Freya the walrus drew crowds of fans. And that's why Norway decided to euthanize her

Authorities had warned people not to get close to her or pose for photos with the massive mammal. As a last resort, officials decided she posed a threat to humans and needed to be euthanized.
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Prosecution of Sarah Everard vigil attendees ‘discontinued’

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5 Americans — including NYC family — among victims in Jerusalem shooting: officials

Five Americans were among the eight victims of a Sunday morning mass shooting in Jerusalem, according to reports and officials.
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Why Salman Rushdie's work sparked decades of controversy

Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked this week. He has been the subject of death threats since his book The Satanic Verses was published in 1988.
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1 dead, 17 injured after car plows into crowd raising money for victims of fatal Nescopeck fire

A car plowed into a crowd of people in Berwick Saturday at a benefit for victims of the massive fatal fire in Nescopeck that killed seven, including three children, last week.
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JK Rowling told 'you are next' after Salman Rushdie attack

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Italy is spending hundreds of millions to save dying villages. Will it work?

Using pandemic recovery money distributed by the European Union, Italy is trying to bring back one dying village in each of the country's 21 regions. The villages will each get $20 million.
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Music festival stage collapse in Spain kills one, injures dozens

Of the injured, three suffered serious trauma injuries and 14 had more minor injuries, regional emergency services tweeted. Regional health authorities said later that 40 people were attended to.
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The suspect in the killings of 4 Muslim men in New Mexico left a trail of violence

The lengthy pattern of violence — which began not long after Muhammad Syed arrived in the U.S. in 2016 — has shocked members of Albuquerque's small, close-knit Muslim community.
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Friday evening news briefing: Salman Rushdie attacked on stage in America

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After decades of war, an Afghan village mourns its losses

A village north of Kabul is home to pro-Taliban and anti-Taliban families. Both sides have paid dearly in Afghanistan's decades of war.
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Steve Martin might stop acting, but he's worn many hats over his long career

Among his many accolades, Martin has won five Grammys for his contributions to the bluegrass music genre.
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Darkness and debris impede rescue effort at flooded Mexico mine

The miners became trapped at a mine in the border state of Coahuila on Aug. 3 when their excavation work caused a tunnel wall to collapse, triggering flooding in parts of the underground mine.
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What the CHIPS Act means for your gadgets and U.S. tech manufacturing

The law will allocate more than $50 billion to bring semiconductor chip manufacturing to the U.S. and away from its current production hub in East Asia.
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The Getty Museum in Los Angeles says it will return illegally exported art to Italy

The museum says it will return a nearly life-size group of Greek terra-cotta sculptures known as "Orpheus and the Sirens," believed to date from the fourth century B.C.
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My steamy Emily Bronte biopic will ‘p--- off historians’, admits director

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Engine purring: Kitten rescued from inside car after disappearing into exhaust pipe

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A house explosion kills 3 people and damages 39 homes in southern Indiana

The cause of the explosion has not been determined. At least 11 of the 39 homes damaged are "uninhabitable," the fire department's chief told the Evansville Courier & Press.
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UK weather: Drought in southern England set to be announced

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Sister says North Korea's Kim suffered a fever from COVID

The North's official news agency also reported that Kim's sister blamed the COVID outbreak on leaflets flown from across the border from South Korea, while warning of deadly retaliation.
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Wednesday evening news briefing: 'Knock heads together' over energy

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Trump says he refused to answer any questions under oath in today's New York testimony

"I once asked, 'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?' Now I know the answer to that question," Trump said in a statement. He called the case a politically motivated witch hunt.
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Beluga whale trapped France’s Seine River dies

The Artic animal that strayed all the way to France's Seine River has died.
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Don't Pay UK campaign will cause households 'all sorts of problems', warns energy boss

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A stranded whale is removed from the Seine River and will be moved to saltwater

A veterinary team was planning to transport the 4-meter-long (13-foot-long) whale to a coastal spot in the northeastern French port town of Ouistreham for "a period of care."
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Revealed: The time you should stop eating to 'lose more weight'

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Thames Water to announce hosepipe ban affecting 15 million customers ‘in coming weeks’

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Rudy Giuliani ‘concerned’ for Trump as he calls FBI raid a ‘sad night for America’

“We don’t have justice in America anymore, they've trashed it. This is the Biden police state. A sad night for America," Giuliani said.
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Paul O'Grady quits BBC Radio 2 after he was forced to share slot with comedian 30 years his junior

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Nurse who allegedly killed six in fiery Los Angeles crash faces murder charges

The nurse who allegedly caused the fiery Los Angeles car crash that killed six people was charged with murder on Monday, prosecutors said.
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UK weather: Level three heatwave alert issued for whole of England

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NHS dentistry ‘at a tipping point’ as more than 90pc of practices refuse to take new patients

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How to talk about disability sensitively and avoid ableist tropes

When it comes to disability, a lot of ableist language and tropes are perpetuated by the media. Here's what experts have to say about how to talk about disability.
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Six people shot at Atlanta park; one dead, 6-year-old critically injured

"As we've said countless times, we're just asking the citizens just to find a way to resolve conflict without weapons," Atlanta PD Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. told NBC affiliate 11Alive News.
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Men face sentencing for hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery's death

Arbery's killing on Feb. 23, 2020, became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed Black people.
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A cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants has taken effect in Gaza

Egyptian officials said both sides agreed to a truce to end a flare-up of violence that has killed dozens of Palestinians.
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Mass shooting in Cincinnati leaves at least 9 injured, gunman on the loose

At least nine people were hit in a mass shooting in a packed bar area in downtown Cincinnati early Sunday -- with the gunman fleeing despite being shot at by a responding cop.
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Girl, 11, dies during 'birthday party' at Windsor water park

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Canadian man takes out billboard to trade one stick of string cheese

Angel Domingo bought a billboard in the city's Yonge-Dundas Square to advertise a single stick of string cheese apparently left behind by the previous residents, he told GlobalNews.
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His hometown didn't have a veterans memorial, so this teen built one himself

For his Eagle Scout project, teenager Dominique Claseman built a veterans memorial in Olivia, Minnesota. With help from his community, he raised more than $77,000 to complete it.
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Emily Maitlis’ new drama on Prince Andrew interview to rival old BBC ally’s screen adaptation

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Bus crash on highway in Croatia kills at least 12 people

Police, firefighters and medical teams were deployed to the site of the accident that occurred at 5:40 a.m. near Breznicki Hum in the direction of the capital Zagreb, the police said.
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Israel and Gaza militants exchange fire after deadly strikes

Israeli jets pounded militant targets in Gaza early Saturday as rockets rained on southern Israel, hours after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on the coastal enclave killed at least 11 people.
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Oregon woman shot in face while caught in crossfire rails against gun violence

Katie Guzenko, 27, was running errands in Portland, Oregon, when she was shot in the face after getting caught between two gunmen with suspected gang ties fire on another another in the middle of the street.  
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Friday evening UK news briefing: Rishi Sunak boasts about 'undoing rules' that put funds in 'deprived areas'

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The job market got even better, in a surprisingly positive sign for the economy

U.S. employers added 528,000 jobs in July, showing the labor market remains strong, despite high inflation and softening economic growth. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%.
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New Zealand considers changing its name to confront its troubled colonial past

As the people of New Zealand confront their nation's troubled past with colonization, a return to the Maori name of Aotearoa is being presented to a parliamentary committee.
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US Navy sailor ‘lost overboard’ in Baltic Sea identified

Navy Sailor who fell overboard in the Baltic Sea has been identified as a 19-year-old Seaman Recruit.
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Hosepipe ban announced for parts of Wales amid driest year since 1976

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A fire at a music pub in eastern Thailand kills at least 13

Video circulating on social media showed people fleeing the pub while thick black smoke billowed from the door and then the entrance through which people were escaping was suddenly engulfed in flames.
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