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Middle East Crisis: Hezbollah Targets Israel in Overnight Retaliation for Week of Israeli Attacks
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Watch: Hundreds of paratroopers leap to mark daring WW2 offensive
Veterans watched the jump, at Ginkel Heath near the Dutch town of Ede, to commemorate Operation Market Garden.8 hours ago -
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Hundreds of parachutists drop over Dutch heath to commemorate World War II operation
Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary Operation Market Garden12 hours ago - Netherlands -
The New York Times - World
The Netherlands Returns Hundreds of Cultural Artifacts to Indonesia
The repatriation, the second of its kind by the Dutch, shows a working model for returning looted treasures from Europe to former colonies around the world.12 hours ago - Indonesia -
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Motel 6 sold to Indian hotel operator Oyo for $525 million
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Parachute drop near Arnhem marks 80 years since Operation Market Garden
Airborne units from eight Nato nations participate in commemoration of ill-fated second world war manoeuvre. Eighty years after thousands of allied airborne troops parachuted into the Nazi-occupied ...16 hours ago -
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Israel’s Pager Bombs Have No Place in a Just War
Israel is using the tactics of the terrorists it condemns if it indeed was behind the wave of pager and walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon.18 hours ago - Israel -
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Dutch row over which victims of Nazis get ‘stumbling stone’ plaques
Commemorations of 45 people ‘experimentally’ gassed reveal dark moments in the Netherlands’ history. They call them stumbling stones – little brass plaques in the pavement marking addresses where ...19 hours ago - Netherlands -
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Drug Overdose Deaths Are Dropping. The Reasons Are Not Perfectly Clear.
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Zelenskyy to push Biden for security guarantees to end war
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Giorgia Meloni bolsters ties with Trump world
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War in the age of AI demands new weaponry
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Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden
A commemorative parachute jump is to be held in the Netherlands to remember the 'bridge too far'.Yesterday -
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Prosecutors drop weapons charge against Victoria Spartz
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Families of workers killed and injured in Maryland bridge collapse sue owner and operator of cargo ship
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Families of Workers Killed in Baltimore Bridge Collapse Sue Cargo Ship Owner, Operator
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3 big HELOC benefits to know as interest rates drop
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Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to restart to power Microsoft AI operations
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Another new Barbie x Stanley cup dropped today: Get it now
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WNBA-record crowd sees Clark, Fever drop finale
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Putin’s gambit infuses the chess world with cold war intrigue
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Key Hezbollah leader, commanders killed in strike on Lebanon, Israel says
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Children vaping and alcohol warning labels: takeaways from the World Cancer Congress
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World economy faces pressures similar to 1920s, warns Lagarde
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Mark Robinson refuses to drop out of North Carolina governor race
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Russian prisoner freed in swap urges UK not to let hundreds more ‘die off’
Vladimir Kara-Murza tells Keir Starmer that further exchanges are a matter of ‘life and death’. Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian dissident freed in the biggest prisoner swap since the cold war , has ...Yesterday - United Kingdom -
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Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire over Lebanon border, growing fears of a wider war
Israel has carried out major bombing in Lebanon as the IDF says it was targeting the militant group Hezbollah, who has fired back. The U.S. has warned both sides against an escalation of any kind ...Yesterday - Israel -
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GOP candidate for governor urged to drop out over explicit posts
Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, is facing pressure to drop out, over inflammatory and lewd comments he reportedly made online. He denies these reports and ...Yesterday -
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Abrdn to drop China from emerging markets fund
Manager says move is designed to give investors more choice as Chinese market lags behind rivalsYesterday - China -
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The Price War in Weight-Loss Drugs Is Here
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The many stages of the university drop-off – the Stephen Collins cartoon
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New Caledonia police kill two in operation linked to deadly unrest, prosecutor says
Prosecutor said security forces had been trying to detain about a dozen people allegedly linked to recent riots in the French territory. Two men have been killed in New Caledonia during a police ...2 days ago -
The Guardian - World
Graham Arnold resigns as Socceroos coach ahead of next World Cup qualifiers
61-year-old has been in charge of men’s national team since 2018 Australia have one point from two games in third round of qualifying Football Australia will scramble to find a new coach before ...2 days ago - World Cup -
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1X’s generative model first to predict real-world robot interactions
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