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Fifteen months after two men were shot in Bratislava, evidence suggests the killer may have been helped by an unidentified US-based extremist

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It wasn't the sheriff, the sheriff's son, or the sheriff's son's friends.

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According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the amount of overdue wages in the U.S. last year was 156.15 million dollars, and the number of victims was 135,067 last year. Meanwhile, South Korea would reach 1.7 trillion won in amount and over 300,000 victims last year. The country’s economic size based on GDP is 1/15 of the U.S., yet its amount of overdue wages is eight times larger than that of the U.S.

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“It’s pretty clear that someone didn’t want the community to read the news this week,” said Ouray County Plaindealer co-publisher Erin McIntyre.

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New statistics show a spike in the amount of journalists jailed in the country. To protect its democracy, Israel needs to be transparent about why members of the media are arrested.

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About a fifth of Dream Security’s employees previously worked at NSO Group, including CEO Shalev Hulio and raft of top executives.

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Meta is getting more serious about its place in the growing AI arms race.

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Every year, Gallup checks the country’s temperature on well-being. The rating for “thriving” in 2023 was the lowest following only the years of the Great Recession and Covid-19 outbreak, according to the report.

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A Thai appeal court on Thursday extended a man’s prison sentence to a record 50 years for insulting the monarchy, in what is believed to be the toughest penalty ever imposed under the country’s draconian lese majeste law, according to a legal rights group.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has made clear he would like China join his push for peace in the war with Russia. But Beijing is looking to the Middle East.

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War cabinet minister says new elections needed to restore public trust; warns Entebbe-like op to save hostages in Gaza ‘will not happen,’ only way in near term is through deal

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“Banks call it a service,” the president said. “I call it exploitation.”

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Court sentences local activist far from Moscow sparking an uprising.

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At noon on Tuesday, hundreds of students gathered on Cross Campus for a walkout titled “There is No Back To School in Gaza.” Students listed demands of the University, including publicly supporting a ceasefire and boosting support for Palestinian studies and scholars.

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The arms discovered by the SEALs were the same type of weapons that the Yemeni rebels have used to attack international shipping in the Red Sea, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

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A new task force at the spy agency is also working to boost intelligence collection on hostages still held in Gaza.

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The plane manufacturer said it would add additional inspections, including at the supplier of a panel that blew off during a recent Alaska Airlines flight.

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The Iranian-backed militants launched a fresh round of attacks days after their military sites were hit by U.S. and British forces.

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In a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukri in Cairo, the top Chinese diplomat said “it is necessary to insist on the establishment of an independent, fully sovereign state of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as its capital.”

A joint statement from the two ministers urged an immediate end “to all acts of violence, killing and targeting of civilians and civilian establishments”.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has previously called for an “international peace conference” to resolve the fighting.

China has historically been sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and supportive of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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The push to oust Penn president Liz Magill began when the university hosted a festival celebrating Palestinian literature.

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The letter from House Republicans came after Biden's lawyer signaled his client's willingness to comply with a new subpoena for a close-door deposition if they issue another "proper" one.

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In her first TV interview since the Texas Supreme Court decision, Kate Cox, who was pregnant with a girl with the genetic condition trisomy 18, discusses being forced to leave Texas to obtain the medical procedure.

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A “Global Day of Action for Gaza” saw tens of thousands of people take to the streets in major cities around the world, while thousands gathered in Tel Aviv to call for the return of more than 100 people who remain in Hamas' captivity.

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Older Americans in the lower middle class are losing ground financially, Paula Span says in her New York Times column, The New Old Age.

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