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  • NewsSky News

    Controversial far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir taken to hospital after car accident

    Israel's security minister, controversial far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, has been taken to hospital with minor injuries after a car accident, police have said. Video on social media showed the car Mr Ben-Gvir was travelling in had flipped over. Police said they were investigating the circumstances of the accident and that Mr Ben-Gvir's daughter, a security guard and a driver were also injured.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Tories ‘stuck’ with Sunak and have no ‘Boris’ to save them, warns Prof John Curtice

    The Conservative Party is “stuck” with Rishi Sunak until the general election and there is no Boris Johnson-style figure waiting in the wings to save it, Britain’s foremost polling expert has said.

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  • NewsCBC

    Orca calf swims out of lagoon after being trapped for a month

    The Ehattesaht First Nation says a killer whale calf that had been trapped in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon for more than a month is now free after it swam out on its own early Friday morning.The nation said kʷiisaḥiʔis, or Brave Little Hunter, swam over the sandbar and out into open water during high tide around 2:30 a.m. PT.After a long night of feeding kʷiisaḥiʔis and watching her play in the lagoon, the nation said, a small group "stood as witnesses to watch her swim under the bridge and

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    US has seen evidence of attempts by China to influence election, says Blinken

    Secretary of state met Xi Jinping in Beijing and warned of sanctions over China’s support for Russian arms industry

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  • LifestyleEvening Standard

    Meet prize-winning painter Frances Bell: 'I wanted to be a traditional artist – that was my passion'

    The artist on how she went from the stereotype of ‘starving in a garret’ to one of the most in-demand portraitists in Britain

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  • PoliticsHuffPost

    Joe Biden Says He'd Be 'Happy' To Debate Donald Trump

    The president also criticized the media for going easy on Trump. "I think some of them are worried about attacking him," he told SiriusXM's Howard Stern.

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  • NewsCBC

    Toronto opens park washrooms, water fountains early this year

    The City of Toronto is opening park washrooms and water fountains early this year. Eighty per cent of the city's washrooms are now open, with the rest to open by the end of next week, Mayor Olivia Chow said at a news conference Friday. Seasonal washrooms, along with their attached water fountains, usually open in May but were able to be activated earlier thanks to warmer than usual temperatures, she said."It takes the staff a lot of work ... It's so complicated," she said. "I know right now it d

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