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Serbian police detain 79 protesters as dissent persists against populist president

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Liverpool forward Diogo Jota dies in car crash in Spain

Police told Reuters everything pointed to that information being correct, although they could not yet officially confirm the names.
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Deja Foxx: We’re Not Supposed to Win. That’s Why We Have To

Whether the establishment is ready or not, we’re here. And we’re proving a different way of doing politics isn’t just possible—it’s necessary.
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Is Gen Z Killing the Dating App?

“Gen Z is moving away from dating apps because swiping often feels transactional, laborious and scripted,” dating coach Rae Weiss told Newsweek.
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Relaxed style and no mention of Yoon: key takeaways from two hours with South Korea’s new president

Lee Jae-myung shows no sign of grandeur, cutting very different figure to impeached predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol

South Korea’s president, Lee Jae-myung, has given his first big press conference, a month after winning an election in a country shaken by a brief declaration of martial law imposed by his now-impeached predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol.

Everything about the event seemed designed to signal a break from the defensive, isolated style of previous Yoon administration.

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Diogo Jota, Liverpool Footballer, Dies in Car Accident Aged 28: Latest tributes

Tributes pour in to the Liverpool striker, Diogo Jota, who has tragically died at the age of 28.
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Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal footballer, dies aged 28 in car crash

It is understood that Jota and his brother were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora

The Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has been killed in a car accident in Spain. He was 28, a father of three young children and had married his long-term partner, Rute Cardoso, less than two weeks ago.

The tragic news was first reported in Portuguese media. It is understood that Jota and his brother, 26-year-old André, were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora.

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US couple could face trial in France over stolen shipwreck gold

Novelist and husband suspected of helping to sell bullion taken decades ago from ship that sank off Brittany in 1746

An 80-year-old US novelist and her husband are among several people facing a possible trial in France over the illegal sale of gold bars plundered from an 18th-century shipwreck after French prosecutors requested that the case go to court.

Eleonor “Gay” Courter and her husband, Philip, 82, have been accused of helping to sell the bullion online for a French diver who stole it decades ago. They have denied knowledge of any wrongdoing.

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Federal government to fast-track childcare safety legislation as Victoria appoints Jay Weatherill to conduct snap review of sector

Jason Clare to introduce new powers to expand spot checks at childcare centres and cut off funding for operators who fail to meet safety standards, as Greens call for independent federal watchdog

The federal government will fast-track legislation in the next sitting week to cut funding to childcare centres that fail to meet safety standards, after shocking allegations of sexual abuse by a worker in Melbourne’s western suburbs.

It comes as the Victorian government announced former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill and senior bureaucrat Pamela White have been appointed to lead an urgent review of childcare safety.

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Hotels and homes evacuated on Greek island of Crete as wildfire burns out of control

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