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😱 🇺🇸 US school worker Vera Liddell sentenced to 9 years in prison for stealing 🍗 chicken wings worth $1.5m
11,000 cases of poultry were meant for 🧑🎓 students during the height of the 🦠 COVID-19 pandemic. The prosecutor's office does not specify what happened to the food
https://news.sky.com/story/school-worker-jailed-for-stealing-chicken-wings-worth-1-5m-13195879
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🎆 Paris 2024 Olympics are over with 🇺🇸 US as the winner!
The national team return home with 40🥇, 44🥈 and 42🥉
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/medals
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🌘🧑🏼🚀 Are you excited for the first human settlements on the moon? 🇺🇸 U.S. researchers have devised a way to protect explorers from brutally freezing lunar nights! 🥶
Imagine the first-ever Statue of Liberty-sized streetlight🗽😮 The Honeybee Robotics, a private space technology company, has now received state funding to build it:
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/researchers-want-to-build-streetlamps-on-the-moon-and-they-d-be-taller-than-the-statue-of-liberty
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Plane which crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil was carrying 62 people — G1
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😇 It's always nice to see caring people helping animals in trouble!
This poor 🦝 raccoon was rescued from a drain grate by firefighters and bystanders in 🇺🇸 North Cambridge, Massachusetts
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🔥😱 Dog set a house on fire in 🇺🇸 Tulsa, Oklahoma by chewing on a power bank.
The fire caused extensive damage to the house, but two 🐶 and a 🐱 fortunately escaped the blaze through a pet door
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🏄♂️ Good boys and girls competed at the World Dog Surfing Championships with a large crowd supporting them at 🏝Pacifica Beach in 🇺🇸 California this weekend.
The annual event helps to raise money for local charities since 2006 😍
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💸 🔽 Bitcoin's price has dropped to $50,000, almost a 30% decline over seven days.
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🤨 👀 A mother from Texas temporarily lost sight in one eye after taking a shower without removing her contact lenses. A parasite entered her eye and damaged her cornea.
🧐 After a year and 82 visits to the doctor, she received a corneal transplant from a deceased donor. Now, she can see something.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13702203/Texas-woman-eye-contact-lenses-parasite.html
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😺 Attention! The kitten has four ears!
https://people.com/abandoned-kitten-born-with-4-ears-at-tennessee-rescue-8687715
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🔁 A massive prisoner exchange seems to have concluded.
🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin welcomed eight of his people, including murderer Vadim Krasikov, who was serving a life sentence in Germany (pictured in a cap). Putin promised they would all receive state awards.
🇺🇸 President Joe Biden welcomed three of his people, including WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich (pictured hugging his mother).
🇩🇪Chancellor Olaf Scholz met a plane with 12 released Russian opposition and anti-war activists, but none of them disembarked. There was no public joyful meeting with Scholz and supporters, but photos of the activists were published by colleagues.
Another released person, a German citizen pardoned by 🇧🇾 President Alexander Lukashenko, is also free, but there is no information about him.
A total of 24 people participated in the exchange.
⚰️ Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was supposed to participate in this exchange but died in a colony in February for unknown reasons. Navalny's supporters believe he was killed on Putin's orders to prevent his main Russian opponent from being free.
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🔁 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Russia is releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan as part of a major prisoner swap with the US, according to people familiar with the situation.
The men, jailed in Russia on espionage charges they and the US deny, are en route to destinations outside of Russia. The US and its allies will return prisoners to Russia that they hold under the deal, the people said, asking for anonymity to discuss matters that aren’t yet public.
Further details of the exchange weren’t immediately available. The US has been in talks for years to achieve the release of the two, which the State Department has designated wrongly detained.
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🚨 At least 39 police officers have been injured in clashes outside a mosque in 🇬🇧 Southport, as angry crowds of suspected English Defence League supporters threw bricks and set off fireworks.
☹️ The unrest followed a peaceful vigil for the victims of Monday’s shocking attack in which multiple children were stabbed – three fatally – in a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/southport-stabbing-suspect-riot-mosque-attack-victims-name-b2588634.html
🤣 In the video: one of the rioters got caught in friendly fire.
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💎 🇮🇳 A debt-ridden laborer in central India said his family’s life has been “changed forever” after he unearthed a 19.22-carat diamond worth almost $100,000.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/26/india/india-laborer-diamond-intl-hnk/index.html
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🎤 Thousands of Taylor Swift fans in 🇩🇪 Munich watched her performance for free while some 75,000 people had to buy tickets. A hilltop park right next to the stadium accommodated up to 50,000 lucky Swifties (reports on the number vary). 🤩
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🧊🥶 The world's largest iceberg got stuck in the South Atlantic Ocean 🌊
The A23a iceberg split from the Antarctic coastline 38 years ago. Now this giant, more than twice the size of 🇬🇧 London, is slowly rotating by a current that will eventually break it apart, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute reports.
Nature never ceases to amaze 😱
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🍎✨ First peek at the new Snow White: Disney shows teaser trailer of a live-action musical, expected in theaters March 21, 2025
https://youtu.be/TbiPcMCz0Ek
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😻🇺🇸 This Colorado cat is now a symbol of hope after surviving the Quarry Wildfire 🔥 with just minor injuries!
Firefighters found the pet covered in flame retardant in the burn area and took it to a local animal shelter. The cat is now reunited with its family 😍
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🇧🇷 In Brazil, a passenger plane has crashed, with up to 68 people possibly on board.
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🦜 A parrot named Apollo, with the intelligence of a small human child, has made it into the Guinness Book of Records. He identified 12 objects in 3 minutes. Wow!
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/8/meet-apollo-the-record-breaking-tiktok-parrot-with-the-intelligence-of-a-human-toddler
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🏔️“Not gonna lie, it made me cry.” Photos taken by a British couple 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers 😭🫠
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/06/it-made-me-cry-photos-taken-15-years-apart-show-melting-swiss-glaciers
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🇧🇩 Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has resigned and is believed to have left the country after a month of violent protests.
Hasina held the position for over 20 years across two terms (1996-2001 and 2009-2024). Her resignation came on the day protesters breached the grounds of her residence.
Protests demanding the end of the civil service quota system began in July. Over 280 people have died in clashes since.
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🤖 🦷 An AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, completing it about eight times faster than a human dentist could.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/robot-dentist-world-first/
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🇸🇴 At least 32 people have been killed and 63 injured in a suicide bombing and gun attack at a beach in the Somalia capital of Mogadishu, police said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/03/terrorist-attack-mogadishu-beach-somalia
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We hope you're not eating right now.
🤨 A live two-foot eel and a lime were removed from an Indian man. 🤨
https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/world-news/live-2-foot-eel-chews-through-mans-intestines-after-he-put-it-up-his-anus/
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🔁 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Prisoner swap with Russia involves at least 24 people, the biggest swap since the Cold War. Countries involved include the U.S., Germany and 3 other Western countries.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-russia-prisoner-swap-frees-americans-evan-gershkovich-paul-whelan/
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🍿 Netflix announced that the second season of “Squid Game” will be released at the end of 2024, and the third and final season in 2025.
📹 https://youtu.be/JMQ7CwfecJE?si=vzco--6GVZ931CjU
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Hamas says leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/31/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh-killed-iran-israel-gaza-war
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🤨 📱 Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who leads a rather secretive life, recently revealed that he actually has over 100 biological children.
😭 “How is this possible for a guy who has never been married and prefers to live alone?” Durov jokingly writes.
🤝 It turns out that he has been a sperm donor for 15 years. It all started with a request from a friend who couldn't have a child with his wife and ended up with over 100 happy couples in 12 countries. Or maybe it hasn't ended yet…
🧬 “Now I plan to open-source my DNA so that my biological children can find each other more easily. Of course, there are risks, but I don't regret having been a donor,” Durov writes.
😎 — I'm impressed, let's go for another 100, Pablo!
🤯 — I don't believe it, this is impossible...
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🦈 🇧🇷 Sharks living off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for… cocaine. The concentration of the drug in their bodies was 100 times higher than that of other marine creatures, according to a study by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
13 sharpnose sharks, caught in Brazilian waters and purchased from local fishermen between September 2021 and August 2023, were examined. This species, listed as critically endangered, was chosen for testing because its habitat is close to the shore.
No one yet knows how the sharks obtained so much cocaine. According to one theory, it could be related to the activities of illegal drug labs that dump their waste into the open sea.
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