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Smithsonian National Zoo euthanizes elderly Asian elephant
Kamala, an Asian elephant at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., United States, was euthanized on November 2, after an irreversible decl
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US, Florida: Hollywood train service halts in both directions for investigation of body discovered on tracks
On Tuesday morning, Hollywood police reported that a body was found on train tracks in Hollywood, Florida near 3001 Florida State Road 820, also known
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Australian Coalition reunite after one week
The Liberal-National Coalition of Australia, for decades the dominant centre-right party, has reunited after a separation that lasted a week. At a joi
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Australian Nationals leave Coalition with Liberal Party
On Tuesday, May 20, the leader of the National Party, David Littleproud, announced that the party would be ending their century-long partnership with
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Authorities arrest Belarusian Wikipedia sysop and only bureaucrat Maksim Lepushenka
On May 17, 2025, Nasha Niva announced that Belarusian security forces had apprehended Maksim Lepushenka, the Belarusian-language Wikipedia sysop on Ma
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Texas police arrest mother and her son on terrorism charges
On Thursday, the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) announced they had arrested a 33-year-old woman and her teenager son on terrorism charges some d
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World AIDS Day 2024 is marked around the world
World AIDS Day 2024 is its 37th commemoration since its first recognition by the United Nations in 1988. The observance, aimed at raising public aware
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Three UK neo-Nazis convicted of multiple terrorism offences
On Wednesday, May 14, at Sheffield Crown Court in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, jurors convicted three UK extremists of "planning an act of ter
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"Too Easy LoL": messages written on cell wall as ten inmates escape from Orleans Parish Prison in Louisiana, United States
On Friday, May 16, 2025, ten inmates broke out of the Parish Justice Center Orleans in New Orleans in Louisiana, a state on the south-east coast of th
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Drone strike kills civilians in Bilopillia, Ukraine
A minibus in Bilopillia, Ukraine was hit, with at least nine people dead and four others injured early on Saturday morning local time, said the region
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Trainmen and engineers go on statewide strike in New Jersey, first time in 42 years
On Friday, May 16, at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 UTC), members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) union went on strike. The memb
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Times Square marks New Year's Eve 2025 in New York City
People from around the world celebrated the coming new year with the ceremonial ball drop in Times Square, New York on the New Year's Eve on December
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2025 Khelo India Youth Games begins, first time in Bihar
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 2025 Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) on Sunday, hailing India's overall progress in sport. This was
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Official White House social media accounts repost AI image of US President Donald Trump dressed like Pope
On Friday, US White House social media accounts reposted an AI-generated image that appeared to show US President Donald Trump wearing a white bishop'
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President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić gets sick, flies home early from US visit
On May 3, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić tried to make a brief visit to the US before having to go home to Serbia and getting sick. He had a short
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Peruvian police locate bodies of security guards allegedly abducted by illegal goldminers
On Sunday, May 4, in Peru's Pataz province in the northern Department of La Libertad region, near one of Peru's largest gold mines, police has found b
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People's Action Party wins Singaporean election in landslide victory
On Saturday, in a landslide victory, the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) won the 2025 Singaporean general election, claiming 65.57% of the national
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Competitive local elections held in England
On May 1, 2025, local elections were held in England. The results saw both Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Conservative opposition leader Kemi
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Former guitarist of pioneering death metal band Possessed dies in shootout with San Francisco police
On Monday, April 28, Brian Montana, a former guitarist of pioneering death metal band Possessed, was shot and killed in San Francisco by the city's po
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Grand Theft Auto VI release date pushed back until May 2026
On Friday, video game manufacturer Rockstar Games announced that the release date of Grand Theft Auto VI ― the sixth mainline installment in the Grand
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CSIRO releases 15 captive bred endemic spotted handfish into wild in Tasmania
On Tuesday, April 29, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) researchers have released fifteen juvenile captive bred spo
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Local South Carolinian police places male suspect of three injuries into custody after manhunt
A large-scale manhunt search took place in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina after a driver struck two children and an adult outside Sunrise Presbyter
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Massive power outage hits Spain, Portugal
On Monday, April 28, at 12:33 CEST (1033 UTC) local time, Spain’s power grid lost 15GW, the equivalent of 60% of its national demand, within five seco
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Ukraine, US reach minerals deal
Ukraine and the United States reached a deal on April 30 to give the US preferential access to new Ukrainian rare earth mineral deals and to create a