An outgoing state MP caused a scene in Western Australia’s parliament after he ended his valedictory speech with a shoey – the act of having a celebratory drink, typically alcohol, out of a shoe.
Kyle McGinn ended his farewell address by cracking…
Category: 2. World
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US says Sudan used chemical weapons in civil war
ReutersA Sudanese man shows a box of unexploded munitions found at a school in Khartoum, the country’s capital. The US will impose new sanctions on Sudan after finding it used chemical weapons last year in the ongoing civil war against the Rapid…
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Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden
Francesca GillettBBC News
Watch: Norwegian man describes waking up to cargo ship in his garden A man in Norway woke up to find a huge container ship had run aground and crashed into his front garden.
The 135m-ship (443ft) missed Johan Helberg’s…
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Kermit the Frog gives commencement speech at University of Maryland
Students at the University of Maryland received encouraging words during their graduation ceremony from Kermit the Frog, who was this year’s commencement speaker. The last time Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement address was in 1996 to the…
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Israel kills one woman every hour in Gaza: UN agency
Since October 2023, Israeli forces have killed over 28,000 Palestinian women and girls in Gaza, according to UN Women—a staggering figure that equates to the death of one…
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Houthi warns of very dangerous eventuality if Muslims fail to curb Israel
The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has lashed out at Muslim nations over their silence and inaction in the face of Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
Delivering a televised speech from the Yemeni…
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The loud hum sparking unrest in Trump’s MAGA heartlands
Mike WendlingReporting fromDresden, New York
BBCFor the last five years, a loud hum has been a continual backdrop to birdsong and the occasional barking dog in the village of Dresden, New York state.
Coming from the nearby Greenidge Generation…
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‘There’ll be no deal if US insists with zero enrichment in Iran’
Iran’s foreign minister has once again highlighted uranium enrichment as the country’s red line in the upcoming nuclear talks with the United States.
Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday that there would be no deal if the…
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Suspect charged in Washington DC killings of two foreign officials
Max Matza & Nadine YousifBBC News
Watch: Jeanine Pirro lays out charges against DC shooting suspect The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staff members outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC has been charged with first-degree…
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