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Sick killer whale stranded in France’s Seine river dies

A gravely sick orca which became separated from its pod and swam dozens of miles up the river Seine in France has died of natural causes, the campaign group Sea Shepherd said on Monday, after attempts to guide it back

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Israel to issue new gas exploration bids, in reversal amid Europe supply crunch

Without mentioning Russian invasion of Ukraine, energy minister says global crisis is an opportunity for Israel to export natural gas while helping Europeans diversify supplies

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Schools around the U.S. increase security after the Uvalde shooting

In the aftermath of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, schools around the U.S. have brought in additional security staff and restricted visitors as they deal with copycat threats. (Image credit: Jae C. Hong/AP)

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Explosion Hits Russian-Occupied Melitopol

Pro-Kremlin authorities in the city blamed Ukrainian partisans for the blast, which they said had injured two people.

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Israeli Nationalists Chant Racist Slogans in Jerusalem March

Thousands of Israeli nationalists, some of them chanting “Death to Arabs,” paraded through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, in a show of force that risked setting off a new wave of violence

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Mona Lisa covered in cake in Louvre stunt

The Mona Lisa was smeared with cake at the weekend by a man in a woman’s wig who jumped out of a wheelchair and said artists should focus more on the planet. Officials at the Louvre Museum in Paris, where

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Irish court finds ex-soldier Lisa Smith guilty of joining IS

Three judges at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on Monday found former soldier Lisa Smith guilty of joining the so-called Islamic State group in Syria. Smith, 40, wept in the dock as judge Tony Hunt read the panel’s decision,

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Russian forces advancing on center of eastern Ukraine city amid fierce resistance

Regional governor describes ‘very difficult’ situation in Severodonetsk, one of several important urban hubs in Russia’s path to capturing entire Luhansk region

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Analysis: Russians feel little economic pain now, long-term outlook darkens

By Jake Cordell LONDON (Reuters) – For Oleg Kechin, owner of a chain of barbershops, forecasts that Russia will be plunged into its deepest economic crisis in a generation feel overdone. U.S. President Joe Biden may have promised that Western

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Nepali rescuers find more than 10 bodies in wreckage of passenger plane

Rescue workers in Nepal have recovered the bodies of 20 people out of the 22 who were on board a small aircraft that crashed in a remote northwestern region, an aviation official in the capital Kathmandu said on Monday. “Efforts

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