National Guard Deploys More Guardsmen to Ferguson

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Croatia conservative leader Plenkovic appointed as prime minister-designate for third term
Croatian conservative leader Andrej Plenkovic was formally appointed prime minister-designate on Friday for a third consecutive term after he forged an alliance with an extreme right party following an inconclusive election. Plenkovic's ruling Croatian Democratic Union won the most votes at last month's parliamentary vote in the European Union nation, but not enough to stay in power on their own. The party this week agreed to form a coalition with far-right Homeland Movement for a parliamentary majority.
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South Korea stresses need for fair treatment for Line chat app operator Naver
South Korea vowed Friday to protect its companies operating in other markets after Japanese regulators told LY Corp., which runs the popular chat app Line, to reduce its dependence on Naver, the Korean partner in the venture. The Japanese side instructed LY to improve its governance and rely less on Naver after the leak of more than 300,000 records, including information of Line users.
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Israeli tanks encircle eastern half of Rafah
Israeli tanks captured the main road dividing the eastern and western halves of Rafah on Friday, effectively encircling the entire eastern side of the city in the southern Gaza Strip. Residents described almost constant explosions and gunfire east and northeast of the city on Friday, with intense fighting between Israeli forces and militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Hamas said it ambushed Israeli tanks near a mosque in the east of the city, a sign the Israelis had penetrated several kilometres from the east to the outskirts of the built-up area.
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The Latest | More than 100,000 flee Rafah as Netanyahu vows to widen Gaza assault despite US warning
About 110,000 people have fled Rafah in southern Gaza and food and fuel supplies in the area are critically low, a U.N. official says. All crossings into southern Gaza remain closed, cutting off supplies and preventing medical evacuations and the movement of humanitarian staff, said Georgios Petropoulos, an official for the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs working in Rafah. The World Food Program will run out of food for distribution in southern Gaza by Saturday unless more aid arrives, Petropoulos said.
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'World coming to an end': Kenyan town copes with life underwater
Abdi Hussein sat alone on a Kenyan road strewn with ramshackle tents bound with plastic strings and covered with tarpaulins, peering into the sea of rust-coloured flood water."The water kept rising and rising and it swallowed everything."
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'It's going to be crazy': Texas woman celebrates rare birth of identical quadruplets
Jonathan Sandhu now has four times as many reasons to make nerdy dad jokes after his wife, Mercedes, gave birth to identical quadruplets.
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In Biden vs. Trump, a striking split screen captures bizarre 2024 election
With Trump in court, and Biden addressing antisemitism and the war in Gaza, a striking split screen this week captured the bizarre election of 2024.
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Top Biden aide highlights upcoming tax showdown with GOP over 2017 cuts that are due to expire
The Biden White House wants voters to know its differences with Republicans over taxes, with a top aide making the case for higher rates on corporations and the ultra-wealthy. Lael Brainard, director of the White House National Economic Council, will deliver remarks at the Brookings Institution on Friday that get at the major tax challenge for whomever wins the November presidential election. Many of the 2017 income tax cuts signed into law by then-President Donald Trump are set to expire after next year.
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India's top court releases jailed Modi opponent on bail
India's top court on Friday ordered a jailed opponent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be released on bail, allowing him to campaign in an ongoing national election.The policy was withdrawn the following year, but the resulting probe into the alleged corrupt allocation of licences has since seen the jailing of two top Kejriwal allies.
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1 in 8 adults in the US has taken Ozempic or another GLP-1 drug, KFF survey finds
About 1 in 8 adults in the United States has used a GLP-1 drug like Ozempic or Mounjaro at some point in their life, and half of them – about 6% of adults, or more than 15 million people – are currently using a prescription, according to new survey data from KFF.
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Opposition leaders in India's Kashmir accuse government of sabotaging their campaigns
Opposition leaders in India's troubled Kashmir valley have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration of denying or cancelling permissions to hold campaign events, to help his party's "proxies". Omar Abdullah, a leader of the largest regional political party, the National Conference, said Modi's government was trying to sabotage his campaign ahead of voting in the first of Kashmir's three seats on Monday.
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Pope urges Italians to have babies as a measure of hope for future
Pope Francis pressed his campaign Friday to urge Italians to have children, calling for long-term policies to help families and warning that the country’s demographic crisis was threatening the future. “The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups. “Without children and young people, a country loses its desire for the future.”
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Former passenger jets bought by US firm tasked with creating next generation of nuclear ‘Doomsday’ planes
That economy-class seat you once occupied while flying in Asia might one day be the very place from where the United States nuclear weapons arsenal is controlled.
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London, Frankfurt hit records as rate hopes boost markets
Growing hopes that the US Federal Reserve and other central banks are close to cutting interest rates helped push London and Frankfurt to records Friday, while Asian markets also chalked up healthy gains.The European Central Bank is expected to cut its rates in June.
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Eurovision braces for its most tense contest yet, as protesters and artists bristle at Israel’s presence
Malmo, the Swedish city hosting this year’s song contest, is increasingly divided by Eurovision, as protesters prepare to demonstrate over Israel’s war in Gaza.
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28 artworks mysteriously disappeared three decades ago. They’ve finally returned home to South Africa
Renowned South African artist Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi had a series of artworks disappear during a trip to Sweden in 1991. Three decades later, most of the “Ntlo E Etsamayang (The Walking House)” collection was found in an attic, and are now on display to the public in Johannesburg.
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Polish PM reshuffles cabinet ahead of European elections
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a cabinet reshuffle on Friday, with the coordinator of special services Tomasz Siemoniak taking on the additional post of interior minister. The reshuffle was forced as four ministers in the pro-European coalition government led by Tusk's Civic Coalition (KO) are stepping down to run in European Parliament elections in June. Tusk said a major task of his government was to make state-owned enterprises more efficient.
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Bud Light sales still falling as Modelo, Coors fight to keep their gains
The competition among beer giants is still brewing.
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Hopes are fading for 44 workers still missing days after South Africa building collapse; 9 are dead
Hope was fading Friday for 44 construction workers buried for days in the rubble of a building that collapsed in South Africa, with authorities saying rescuers are now faced with the challenge of moving thousands of tons of concrete with heavy machinery to see if there are any more survivors. The death toll rose to nine after a worker who was in critical condition died in the hospital, authorities said. Of the 28 workers rescued from the site, 21 were in critical condition or had life-threatening injuries following Monday's collapse of the five-story apartment complex that was under construction.
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China says it firmly opposes US export control tools
China firmly opposes the abuse of export control tools such as the U.S. entity list, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday, after the U.S. added 37 Chinese firms to a trade restriction list over national security concerns. China and Russia have the right to carry out normal economic and trade cooperation, and such cooperation should not be disturbed, spokesperson Lin Jian told a regular press conference. He said the United States continues to politicise economic and trade issues and further increase tariffs, abusing the so-called 301 tariff review process, "which is adding insult to injury."

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