-08-2024 06:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Defending champion Novak Djokovic was shocked at the U.S. Open, bowing out in the third round with a 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 loss to 28th-seeded Alexei Popyrin of Australia on Friday night.
  
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• Trump's lawyers seek post-Election Day delay for court fight in interference case

  31-08-2024 05:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump's legal team on Friday proposed a court schedule in his federal election interference case that would delay a court fight.
  
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• U.S. raid in Iraq leaves 15 Islamic State fighters dead, 6 American soldiers injured

  31-08-2024 04:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  A U.S. military operation Thursday in Iraq killed at least 15 Islamic State militant group fighters, and at least six U.S. soldiers suffered injuries, three U.S. defense officials said.
  
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