Funeral home owners sentenced over body chop shop
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A US judge has called the case “the most emotionally draining” of her entire career

US funeral home operator Megan Hess was sentenced to 20 years in a federal prison on Tuesday, six months after pleading guilty to defrauding relatives of the 560 corpses she and her mother dissected and sold. 

The scheme involved Sunset Mesa Funeral Home and its sister operation, Donor Services, owned by Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, who received a 15-year sentence.

Koch also pleaded guilty to defrauding relatives of the dead last year. The older woman was allegedly responsible for cutting up the bodies, while Hess smooth-talked the livi...

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Serbia issues grim prediction for 2023
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President Aleksandar Vucic has warned of food and energy shortages due to anti-Russian sanctions

The US, EU and even China are facing economic struggles in 2023, which is shaping up to be more difficult than the previous year, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic warned on Wednesday. Belgrade is trying to stock up on basic food supplies, as the world is likely to face shortages soon, he added.

“I expect 2023 to be much more difficult than 2022,” Vucic told reporters in Belgrade. The US federal reserve has raised interest rates, “China’s growth rate has slowed, the EU is approaching a recession,” he added....

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France promises old ‘light tanks’ for Ukraine
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Paris says it’s set to supply Kiev with AMX-10 armored fighting vehicles

Paris will transfer its domestically-made AMX-10 ‘light tanks’ to Ukraine, becoming the first NATO member to send Kiev non-Soviet armor, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.

News of the transfer was broken by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who wrote on Twitter that he had “a long and detailed conversation” with French President Emmanuel Macron. Zelensky added that he had thanked Macron for “his decision to transfer light tanks” to Ukraine, and for lobbying France’s allies to do the same.

Zelensky’s announcement was confirmed by an aide t...

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Explained: What we know about Ukraine’s deadliest attack on Russia since the conflict began
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Meta hit with US$413 million fine over EU privacy breach
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Regulators in the 27-nation bloc of the European Union fined Facebook parent firm Meta hundreds of millions of euros for privacy breaches on Wednes

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Bomb cyclone smashes into California; state of emergency declared by the governor
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Peru road­blocks re­sume as pres­i­dent urges ‘peace, calm, uni­ty’
Protests reignite in Peru af­ter hol­i­day pause, with many demon­stra­tors de­mand­ing re­moval of new Pres­i­dent Dina Bolu­arte.
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Netanyahu announces foreign policy change
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Israel will now defend its interests instead of “bowing” to international demands, the newly re-elected prime minister has declared

Israel will revise its foreign policy to make it more consistent with its national priorities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who formed a new government last month following snap elections, said on Wednesday. The country will no longer bow its head in response to the world’s demands, he told a conference held by the Betar Zionist movement in Jerusalem.

“Our voice will be heard in the world,” the prime minister said as he announced “a revision of foreign relations” among...

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US House adjourned as Republican speaker nominee Kevin McCarthy loses sixth ballot
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Chinese man runs marathon while smoking cigarettes 🚬

The 50-year-old man, known as 'Uncle Chen', has an unusual habit. He likes to smoke while he runs. Once he even ran a 42-kilometer marathon while puffing on cigarettes. However, not everyone has been impressed by the Chinese man’s peculiar regimen. Some people accused him of harming the health of other competitors with secondhand smoke. Do you agree with the critics?

Another old man who lives in India also runs in an unusual way. Wishwanathan Jayaraman is able to run barefoot about 32 kilometers every day. He was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy.

‘The main reason for going barefoot was economical. Every 500 kilometers you are supposed to change your shoes. The normal shoes would cost you about 5,000 Indian rupees’, says Jayaraman....

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Chinese Snooker Stars Suspended Amid Match-Fixing Claims

The number of Chinese snooker stars caught up in a match-fixing and betting scandal has risen to ten after Zhao Xintong and Zhang Jiankang became the latest names to be suspended on Tuesday.

Governing body the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) said in a statement that the pair will be banned from competing on the World Snooker Tour with immediate effect.

“This decision is part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of manipulating the outcome of matches for betting purposes in breach of the WPBSA Conduct Regulations,” the statement added.

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New Yorkers take a dip @ Coney Island beach for 120th ‘Polar Bear plunge’

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Effect Of EU Sanctions On Russia ‘Less Than Zero’ — MEP

The EU’s sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict have been a complete failure, Belgian member of the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt said. He added that the EU was only “rewarding” Russia by increasing imports from the country.

Writing on Twitter, Verhofstadt, who served as Belgian prime minister from 1999 to 2008 and has been an MEP since 2009, claimed that the effect of the EU’s nine packages of sanctions on Moscow “is less than 0.”

The former PM said that in the bloc’s attempts to punish Russia, it has achieved the opposite result. “We are rewarding Russia for its war against us!” 

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Crit­i­cal­ly in­jured US foot­ball play­er shows ‘im­prove­ment’
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Damar Ham­lin has re­ceived sup­port from play­ers and fans across the coun­try af­ter suf­fer­ing a car­diac ar­rest on Mon­day.
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Cal­i­for­nia de­clares state of emer­gency ahead of in­com­ing storm
Heavy rain­fall ex­pect­ed to cause flood­ing and pow­er out­ages across the state, with tor­na­dos in oth­er parts of the US.
Published On 4 Jan 2023

Harry Kane helps Spurs thrash Palace while Forest pile misery on Southampton
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England captain Kane provided the spark after a goalless first half at Selhurst Park.

EU advises pre-flight Covid tests on passengers from China
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China has already vehemently rejected such actions and has warned of ‘countermeasures’ if such policies were to be imposed across the bloc