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Giant pumpkins hit the water for rowing race in Oregon
The gourd, the bad, and the ugly set sail in Oregon at the state's annual pumpkin regatta in Tualatin.Hosted since 2004, the rowing race sees competitors dress up as characters from Elvis or a hot dog, to Guy Fieri...
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Louvre heist: Stolen jewellery worth €88m, prosecutor says
Jewellery stolen from the Louvre in Paris in a daring daylight robbery has been valued at 88 million euros (£76m; $102m), a French public prosecutor has said, citing the museum's curator.Laure Beccuau told RTL radio the sum was "extraordinary"...
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Louvre robbery suspects will be caught, expert predicts, but France’s crown jewels likely lost forever
Paris — French authorities may well manage to track down and arrest the thieves who pulled off an audacious robbery of royal crown jewels from Paris' iconic Louvre museum, but they're unlikely to recover the national...
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Stolen Louvre jewels are worth estimated $102 million, not including their historical value, prosecutor says
Crown jewels that were stolen in a dramatic weekend heist at the Louvre are worth an estimated 88 million euros, or $102 million, not including their historical value to France, the Paris prosecutor said Tuesday.About 100...
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Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, plays Iron Maiden and Deep Purple to let off steam
Japan's "Iron Lady" listens to… Iron Maiden?The country's parliament elected veteran ultraconservative lawmaker Sanae Takaichi to serve as the next prime minister on Tuesday, making her the first woman to take Japan's highest public office.Takaichi...
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Ukraine: Chernihiv in total blackout after ‘massive’ Russian assault
ReutersIn Chernihiv, the regional official Andriy Podorvan told the BBC that he believes Russia is unable to make any significant progress on the front lines and so now sees the civilian population as a weak point.But he thinks this...
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British grandmother on death row in Indonesia gets reprieve over a decade after drug conviction
Indonesia signed an agreement on Tuesday to repatriate two British nationals, including a seriously ill grandmother on death row for more than a decade on drug charges, a minister said.Indonesia has some of the world's...
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Vance says Israel-Hamas ceasefire
Vice President JD Vance and Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said Tuesday that the U.S.-brokered plan to end the war in Gaza is going better than they expected, despite the violence that erupted between Israel...
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No immediate plans for Trump-Putin meeting, White House official says
ReutersThere are "no plans" for US President Donald Trump to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin "in the immediate future", a White House official has stated.Last Thursday Trump said he and the Russian president would hold talks in Budapest within two...
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Israel’s ‘yellow line’ in Gaza gives Netanyahu room for manoeuvre
Under Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, the "yellow line" - which Israel withdrew to earlier this month - is the first of three stages of Israeli military withdrawal. It leaves it in control of about 53% of the...
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Instagram and Facebook-owner Meta notifies Australian teens of accounts shutdown
Younger Australian teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Threads are being told their accounts will be shut down ahead of...