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    Environmental activists pour green dye in Venice canal

    Environmental activists from the group Extinction Rebellion poured dye into Venice's Grand Canal and several Italian rivers Saturday in protest against the "failure" of ongoing international climate talks to deliver results.Extinction Rebellion Italy said on X, formerly Twitter, that it had sprayed a "harmless" fluorescein dye in the Venice waters.

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    China sees progress at climate talks as OPEC fights for fossil fuels

    China said on Saturday it saw progress in reaching a climate deal at a key United Nations summit in Dubai, despite a last-minute push by the OPEC oil cartel to resist a phase-out of fossil fuels.Saudi Arabia has been at the forefront of opposition to cutting fossil fuels and Iraq, another OPEC member, voiced support for the cartel letter.?

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    Lula warns Maduro as South America nervously eyes Guyana-Venezuela row

    Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged his counterpart Nicolas Maduro Saturday against escalating Venezuela's border row with neighboring Guyana, as South American leaders nervously monitored the deepening dispute."Lula emphasized the importance of avoiding unilateral measures that could escalate the situation," the Brazilian presidency said.

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    Israel pounds Gaza after US blocks UN ceasefire

    Israel bombarded targets in Gaza on Saturday after the United States blocked an extraordinary United Nations bid for a ceasefire in the war with Hamas.Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said a ceasefire would save Hamas "which is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, and would enable it to continue ruling the Gaza Strip".

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    How Mike Johnson Helped Open The Door To Creationism In Louisiana Public Schools

    The House speaker is known for his work as a Christian-right operative. This is how he became the "legal go-to guy" to put creationism into public schools.

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    Zimbabwe opposition condemn one-sided by-elections

    Zimbabwe held crucial by-elections on Saturday with the opposition in turmoil after being excluded from voting lists and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's party looking to tighten its grip on power.Nine by-elections were scheduled to be held but most opposition candidates were taken off electoral lists by courts in a chaotic runup to the voting.

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    New York GOPers Not Holding George Santos Against His Booster Elise Stefanik

    The former congressman’s rise and fall from grace is all on him, they said.

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    The Shoplifting Epidemic Touted By Fox News Is Likely Overblown, Data Shows

    Don't let dramatic videos of retail theft lead you to believe that crime is running rampant everywhere we look.

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    Liz Cheney Sounds The Alarm On Trump's Recent 'Dictator' Talk

    The former House Republican pointed out "the extent to which he was willing to attempt to seize power" in the past.

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    Women Are Sharing The Habits And Routines They Adopted For Themselves After Seeing Other Women Do Them, And These Are So Helpful And Wholesome

    "Now that I'm older, it's something that I absolutely love and practice all the time..."

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    Nikki Haley Is Proud Of Her ‘Union-Buster’ Record

    The Republican presidential candidate boasts of her rabidly anti-union past, but her views on labor are out of step with the American mood.

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    India at COP28 insists on 'equity' in climate talks

    India's environment minister, Bhupender Yadav, on Saturday demanded "equity and justice" in U.N. climate negotiations, holding that rich countries should be leading global climate action. The comments underlined India's long-held position that, as a developing country, it should not be a forced to cut its energy-related emissions - even as it is the world's third-biggest emitting country after China and the United States. With the COP28 climate summit in Dubai scheduled to end on Tuesday, dele

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    UN Security Council debates escalating Guyana-Venezuela row

    The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors on Friday to discuss the fast-escalating row between South American neighbors Venezuela and Guyana over a disputed oil-rich region.Guyana says Venezuela's move on Essequibo, disputed for more than a century, "threatens international peace and security".

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    How unhealthy are ultra-processed foods?

    Ultra-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge: a threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer and early death.According to the NOVA scale, nearly 60 percent of the calories eaten in the United States and UK are from UPFs. - 'Confused' - In recent years, dozens of studies have found that people who eat lots of UPFs have a higher risk of heart disease, cancer, asthma, depression and other illnesses.

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    Israel strikes Gaza after failed UN ceasefire bid

    Israel pressed its offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza on Saturday after the United States blocked an extraordinary UN bid to call for a ceasefire in the two-month war.A UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate ceasefire was vetoed by the United States on Friday.

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    Nearly two years into war, is Russia's economy out of the woods?

    As he prepares to run for re-election in 2024, is President Vladimir Putin right to claim the worst is over for the Russian economy?"We have overcome all problems that arose after the sanctions were imposed on us and we have started the next stage of development," Putin announced in October.

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    CNN's Jake Tapper Mocks Rep. James Comer's Hunter Biden Theory To His Face

    After the congressman claimed that the president's son was indicted to "protect him," Tapper sarcastically said, “The classic rubric, I got it.”

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    French court convicts six teens for role in beheading of teacher

    A French court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their role in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by a radicalised Islamist near Paris, in a case that horrified the country.Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed and then beheaded near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on October 16, 2020.

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    Once the bane of big tech, Vestager's star wanes

    Margrethe Vestager is preparing to return to her day job as the European Union's competition chief after a hard-fought and ultimately unsuccessful bid to lead the bloc's lender.Vestager will now return to the commission but with only a few months left before European elections that are likely to change the make-up of the EU's executive arm. bur-aro/raz/dc/gil

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    After I Found Evidence Of Cheating, I Spent A Week At 'Sex Monster Camp.' It Changed My Life.

    "The women I met not only validated my experience by sharing their own, but I found comfort that they too were stuck in The Land of Retrospect."