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• The 'tush push': The Chiefs may not have an answer for the Eagles' most effective play

  06-02-2025 23:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS — In the fourth quarter of the AFC championship game, the Buffalo Bills were nursing a 22-21 lead over the Kansas City Chiefs when they faced a fourth-and-1 on the Chiefs’ 41-yard line.
  
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• British conman sentenced to six years for ramming police with car in France

  06-02-2025 21:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Robert Hendy-Freegard, the subject of a Netflix documentary, injured two gendarmes at his home in 2022A British conman who featured in a Netflix documentary has been sentenced to six years in prison by a French court for deliberately ramming two police officers with his car as he attempted a getaway.Robert Hendy-Freegard, 53, nicknamed the Puppet Master because of his career as a serial swindler, made his escape after injuring the gendarmes at his home in the Creuse in central France. Continue r
  
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• Netanyahu gifts Trump controversial item that helped turned tide in war against Hezbollah

  06-02-2025 21:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump an unusual gift during his most recent trip to Washington, D.C., this week — a gold-plated pager.The present was a nod to the controversial mass attack believed to have been carried out by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency against Hezbollah Sept. 17, 2024, in which thousands of pagers, walkie-talkie-like devices and radios simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and Syria around 3:30 p.m. A statement fro
  
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• Netanyahu gifts Trump controversial item that helped turn tide in war against Hezbollah

  06-02-2025 21:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump an unusual gift during his most recent trip to Washington, D.C., this week — a gold-plated pager.The present was a nod to the controversial mass attack believed to have been carried out by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency against Hezbollah Sept. 17, 2024, in which thousands of pagers, walkie-talkie-like devices and radios simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and Syria around 3:30 p.m. A statement fro
  
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• Trump administration disbands taskforce targeting Russian oligarchs

  06-02-2025 21:36 via theguardian.com
  
  US attorney general issues memo to break up effort started after 2022 Ukraine invasion to target those close to KremlinThe US justice department under Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin.A memo from the attorney general, Pam Bondi, issued during a wave of orders on her first day in office but not previously reported, said the effort, known as Task Force KleptoCapture, will end as
  
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• Netanyahu gives Trump ‘golden pager’ in apparent reference to Lebanon attack

  06-02-2025 21:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Photos show gift, reportedly nod to Israel’s deadly attack on Hezbollah, during which devices simultaneously detonatedBenjamin Netanyahu reportedly gave Donald Trump a “golden pager” during their meeting in Washington DC this week, in an apparent reference to Israel’s deadly attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon last year.In photos circulating online, the golden pager can be seen mounted on a piece of wood, accompanied by a golden plaque that reads in black lettering: &ldqu
  
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• ‘Worst nightmare’: Egypt and Jordan put in impossible bind by Trump Gaza plan

  06-02-2025 20:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Though heavily dependent on US aid, Amman and Cairo face political calamity at home should they complyInternational outrage in recent days has focused on Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take “ownership” of Gaza, and that more than two million Palestinians be displaced to allow the territory to be transformed from “a demolition site” into a “riviera” in the Middle East.In Jordan and Egypt, the demand that both countries accept huge numbers of Palestin
  
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• Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid

  06-02-2025 20:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrateMoscow has welcomed the impending dissolution of USAid, joining a chorus of strongman leaders declaring victory over an organisation they have long portrayed as a vehicle of American political interference.Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Thursday described USAid as “anything but an aid, development and assistance agency” and instead branded
  
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• US ally accuses Biden admin of using USAID as a 'tool to interfere with domestic issues'

  06-02-2025 20:08 via foxnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s second administration has made the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) a prime target for spending cuts. Under Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is taking a serious look at the foreign aid agency — and America’s allies and enemies alike are taking notice.In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital at the United Nations, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó didn’t
  
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• Weekly quiz: Why did this pub landlady give away £1,500 of free beer?

  06-02-2025 19:14 via bbc.com
  
  How much attention did you pay to what has been going on in the world over the past seven days?
  
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• Rubio accuses South Africa of ‘anti-Americanism’ and snubs G20 meeting

  06-02-2025 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  US secretary of state repeats remarks by Donald Trump about ‘expropriation of private property’ in African nationThe US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has accused South Africa of “anti-Americanism” and refused to attend a G20 meeting in Johannesburg later this month, as diplomatic ties sour between the two countries under Donald Trump’s administration.Rubio made the announcement on X, where he repeated the US president’s unfounded claim that South Africa was
  
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• Fishing rights will not derail EU-UK security pact, says European Council president

  06-02-2025 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With member states keen to link quotas to any deal, António Costa says defence and fisheries ‘are different things’The EU will not let the question of fishing rights derail a pact with the UK on security and defence, the president of the European Council has said.The comments from António Costa, who took over as the European Council president in December, is a boost for Keir Starmer, amid frustration among UK officials over EU insistence on linking a security deal to ot
  
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• US military surveillance flight crashes in Philippines, killing 4

  06-02-2025 18:58 via foxnews.com
  
  A U.S. military service member and three defense contractors died Thursday in the Philippines after their surveillance flight crashed, officials say. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said the aircraft contracted by the Department of Defense went down in the southern province of Maguindanao del Sur and "was providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies." "The incident occurred during a routine mission in support of U.S.-Phili
  
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• ‘A crying need’: Goma hospitals plead for blood donors after M23 assault

  06-02-2025 18:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Facilities overwhelmed by wounded people and unable to get supplies in or transport patients outPatients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds have crammed into overwhelmed hospitals in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many with serious injuries and in need of blood, after M23 rebels backed by Rwanda marched into the city.At least 2,900 people have been killed and thousands more wounded since the militia entered the city on 26 January, according to the UN. Fighting raged for the best par
  
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• Trump and 'no one else' can end the Ukraine-Russia war, US ally says

  06-02-2025 18:10 via foxnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump, who echoes former President Ronald Reagan’s "peace through strength" mantra, has the credibility to end the nearly three-year war between Ukraine and Russia, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó told Fox News Digital."If he doesn’t have the ability, no one has the ability," Szijjártó said.In the nearly three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, world leaders from several countries have tried to step in and end the c
  
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• State of emergency declared on Santorini after earthquakes shake island

  06-02-2025 18:07 via theguardian.com
  Greek civil protection authorities announce measures after an estimated 7,700 tremors in less than a weekGreek civil protection authorities have declared a state of emergency on Santorini as natural disaster experts voice mounting fears over the “intense” seismic activity that has rattled the island.The emergency measures were declared by the island’s town hall hours after seismologists recorded a 5.2-magnitude earthquake – the most powerful tremor to be felt on Santorini
  
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• Panama accuses US of peddling ‘intolerable falsehood’ about canal

  06-02-2025 17:38 via theguardian.com
  
  President José Raúl Mulino denies making a deal that US ships can transit the canal free of chargeThe president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, has accused the US of peddling a “quite simply intolerable falsehood” about the Panama canal, as Donald Trump’s pledge to “take back” the waterway continued to poison relations between the two countries and cause alarm around Latin America.The US state department claimed late on Wednesday the Central
  
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• Experts slam UN action plan for combating antisemitism: ‘phony exercise in futility’

  06-02-2025 13:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Last month, the United Nations (U.N.) released its "Action Plan to Enhance Monitoring and Response to Antisemitism," partially in response to a "surge in antisemitic incidents targeting Jews and Jewish institutions in Europe, the United States of America and elsewhere.Anne Bayefsky, the director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the president of Human Rights Voices, told Fox News Digital that the Action Plan was a "phony exercise in futility," that was "produced by wha
  
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• Refugee shot in eye during deadly 2014 crossing into Spain files complaint to UN

  06-02-2025 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Survivor of Ceuta incident that ended with 14 deaths asks why use of anti-riot equipment was never investigatedA refugee who was almost blinded in one eye during a police operation that ended with the deaths of at least 14 people off the coast of Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta 11 years ago has filed a complaint to the UN Committee Against Torture.Shortly before dawn on 6 February 2014, about 200 people tried to enter Ceuta by climbing the border fence or by swimming around the brea
  
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• ‘Clear signs of authoritarianism’: Ecuador’s ‘iron fist’ leader seeks re-election

  06-02-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Voters go to polls on Sunday to give verdict on Daniel Noboa, whose crime crackdown has eroded human rightsCarlos Javier Vega, 19, asked to switch shifts at his father’s bakery in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, so he could help his cousin sell a puppy. A few blocks from the buyer’s location, however, their car was stopped at a checkpoint manned by navy troopers deployed on the streets after President Daniel Noboa decreed an “internal armed conflict” against orga
  
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• Zelenskyy wants nukes or NATO; Trump special envoy Kellogg says 'slim and none' chance

  06-02-2025 10:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week said that if the U.S. cannot guarantee a quick path toward NATO membership, then there are alternative security options Kyiv would accept: nuclear weapons. But don't think the United States is eager to agree to those terms. "The chance of them getting their nuclear weapons back is somewhere between slim and none," retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg, special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, told Fox News Digital. "Let's be honest about it, we
  
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• Parts of Japan blanketed by thick snow during strongest cold front for years

  06-02-2025 05:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Hokkaido and the Japan Sea coast have been hardest hit, forcing domestic airlines to cancel flights between cities in the region and TokyoLarge parts of Japan have been blanketed with snow, as the lowest temperatures this winter disrupted rail and air travel, amid warnings that more heavy snowfall was expected through the weekend.Residents struggled to dig out cars that had been buried by snow in just a few hours, with the meteorological agency describing the cold front as the “strongest i
  
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• Philippine vice-president Sara Duterte impeached over allegations including plot to kill president

  06-02-2025 04:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Move likely to deepen political rift between Duterte and President Ferdinand Marcos JrPhilippine vice-president Sara Duterte has been impeached on a range of accusations that include plotting to assassinate the president, large-scale corruption and failing to strongly denounce China’s aggressive actions against Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea.Wednesday’s move by legislators in the House of Representatives, many of them allies of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, deepens
  
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• Modi’s BJP poised to win Delhi state elections for first time in 27 years, exit polls show

  06-02-2025 04:09 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Poll of polls’ gives prime minister’s Bharatiya Janata party a majority in the Delhi assembly, which would oust the reformist Aam Aadmi party (AAP)Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s party appears poised to win Delhi state elections, a victory that would end a 27-year drought, according to voter exit polls.If the projections hold, the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is set to end the reformist Aam Aadmi party’s (AAP) nearly decade-long rule in the national capital r
  
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• Senate Democrats pledge to hold floor all night in protest against Trump’s budget pick – as it happened

  06-02-2025 02:45 via theguardian.com
  
  This blog has now closed. Read our latest story hereDonald Trump will sign an executive order to prevent transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at 3pm today, the White House said.Dubbed “No Men in Women’s Sports”, the order will change how the administration interprets Title IX, a civil rights law that addresses sex discrimination at schools that receive federal funding, including in athletics. Continue reading...
  
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