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• US military to slash troops in Syria to under 1,000

  19-04-2025 01:54 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON - The U.S. military will...
  
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• Trump team ordered to move Tufts student from Louisiana ICE jail after it couldn’t ‘take a position’ on her free speech

  07-05-2025 18:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Federal appeals court gives government 10 days to transfer Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont after DOJ lawyers refused to say if pro-Palestine speech is constitutionally protected
  
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• World Bank grants cash-strapped Sri Lanka $1.0bn loan

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Colombo: Sri Lanka has been granted a billion-dollar loan to boost its agriculture, tourism and energy sectors, the World Bank said on Wednesday, as the country emerges from an unprecedented economic crisis. Sri Lanka's economy collapsed in 2022 when it ran out of foreign exchange to finance even the most essential imports such as food, fuel, and medicines. The loan...
  
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• What to Know about ‘Love Island USA’ Season 7

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  After finding a winning formula in Season 6, the Peacock dating competition will return to Fiji this summer. ......
  
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• VIRAL VIDEO: Pakistan Army officers join Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists in funeral prayer for people killed in ...

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  One video shows Hafiz Abdul...
  
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• Vance says Russia's demands are too high, but there's still a path to 'durable peace' ...

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance...
  
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• Utah Mammoth is the permanent name of the NHL team in Salt Lake City

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  The NHL team in Salt Lake City is now known as the Utah Mammoth. Owners Ryan and Ashley Smith unveiled the franchise’s permanent name Wednesday after more than a year of fan input and voting. Mammoth replaces the inaugural season ......
  
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• US intelligence agencies ordered to focus spying activities on Greenland

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  CIA, NSA and Defense Intelligence Agency all included in ‘collection emphasis message’, report says...
  
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• US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Will Make His First Appearance at Business Summit

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra will make his first official appearance at the B7 Summit in Ottawa next...
  
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• UK asylum accommodation expected to cost three times more than forecast

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Home Office says Labour inherited asylum system in chaos with applicants stuck in backlog...
  
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• Typical Pakistan: Pak Supreme Court rules in favour of military trials of civilians, PTI workers ...

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  In what comes as a significant development from Pakistan, the...
  
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• Turkish Tufts University student detained by ICE can be sent to Vermont, appeals court rules

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated. A judicial panel of the New York-based U.S. 2nd...
  
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• This Sheet-Pan Chicken Is the Perfect Dinner Recipe

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  “You know it’s good when everyone crowds around the sheet pan after dinner to scrape up whatever sauce got left behind with their fingers!” ......
  
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• Syrian community in France welcomes visit of President al-Sharaa, calls for removing sanctions on Syria

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Paris, SANA- Syrian community in France gathered on Wednesday to welcome the visit of President Ahmad al-Sharaa and call for removing sanctions imposed on Syria. Fedaa/ Mazen ......
  
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• Starlings form ‘friendships’ to help each other with breeding, study finds

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Superb starlings seen to build reciprocal relations in which they return favours when a ‘helper’ has offspring of its own...
  
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• Russia hosts world leaders for the 80th anniversary of its defeat of Nazi Germany in ...

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting heads of states for festivities Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Victory Day, which is celebrated in Russia on May 9, is the country’s most ......
  
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• Republican concedes long-unsettled North Carolina court election to Democratic incumbent

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  The Republican challenger for a North...
  
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• Republican challenger concedes a 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election to the Democratic incumbent

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Republican challenger concedes a 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election to the Democratic incumbent. ......
  
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• RecipeTin Eats’ Nagi Maehashi beats Brooke Bellamy at publishing industry awards amid plagiarism allegations

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Maehashi beat five finalists to take out prestigious prize after her second cookbook broke Australian records for first-week nonfiction title salesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email...
  
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• Pakistan Threatens to Respond After Indian Air Strikes Kill 26

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Pakistan says it reserves the right to respond “in self-defense, at a time, place, and manner of its choosing,” after...
  
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• Pakistan-India escalation disrupts airlines operations

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  A view of Muzaffarabad, in Azad Kashmir — Reuters TAIPEI/NEW DELHI: Airlines, including United Airlines and Korean Air, re-routed or cancelled flights, and about a dozen Indian airports were shut on Wednesday after India staged an attack on Pakistan that raised fears of an escalation. India attacked Azad Kashmir and Pakistan said it had shot down five Indian fighter jets in the flare-up, which followed an attack by Islamist militants that killed 26 people in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu
  
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• Mushroom 'murderer' Erin Patterson had one-word response about buying deadly dish

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of deliberately poisoning a beef wellington dish in an attempt to kill four members of her ex-husband's family - she denies all charges ......
  
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• Modi’s deadly bombing strike on Pakistan goes to the heart of India’s great dilemma | ...

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  A military attack on the same day as a trade deal with the UK reveals a nation keen to strut the world stage, but hampered by regional enmity and history...
  
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• Mick Biegel obituary

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  My friend Mick Biegel, who has died aged 69 of cancer, operated successfully in varied arenas, primarily in the armed forces. He spent 10 years in the Green Howards, 15 years in the Territorial Army (now the Army Reserve), and was commandant of the Essex army cadet force. He also led the education...
  
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• Israeli strikes kill 48 at Gaza shelters for displaced Palestinians, hospitals say, as military operation intensifies

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Forty-eight people were killed, including at least seven children, in Israeli airstrikes on school compounds sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said. Dozens more were injured in the strike, they said. At the site of one attack in the Al Bureij camp in central Gaza on Tuesday, video from the scene showed a large crater where people searched through the rubble of the school for survivors, th
  
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• India-Pakistan Skirmishes Follow a Pattern, but This One Is Different

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  At times, the skirmishes between India and Pakistan can seem more like reality TV spectacle, but these strikes are worryingly different. ......
  
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• India and Pakistan can ill afford war, but who will talk them down? | Hannah Ellis-Petersen

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  The US has brought the two sides back from the brink before, but the mood is very different with TrumpKashmir crisis live – latest updates...
  
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• Google age ID proposal may not suit Australia’s under-16 social media ban, expert says

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Proposed system of storing passports or drivers licences in Google Wallet app likely to benefit adults, but usefulness in identifying teenagers without ID documents unclearGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast...
  
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• EU Proposes to End Russian Gas Imports by 2027

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  The European Commission is set to propose legal measures to phase out imports of all Russian gas and...
  
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• Ethical super fund says QBE ‘not joining the dots’ between fossil fuel projects and rising premiums

  07-05-2025 17:58 via article.wn.com
  Australian Ethical, which holds $56m worth of QBE shares, calls on insurer to overhaul its policies which allow it to underwrite oil and gas projects without restriction ahead of AGMSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here...
  
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