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A plane bringing Israeli football supporters home from Amsterdam landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport on Friday after a night of violence that Israeli and Dutch officials condemned as “anti-Semitic”.Dutch police said 62 arrests were made in connection with the violence, which erupted after a Europa League football tie between Amsterdam club Ajax and Maccabi Tel …

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime conspiracy theorist and opponent of vaccines, now has the ear of President-elect Donald Trump to promote what he’s calling the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.It’s something of an unlikely alliance between the Kennedy family scion, once a celebrated environmental champion who called for prosecuting climate change deniers, and the …

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US prosecutors announced charges on Friday in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump and a prominent dissident Iranian-American journalist.The foiled assassination plot on Trump was allegedly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in 2020 in a US strike …

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More than 130 homes are now known to have been destroyed by a raging wildfire burning outside Los Angeles, as a break in the weather Friday gave firefighters a chance to tame the blaze.Hurricane-strength winds that battered the area this week fuelled an explosion in the Mountain Fire near Camarillo, which grew rapidly to over …

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, mired in crisis after his three-party coalition collapsed this week, said Friday he is open to talks on whether to move forward snap elections.The embattled chancellor has signalled new polls by March — half a year earlier than scheduled — but all opposition parties have urgently demanded they be held as …

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EU leaders on Friday pledged to overhaul the bloc’s economy with radical changes recommended in a landmark report, in reforms that have taken on greater urgency with Donald Trump winning back the White House.Although Europe’s public reaction to the Republican’s return has been cautious, officials are on full alert over the implications for the European …

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Brenda Diaz Valencia’s life was upended nearly two years ago when the bullet-riddled truck driven by her father, Mexican environmental defender Antonio Diaz Valencia, and lawyer Ricardo Lagunes was found abandoned.Both men had spent years denouncing what they saw as the catastrophic environmental impacts and inadequate community benefits of a giant open-pit iron mine in …

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A group of Jewish students on Friday prevented Austria’s first far-right parliamentary speaker from laying a wreath at a Holocaust memorial, accusing him of “spitting in the faces of our ancestors”.Parliament elected Freedom Party (FPOe) lawmaker Walter Rosenkranz as speaker after his far-right party topped national polls in September for the first time ever.Rosenkranz faces …

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Spanish navy diver Alvaro Carrillo donned his wetsuit and prepared a speedboat to scour a normally picturesque lagoon made murky by a sea of debris — and potentially bodies.As rescuers painstakingly seek victims of Spain’s deadliest floods in decades in inland towns and fields, Carrillo’s team is shifting the hunt for the dozens of missing …

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The 11 people, including two minors, found dead in a pickup truck in southern Mexico were part of a group reported missing last month, authorities in Guerrero state said Friday.The victims, aged between 13 and 53, were part of a group of 17 people reported missing days ago in the town of Chilapa.They were reported to …

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