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VIDEO: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ โš–๏ธ What we know about Nick Reiner, charged with murdering his parents Nick Reiner, the son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner, has been charged with stabbing his parents to death in their Los Angeles home. Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were
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#BREAKING US imposes sanctions on two more International Criminal Court (ICC) judges for investigating Israel: Rubio
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๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ ๐ŸŽถ On a humid Tuesday night in Accra, Zen Garden is alive with sound, movement and memory as Highlife melodies spill into the open air. Ghana's famed musical genre has been inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list โžก๏ธ https://t.co/oRaxC3YO8d โœ๏ธ @kentmensah
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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ญ Thailand on Thursday bombed a building in a Cambodian casino town and major crossing between the two nations, as foreign powers pressured them to halt reignited border clashes โžก๏ธ https://t.co/sO1JeXMAmd
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๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ A pumped-up Australia ripped through England's fragile batting in Adelaide on Thursday to leave the tourists staring down the barrel of a third Test defeat with their Ashes campaign on the brink, barring a miracle โžก๏ธ https://t.co/FELd9kV8Yn #Ashes2025
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๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces carried out a large scale drone attack in the country's east on Thursday, a military source told AFP, with strikes hitting a key power station and causing outages in major cities โžก๏ธ https://t.co/S9kOtCajxu
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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ Ecuadoran footballer Mario Pineida was shot and killed in the port city of Guayaquil on Wednesday, his team said. Pineida, 33, was part of Ecuador's national team for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup qualifiers โžก๏ธ https://t.co/BV4lxfMZ3M
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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Hundreds of tractors converged on Brussels on Thursday in a show of farmers' anger at the EU's planned trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur -- whose fate hung in the balance as summit talks opened in the Belgian capital โžก๏ธ https://t.co/ZHcPaMUhvp
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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ EU leaders kicked off a make-or-break summit on Thursday on using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine, with key player Belgium under pressure to drop its opposition โžก๏ธ https://t.co/3e6uAqrrz2
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๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia's prime minister vowed on Thursday to stamp out extremism as the nation mourned the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach shooting, a 10-year-old girl remembered as "our little ray of sunshine" โžก๏ธ https://t.co/lpY0uYFOj0
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#UPDATE ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง A Russia-controlled court in Ukraine's Donetsk region has sentenced a British citizen to 13 years for fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, Russia's general prosecutor said on Thursday โžก๏ธ https://t.co/98oxaVcFuW
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#UPDATE ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ More than 1,000 civilians were killed during three days of attacks by Sudanโ€™s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on the Zamzam displacement camp in April, the UN said Thursday, demanding a war crimes investigation โžก๏ธ https://t.co/S5iVHaaanK
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#BREAKING Over 1,000 killed in paramilitary attack on Sudan refugee camp in April: UN
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#UPDATE Thai forces "dropped two bombs in the area of Poipetโ€ at around 11:00 am, the Cambodian defence ministry said in a statement. Thailand has not yet confirmed any strike on the bustling casino hub popular with Thai gamblers https://t.co/X4rGsG1DDA
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Cambodia said Thailand's military on Thursday bombed the casino town of Poipet, a major crossing between the two nations, as foreign powers pressured them to halt reignited border clashes.
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#UPDATE The United States approved $11 billion-worth of arms to Taiwan, Taipei said, announcing one of the largest weapons packages for the island and prompting an angry backlash from China https://t.co/4ISgsjlG2W
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The United States approved $11 billion-worth of arms to Taiwan, Taipei said Thursday, announcing one of the largest weapons packages for the island and prompting an angry backlash from China.During...
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#BREAKING Russia sentences Briton to 13 years for 'mercenary' work: prosecutor
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#UPDATE Hundreds of people across Japan sued the central government seeking damages for "unconstitutional" inaction on climate change, the country's first such litigation https://t.co/PnFwDC9bNt
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Hundreds of people across Japan sued the central government Thursday seeking damages for "unconstitutional" inaction on climate change, the country's first such litigation.
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#BREAKING Cambodia says Thai military bombs Poipet casino hub on border
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Venezuela, which has the world's largest proven oil reserves, insists its crude exports were not impacted by US President Donald Trump's announcement of a potentially crippling blockade https://t.co/Va9qVZn7BF
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Venezuela struck a defiant note Wednesday, insisting its crude oil exports were not impacted by US President Donald Trump's announcement of a potentially crippling blockade."Export operations for...
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#BREAKING Japanese plaintiffs file lawsuit against government in landmark climate case: lawyer
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