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Refugee stabs children in French playground attack โ€“ media
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A man carrying a Syrian identity card was arrested by police after he injured several minors, some as young as three, according to BFM TV

Several small children were among the victims of a gruesome knife attack on a playground in the alpine town of Annecy in southeastern France on Thursday morning, French authorities have reported.  

โ€œSeveral people including children were injured by an individual armed with a knife in a square in Annecy. The individual was arrested thanks to the very rapid intervention of the police,โ€ French minister of the interior, Gerald Darmanin, stated in a Tweet....

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Orban calls military meeting over Ukrainian counteroffensive
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The move comes after Moscow claimed to have repelled several major attacks along the frontline

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has convened a Defense Council meeting to discuss intensified fighting between Russia and Ukraine. The decision follows Moscow's claims that Kiev's attempts to break through Russian lines have failed.

The prime minister's press secretary, Bertalan Havasi, said on Thursday that Hungarian officials had gathered at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, which serves as the PM's current residence.

Orban confirmed the news, writing on Facebook that...

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Ex-US VP Pence demands F-16s for Kiev
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The presidential hopeful called for giving Ukrainians โ€œeverything they needโ€ to fight Russia

The unprecedented military assistance that the US government and its NATO allies have sent to Ukraine to fight Russia was not expedient enough, former Vice President Mike Pence, who seeks the Republican nomination for president in 2024, believes.

โ€œPresident Joe Biden has been slow in providing military resources to Ukraine,โ€ the politician stated during a CNN town hall on Wednesday. โ€œWe are [still] waiting on F-16s to be transferred from somewhere.โ€

The US-manufactured fighter jets are one of the few weapon systems requested by Kiev that the incumbe...

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Anti-Russia sanctions driving UK crime wave โ€“ police
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Gangs are allegedly stealing farm equipment to sell in Russia

The Westโ€™s restrictions imposed on Moscow are fueling a crime wave in rural Britain, with criminal gangs stealing farm and construction machinery to sell in Russia, police told The Telegraph on Wednesday. The UK authorities say that machinery theft in England and Wales has risen by more than 300% this year.

โ€œIn my professional opinion, without doubt the war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia are having an impact on rural crime in the UK,โ€ National Rural Crime Unit chief Andy Huddleston...

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New York currently world's most polluted city โ€“ monitor
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The largest US city has regained the position after a week in which thick wildfire smoke drifted south from Canada

New York City has resumed its place atop a list of the worldโ€™s most polluted cities, beating out runners-up in Vietnam and India with an โ€œunhealthyโ€ rating of 184, IQAir reported on Thursday.

Hundreds of massive wildfires raging across several Canadian provinces have burned for nearly a week, filling the air across the eastern US with a choking orange-brown haze composed of hazardous particulate matter. 

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the state would give out a million masks free to re...

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China to establish spy base in Cuba โ€“ WSJ
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Beijing has reportedly agreed to pay Havana billions of dollars to build an electronic surveillance facility focused on the US

China and Cuba have allegedly reached a secret agreement that would allow Beijing to construct an electronic eavesdropping facility on the Caribbean island, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing anonymous US intelligence officials.

According to the outlet, the spy base, which would be located some 100 miles (160km) from the state of Florida, would allow Chinese intelligence services track US shipping traffic and pick up electronic communications throughout the southeastern part of the country, which houses a large number...

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Parents brawl with pro-gay activists at school board meeting (VIDEO)
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A California school district has been accused of indoctrinating children with LGBTQ ideology

A school board meeting in Glendale, California, descended into violence on Tuesday as furious parents fought with โ€˜Antifaโ€™ demonstrators while the board voted to recognize โ€˜Pride Month.โ€™ The parents, many of them from Armenian backgrounds, have demanded that schools stop exposing their children to LGBTQ ideology.

As the Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) met to vote on the recognition of June as โ€˜Pride Month,โ€™ protesters outside split into two camps. A group of predominantly Armenian-American parents faced off against mask...

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Bipartisan opposition to US government spying grows โ€“ poll
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The percentage of Americans who say theyโ€™re comfortable sacrificing liberty for security is at its lowest in a decade

For the first time in over a decade, less than half of Americans - 48% - believe it is sometimes necessary to relinquish freedom to the government in exchange for protection from terrorism, according to an AP-NORC poll published on Thursday. 

Half of the pollโ€™s 1,081 respondents countered that sacrificing oneโ€™s rights was never necessary for security. When the pollster asked the same questions in 2011, nearly two thirds (64%) had accepted the possibility they might ha...

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โ€˜Messi effectโ€™ jolts US Major League Soccer
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The World Cup starโ€™s decision to join a fledgling team in Florida has boosted ticket demand and fan interest

Argentinian soccer star Lionel Messiโ€™s decision to take his talents to the US has attracted so much fan interest that his new team was transformed from an obscure expansion club into a social media juggernaut in one day.

Inter Miami CF, the Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise that David Beckham founded in 2018, had built an Instagram following of 1 million fans in its five years of existence. Just 24 hours after Wednesdayโ€™s announcement that...

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Tucker Carlsonโ€™s first independent show is a new challenge to the establishment
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The former Fox host is as outspoken as ever, and even if his remarks are a bit out there at times, he is opening up a new era of media

Weeks after bidding adieu to Fox News, Tucker Carlson has resurfaced on Twitter with a new series aptly titled "Tucker on Twitter." Here, the provocative commentator aims to disrupt the status quo by broaching topics considered โ€˜verboten' by mainstream media narratives.

Carlson's inaugural episode, centered on the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, drew over 100 million views โ€“ a staggering fi...

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Assange to make final appeal
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The UK wants wants the Wikileaks publisher extradited to the US

Julian Assange will make a new appeal to the High Court in the UK, his wife Stella said on Thursday, after it emerged that another judge has rejected his previous motion and cleared the way for handing the WikiLeaks founder over to the US.

โ€œOn Tuesday next week my husband Julian Assange will make a renewed application for appeal to the High Court,โ€ Stella Assange tweeted....

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EU fears โ€˜pro-Russianโ€™ votes in key states โ€“ Politico
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A change of leadership in Austria and Slovakia could spell doom for Brusselsโ€™ sanctions regime

โ€œIt would be a disasterโ€ if Ukraine-skeptic leaders were elected in Austria and Slovakia, a European Commission official told Politico on Tuesday. The EU reportedly fears that political swings in both countries could jeopardize future sanctions against Russia, as well as the blocโ€™s military aid to Kiev.

Austriaโ€™s center-right government is unpopular, and concerns about immigration and the rising cost of living have made Herbert Kicklโ€™s right-wing Freedom Party the most popular political faction since late last year. Leg...

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EU reaches migration deal
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The bloc is trying to adopt common refugee and asylum rules based on โ€œmandatory solidarityโ€ 

The European Unionโ€™s migration ministers have reached an agreement on set of rules, Sweden announced on Thursday. The proposals on migration and asylum will not head to the European Parliament for adoption before next year.

The ministers, assembled in Luxembourg, agreed on โ€œa general approach on the Asylum and Migration Management Regulation and the Asylum Procedure Regulation,โ€ said the Swedish government, which presides over the EU council until the end of June.

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US military veterans are most prone to terrorism โ€“ study
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Researchers have found that ex-soldiers have a propensity to launch mass casualty attacks

Former US soldiers are 2.41 times more likely than extremist offenders at large to become mass casualty attackers, according to a report released this week by terrorism researchers at the University of Maryland.

By comparison, people who had criminal records prior to being radicalized were only 1.26 times more likely than average to c...

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South Africa wonโ€™t enforce ICC Putin warrant โ€“ minister
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Arresting the Russian president would be โ€œa declaration of war,โ€ Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has said

South Africa will not enforce the International Criminal Courtโ€™s warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told reporters on Thursday. 

"The Deputy Chairperson of the Security Council of Russia has indicated that anyone who arrests President Putin will be tantamount to a declaration of war,โ€ Ntshavheni said, referring to a statement by Dmitry Medvedev in March.

At the time, Medvedev declared that if Putin were to be arrested by...

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Tesla drivers praise โ€˜bioweapon defense modeโ€™
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Elon Musk's electric vehicles are equipped with HEPA filters that can supposedly cleanse air of even wildfire particulates

Many Tesla drivers responded to the air quality โ€˜red alertsโ€™ flashing up and down the eastern US on Wednesday by switching on their vehiclesโ€™ โ€˜Bioweapon Defense Modeโ€™ feature โ€“ and singing its praises on Tesla CEO Elon Muskโ€™s social network.

The apocalyptic-sounding โ€˜Bioweapon Defenseโ€™ option cranks up the vehicleโ€™s HEPA filtration system, allowing the driver inside the Tesla to breathe clean air without having to endlessly recycle whatโ€™s inside the car or risk inhaling the wildfire smoke that h...

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Russian man eaten by shark in Egypt (VIDEO)
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The predator, which devoured the 23-year-old near a public beach in Hurghada, has already been caught

A shark has mauled a Russian national to death in one of Egyptโ€™s most popular beach resorts, with the horrifying footage caught on camera. 

In a message posted on its Telegram channel on Thursday, Russiaโ€™s consulate in Hurghada confirmed the death of a young man near a public beach. In light of the attack, Russian diplomats advised compatriots to stay alert while swimming in the ocean and to strictly follow any restrictions imposed by Egyptian authorities.    

Consul General Viktor Voropaev told TASS that the shark zeroed in on the 23-year-old Ru...

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First There Were Neo-Nazis, Then There Were No Nazis, Then There Were
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By Patrick LAWRENCE

Itell you, serving as a New York Times correspondent these days cannot be easy. You have to convey utter nonsense to your readers while maintaining a straight face and a serious demeanor. You have to suggest the Russians may have exploded a drone over the Kremlin, that they may have blown up their own gas pipeline, that their president is an out-of-touch psychotic, that their soldiers in Ukraine are drunkards using faulty equipment, that they attack with โ€œhuman hordesโ€ (Orientalism, anyone?) and on and onโ€”all the while affecting the gravitas once associated with the traditional โ€œTimesman.โ€ You...

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