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Bear walked into southern Arizona grocery store and ran around for a few minutes

The bear didn’t do any damage, according to police.
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Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

It is one of the most chilling images of the Holocaust: a bespectacled Nazi soldier trains a pistol at the head of a resigned man kneeling in a suit before a pit full of corpses. German troops encircle the scene.

The picture taken in today’s Ukraine was long known, mistakenly, as The Last Jew in Vinnitsa, and was for decades shrouded in mystery.

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Thames Water lenders submit new rescue plan to stave off collapse

Creditors in control of firm say they will write off loans, invest more and commit to paying pollution fines

The creditors in control of Thames Water have said they will commit to paying fines for pollution, as well as writing off more of their loans and investing more in the company, in new proposals to try to avoid the utility being forced into government administration.

The controlling group of financial institutions, under the new London & Valley Water holding company, has been locked in talks for months with the regulator Ofwat since May over acceptable terms for the hugely complex restructuring of Britain’s biggest water company.

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Pope Leo XIV weighs in on abortion debate by questioning what it really means to be ‘pro-life’

The US-born pontiff highlighted flaws within the conservative “pro-life” movement, which seeks to ban abortions across the US, asserting that being truly pro-life also includes having an anti-capital punishment stance.
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PNG to provide troops to Australia under first new alliance since Anzus

Pukpuk mutual defence treaty will establish Australia’s first new alliance since the Anzus agreement was signed in 1951

Australia will elevate its relations with Papua New Guinea to the same level as the US and New Zealand, with a major defence treaty set to be signed as soon as next week.

Delayed last month due to political complications within the PNG government, the new treaty won approval from prime minister James Marape’s cabinet ministers on Wednesday night.

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China’s fifth-ranking official was suspect in dropped Westminster spy case

Person who was thought to have received intelligence is understood to be Cai Qi, de facto chief of staff to Xi Jinping

British prosecutors suspected that China’s fifth most senior official was in receipt of intelligence from Westminster in a controversial and now-abandoned espionage case, the Guardian understands.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in April 2024 that a “senior member of the Chinese Communist party and a politburo member” had received “politically sensitive information” from two British researchers who were charged with spying for China.

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Quora ranks among top cited sources in Google’s AI Mode responses, according to Semrush

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Dear Abby: I fell in love with a woman who lives with her soon-to-be ex-husband

Dear Abby advises a man who has fallen in love with a woman he met online, but she is still living with her husband as they are in the process of getting a divorce.
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Federal agents raid Dallas strip club, arrest 41 illegal immigrants in human trafficking investigation

Federal agents peeled back the curtain at a Dallas strip club, arresting dozens of suspected illegal immigrants and seizing tens of thousands of dollars in US cash.
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Mikel Arteta hails Arsenal’s squad depth after resting Rice, Eze and Saka

Arteta was able to rotate his squad for Tuesday’s 2-0 Champions League win over Olympiacos.