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Forget coffee or drinks, the latest dating trend in South Korea takes place somewhere very different, a Buddhist temple.
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Dating can be hard in South Korea. A group of monks hope a 30-hour rural retreat can help.
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Paperwork ends Democratic campaign laden with scandals, including most recently accusations of sexual assaultGraham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, officially withdrew his candidacy on Friday afternoon, ending a campaign laden with scandals.Maine’s secretary of state confirmed Platner had filed the paperwork to remove his name from the November ballot, two days after Platner publicly said he planned to exit the race. Continue reading...
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Democratic lawmakers enlist the GAO to investigate ‘compliance with IRS requirements’ by groups supporting Israel’s presence in the West Bank.
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Rewarding Erdogan isn’t enough reason for Trump to stiff Congress, which wants Turkey to sell its Russian S-400s.
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One measure of the U.K.’s decline is its soaring welfare rolls.
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The plant-eating dinosaur, named Uragasaurus kalasinensis, is thought to have lived about 150 million years ago.
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Venture between two Pennsylvania senators stokes speculation about Fetterman’s future in Democratic partyThe Democratic senator John Fetterman, who has faced mounting political challenges, is joining forces with the Republican senator Dave McCormick to launch a new joint fundraising committee, a move that is likely to fuel additional questions about Fetterman’s increasingly rightward lurch.Pennsylvania’s two US senators have established a shared fundraising committee that will collect donations
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The final battle of the Russian war with Ukraine will be fought in the corridors of the Kremlin.
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Crowd of over 22,000 people – and the musician himself – formed the ‘largest gathering of people wearing bald caps’A tight plastic cap is not an attractive option for protective headwear in 30C heat. Yet 22,141 people opted for just that – along with a white shirt, black tie and aviator sunglasses – in Hyde Park, London, on Friday afternoon. It was both a homage to the rapper Pitbull, the night’s headliner at the BST festival, and part of setting a Guinness World Record for the “largest gatherin
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‘Commissioner Ana María Archila was scheduled to meet with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations.’
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Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinctThe Trump administration repealed a crucial part of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on Friday, finalizing a new rule that will open habitats of imperiled wildlife to development, logging, mining and other uses.For the last 50 years, the landmark environmental law included a broader understanding of the word “harm”, which ensured that not just the plants and animals themselves w
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The nation’s president vowed to go “beyond diplomatic notes” after a U.S. immigration agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican man, in Texas this week.
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Advocacy group calls on acting attorney general to lead ‘thorough, transparent federal investigation’The deaths in recent days of two Black men in Tennessee, one in the custody of police and the other at the hands of national guard troops, has prompted the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to demand the suspension of the so-called Memphis Safe Task Force, Donald Trump’s anti-crime alliance of federal, state and local law enforcement.In a letter to acting attorney general
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Lawyer says men who were riding in van are being pressured to self-deport as footage of incident is reportedly with investigatorsSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe three men who were in the van when federal immigration officials shot and killed a man in Houston, Texas, this week are strongly disputing the Trump administration’s narrative of the events and are being pressured to sign deportation orders, according to their lawyer and lawmakers.The three men, who were arrested by
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Governor Mike Kehoe urges people to follow guidelines with more heavy rain expected through the weekendMissouri has declared a state of emergency in response to severe storms and flash flooding affecting the state’s central, south-central, and south-eastern regions.In a news release, Governor Mike Kehoe said that under the order, the Missouri state emergency operations plan has been activated, allowing state agencies to coordinate directly with local jurisdictions to expedite emergency assistanc
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Friday’s visit to King Charles and Queen Camilla signaled a détente in relations with Prince Harry and his wife, who renounced their royal titles and moved to the United States in 2020.
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Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet believed to have had private reunion with kingKing Charles has enjoyed a private reunion with the grandchildren he has not seen for four years, it is understood.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their children, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, were hosted by Charles and Queen Camilla at the king’s private residence, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, on Friday afternoon. Continue reading...
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State had pardoned immigrant Tou Lue Vang in June over 2006 conviction but federal government expels him to LaosA Laotian man pardoned by state officialsin Minnesota last month has been deported from the country, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has announced.Tou Lue Vang, an immigrant from Laos, faced deportation for a 2006 conviction of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after raping a young girl between 2002 and 2004. Because Laos initially refused to accept deportees, Vang spent nea
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Five charges related to encounter with woman Ward met at New Year’s Day party in London in 2023The Top Boy actor Michael Ward has been cleared of raping and sexually assaulting a woman who claimed he had attacked her in the back of a car.Ward, 28, who is best known for his roles in the crime drama and Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, was acquitted of two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration, and one count of sexual assault, after a 10-day trial at Snaresbrook crown court. Continue read