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Solar storm headed toward Earth may disrupt power

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The largest solar flare in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights....
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VIDEO: Spaniards grow cannabis to pay debt

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
The Spanish town of Rasquera has leased land to grow cannabis in order to pay its 1.3 million euros debt.
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VIDEO: China 'hole' building divides opinion

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
A building with a hole in its centre is dividing public opinion in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.
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Wider Australia abuse probe urged

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
Australia's military faces years of abuse inquiries, after a review sparked by a sex scandal found 775 "plausible" abuse claims dating back 60 years.
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'Sex-ring victim awoke to rape'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
An alleged victim of a child sex ring tells a court of the moment she woke to find she was being raped.
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Gergen: Romney's brand of football

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
David Gergen says the former governor is using the Woody Hayes school of offense to grind out victories
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Kentucky tornado cut 95-mile trench

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
At least 45 separate tornadoes have been identified in last week's deadly outbreak across the Midwest and South, including one that stayed on the ground for 95 miles, tearing a swath through Kentucky and West Virginia, according to the National Weather Service.
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Israelis criticize PM's Iran-Holocaust parallels

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli prime minister's linking of Iran to Nazi Germany evoked ringing applause this week at a gathering of a pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington. Back home, though, it drew some heavy criticism....

Talks over cleric 'constructive'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
Talks in Jordan over the deportation of radical cleric Abu Qatada were "constructive", the home secretary says as she returns from a three-day trip.
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New legal aid blows for ministers

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
The government suffers three fresh House of Lords defeats over its plans to reform the legal aid system.
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Police 'unlawfully killed my son'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
The mother of a Bolton man shot dead in a police operation says she hopes an investigation will conclude officers unlawfully killed her son.
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Minister in Nissan Bolton blunder

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
A Sunderland MP criticises a government minister who told the Commons that Nissan's Wearside plant was "somewhere near" Bolton.
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VIDEO: Scientists decode gorilla genome

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
Researchers in Cambridge have deciphered the genetic code of the gorilla - which is the last group of great apes to be sequenced.
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Texts, tweets scrutinized in Rutgers webcam case

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — With the story of alleged invasion of privacy and bias intimidation already told, prosecutors have turned to trying to show jurors that a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man tried to cover ...

Farrell defends England tactics

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
Fly-halves Owen Farrell and Charlie Hodgson have insisted that England play to win in matches, and do not seek simply to avoid defeats.
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Apple unveils high-def iPad

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
Apple unveils the third version of its best-selling tablet computer with a "retina display" screen and a chip offering improved graphics.
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Fewer elderly using meals service

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
The number of elderly and vulnerable people having a meal delivered to their homes drops dramatically with a 76% drop in one health trust area.
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Obama campaign to release documentary

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign plans to release a 17-minute documentary next week about his first term in office....

Obama campaign to release documentary

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign plans to release a 17-minute documentary next week about his first term in office....

Obama campaign to release documentary

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-26 02:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign plans to release a 17-minute documentary next week about his first term in office....
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