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'Slavery' man 'scared of family'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
A man who claims he was forced to work for a family of travellers in Hampshire tells a court he felt "scared" of them.
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Woman dies, two hurt in crash

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
A woman passenger in a car has died and two other people are seriously injured following a crash involving two cars near the lake in Bala, Gwynedd.
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Wild fire breaks out on island

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
A large wild fire breaks out on Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides and is threatening two cottages on the north west of the island.
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Opinion poll suggests yes vote

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
One of the final opinion polls ahead of Ireland's referendum next week on whether to ratify the EU Fiscal Treaty suggests it is likely to be a 'yes' vote.
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VIDEO: Cardiff Olympic cauldron burns bright

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
The Olympic flame has arrived in the Welsh capital Cardiff on day one of its tour of Wales.
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Apple's boss rejects $75m payout

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
Apple's boss, Tim Cook, turns down a payout worth about $75m (£48m) that he was due from the technology giant's upcoming dividend.
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Key Egypt candidate seeks allies

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls allies to back its presidential candidate in a likely run-off against Hosni Mubarak's last PM to "save" the uprising.
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Is China poor? Key question at climate talks

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
BONN, Germany (AP) -- Another round of U.N. climate talks closed Friday without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor....

Brazil forest bill part-vetoed

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed some of the articles in the controversial forest code, which environmentalists say could speed up deforestation.
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Brazil president vetoes part of forest bill

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday vetoed 12 articles of a controversial forest bill approved by Congress last month, which was promoted by the powerful agriculture lobby but slammed by environmentalists.
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FBI Secretly Creates Internet Police

TruthNews.US - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
RT | Former General Counsel of FBI: '...it is critically important that we have the ability to intercept electronic communications with court approval.'

Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, triumphantly captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm....
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50 years on, fire still burns underneath Pa. town

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
CENTRALIA, Pa. (AP) -- Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in Centralia - a whole community of 1,400 simply gone....
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50 years on, fire still burns underneath Pa. town

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
CENTRALIA, Pa. (AP) -- Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in Centralia - a whole community of 1,400 simply gone....
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Suspect in NY killing hospitalized as suicide risk

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
NEW YORK (AP) -- The man accused of murdering 6-year-old Etan Patz was hospitalized for fear he might attempt suicide as he awaited arraignment Friday, exactly 33 years after the boy vanished without a trace in one of New York City's most traumatic missing-child cases....
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Breeze of Arab Spring felt on Cannes red carpet

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
CANNES, France (AP) -- The ripples of the Arab Spring are being felt in summery Cannes, where films from Egypt and Syria, as well as a passionate documentary about the overthrow of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, are being screened alongside the latest features from the world's heavyweight directors....

Police: Hostages remain inside Ind. realty office

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) -- A gunman looking for someone he believes owes him money took an unknown number of hostages inside an Indiana real estate office Friday, police said, prompting officers to shut down nearby streets and surround the building with guns drawn....
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Former top Calif. football prospect exonerated

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 15:39
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Now that Brian Banks has been exonerated of a rape conviction that put him in prison for five years, the one-time prep football star has a message for NFL coaches: Give him a chance....
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