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Reformist lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential runoff election

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After the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian wrote that it was “unacceptable in the Islamic Republic to arrest a girl for her hijab and then hand over her dead body to her family.” Days later, as nationwide protests and a bloody crackdown on all dissent took hold, he warned that those “insulting the supreme […]

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American teen, 14, missing in Europe after family fears he was ‘lured’ from cruise ship

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Authorities are searching for a missing American teenager who disappeared while on a Caribbean Princess cruise docked in Germany. Aydin Brown, 14, was last seen exiting a Caribbean Princess cruise ship shortly after it docked on July 4 at the port of Warnemünde, according to Rostock Police. Caribbean Princess told Fox News Digital that they are working with local

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Italy’s majestic Mount Etna erupts in fiery display as lava spews from crater over Sicily

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Molten lava forcefully erupted from the Voragine volcanic crater on the majestic Mount Etna along the east coast of Sicily, Italy, on Thursday. After three weeks of steadily intensifying volcanic activity, a violent Strombolian eruption sent a volcanic plume cloud over 3 miles into the sky in a dramatic display. Strombolian activity is a relatively low-level volcanic eruption,

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12-year-old girl killed by crocodile while swimming in Australian creek

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Australian authorities discovered the remains of a 12-year-old girl Thursday after she was reportedly snatched by a crocodile while swimming in a creek. Police Senior Sgt. Erica Gibson told reporters, “It was an extremely difficult, essentially 36 hours, difficult for the first responders involved in the search.” The child’s disappearance began a nearly two-day search by

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Young, wealthy investors turn to alternatives instead of traditional stock and bond investments

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pixelfit | E+ | Getty Images Young, wealthy investors don’t want their parents’ investments. If you’re between the ages of 21 and 43 and have at least $3 million in investable assets, your preferred investments likely aren’t your traditional mix of stocks and bonds, according to new research from Bank of America. Nearly one-third of

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Larry the Cat, the United Kingdom’s ‘chief mouser,’ outlasts five prime ministers

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With the United Kingdom’s elections on July 4, Keir Starmer is now set to become the country’s new prime minister. But while changes are afoot in the British government, one thing remains constant: Larry the Cat will continue living at 10 Downing St., the official residence of the prime minister, according to the Associated Press.

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Inflation will be in focus in the week ahead as stocks attempt to sustain all-time highs

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Some key inflation readings in the week ahead could bolster the case for a September interest rate cut, as investors deliberate how long stocks can sustain their rally to record highs. After a rocky start to the year, a recently improving inflation picture has investors hopeful the Federal Reserve could soon start to lower rates.

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GlobalFoundries races to find semiconductor talent as demand for chips soars

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The semiconductor industry is recruiting workers in a tight labor market, as the competition for talent ramps up and funding from the CHIPS and Science Act designed to spur domestic production continues to be dispersed. It’s also staring down a projected shortfall of as much as 1 million workers in the broader U.S. economy by

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Accused sex-trafficking influencer Andrew Tate says he’ll celebrate Romania release by going see his ‘bitches’

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Accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate took a shirtless victory lap Friday to celebrate his release from Romania — boasting that he plans to hop in a sports car and go see his “bitches” around the world. The self-proclaimed misogynist social media influencer — who’s awaiting trial on rape and human trafficking charges —  celebrated in

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UK’s Starmer appoints Reeves and Rayner to top ministerial team

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Labour’s shadow chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer began appointing his ministerial team on Friday following a thumping election victory for his Labour Party, naming Rachel Reeves as the country’s first female finance minister and Angela Rayner as deputy PM.

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Britain’s Labour pulled off a thumping election victory with just 34% of the national vote

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Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, campaigns ahead of the general election, in Redditch, UK, on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K.’s Labour Party won a huge parliamentary majority in the country’s general election, but a quirk of the British electoral system means it did so

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Gaza ceasefire hopes rise as Israel says it will resume stalled negotiations

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Efforts to secure a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza were gathering momentum on Friday after Hamas made a revised proposal on the terms of a deal and Israel said it would resume stalled negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Joe Biden on Thursday he would send a delegation to resume negotiations,

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Mt. Gox begins repaying bitcoin to creditors a decade after exchange’s collapse — what it means

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Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images The trustee for Mt. Gox, the Japanese bitcoin exchange that collapsed into bankruptcy a decade ago, on Friday said that the company has begun to make payments in bitcoin and in bitcoin cash to some of its creditors. The announcement added that repayments to other users of the hacked exchange

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