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US Senator Lindsey Graham Dies at 71 Following Sudden Cardiac Episode

  • Senator Lindsey Graham, 71, dies from cardiac arrest shortly after returning from Kyiv
  • The South Carolina Republican had met President Zelensky on a recent diplomatic visit
  • Graham's death concludes a prominent Senate career focused on defence and international relations

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has passed away at the age of 71 following an acute cardiac event, as announced by his office. The senior Republican legislator died shortly after returning from a diplomatic miss

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‘Five Years, Four Months’ Review: Moving Portrait of a Grieving Colombian Mother Demonstrates an Impressive Control of Tension

  • Colombian film follows a mother searching for her disappeared son, based on real accounts from victims' families caught in the country's decades-long internal conflicts
  • Directors use restrained realist techniques interwoven with haunting dream sequences to portray how grief and trauma intensify rather than fade
  • Premiered at Karlovy Vary festival; praised for artistic command of tension through sound design, framing, and pacing that conveys psychological isolation

Thousands of people in Colombia have been “forcibly disappeared”, as the euphemistic expression goes, since conflicts began in the mid-1960s between the Colombian government and various paramilitary and guerilla groups. This reality is well-known, and has been so for a while — an awareness that, over such a…

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UK to crack down on unlicensed casinos sponsoring football teams

  • UK to consult this week on banning unlicensed casino football sponsorships.
  • Everton's Stake.com deal went ahead during a government delay.
  • Clubs risk prosecution for promoting unlicensed gambling firms.

The UK government is preparing to crack down on unlicensed casinos sponsoring British sports teams, with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport set to launch a consultation this week. The move follows criticism that a delay to the proposals — stalled since February — allowed offshore gambling…

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It’s Christmas in July as hundreds of Santas go on the march in the middle of a stifling summer heat wave

  • Hundreds of international Santa impersonators and Christmas characters gathered in Aalborg, Denmark this week for the annual World Santa Claus Congress
  • The decades-old tradition proceeded despite Europe experiencing severe summer heat, creating a festive atmosphere months ahead of the actual Christmas season

Hundreds of Santas from countries including Norway and Japan descended on Aalborg, Denmark, for the World Santa Claus Congress amid summer heat.

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Dem governor escalates McConnell health demands, cites response to past Trump health concerns

  • Beshear demands McConnell disclose his undisclosed medical condition.
  • He ties the call to past debates over Trump's health.
  • Scrutiny extends to wife Elaine Chao's China trip.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, has intensified his public pressure on Republican Senator Mitch McConnell to disclose an undisclosed medical condition, arguing that the 84-year-old's fitness to serve is in question. In a post on X on the Saturday in question, Beshear linked his demand for transparency…

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Bone clinic promise will take government 38 years to fulfil at current rate ‘leading to an additional 40,000 preventable deaths’

  • Bone clinic pledge would take 38 years at current pace, critics say.
  • Delay linked to 40,000 additional preventable deaths.
  • Full article body was unavailable, so details are limited.

A campaign group or analysis reportedly warns that a government pledge to roll out bone clinics — understood to be fracture liaison services aimed at diagnosing and treating osteoporosis — is being delivered so slowly that it would take 38 years to complete at the current pace. Critics…

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Kemi Badenoch vows to challenge foreign court ruling which could leave Britain facing £4trillion eco damages for greenhouse gas emissions going back to Industrial Revolution

  • Badenoch vows to fight a foreign ruling over UK emissions.
  • Potential liability reportedly reaches u00a34 trillion.
  • Claims date back to the Industrial Revolution.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to challenge a foreign court ruling that could, in principle, expose Britain to as much as £4 trillion in environmental damages linked to its greenhouse gas emissions. The claims reportedly stretch back to the Industrial Revolution, raising the prospect that the…

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Ex-WNBA player backs congressional review as league faces scrutiny over alleged Clark targeting

  • Ex-WNBA star Katie Douglas backs congressional review over alleged Clark targeting.
  • Douglas cites increased physicality, distinguishing hard fouls from normal contact.
  • House Republicans have pressed the WNBA over Clark's treatment.

Former WNBA All-Star Katie Douglas has publicly supported calls for congressional scrutiny of the WNBA amid allegations that Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark is being deliberately targeted with rough play. In an appearance discussed by Fox News, Douglas argued that Clark faces heightened physicality on the court and…

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Ever since the Belfast attack, UK authorities launched a crackdown of migrants crossing the border – cutting asylum applications here a massive amount. Which makes the small number of spot checks done here last year even more laughable

The webpage supplied does not contain a genuine news article on its stated subject. Rather than reporting on the "Belfast attack", the crackdown on migrants crossing the border, or the level of spot checks carried out, the text consists almost entirely of the Daily Mail website's navigation menus,…

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