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US envoys in Beijing for NKorea food aid talks

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. envoys met with North Korean counterparts Wednesday to finalize arrangements for the first U.S. government food aid shipment to the impoverished North in three years, part of an agreement aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear programs....

US and N Korea in food aid talks

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
US envoys are meeting North Korean officials in Beijing to finalise details of a food aid deal aimed at halting Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
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Goldfinches 'visit more gardens'

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
A record number of goldfinches visited gardens in the UK and Ireland in 2011, a survey by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) suggests.
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Warning over child benefit cuts

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
Changes to child benefit payments will leave many parents cutting back on vital necessities, the Child Poverty Action Group warns.
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$336M Powerball winner claims prize

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
Louise White, an 81 year-old Rhode Island resident, came forward Tuesday as the winner of a $336.4 million Powerball lottery, the third largest prize in the game's history.
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Parents back junk food advert ban

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
Many parents would like to see a ban on the advertising of unhealthy foods and sugary snacks before the 2100 watershed, a survey for the Children's Food Trust suggests.
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Care homes 'lacking NHS services'

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
Vulnerable people in care homes may be struggling to get access to GPs and routine medicines in England, a review suggests.
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Biden tells CentAm US determined to defeat gangs

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden told Central American leaders that the United States is determined to defeat transnational gangs and continue funding an offensive against drug traffickers, but didn't publicly address the debate of drug legalization proposed in the region....

Huge gulf in diabetes amputations

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
Leg amputation rates for people with diabetes are 10 times higher in some parts of England than in others.
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The private life of a police force

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
The policing tasks private firms are already doing
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Economy key issue, even as state results diverge

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney won in the Northeast on Super Tuesday, while Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich picked up victories in Southern states - results that showcased the vastly different slices of the Republican electorate that headed to the polls....

Are red foxes getting bigger?

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
Are foxes really getting larger?
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Obama's driving Americans out of cars

Barack Obama is now achieving a vision that environmentalist ideologues could only dream about in the 1970s...

7 questions on British food

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
The last traditional Staffordshire oatcake shop is closing. Try our regional delicacy quiz.
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Ohio: Close race between Santorum, Romney

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are in a tight race to win the Republican presidential primary in Ohio....

Thousands mourn Tibetan self-immolator in China

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
BEIJING (AP) -- Thousands of Tibetans gathered to mourn a farmer who died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese rule in Tibetan areas, a U.S. broadcaster said....

China says woman had injury before self-immolation

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
BEIJING (AP) -- China's state news agency confirmed Wednesday that a 20-year-old Tibetan woman died after setting herself on fire but said it may have been a result of depression caused by a head injury....

Romney takes 3 states, Santorum 2, Gingrich 1

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney won three primaries, Rick Santorum countered coolly with a pair and the Republican rivals dueled for supremacy in Ohio on a Super Tuesday that stretched from one end of the country to the other in the most turbulent Republican presidential race in a generation....
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Santorum draws conservatives in Ohio GOP contest

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum was drawing strong support Tuesday from the most conservative voters in Ohio's Republican presidential primary, according to early results of an exit poll of voters. Yet despite targeting the state's blue-collar voters, they were giving him only a slender lead over rival Mitt Romney, the survey was showing....

Obama wooing young voters with student loan focus

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 19:25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on university campuses next week in states crucial to his re-election....
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