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• Middle East crisis: Israeli strike kills six in southern Lebanon, health ministry says – as it happened

  14-11-2024 23:41 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. You can read all our coverage of the Israel-Gaza war here and all our coverage of Israel’s war on Lebanon hereOvernight the IDF announced that six soldiers had been killed in clashes with Hezbollah inside southern Lebanon.The Times of Israel reports “it was one of the heaviest single-day losses in the operation that began in late September,” and that “according to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire with at l
  
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• India's capital introduces stricter anti-pollution measures as toxic smog hides Taj Mahal

  14-11-2024 23:24 via foxnews.com
  
  India's government banned non-essential construction in New Delhi, the world's most polluted capital, and urged residents to avoid burning coal for heating, to combat worsening air quality that has disrupted flights and obscured the Taj Mahal.The new measures, which include sprinkling water with dust suppressants on roads, as well as mechanised sweeping that would help settle dust, will come into effect from Friday morning.INDIA'S POPULAR BUT POLARIZING LEADER NARENDRA MODI IS EXTENDING HIS DECA
  
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• Welsh government advised to create dog-free zones to combat racism

  14-11-2024 21:56 via foxnews.com
  
  An environmental group has advised the Welsh government to create dog-free zones in an effort to make the outdoors less racist and more inclusive. A report by the Climate Cymru BAME identified a series of proposals, including the creation of "dog-free areas in local green spaces."The reason for the suggestion wasn't disclosed in the report, which will be used by the Welsh government to "support policy teams" who are "developing and implementing" anti-racist plans for Wales," The Telegraph r
  
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• Stop ‘draconian’ mass deportations of Haitians fleeing gangs, activists say

  14-11-2024 21:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Tens of thousands deported from Caribbean states, as Dominican Republic pledges to return 10,000 people a weekActivists have called on Caribbean governments to halt the mass deportation of Haitians fleeing escalating gang violence that has claimed thousands of lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.In the past month, tens of thousands of people have been deported to Haiti, including 61,000 from the neighbouring Dominican Republic, whose president recently pledged to deport 10,000 mi
  
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• Elizabeth Warren denounces Biden administration over Gaza humanitarian situation

  14-11-2024 20:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Massachusetts senator now joins Bernie Sanders in endorsing joint resolution of disapproval against Joe BidenElizabeth Warren, a leading progressive voice in the US Senate, has denounced the Biden administration’s failure to punish Israel over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and endorsed a joint resolution of disapproval in Congress.The amount of aid reaching the territory has dropped to the lowest level in 11 months, official Israeli figures show. The White House last month gave I
  
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• UK court sides with Icelandic firm over artist’s spoof corruption apology

  14-11-2024 18:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Judge considering complaint by fishing firm Samherji rules artist Odee unlikely to be able to defend work as parodyThe property rights of Iceland’s largest fishing company prevail over the right to artistic expression of an artist who spoofed the firm’s website to draw attention to a high-profile corruption scandal, London’s high court has ruled.For his 2023 work We’re Sorry, the Icelandic artist Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson, who goes by the moniker Odee, copied the cor
  
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• Weekly quiz: How did Beyoncé make music history?

  14-11-2024 18:40 via bbc.com
  
  How closely have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?
  
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• WATCH: Congress hears more testimony about UFOs: ‘We are not alone’

  14-11-2024 18:26
  
  Wednesday’s joint congressional hearing by subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee was titled, "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth."
  
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• Iran military heads vow 'crushing' response to Israel as UN atomic chief says nuke sites shouldn't be attacked

  14-11-2024 18:14 via foxnews.com
  
  Tensions between Iran and Israel remain heightened as Tehran’s military heads on Thursday once again pledged a crushing response to Jerusalem’s strikes last month, and the U.N.’s atomic watchdog is scrambling to prevent a nuclear escalation. Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi traveled to Iran this week to hold high level meetings with Iranian officials in a move to hold Tehran accountable for prior nuclear safeguarding pledges and
  
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• Judge investigating 2023 coup was court bomb target, say Brazilian police

  14-11-2024 17:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Police name 59-year-old with explosive devices said to have killed himself after trying to enter court in BrasíliaThe main target of a bomber who killed himself while attempting to attack Brazil’s supreme court was the justice leading the key investigations into the attempted coup of 8 January last year, when supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro ransacked the buildings to protest against his election defeat, police have said. The explosions outside the court on Wednesda
  
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• WATCH: Iowa woman took photos of her parents waving goodbye for 27 years

  14-11-2024 17:31
  
  From 1991 to 2017, photographer Deanna Dikeman documented parting moments with her parents in Sioux City, Iowa, until their passing.
  
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• French military systems in Sudan may break UN arms embargo, says Amnesty

  14-11-2024 17:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Group says it has identified the Galix defence system on armoured vehicles imported from the UAE and calls for government to investigateFrance must investigate the use of its military systems by Sudan’s paramilitary forces, which could be in breach of an arms embargo, Amnesty International has said.The group said it had identified the French-made Galix defence system being used in Sudan on armoured vehicles manufactured in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – considered a key supplier of
  
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• Chinese city still officially in summer as 30-year heat record broken

  14-11-2024 16:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Temperatures in Guangzhou fail to drop below level that meteorological service uses to mark change in seasonOne of China’s biggest cities is still officially in summer, despite it being mid-November, as temperatures have failed to drop below the threshold considered necessary to mark the change in season.This week, Guangzhou, a hot and humid city of nearly 19 million people in southern China’s Guangdong province, broke a three-decade heat record, according to the local meteorological
  
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• WATCH: Thailand zoo releases official Moo Deng song

  14-11-2024 16:29
  
  The 4-month-old pygmy hippo who became an internet darling when she made her debut on social media is ready to dominate the pop charts with a new song called “Moo Deng Moo Deng.”
  
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• Evaristos united: namesakes Bernardine and Conceição meet at book festival

  14-11-2024 15:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Celebrated authors discuss the somewhat connected stories of their shared surname at literary event in RioBorn more than 5,500 miles apart, the Booker prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, 65, and Brazil’s most celebrated living Black author, Conceição Evaristo, 77, share the same surname, though they are – as far as is known – unrelated.But their surnames’ stories are somewhat connected, and shed light on aspects of the history of Brazil, the country that recei
  
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• 'Wicked' director Jon Chu says all the Oz works have come at big historical shifts

  14-11-2024 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu reflected on how the feature film might have greater meaning in the wake of the election.
  
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• Fears for spread of malaria in Africa as study finds resistance to frontline drug

  14-11-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Signs of resistance to artemisinin in tenth of children with severe malaria similar to situation in Asia, say researchersResearchers have found “troubling” evidence for the first time that a lifesaving malaria drug is becoming less effective in young African children with serious infections.A study of children being treated in hospital for malaria in Uganda, presented at a major conference on Thursday, found signs of resistance to artemisinin in one patient in 10. Continue reading...
  
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• Middle East crisis live: Israel accused of the ‘war crime of forcible transfer’ in Gaza

  14-11-2024 11:08 via theguardian.com
  Report by Human Rights Watch says use of repeated evacuation orders against civilians amounts to crimes against humanityOvernight the IDF announced that six soldiers had been killed in clashes with Hezbollah inside southern Lebanon.The Times of Israel reports “it was one of the heaviest single-day losses in the operation that began in late September,” and that “according to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire with at least four Hezbollah operat
  
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• Colombia outlaws child marriage after 17-year campaign

  14-11-2024 11:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Country closes 137-year legal loophole, becoming one of 12 in Latin America and the Caribbean to entirely ban marriage for minorsColombian lawmakers have approved a bill to eradicate child marriage in the South American country after 17 years of campaigning by advocacy groups and eight failed attempts to push legislation through the house and senate.After five hours of heated, drawn-out debate on Wednesday evening, lawmakers approved the proposed legislation, dubbed They are Girls, Not Wives, wh
  
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• Hospital waiting times in England fall to lowest level in five months - UK politics live

  14-11-2024 11:03 via theguardian.com
  
  The waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England has fallen to 7.57mProf Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, has put out a statement welcoming the waiting list reduction (see 9.53am), but saying the health service will be busier than ever before this winter. He says:The NHS is going into winter under more pressure and busier than ever before, with another record month for A&E and ambulance services before we even start to see a further spike of pressure ca
  
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• Florida liberal arts college reinstates ‘wokeness’ course amid furore

  14-11-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Course set to be taught by controversial British ‘anti-woke’ media commentator Andrew DoyleNew College of Florida reinstated a course on “wokeness” taught by controversial British media personality and culture warrior Andrew Doyle to its catalog, after appearing to remove it from an earlier version, amid an ongoing furore over the university’s transformation into a more conservative institution.The course was also restored to an internal enrollment system but withou
  
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• Bill Clinton book describes ‘frustration’ over Monica Lewinsky affair questions

  14-11-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In new memoir Citizen, Clinton acknowledges he has not directly apologized to Lewinsky over White House affair Bill Clinton, the former US president, has written of his “frustration” at being questioned about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky while acknowledging that he has never apologized to her directly.Clinton became embroiled in one of the biggest political scandals in history when it emerged in 1998 that he had a sexual relationship with the then 22-year-old Le
  
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• Trump's new top team

  14-11-2024 10:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What the president-elect's inner circle says about his priorities
  
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• UN watchdog warns time to 'maneuver' on Iran's nuclear program is shrinking: report

  14-11-2024 10:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog warned this week the window to "maneuver" a diplomatic solution to halt Iran’s nuclear development was beginning to "shrink." Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, issued an urgent message in an interview with AFP at the COP29 climate summit in Baku."The Iranian administration must understand that the international situation is becoming increasingly tense and that the margins to maneuver are beginning
  
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• Burberry’s turnaround chief plans £40m cuts and ‘scarf bar’ rollout

  14-11-2024 09:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Shares in fashion brand jump as ‘urgent’ cost-cutting programme announced following half-year lossesBusiness live – latest updatesBurberry has unveiled a £40m cost-cutting programme as its new chief executive pledged to “stabilise the business” with a turnaround plan aimed at reviving the fortunes of the ailing British luxury fashion brand.Joshua Schulman, the former Coach boss who replaced his ousted predecessor, Jonathan Akeroyd, in July, said the company wa
  
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• Paris prosecutor seeks jail and public office ban for Marine Le Pen

  14-11-2024 09:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Request in embezzlement trial threatens to undermine National Rally’s efforts to polish image before 2027 pollsA Paris prosecutor has requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office for the far-right leader Marine Le Pen, at a trial in which she and 24 others are accused of embezzling EU funds.The trial, which comes almost a decade after initial investigations started, threatens to undermine her National Rally (RN) party’s efforts to polish its image befo
  
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• Insults and a haka in New Zealand parliament as MPs debate Māori rights bill

  14-11-2024 09:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Voting temporarily suspended amid disruptions including a Māori party MP ripping up a copy of the billNew Zealand’s parliament has erupted into fiery debate, personal attacks and a haka over a controversial bill that proposes to radically alter the way New Zealand’s treaty between Māori and the crown is interpreted.The treaty principles bill was tabled by the libertarian Act party – a minor partner in New Zealand’s coalition government – and passed its fir
  
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• Efune insists his Daily and Sunday Telegraph bid is still on track

  14-11-2024 09:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Asset manager Oaktree out of running as backer but businessman has ‘high confidence’ he will get financeBusiness live – latest updatesThe British owner of the New York Sun has said his £550m offer to buy the Daily and Sunday Telegraph is still on track, despite a big potential backer not joining the bid.Dovid Efune entered exclusive talks to buy the Telegraph titles last month after submitting the highest bid in the second round of the auction for the titles. Continue rea
  
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• Anger as CFMEU ‘sweetheart deal’ suspended in Queensland government crackdown

  14-11-2024 09:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Union members hit out at LNP as deputy premier announces pause on pay and conditions policyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA “sweetheart deal” for the CFMEU has been suspended in an unprecedented crackdown after the embattled union was blamed for major project cost blowouts.Construction union “perks” were put on ice as the Queensland government stepped up a campaign to tackle the CFMEU, with some union members clearly not happy.Sign up for Guard
  
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• Iran announces ‘treatment clinic’ for women who defy strict hijab laws

  14-11-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The move has been described as ‘chilling’ by activists and rights groups as arrests mount over dress code breaches The Iranian state has said that it plans to open a treatment clinic for women who defy the mandatory hijab laws that require women to cover their heads in public.The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” was announced by Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Preve
  
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• Fireworks blamed for baby red panda’s death at Edinburgh zoo

  14-11-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Royal Zoological Society of Scotland calls for tougher laws after three-month-old Roxie dies from Bonfire Night stressThe owner of Edinburgh zoo has linked the death of a baby red panda on Bonfire Night to fireworks and called for tighter regulations.The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said vets blamed the death of three-month-old Roxie on 5 November on her reaction to fireworks in the area. Continue reading...
  
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• Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure

  14-11-2024 08:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Vote cast with 158 other countries to recognise ‘permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia has backed in a United Nations resolution to recognise the “permanent sovereignty” of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, marking a major departure from its previous position.At a UN committee vote on T
  
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• Alexis Wright wins $60,000 Melbourne literature prize

  14-11-2024 08:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The Waanyi writer, who won the Miles Franklin award and Stella prize this year for her novel Praiseworthy, has been recognised for her body of work and contribution to Australian cultureAlexis Wright has been awarded the $60,000 Melbourne prize for literature, capping off an extraordinary year in which she has won more than $200,000 in prize money after the publication of her epic novel, Praiseworthy.The Melbourne prize for literature, awarded every three years, recognises a Victorian writer who
  
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• Police make arrest and seize water pistol after incident outside NSW parliament – as it happened

  14-11-2024 07:53 via theguardian.com
  
  This blog is now closedAustralia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departureGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCould Donald Trump really fire Kevin Rudd?The former prime minister’s criticism of Donald Trump has drawn the ire of those in the president elect’s inner circle, and prompted renewed debate about whether the incoming administration could seek retribution.I’d be very much opposed to that.
  
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• ‘Different when there’s a knife raised at you’: officer feared Clare Nowland would stab her before Taser deployed

  14-11-2024 07:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Paramedic witness tells Sen Const Kristian White’s manslaughter trial that 95-year-old Nowland ‘didn’t appear to acknowledge’ warnings or instructionsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA police officer who tried to disarm a 95-year-old nursing home resident who had a steak knife has told a court she feared she would be stabbed – and was “comfortable” with her partner’s de
  
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• Coles and Woolworths buy big independents to help protect dominance, IGA says

  14-11-2024 07:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Major supermarkets’ takeover strategy prevents smaller grocers from growing into stronger competitors, inquiry hearsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastColes and Woolworths “pick off” large independent stores in a takeover strategy that prevents the smaller grocers from growing into more formidable competitors, an inquiry heard on Thursday.Grant Ramage, an executive at IGA and Foodland brand owner Metc
  
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• Pharmacies vote to cut services unless UK government acts over ‘crisis’

  14-11-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Pharmacy owners to reduce hours and make fewer home deliveries of medicines unless there is better fundingPharmacies have said they will halt a number of services within weeks, including the end of free medicine deliveries and extended opening hours, unless the government drastically boosts funding for the sector to stem an “escalating crisis”.In a high-turnout ballot run by the National Pharmacy Association (NPA), which represents independent community pharmacies, 99% of pharmacy ow
  
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• ‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm

  14-11-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaignA unique farm that was “accidentally” rewilded 35 years ago and is now a haven for endangered nightingales and other rare wildlife has been saved, thanks in part to the generosity of Guardian readers.Strawberry Hill in Bedfordshire has been successfully bought by the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants (BCN) after a crowdfunding appeal raised £1.5m. Continue reading
  
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• Israel accused of crimes against humanity over forced displacement in Gaza

  14-11-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that suggests ‘the war crime of forcible transfer’ of civiliansIsrael is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity.The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”,
  
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• ‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought

  14-11-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Crops have failed in several countries, with 27m people at risk of hunger according to World Food ProgrammeEmmanuel Himoonga paced his dry field, picking up stalks of maize that had been bleached almost to bone white.The 61-year-old chief of Shakumbila, a mainly agricultural community of about 7,000 people roughly 70 miles west of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, had seen droughts before. Continue reading...
  
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• Dead drops, PR stunts and punishment beatings: the rapid rise of Russia’s powerful darknet drug industry

  14-11-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tech-savvy organised crime groups profiting from billion-dollar enterprise that is spreading beyond Russian bordersAt any one moment in towns and cities across Russia, thousands of drug packages lie buried in the ground, attached by magnets to lamp-posts or taped underneath window sills, waiting to be picked up by their intended customers.From the streets of Moscow to remote towns in Siberia, hand-to-hand buying of illegal drugs – as is the norm in most of the world – is on the wane.
  
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• How a Republican trifecta makes way for Trump’s rightwing agenda

  14-11-2024 05:15 via theguardian.com
  
  GOP majority in House and Senate could give the president-elect ability to extend tax cuts and roll back Biden-era lawsWith the confirmation that Republicans have won a majority in the House of Representatives, Donald Trump and his party will now have a governing trifecta in Washington come January, giving the new president a powerful perch to enact his rightwing agenda.Even without majorities in both chambers of Congress, Trump’s victory in the presidential race already gave him significa
  
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• Republicans secure House majority in yet another blow to Democrats

  14-11-2024 05:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Party has won 218 seats in lower chamber after Democrats unsuccessfully campaigned on need to curtail ‘dysfunction’Full congressional results: House, Senate and governorsRepublicans have secured a majority in the US House of Representatives, extending their hold on the lower chamber and delivering a governing trifecta in Washington that could give Donald Trump sweeping power to enact his legislative agenda.The Associated Press determined on Wednesday evening that Republicans had won
  
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• Man dead after explosions outside Brazil supreme court ahead of G20

  14-11-2024 04:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Officials said the man had killed himself with a bomb after trying to enter the Supreme Court, prompting security concerns ahead of the global leaders meetingA man killed himself with a bomb outside Brazil’s supreme court after trying to enter the building on Wednesday, officials have said, stirring security concerns before the country hosts global leaders from the Group of 20 major economies.The blasts come five days before the G20 heads of state meet in Rio de Janeiro, followed by a stat
  
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• WATCH: Dog rescued after being found clinging to submerged shopping cart floating in canal

  14-11-2024 03:58
  
  Rescuers slid a ladder down into the canal and carefully saved the scared pup. Now, she gets more belly rubs than she could have ever dreamed of.
  
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• WATCH: Scammers in bear costumes attacked cars: Officials

  14-11-2024 03:52
  
  Four people have been arrested for alleged insurance fraud after they claimed a bear damaged their car — but it was really a person in a bear costume, according to officials in California.
  
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• Italian mural of Holocaust survivors defaced in act of antisemitism: 'Damages walls but not history'

  14-11-2024 03:52 via foxnews.com
  
  A mural of Holocaust survivors in Italy has been defaced in a "demented act" of vandalism.The Milanese mural by artist aleXsandro Palombo features Holocaust survivors Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano, whose faces and Stars of David were scratched out. The Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors were portrayed in striped camp uniforms and bulletproof vests.SENATORS VOW TO BAN PRO-HAMAS MIGRANTS FROM ENTERING US WITH BIPARTISAN PUSHThe artwork, unveiled on September 28, aimed to emphasize Holocaust remembrance
  
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• Trump 'challenging' Republican senators with controversial Cabinet picks: ANALYSIS

  14-11-2024 03:27
  
  Donald Trump was elected with a mandate last week. He's now using it to challenge Republican senators to confirm his Cabinet picks.
  
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• Trump transition live updates: Trump considering lawyer for deputy AG, sources say

  14-11-2024 03:25
  
  Donald Trump is wasting no time in planning his return to the White House.
  
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• 1 dead, Supreme Court evacuated as explosions rattle Brazilian capital

  14-11-2024 03:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Brazil's Supreme Court was evacuated after two nearby explosions on Wednesday night that left one dead in a square near Congress and the presidential palace, police said, stirring security concerns shortly before the country hosts the G20 summit.The blasts come five days before global leaders from the Group of 20 major economies meet in Rio de Janeiro, followed by a state visit to Brasília by Chinese President Xi Jinping.The first explosion came on Wednesday in a parking lot near the cour
  
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