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Huge volcano erupts after 5.2-magnitude earthquake and spews lava
The eruption is located about 19 miles from Iceland’s capital Reykjavik (Pictures: Reuters) A volcanic eruption has shook Iceland after a spate of earthquakes recorded over the weekend. Footage from a drone shows the lava flowing on the Reykjanes peninsula near the capital Reykjavik. It comes after intense earthquake activity in the area, the country’s […] More
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Keating calls Nato head a ‘supreme fool’ over plan to open office in Asia – as it happened
Keating calls Nato head a ‘supreme fool’ over plan to open office in Asia Paul Keating has waded once more into foreign policy, this time attacking Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg as a “supreme fool” for his push to expand Nato’s reach into Asia. Nato has said it intends to open a liaison office in […] More
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Ricky Martin and husband, Jwan Yosef, announce divorce
Ricky Martin and his husband, Jwan Yosef, announced on Thursday that they are ending their marriage. The “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer and the Syrian-Swedish artist both posted the announcement on their respective Instagram accounts, the same social media app they used to first connect in 2015. “For some time, we have considered transforming our […] More
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Actor Tyler Labine says he spent 3 days in the hospital due to a ‘potentially fatal blood clot’
Actor Tyler Labine revealed that what he first dismissed as a stomachache turned out to be a potentially fatal blood clot that he received treatment for over three days at a local hospital. The 45-year-old described what happened in a caption on Instagram that accompanied a video he posted Sunday of some of his journey to a […] More
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In a Ukrainian Hospital, Interviewing a Wounded Russian Soldier
By Yousur Al-Hlou and Masha Froliak Yousur Al-Hlou and Masha Froliak are video journalists. This spring, they gained rare access to film at a military field hospital in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. It wasn’t […] More
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YouTube star Grace Helbig shares breast cancer diagnosis
YouTube star Grace Helbig shared news that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last month. In an emotional eight-minute video uploaded to her YouTube and Instagram pages, Helbig called the news both “shocking” and “surreal.” “It doesn’t sound real but it’s real,” said Helbig, who rose to fame in the early YouTube days for her […] More
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in Business
Boeing 737 crash: Coroner rules Britons unlawfully killed
Joanna Toole was on board the plane that crashed in 2019 Three British people who died in a plane crash were unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled. Sam Pegram, Oliver Vick and Joanna Toole were among 157 people who died aboard a Boeing 737 Max airliner in Ethiopia in 2019. Lawyers for the families had […] More
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Case on the fight against forced and early marriage in Mali
In 2009, the National Assembly of Mali drafted a new Code of Persons and the Family with the aim of modernizing its legislation. The law, while welcomed by human rights defenders, is strongly opposed by Islamic organizations. Under this pressure, a new version was drafted and was adopted by the National Assembly and then promulgated […] More
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‘Every Body’ puts faces to the long-silenced intersex community
In “Every Body,” filmmaker Julie Cohen — who co-directed the 2018 Emmy-winning Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary, “RBG” — follows three powerful voices in the intersex community, which is composed of individuals who have a combination of male and female biological traits, including chromosomes. From the worlds of politics, public health and entertainment, these activists in […] More
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in Education
Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson criticize each other in unusually sharp language in affirmative action case
Washington CNN — The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling Thursday on affirmative action pitted its two Black justices against each other, with the ideologically opposed jurists employing unusually sharp language attacking each other by name. The majority opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts said colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as […] More
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in Politics
US airstrikes kill 10 al-Shabaab members in Somalia
CNN — Ten al-Shabaab members were killed by airstrikes conducted by US Africa Command in Somalia in the overnight hours of Saturday, the Defense Department announced. “At the request of the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted three collective self-defense airstrikes overnight in a remote area near Afmadow, approximately 105 kilometers north of […] More
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HGTV’s ‘Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge’ Show: How to Watch, Judges, Host and More
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