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FILE PHOTO: Alessandra, indigenous woman of Munduruku tribe speaks during a press conference to ask authorities for protection for indigenous land and cultural rights in Brasilia, Brazil November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei MarcelinoBRASILIA (Reuters) – Alessandra Korap of the Munduruku tribe in the Amazon was awarded the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights prize for her work defending the rights, ancestral […]
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Tynette Housley, 73, has been fined $1,098 after a deer she illegally raised in her home gored one of her neighbors. The neighbor, who is now recovering after a hospitalization, was walking her dog when the deer attacked her on Friday, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said in a statement about the incident. The deer has been euthanized, and CPW […]
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Sick ghouls still leave flowers on the unmarked grave of celebrity sex abuser Jimmy Savile – nine years after his death. The fiend – whose life and crimes are set to be made into a blockbuster TV drama – was buried in the seaside town of Scarborough in a gold coffin with a £4,000 headstone bearing the epitaph: "It Was […]
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Ghislaine Maxwell was grilled about whether multi-millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein ever worked with the CIA or the FBI — and if he had any connections to the Israeli government in a 2016 deposition that was unsealed Thursday morning. Maxwell said she had no information about Epstein’s alleged connections to intelligence agencies when responding to the questions from an attorney for […]
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A cold front in northern Colorado, with cloudy skies, cooler weather and the chance for precipitation, is helping firefighters battling some of the wildfires in the state. Thursday’s cold front will impact the Cameron Peak, CalWood and Lefthand Canyon fires, officials said. Warm, windy and dry conditions will persist over Grand, Summit and Park counties on Thursday, keeping fire danger […]
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Nine members of the same family in China died after eating spoiled noodles that had been kept in the freezer for nearly a year, authorities said. The family living in the northeast province of Heilongjiang ate the homemade corn noodles for breakfast on Oct. 5, according to the Independent, citing a state-run media report. The noodles, made from fermented corn […]
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Public schools in Boston are switching to remote-only learning beginning Thursday amid a surging COVID-19 infection rate, city officials said. Mayor Martin Walsh and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius announced the shift Wednesday while citing the city’s seven-day average COVID-19 positive test rate at 5.7% — an increase from 4.5% one week earlier. “We have said all along that […]
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DONALD Trump's Twitter account was allegedly hacked by a researcher who claimed he guessed his "maga2020!" password. Victor Gevers, who has been dubbed as an "ethical hacker," allegedly took just seven attempts to get into the president's Twitter account. "I thought 'oh god' when I logged in," Gevers told RTL News. "I just don't want me to be able to […]
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A former air hostess who had sex with a 15-year-old schoolboy has been released on bail after spending just a week behind bars. Melissa Nosti, from North Ryde in Sydney, slept with a teenage pupil at the school she once worked in as an attendance officer, back in 2010. The 33-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in jail, with six […]
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Calm AFTER the storm: UK will enjoy mild 60F highs today after battering from Storm Barbara… with rain to hit isolated areas in south and north of England during unsettled week again Britain will enjoy ‘drier and brighter’ conditions today after Storm Barbara battered much of the UK yesterday Short showers expected around the South East, London and north of […]
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