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Apple firestorm leads artist to change his show

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mike Daisey, the off-Broadway performer who admitted that he made up parts of his one-man show about Apple products being made in Chinese sweatshops, has cut questionable sections from the monologue and added a prologue explaining the controversy....
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Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Ford criticises BBC over ageism

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Former newsreader Anna Ford accuses the BBC of "tokenism" in the debate over ageism on television.
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Colombian rebels: Expect to free hostages soon

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's largest rebel group said Saturday that it's ready to start freeing 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held prisoner for as long as 14 years....

Colombian rebels: Expect to free hostages soon

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's largest rebel group said Saturday that it's ready to start freeing 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held prisoner for as long as 14 years....

Colombian rebels: Expect to free hostages soon

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's largest rebel group said Saturday that it's ready to start freeing 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held prisoner for as long as 14 years....

Red Bull co-founder dies a billionaire

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Before there was Red Bull, there was Krating Daeng, a sweet energy drink sold in Thailand and a few other countries. Its labels feature two red bulls charging one another.
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Chile diplomat's daughter killed

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Several police officers are arrested in Venezuela after the teenage daughter of a Chilean diplomat was shot dead in the western city of Maracaibo.
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Why I'm risking my life to treat protesters

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Why I'm risking my life to treat Syrian protesters
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VIDEO: Close-up: Dancing at dawn in Cambodia

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Dancing at dawn in the streets of the Cambodian capital
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Cash boost for jobless hotspots

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
The Scottish government announces six priority areas set to share £9m to tackle the challenge of youth unemployment.
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Wider ban on junk food ads urged

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Scotland's public health minister writes to the UK health secretary urging support for a pre-watershed ban on junk food adverts.
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Thorpe fails to make London 2012

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe says he has no regrets despite failing to qualify for London 2012.
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Brazil to file charges on Chevron

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Brazilian prosecutors say they will bring charges against 17 executives from the US oil firm Chevron and a drilling contractor after a new leak.
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Occupy Wall Street celebrates 6 months since start

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
NEW YORK (AP) -- Chanting and cheering down Wall Street on Saturday to mark six months since the birth of the Occupy movement, some protesters applauded the Goldman Sachs employee who days ago gave the firm a public drubbing, echoing the movement's indictment of a financial system demonstrators say is fueled by reckless greed....
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VIDEO: Morocco protest over rape-marriage law

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Several hundred women's rights activists have demonstrated outside Morocco's parliament to demand the repeal of a law on sexual violence.
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Count held in Guinea-Bissau poll

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
Votes are being counted in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau following an election to choose a new president.
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Protesters mark uprising anniversary

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-04 15:05
After months of bloodshed that has left the Syrian people on the brink of civil war, more than 1,000 activists gathered outside the White House on Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the uprising in Syria.
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