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  • NewsBBC

    Welsh Water: Sewage spills rise blamed on wet weather

    The number of hours of spills into rivers, the sea and lakes rose by more than two thirds.

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  • NewsBBC

    Jacob Zuma barred from running in South Africa election

    South Africa's ex-president has backed a new party seeking to take on the governing ANC.

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    Stephen Bear to pay £27k over illegal sex tape of Georgia Harrison

    The 34-year-old is told to pay back the money he made from illegally sharing sexual footage.

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  • EntertainmentThe Canadian Press

    Movie Review: 'Godzilla x Kong' has scales and scale but not much else

    As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who like their movies with a giant evil ape swinging a vertebrae like a lasso while riding a kaiju controlled by a crystal, and those who don’t. The former types will have much to cheer in “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” a ground-stomping, radiation-spewing monster-mash feast. Technically, we are not on this Earth. We’re inside it, in a subterranean jungle world that gives the movie’s filmmakers an exotic, untrampled r

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    A fight to protect the dignity of Michelangelo's David raises questions about freedom of expression

    FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504. But in the current era of the quick buck, curators worry the marble statue’s religious and political significance is being diminished by the thousands of refrigerator magnets and other souvenirs sold around Florence focusing on David’s genitalia. The Galleria dell’Accademia’s director, Cecilie Hollberg, has positioned herself as David’s defender since her arrival at the museum

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Suspect charged with murder, attempted murder in a series of stabbings in Rockford, Illinois

    CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in a frenzied stabbing rampage that killed four people in a matter of minutes in a northern Illinois city, authorities said Thursday. Winnebago County State’s Attorney J. Hanley said during a news conference that Christian Soto will be in court Thursday afternoon to hear the charges and for a judge to determine if he will remain in jail pending trial. Soto is also charged with seven counts of attempted murd

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  • HealthThe Canadian Press

    US tuberculosis cases were at their the highest level in a decade in 2023

    NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 were the highest in a decade, according to a new government report. Forty states reported an increase in TB, and rates were up among all age groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. More than 9,600 cases were reported, a 16% increase from 2022 and the highest since 2013. Cases declined sharply at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but have been rising since. Most U.S. TB cases are diagnosed in people

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