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  • WorldAssociated Press

    Mount Everest's highest camp is littered with frozen garbage, and cleanup is likely to take years

    The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak. The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tons (24,000 pounds) of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during this year's climbing season. Ang Babu Sherpa, who led the team of Sherpas, said there could be as m

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  • WorldBBC

    Teacher who had sex with two schoolboys jailed

    Rebecca Joynes, 30, who groomed the boys from the age of 15, is given a six-and-a-half year sentence.

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  • WorldCNN

    This Italian vacation hotspot is turning tourists away as it runs out of water

    Parts of Sicily have so little water they’re turning summer tourists away, unable to guarantee them a shower or a toilet that flushes after a day out in the heat.

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    Vatican excommunicates a former ambassador to the US and declares him guilty of schism

    The Vatican on Friday excommunicated its former ambassador to Washington after finding him guilty of schism, an inevitable outcome for Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. The conservative had became one of Pope Francis ' most ardent critics and a symbol of the polarized Catholic Church in the United States and beyond. While once enjoying support in the Vatican and U.S. church hierarchies, the Italian archbishop alienated many as he developed a fringe following while delving deeper into conspiracy t

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  • PoliticsINSIDER

    Biden's bad week just got worse after he said he was the 'first Black woman to serve with a Black president'

    It comes just days after Biden's debate with former President Donald Trump, which was marked by verbal gaffes and confusing statements.

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  • USStoryful

    Officer Rescues Dogs From Car on Scorching Day in Las Vegas

    Las Vegas police said they are still investigating an incident during which two dogs were left in a car in the Las Vegas suburb of Sunrise Manor on a scorching day in May, before an officer rescued them.Footage released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on July 3 shows the officer breaking the windows of the car to rescue the overheated pups, who were “tethered and struggling inside a hot minivan.”“At the time of the rescue, it was nearly 100 degrees outside. The interior temperatu

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    Mbappé warns of 'catastrophic' political situation in France as the far right gets closer to power

    France soccer captain Kylian Mbappé warned on Thursday his country is in a "catastrophic” political situation as it lurches closer to a first far-right government since World War II. The National Rally gained strong results — around 33% of the vote nationwide — on Sunday in the first round of a rushed election, leaving Marine Le Pen’s party poised to potentially gain power. The second round of the legislative elections are on Sunday and Mbappé, one of the most high-profile people in France, wa

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