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Christa Pike is angry and confused after surviving execution, attorney says
Christa Pike is “angry and confused” after regaining consciousness almost six days after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her, one of her attorneys said Wednesday after a judge told the state to preserve evidence related to Pike's case.
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IMF chief urges countries to do more to curb debt and regulate AI
Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the artificial intelligence boom, heavy borrowing and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the head of the IMF said Wednesday.
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Ebola creates new hot spots in Congo as responders describe ‘chaotic’ response
The Ebola outbreak in Congo is creating new hot spots where there's little to no support for patients, responders and officials say, as health workers admit there could still be a long way to go in fighting the disease that has killed over 4,000 people.
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Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities kill at least 25 in a major attack that Kyiv saw coming
Russian missile and drone attacks on Kyiv and a dozen other Ukrainian regions overnight killed at least 25 civilians, including five children, and wounded around 100, Ukrainian officials said.
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Tropical Storm Isaias forms, is forecast to become a hurricane and hit US Gulf Coast this week
Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters said it was expected to strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before hitting the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.
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Israelis mourn Oct. 7 attack as Palestinians in Gaza languish in ruins of the war it sparked
On a field where music festival revelers were gunned down by Hamas-led militants three years ago, Israelis on Wednesday embraced and wept for those lost in an attack that plunged the Middle East into war.
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California couple arrested on child abuse charges in horrifying surrogacy probe
An extremely wealthy Chinese immigrant and his wife amassed a brood of 21 children through a surrogacy scheme and raised them in a "house of horrors," prosecutors alleged Tuesday.
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Eva Marie Saint, star of ‘North by Northwest’ and ‘On the Waterfront,’ dies
Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first movie, “On the Waterfront,” and starred opposite Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “North by Northwest,” has died.
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Trump says he has call scheduled with Putin to discuss possible case of pneumonic plague in Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case…
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Saudi Arabia says 2 airports were hit in renewed fighting with Houthis and other Mideast news
Saudi Arabia said three people were injured in the latest attacks on its airports since fighting with Yemen’s Houthi rebels reignited. Meanwhile, Palestinian officials said Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City killed two people, while condemning home demolitions in east Jerusalem and violence in the occupied West Bank.
