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Fantasy baseball: Double down on these two rookies despite hiccups

Fantasy baseball managers often live and die by their rookie pitchers.
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Carlos Rodon’s miserable Yankees outing only made matters worse in nightmarish day

On yet another day when the Yankees offered a reminder that it can always get worse, he took a turn doing his part.
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Shiite neighborhoods in Damascus commemorate Ashoura quietly after Assad’s ouster

Shiite neighborhoods in Damascus commemorate Ashoura quietly after Assad’s ouster
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei makes first public appearance since Iran-Israel war started

State TV showed Iran’ s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waving and nodding to a chanting crowd in Tehran.
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A text, a Telegram link, then an offer of money: how Iran sought to recruit spies in Israel

Court documents suggest Israelis were asked to carry out missions that were at first modest but quickly escalated

Before Israel launched its war on Iran last month, its security service uncovered an extensive network of its own citizens spying for Tehran – on a scale that has taken the country by surprise.

Since Iran’s first missile barrage on Israel in April 2024, more than 30 Israelis have been charged with collaboration with Iranian intelligence.

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‘We are in a dangerous place’: British Muslims on the fallout from 7/7 attack 20 years on

Many feel counter-terrorism policies and brazen Islamophobia have increased hostility and isolation experience by community

For many in the British Muslim community, the tragedy of 7 July 2005 lives long in the memory. The bombings sent shockwaves through the nation but also marked a turning point that left many grappling with grief, fear and a new scrutiny of their identity.

Twenty years on, feelings of suspicion, isolation and hostility experienced in the aftermath of the attacks have, for some, only worsened after decades of UK counter-terrorism policies, and a political landscape they say has allowed Islamophobia to flourish.

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From swim schools to eye clinics: how families of 7/7 victims used heartbreak to help others

Relatives tell of their determination to see good come from the killing of their loved ones in 2005 London bombings

In the city of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the north-east Indian state of Odisha, there is an eye clinic that has transformed the lives of thousands of children.

Before the unit was established in 2008, according to its vice-chair, there was no dedicated children’s eye care centre in the entire eastern part of India, a country home to 20% of the world’s blind children. The clinic now sees about 3,000 children a month and performs 350 eye surgeries – a significant proportion of them at no cost to the often very poor families who need them.

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Deadly social media trend threatens kids, homeowners defending themselves: ‘Children are going to get killed’

Two potentially dangerous social media trends could get kids and homeowners in trouble this summer.
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Wild video shows entire house with cat inside floating away in Texas flooding, smashing into bridge

The home — apparently with a cat trapped inside — careened into a metal railing on Center Point Bridge by ferocious currents known as a flood wave.
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‘America Party’ launched: Musk hints at election plans; Can he run for president in 2028? | World News

US News: Elon Musk unveils his ‘America Party’ amidst a breakup with Donald Trump, igniting speculation about his presidential ambitions in 2028, despite legal obstacles due to his birthplace.