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South Korea will pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong with a year left on his sentence for bribing a president in a corruption scandal that toppled her government
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CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) â Salman Rushdie, whose novel âThe Satanic Versesâ drew death threats from Iranâs leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in west
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Nearly a year since the Taliban seized power, new restrictions have reshaped the social fabric of the city. Schools and jobs are again off-limits for women, music has been banned, and beards are mandatory for men â just as it was in the 1990s.
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Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry reports 16 women and four children among the casualties; as many as 16 Gazans might have been killed by misfired Islamic Jihad missiles
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CETINJE, Montenegro (AP) â A man went on a shooting rampage in the streets of this western Montenegro city Friday, killing 10 people, including two children, before being shot dead by a passerby, officials said.
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More than 1,000 firefighters are struggling to contain a major wildfire that has burned a large area of pine forest in southwestern France in a region that was already ravaged by flames last month
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Two more ships left Ukraine's Black Sea ports on Friday, including one laden with the first Ukrainian wheat to be exported under a U.N.-brokered deal, Turkey's defence ministry said.
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Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones had sued the PGA Tour over its ban on players who played for the Saudi-backed rebel series
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Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, who had close ties with the Taliban, was a supporter of girls' education.
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The company stopped selling the troubled bathroom staple in the US in 2020. J&J will keep selling its powder made with cornstarch everywhere.
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India will miss its renewable energy targets for the end of the year, with experts saying âmultiple challengesâ including a lack of financial help and taxes on imported components are stalling the clean energy industry
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The Satanic Verses author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen at an event in New York state.
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Former chancellor wants his privileges back.
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The maker of fitness bikes, once a pandemic darling, said it would reduce its retail footprint and end its last-mile delivery network in a cost-cutting strategy.
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Hundreds of Nicaraguans have attended Mass under a heavy police presence after the government prohibited a religious procession in the capital amid tensions with the Roman Catholic Church
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Three state-owned Chinese corporate giants say they will remove their shares from the New York Stock Exchange amid a dispute between Washington and Beijing over whether U.S. regulators can see records of their auditors
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One person was killed and dozens were injured when high winds caused part of a stage to collapse at a dance music festival near the Spanish city of Valencia in the early hours of Saturday, regional emergency services said.
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The Seekers singer and solo performer was always the last to acknowledge her role as a pioneering woman in Australian music
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BEIJING (AP) â China on Wednesday criticized a U.S. law to encourage processor chip production in the United States and reduce reliance on Asian suppliers as a threat to trade and an attack on ChinâŠ
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The UN has a âclear commitment to the full, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsulaâ
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Vice president announces nationwide curfew after security forces clashed with demonstrators in Freetown.
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âAt the stroke of the midnight hour,â Indiaâs first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, âwhen the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.â
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A study helps explain why thunderstorms occur much less frequently over the ocean than over land.
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An old favorite and a cli-fi future.
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Britain's Yorkshire Water announced on Friday that it would bring in a hosepipe ban from Aug. 26, saying parts of northern English region had seen the lowest rainfall since records began more than 130 years ago.
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Labour's shadow minister says he was "thoroughly embarrassed" by the accidental breaches.
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The UK is facing its driest summer in more than 50 years
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Robert Buckland tells a national newspaper Liz Truss is "the right person to take the country forwardâ.
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Jonathan Edwards will represent Plaid again after being cautioned for assaulting his wife.
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Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has said he believes that the days of cheap flights with fares like âŹ10 could be a thing of the past due to soaring fuel prices in the Cost of Living crisis
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Big employers, including Amazon and Harrods, are cracking down on workers protesting over below-inflation pay rises, as companies grapple with a tsunami of indu
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The Sturgeon Moon will be visible in the night sky Thursday.
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The property market is heading for disaster as mortgage rates rise and the cost of living crisis bites
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The figure for the first quarter showed a 0.8% rise.
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Growers unable to plant key crops this month because ground is too hard - and rain may not arrive in time hitting next yearâs harvest
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The ex-Manchester United star denies using controlling behaviour and assaulting two women.
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Joan of Arc will be portrayed as a gender-neutral character in a new play at the home of Shakespeare in London, in a drastic departure from the usual depiction of the historic figure.Audiences for I Joan, which will open on August 25 at the Globe and run
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The TV and radio host is revealed as the 15th and final contestant for this year's dance contest.
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Boris Johnson says more help will be needed, but his government has said big decisions will be up to the new PM.
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The attack had wide-ranging implications, affecting the system used to dispatch ambulances, book out-of-hours appointments and issue emergency prescriptions.
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Sir Keir responds to criticism of his partyâs response to the crisis, claiming Labour has been âleadingâ on cost-of-living
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Supermarkets join other retailers in halting sales of the barbecues as Met Office issues highest fire warning
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Scotlandâs environment agency said groundwater levels have become critical in the east of the country.
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British prime minister-in-waiting Liz Truss is said to want to appear in the fashion glossy, but she should be careful what she wishes for
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Civil servants criticise Tory leadership candidateâs remarks as she sets out plan to âprotect British Jewryâ
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University admissions will be âhardest in living memoryâ after government asked regulators to set grade boundaries
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Featuring an island in Scotland and a 17th century thatched cottage in Warwickshire
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Expert group declares official drought amid prolonged dry spell, meaning water rationing may take place
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Yellow warnings begin in Scotland and Northern Ireland, spreading to England and Wales on Monday
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The number of people saying the former chancellor would make a good prime minister fell over the last week of July.
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Rage Against The Machine pulled out of the festivals due to a medical issue involving their singer.
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The sons of Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank will produce the third instalment of the family rivalry on October 8
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It covers huge swathes of central and western England, as well as the whole of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Last August 12, Jake Davison killed his mother, Maxine Davison, 51, after a row and then shot four others dead in a 12-minute attack.
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Some Labour MPs criticised leader Keir Starmer for being on holiday as the energy crisis deepened.
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Four-year-old Sahara Salman was killed and two others remain in hospital after the blast in Thornton Heath, south London, on Monday.
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Hosepipes are now banned in Kent and Sussex, while a drought is likely to be declared in some areas.
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Staff at Englandâs largest exam board are set to strike on A-level results day, potentially causing widespread disruption to thousands of prospective university students.About 180 workers at AQA, including those in customer service who would be handling
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Englandâs Commonwealth Games medal-winning hockey sides are calling on the government to prioritise team sports in schools and guarantee a minimum two hoursâ physical education a week
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Thousands of health workers in Scotland have voted in favour of industrial action in protest against what they describe as a "real terms pay cut".
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Finlay MacDonald, 39, will face Inverness Sheriff Court following the incidents on Skye and the mainland in north-west Scotland.
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Edinburgh and Glasgow council leaders want to top Cosla's 3.5% pay deal to avoid staff walk outs.
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The Tory leader hopeful says profit is not "dirty" and windfall taxes were about "bashing business".
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CWU members in the Post Office, Royal Mail and BT are all taking industrial action in the coming weeks.
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The candidatesâ stances on abortion rights and tackling violence against women
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Boris Johnson said that whoever is the next prime minister will focus on delivering extra measures to support households amid a cost-of-living crisis.