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The Independent Newspaper UK
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Fire engulfs hospital ward in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies
A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others
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The family of Israeli-American hostage pleads with Biden and Trump to bring hostages home
Some families of the 101 hostages still being held in Gaza are desperately hoping that a drastically different political landscape will be able to reignite the momentum to bring their loved ones home
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Why I swapped France for this beautiful English county to celebrate my milestone birthday
As Mary Novakovich was heading towards her 60th birthday, she longed for the southern French getaway she had for her 40th – until she discovered the autumnal charm of this Shropshire market town
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The family of Israeli-American hostage pleads with Biden and Trump to bring hostages home
Some families of the 101 hostages still being held in Gaza are desperately hoping that a drastically different political landscape will be able to reignite the momentum to bring their loved ones home
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The 20 best songs of 2024, ranked
From Charli XCX’s neon-splattered club remix with Lorde to The Cure’s moment of bleary-eyed brilliance 16 years in the making, here are the songs that defined 2024
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Gladiator 2 is an awful mess – no wonder it made Russell Crowe uncomfortable
Critics have generally been kind to the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning 2000 blockbuster. But these critics are wrong, insists Patrick Smith. It’s a rushed, poorly acted quasi-remake from which only Denzel Washington and a well-dressed monkey emerge unscathed. What was Ridley Scott thinking?
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They fled war in Sudan. Now, women in refugee camps say they’re being forced to have sex to survive
Some women who fled the war in Sudan say they face sexual exploitation as refugees in Chad
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Forget downtown or the ’burbs. The far-flung exurbs are where people are moving
Not long ago, Polk County’s biggest draw was citrus
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Mike Tyson’s bare butt cheeks make appearance on Netflix livestream, shocking viewers
The unscripted moment was caught after Tyson’s son Amir interviewed his father in the locker room
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An Indian family froze to death crossing the Canada-US border, a perilous trip becoming more common
Two men are accused of helping illegally smuggle Indian nationals across the U.S.-Canada border and into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022
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Alaska political leaders hope to see Trump undo restrictions on oil drilling
Political leaders in Alaska have welcomed President-elect Donald Trump's pledges to expand oil production
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More states are ditching exams as high school graduation requirements
When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state’s high school graduation exams on Election Day, they joined a growing trend that has steadily chipped away at the use of high-stakes tests for the past two decades
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Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul viewers rage over Netflix buffering issues
Some viewers have sat watching a loading screen as the preliminary matches get underway before Paul vs Tyson
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Family’s fears for Hawaii woman who vanished on bucket list trip to New York after sending ‘weird’ texts
Missing Hannah Kobayashi’s sister described the final texts from her sibling as ‘very weird’
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The Voice winner Sundance Head airlifted to hospital after being shot on his Texas ranch
Sundance Head is reportedly in a ‘stable condition’ after sustaining a gunshot wound
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs is trying to obstruct justice from jail, prosecutors say
Prosecutors say Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has tried to reach out to prospective witnesses and influence public opinion from jail in a bid to affect potential jurors for his upcoming sex trafficking trial
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Netflix viewers underwhelmed by ‘sad’ Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight as YouTuber ends bout with a bow
‘I just wasted my life on this trash fight,’ one angry viewer wrote
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Netflix experiences streaming delays leading up to Tyson-Paul fight
Netflix’s first attempt at handling a live sports event did not receive a passing grade
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PHOTO COLLECTION: Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul
This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors.
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Art Garfunkel: ‘I’m in the mood to work with Paul Simon again. We’ll see...’
The singer has joined forces with his son to record a new album. He talks to Mark Beaumont about their need to record together and the emotional end to his feud with former singing partner Simon – ‘It’s now a thing of the past’
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Colombia’s government is eager for post-fossil fuels economy. But costs are a barrier
The main goal of this year's United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan is to establish just how much wealthy nations will contribute to help the developing world cope with climate change and transform their energy systems
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In the polar bear capital of the world, a community lives with the predator next door and loves it
Churchill is a remote Canadian town that not only lives with the predator next door, but loves it
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Investigation reveals a Russian factory's plan to mix decoys with a new deadly weapon in Ukraine
A high-tech factory in central Russia has created a new, deadly force to attack Ukraine: A small number of highly destructive thermobaric drones surrounded by huge swarms of cheap foam decoys
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Operation False Target: How Russia plotted to mix a deadly new weapon among decoy drones in Ukraine
At a secretive factory in Russia’s central grasslands, engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses as they try to protect against a horrific new weapon, an Associated Press investigation has found
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The November Project gets people outside to exercise and socialize together all winter long
There’s one exercise group that says you really can keep up with outdoor workouts through the winter
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AP PHOTOS: 1,000 days of war in Ukraine captured in images
A thousand days of war in Ukraine have been captured in stunning images, many of them horrifying, some of them poignant, others uplifting.
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Mom arrested when home-schooled son, 10, wandered to town while she was at doctor with sibling
Brittany Patterson, 41, said the road her son walked in Fannin County, Georgia was not ‘even dangerous at all’
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Oregon school board chair resigns, superintendent and principal on leave over sex abuse arrests
A school district in northwest Oregon has put its superintendent and high school principal on leave and accepted the school board chair's resignation
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US steps up campaign to transform Kenya-led force in Haiti to a UN peacekeeping force
The United States has stepped up its campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping force, spurred by escalating gang violence that shut all air traffic to the capital Port-au-Prince this week
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Twitch lays out new hate speech policy on word ‘Zionist’ after antisemitism allegations
Streaming platform will allow use of word to describe political movement but not as identity-based attack