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Ted Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in prison at age 81

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday.

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Ukraine's Zelenskyy confirms that an offensive against Russia is underway

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Despite mounting evidence, Ukrainian leaders had previously declined to say whether the offensive had been launched. The Ukrainian forces are now attacking the Russians in three separate areas.

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4 children lost for 40 days after a plane crash are found alive in Colombian jungle

Friday, June 09, 2023

The children — ranging from 11 months to 13 years old — survived a May 1 Amazon crash that killed three adults and then wandered on their own in the jungle before being found alive by soldiers.

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Boris Johnson quits Parliament after learning he will be sanctioned over 'partygate'

Friday, June 09, 2023

The former prime minister quit as a lawmaker after receiving the results of an investigation over misleading statements he made to Parliament about a series of government parties during the pandemic.

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James Watt, sharp-tongued interior secretary under Reagan, dies at 85

Friday, June 09, 2023

The Reagan administration's sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary was beloved by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists. Watt even managed to offend Beach Boys fans.

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GM's electric vehicles will gain access to Tesla's charging network

Thursday, June 08, 2023

Also under an agreement between the two companies GM will adopt Tesla's connector, the plug that links an electric vehicle to a charging station. Ford recently made a similar announcement with Tesla.

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4 young children are critically wounded in a knife attack in a French Alpine town

Thursday, June 08, 2023

As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park in the French Alps. The children suffered life-threatening injuries, and two adults were wounded.

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South Korean inquiry to look into more foreign adoptions with suspect origins

Thursday, June 08, 2023

The new cases in the expanded inquiry into South Korea's foreign adoption boom involve adoptees in 11 nations including the U.S., Denmark, Norway, and Sweden who were adopted from 1960 to 1990.

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Soccer shocker: Lionel Messi says he will join Miami's MLS team

Wednesday, June 07, 2023

After months of speculation, Messi announced his decision Wednesday to join Inter Miami, a franchise that has been led by another global soccer icon in David Beckham since its inception.

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Françoise Gilot, the famed artist who loved and then left Picasso, is dead at 101

Wednesday, June 07, 2023

The French-born Françoise Gilot had long made her frustration clear that despite acclaim for her art she would still be best known for her relationship with the older Picasso.

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Cuba Gooding Jr. settles a civil sex abuse case just as trial was set to begin

Tuesday, June 06, 2023

The actor has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago. Gooding's lawyers had insisted that his encounter with the woman was consensual.

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Apple moves into virtual reality with a headset that will cost you more than $3,000

Tuesday, June 06, 2023

Apple has unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the company's ability to popularize new-fangled devices.

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Ukraine blames Russia for blowing up a major southern dam

Tuesday, June 06, 2023

The surging water from the Kakhovka dam is likely to cause widespread flooding and poses an additional risk to an already troubled nuclear plant. Russia says Ukraine is to blame.

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Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who was convicted of spying for Russia, dies in prison

Monday, June 05, 2023

The 79-year-old Hanssen was found unresponsive in his cell at a federal prison in Colorado and later pronounced dead, prison officials said. He is believed to have died of natural causes.

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An Australian mother jailed 20 years is pardoned and freed because of new evidence

Monday, June 05, 2023

The pardon was seen as the quickest way of getting Kathleen Folbigg out of prison, as new scientific evidence found that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted.

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China tightens access to Tiananmen Square while 32 are detained in Hong Kong

Sunday, June 04, 2023

China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests.

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President Zelenskyy says 2-year-old is one of 500 Ukrainian children killed in war

Sunday, June 04, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russia's war, now in its 16th month, has killed at least 500 Ukrainian children.

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A signaling error appears to have caused the train crash that killed 275 in India

Sunday, June 04, 2023

The derailment in eastern India that killed nearly 300 people and injured hundreds more was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks.

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Rain brings much-needed relief to firefighters battling Nova Scotia wildfires

Saturday, June 03, 2023

Officials in Canada's Atlantic Coast province of Nova Scotia said a wildfire that forced thousands of residents from their homes is now largely contained because of rain.

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Death toll in Senegal protests rises to 15 as opposition supporters clash with police

Saturday, June 03, 2023

The clashes broke out after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was convicted of corrupting youth. His supporters say his legal troubles are part of a government effort to derail his candidacy in 2024.

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