Mexico lowers Hurricane Agatha toll to nine dead
Hurricane Agatha, the first of the Pacific season, left nine people dead and six missing after slamming into southern Mexico, fewer than previously thought, authorities Thursday.
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Protests as N.Korea takes helm of world disarmament body
North Korea on Thursday skipped the diplomatic niceties for a combative tone when it took the helm of the Conference on Disarmament.
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OPEC+ agrees bigger output boost amid Russian isolation
Major oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed on Thursday to open the taps wider than expected amid soaring prices and hard on the heels of an EU ban on Russian oil imports.
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US blacklists Putin money-manager, luxury yacht brokerage for Russian elite
The United States placed Russian President Vladimir Putin's money-manager and a Monaco company that provides luxury yachts to Moscow's elite on its sanctions blacklist Thursday, stepping up pressure over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Harry and Meghan keep low profile at queen's Jubilee parade
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan kept a low profile Thursday after jetting in to attend celebrations for Queen Elizabeth's 70th year on the throne.
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Heard 'absolutely not' able to pay Depp $10.35 million in damages: lawyer
Actress Amber Heard is unable to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp more than $10 million in damages, her lawyer said Thursday, after a US jury took the side of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star in a bitter defamation trial.
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EU drops Russian patriarch from sanctions to seal new deal
EU ambassadors on Thursday dropped the leader of Russia's Orthodox church from a proposed blacklist, allowing them to agree a new round of sanctions after opposition from Hungary, diplomats said.
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Surgeons transplant 3D ear made of living cells
A US medical team said Thursday they had reconstructed a human ear using the patient's own tissue to create a 3D bioimplant, a pioneering procedure they hope can be used to treat people with a rare birth defect.
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Prince Andrew to miss jubilee service due to Covid: palace
Queen Elizabeth II's disgraced second son Prince Andrew has contracted Covid and will not attend a thanksgiving service for her Platinum Jubilee, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.
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O'Connor targets Tour de France after Hindley Giro joy
Watching fellow Australian Jai Hindley win cycling's Giro d'Italia has boosted Ben O'Connor's belief that he can win the Tour de France, the AG2R leader said Thursday.
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