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VIDEO: ๐บ๐ธ โ๏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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๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ถ 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 โก๏ธ https://t.co/oRaxC3YO8d โ๏ธ @kentmensah
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๐ฐ๐ญ ๐น๐ญ 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 โก๏ธ https://t.co/sO1JeXMAmd
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๐ฆ๐บ ๐ด๓ 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 โก๏ธ https://t.co/FELd9kV8Yn
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๐ธ๐ฉ 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 โก๏ธ https://t.co/S9kOtCajxu
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๐ช๐จ 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 โก๏ธ https://t.co/BV4lxfMZ3M
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๐ช๐บ ๐ง๐ช 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 โก๏ธ https://t.co/ZHcPaMUhvp
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๐ช๐บ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ท๐บ 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 โก๏ธ https://t.co/3e6uAqrrz2
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๐ฆ๐บ 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" โก๏ธ https://t.co/lpY0uYFOj0
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#UPDATE ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ท๐บ ๐ฌ๐ง 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 โก๏ธ https://t.co/98oxaVcFuW
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#UPDATE ๐ธ๐ฉ More than 1,000 civilians were killed during three days of attacks by Sudanโs paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on the Zamzam displacement camp in April, the UN said Thursday, demanding a war crimes investigation โก๏ธ https://t.co/S5iVHaaanK
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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
france24.com
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
yahoo.com
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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#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
france24.com
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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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
yahoo.com
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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