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Five killed as Ukraine and Russia trade drone attacks

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Three people die in strikes on Dnipro in Ukraine, while two are killed in Russia's Rostov region.
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School-leavers losing their lives for Russia in Putin's war with Ukraine

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Russia has promised that no 18-year-olds will be sent to fight in Ukraine, but the BBC finds many have already been killed.
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Postal Service to celebrate 250th anniversary amid Trump threats to privatize

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary this weekend, and you won't have to check your mailbox for the invite.

The agency's semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, two and a half centuries since its founding. Two newly announced commemorative stamps will also mark the occasion.

USPS was founded as the U.S. Post Office Department on July 26, 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress. In 1970, Congress reorganized USPOD from a...
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Thais and Cambodians slug it out on social media, as border tensions flare

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A war of words is raging on social media, a years-long battleground for Thais and Cambodians.
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Pro-life group 'elated' after Planned Parenthood shutters Houston facilities: 'Tremendous victory'

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: A pro-life group is celebrating a "tremendous victory" after Planned Parenthood announced two of its facilities in Houston, Texas, will be shutting down this fall, as Republican lawmakers continue to target the organization.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, 40 Days for Life CEO and founder Shawn Carney, a Houston resident, expressed "both personal and professional elation" at the shuttering of the facilities, including the 78,000-square-foot clinic that he said was the largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere...
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School-leavers losing their lives for Russia in Putin's war with Ukraine

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Russia has promised that no 18-year-olds will be sent to fight in Ukraine, but the BBC finds many have already been killed.
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World's thirst for matcha dries up global supplies

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Surging demand, smaller tea crops due to heatwaves and US tariffs on Japan are pushing up matcha prices.
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Southwest flight plummets, injuring flight attendants

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The drastic manoeuvre was necessary to avoid collision with another plane, according to reports.
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UK condemns Hong Kong cash offer for help in arresting activists

  • News source: BBC News - World
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David Lammy and Yvette Cooper describe the bounties as "another example of transnational repression".
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Tee time with Trump - striking balls and deals over 18 holes

  • News source: BBC News - World
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For some US presidents, golf was a break from work - but for Trump, visiting Scotland this weekend, it is anything but.
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What is inside the GHF aid box being distributed in Gaza

  • News source: BBC News - World
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BBC Verify examines the meals handed out to Gazans - and their nutritional value is questioned by some experts.
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Thais and Cambodians slug it out on social media, as border tensions flare

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A war of words is raging on social media, a years-long battleground for Thais and Cambodians.
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Artist explores the toxic mining legacy of Zambia's 'black mountains'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A major exhibition about the dangerous lives of the boys and young men who scour slag heaps in search of copper.
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More than 20% of NASA's workforce requests to leave agency

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Nearly 4,000 employees, or more than 20% of NASA's workforce, have applied to leave the agency, NASA confirmed to CBS News Friday.

About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, NASA disclosed.

The deadline for applications to the program is midnight Friday.

With those deferred resignations, NASA's civil servant workforce would shrink from about 18,000 to 14,000 personnel. This figure also includes about 500 employees who were lost through normal attrition, the...
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Trump admin offers $608M for states to build migrant camps modeled after ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration is offering $608 million to states willing to expand migrant detention efforts.

The money, announced through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) new Detention Support Grant Program (DEP), is aimed at helping states build or enlarge temporary detention facilities modeled after Florida’s Everglades compound known as "Alligator Alcatraz," according to FEMA documents.

"[Department of Homeland Security] Secretary Kristi Noem has been very clear that Alligator Alcatraz can be a blueprint for other states and local...
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