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✓'Every day there is killing': Palestinians in Gaza face Israeli strikes despite ceasefire as peace deal stalls
Many Palestinians are still living in cramped tent cities, with the US plan to end the war largely stalled
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✓Trump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans
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✓Russian strike on buses kills at least 30, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge
Ukraine accused Russia of targeting two crowded vehicles in the front line city of Kramatorsk to kill as many civilians as possible
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✓Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space
The 82-year-old scientist, originally from Belgium, is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to…
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✓Syrian general accused of atrocities is protected by U.S. and Lebanon, NPR and BBC find
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Water companies failed to report more than 50,000 sewage spills in time, charity claims
Water companies in England failed to report more than 50,000 sewage spills within the time required by law in the first half of the year, an environmental charity has claimed
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✓Japan beer giants raided over suspicions they colluded to set the price of beverages
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✓Texas carries out first US execution since Christa Pike's botched lethal injections
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✓Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs amid restructure and fall in letter deliveries
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✓Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
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✓Ex-Barclays traders jailed for rigging interest rates have convictions quashed
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✓Ethiopia launches drone attack against Eritrean troops who crossed into Tigray
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✓South Korea to recall its ambassador to Ukraine over North Korean POW dispute
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✓4 people on NASA's Crew-12 mission return to Earth after 8 months in space
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Plague risk to UK 'very low', officials say after Russian woman's death
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✓Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction shook Spain, has died
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✓USS Lincoln returns to US after long deployment supporting war on Iran
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