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Three UK neo-Nazis convicted of multiple terrorism offences
On Wednesday, May 14, at Sheffield Crown Court in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, jurors convicted three UK extremists of "planning an act of ter
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"Too Easy LoL": messages written on cell wall as ten inmates escape from Orleans Parish Prison in Louisiana, United States
On Friday, May 16, 2025, ten inmates broke out of the Parish Justice Center Orleans in New Orleans in Louisiana, a state on the south-east coast of th
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Drone strike kills civilians in Bilopillia, Ukraine
A minibus in Bilopillia, Ukraine was hit, with at least nine people dead and four others injured early on Saturday morning local time, said the region
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Trainmen and engineers go on statewide strike in New Jersey, first time in 42 years
On Friday, May 16, at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 UTC), members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) union went on strike. The memb
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Times Square marks New Year's Eve 2025 in New York City
People from around the world celebrated the coming new year with the ceremonial ball drop in Times Square, New York on the New Year's Eve on December
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2025 Khelo India Youth Games begins, first time in Bihar
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 2025 Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) on Sunday, hailing India's overall progress in sport. This was
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Official White House social media accounts repost AI image of US President Donald Trump dressed like Pope
On Friday, US White House social media accounts reposted an AI-generated image that appeared to show US President Donald Trump wearing a white bishop'
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President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić gets sick, flies home early from US visit
On May 3, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić tried to make a brief visit to the US before having to go home to Serbia and getting sick. He had a short
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Peruvian police locate bodies of security guards allegedly abducted by illegal goldminers
On Sunday, May 4, in Peru's Pataz province in the northern Department of La Libertad region, near one of Peru's largest gold mines, police has found b
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People's Action Party wins Singaporean election in landslide victory
On Saturday, in a landslide victory, the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) won the 2025 Singaporean general election, claiming 65.57% of the national
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Competitive local elections held in England
On May 1, 2025, local elections were held in England. The results saw both Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Conservative opposition leader Kemi
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Former guitarist of pioneering death metal band Possessed dies in shootout with San Francisco police
On Monday, April 28, Brian Montana, a former guitarist of pioneering death metal band Possessed, was shot and killed in San Francisco by the city's po
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Grand Theft Auto VI release date pushed back until May 2026
On Friday, video game manufacturer Rockstar Games announced that the release date of Grand Theft Auto VI ― the sixth mainline installment in the Grand
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CSIRO releases 15 captive bred endemic spotted handfish into wild in Tasmania
On Tuesday, April 29, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) researchers have released fifteen juvenile captive bred spo
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Local South Carolinian police places male suspect of three injuries into custody after manhunt
A large-scale manhunt search took place in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina after a driver struck two children and an adult outside Sunrise Presbyter
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Massive power outage hits Spain, Portugal
On Monday, April 28, at 12:33 CEST (1033 UTC) local time, Spain’s power grid lost 15GW, the equivalent of 60% of its national demand, within five seco
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Ukraine, US reach minerals deal
Ukraine and the United States reached a deal on April 30 to give the US preferential access to new Ukrainian rare earth mineral deals and to create a
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Maldives police arrests two organizers of Dhuleh Nukuraanan protests
On May 1, 2025, Maldives police arrested Aishath Shiman Ahmed and Abdulla Mahzoom Majid, two organizers of the youth-led Dhuleh Nukuraanan protests.
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Man drives into group of seven schoolchildren in Osaka, Japan
Police arrested a 28-year-old man from Tokyo, Japan and took him into custody after he allegedly intentionally drove his car into a group of seven you
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SUV strikes bus carrying suburban high school students in Chicago
On Friday, a school bus transporting suburban high school students was involved in a collision with an SUV in Mount Greenwood, Chicago, Illinois. Seve
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Child defaces abstract painting by Mark Rothko worth tens of millions on display in Dutch museum
On Monday,Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 an abstract painting created by late abstract painter Mark Rothko was scratched by a child while on display in
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Authorities identify Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Sydney CBD, Australia
New South Wales Health issued a public health alert on its website on April 10, reporting that six patients were hospitalised with Legionnaires' disea
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NASA revises asteroid 2024 YR4 threat, near-zero chance of Earth impact
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have further lowered the predicted likelihood of asteroid