Lebanon's health ministry says over 100 wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of country
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's health ministry says over 100 wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of country.
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BANG ShowbizKanye West ‘told his wife Bianca Censori he wanted to have sex with her mother’
Scandal-hit Kanye West allegedly told his wife Bianca Censori he wanted to have sex with her mother, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed against him by his ex-assistant – who is accusing him of drugging and raping her at a Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs recording session.
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I'm a Hindu and my wife is Christian, so we have different beliefs and traditions. Somehow, our marriage still works.
I am a Hindu raised in London, while my wife is a Christian from Pittsburgh. She believed I was going to hell, but we work through our differences.
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Kanye West accused of drugging and sexually assaulting former assistant at party hosted with Diddy
Allegations are part of suit accusing music mogul of wrongful termination and ‘serial’ sexual harassment
- The Telegraph
Former Premier League footballer arrested on suspicion of raping woman at London hotel
A former Premier League and international footballer has been arrested on suspicion of raping a young woman at an upmarket London hotel.
- BBC
Closure for family as body found 56 years after India plane crash
In 1968, an Indian Air Force plane with 102 people went missing. For many years, their fate was a mystery.
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Taiwanese flock to China religious festival despite tensions
Over a thousand Taiwanese pilgrims flocked to southeast China's Fujian province this week for a religious festival, a rare instance of cross-strait cultural exchanges that threatens to be overshadowed by political tensions. On Meizhou island, home to a cluster of rural fishing villages, the deafening roar of firecrackers and gongs accompanied devotees of the sea goddess Mazu, a folk deity worshipped by millions in Taiwan and across southern China's coastal communities. The island, where devotees say the goddess was born, is the most important Mazu religious centre.
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They said they were utility workers. But when they left the house, the wife was tied up and the husband was dead
A Michigan man has been charged with felony murder after he and another individual allegedly impersonated utility workers before killing a man and tying up his wife, according to local authorities.
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Ukrainian journalist, 27, who chronicled Russian occupation dies in prison
Viktoriia Roshchyna had been detained last year while reporting in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
- Bloomberg
Singapore to start trial of opposition leader in lying scandal
Singapore’s opposition leader is set to start his trial on Monday for allegedly lying, potentially drawing more scrutiny on his party before a general election that must be held by next year.
- People
A Neighbor Grew Worried When Iowa Family Didn't Come Out for Morning Chores. They'd Been Murdered with an Axe Overnight
For 112 years, the brutal bludgeoning of eight people in a quaint Iowa town has stumped investigators
- The Telegraph
I spent four years investigating a dark web ‘kill list’ – and warning the victims they were in danger
In early 2020, as the world faced down the pandemic, the technology journalist Carl Miller made a remarkable and morbid discovery. He was researching the dark web from London when a colleague, a hacker called Chris, broke into a secretive website where people were putting up targets for assassination, like eBay for contract killings. This was the “kill list”: a catalogue of hundreds of ordinary men and women, complete with pictures and personal information, whom others wanted dead. The list of r
- People
Teen Went Shopping for an Anniversary Gift by Herself. A Predator Was Lurking in the Parking Lot
In 2007, Kelsey Smith, 18, was kidnapped from a Target parking lot in Kansas and strangled with her own belt
- The Guardian
Muslims in India face discrimination after restaurants forced to display workers’ names
Muslim business owners in two states fear policy will lead to targeted attacks or economic boycotts
- BBC
'Surrender or starve': Attack on Jabalia hints at controversial Israeli plan for northern Gaza
Palestinians and aid groups suspect Israel is gradually adopting a new tactic known as the "Generals’ Plan", writes Jeremy Bowen.
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Malaysia's eviction of sea nomads casts light on precarious lives
Patches of palm thatch entwined with a few forlorn stilts sticking out of the emerald waters in a Malaysian marine park off the island of Borneo are the only traces remaining of the homes of hundreds of sea nomads. Robin, one of those left homeless among a community that inspired the fictional 'Metkayina' tribe in the 2022 film 'Avatar: The Way of Water', took to a boat with his children to flee the Malaysian officials who razed their home. "I don't know where to go now," he told Reuters from the deck of a wooden houseboat festooned with drying clothes, where he lives with a cousin and their eight children after the demolition drive razed structures deemed illegal.
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Fugitive father on the run with 3 children in one of the world’s wildest regions
The man wore camouflage gear, a long beard protruding below a mask. His features were hidden, but when New Zealand police saw the video showing three figures walking behind him, one name came instantly to mind.
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He was sentenced to death after his toddler died. Now, shaken baby syndrome is at the heart of Robert Roberson’s 11th-hour appeals
The inmate would be the first person in the US executed on a shaken baby syndrome-based conviction, his lawyers say, as the diagnosis is under increasing scrutiny in courts.
- The Independent
Inside the secretive church that’s become Trump’s biggest female fan group
Members of the Word of Faith Fellowship have attended over 250 rallies in support of the former president — but the church has been accused of engaging in unpaid labor of foreigners, including children, writes Mike Bedigan
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Seeing double in Nigeria's 'twins capital of the world'
On a normal day a visitor might pass Igbo-Ora with little more than a double take, wondering why so many pairs of residents wear matching clothes.They paraded in immaculate matching outfits -- from glamorous sunglasses and patterned adire fabric to a pair of toddlers sporting purple dresses and identical handbags.
- The Telegraph
Christopher Columbus was secretly Jewish
Christopher Columbus was Jewish, DNA experts concluded in a long-awaited investigation into the true origins of one of history’s most famous explorers.