World News
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1.2KUganda govt defends self as ICC begins receiving torture testimonies
Uganda's government is rejecting claims that top officials, including President Yoweri Museveni and his son, were responsible for the torture of political...
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1.2KMexico: Mayor Victor Hugo marries reptile who he calls ‘princess girl’
Victor Hugo Sosa, mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town of Indigenous Chontal people in the Tehuantepec isthmus of Mexico, took as...
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908European Union fears ‘weaker Putin’
Putin confronted the biggest challenge since he came to power in 1999 after Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin spearheaded a mutiny at the...
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1.5K‘A new era’: US approves sales of lab-grown meat to consumers
With the approvals, the United States will become the second country after Singapore to allow the sale of so-called cultivated meat, which...
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999Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi dies at 86
Berlusconi had suffered ill health for years, from heart surgery in 2016 to a 2020 hospitalisation for coronavirus.
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47.6KSweden first country to register s3x as a ‘sport’, championship starts this week
Each day, competitors will engage in rigorous six-hour bonking sessions, with individual “matches” lasting between 45 minutes to an hour.
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2.5KBiden threatens to Sanction Uganda over tough Anti-gay Law, urges repeal
Biden said he had asked his National Security Council to assess what the law means for "all aspects of US engagement with...
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1.0KElon Musk says video and audio calls coming to Twitter
A messaging feature at Twitter would compete with an array of free services including Messenger, Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp.
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1.4KEight people killed in mass shooting at Texas Mall
Police have asked members of the public with video captured at the scene to contact the FBI, as they collect evidence.
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1.1KKing Charles III enthroned at first UK coronation in 70 years
Charles, 74, became the oldest sovereign yet to be crowned at London's Westminster Abbey, after a lifetime as heir to his late...
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1.6KGunman who killed 5 neighbors arrested after four-day manhunt
The arrest came as the FBI said it was working with law enforcement agencies nationwide and in Mexico in an expanded, four-day...
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764Freedom of the press under attack worldwide – UN
Speaking ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a rallying cry for journalists and media worldwide.
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930‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google to warn of the tech’s dangers
Geoffrey Hinton, who created a foundation technology for AI systems, told The New York Times that advancements made in the field posed...
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2.0KMan told to stop donating sperm after fathering 550 children
Clinical guidelines say a donor should not father more than 25 children in 12 families, but judges said the man had helped...
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2.5KRussia kills 26 including five children in latest attack on Ukraine
The deadly new attacks included a strike on a residential block in the historic city of Uman in central Ukraine, where AFP...
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617Sudan fighting enters third week as UN says country collapsing
More than 500 people have been killed since battles erupted on April 15 between the forces of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan...
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575Brazil suspends Telegram for refusing to give data for antisemitic group probe
Court also fines messaging app for failing to assist investigation into neo-Nazi activity on social networks related to violence in schools
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1.9KJoy, fear as India’s population becomes world’s biggest
It was also the day the UN announced that India, already home to more than one in every six humans on the...
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784Twitter reinstates blue ticks for some media, celebrities
Many who unwillingly gained blue ticks made it clear that they had not subscribed, as the badge became a symbol of support...
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1.0KChinese Billionaire Jack Ma accepts University teaching post
The appointment comes weeks after the billionaire made a rare public appearance in China following his fall from grace during a government...
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1.0KUK Deputy PM resigns over bullying claims
Raab, who stood in for former prime minister Boris Johnson as he battled Covid in 2020, had promised to quit if any...
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692CBI Boss sacked for spying on employees’ Instagram accounts
Mr Danker admits that he did look at the Instagram profiles and stories of “a very small number of CBI staff, men...
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779Four dead, 28 injured in Alabama birthday party shooting
Witnesses said the shooting occurred at a 16th birthday party at Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio in downtown Dadeville. Sgt. Jeremy Burkett of...
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1.5KWHO warns of new Covid-19 Variant Arcturus detected in over 20 countries
The spreading variant, which has been reported in at least 21 countries, the WHO said in a new report, is a sub-variant...
