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      <title>Seventeen people died in a Kolkata festival crush when the rain came</title>
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      <title>Tirana has fought five days straight, and Albania&apos;s students say they are done waiting</title>
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      <description>Fr Willie Doyle was killed at Passchendaele going to the aid of two wounded Protestant soldiers. On Sunday, 3,500 pages of evidence go to Rome.</description>
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      <title>A fire at Canada&apos;s main live-fire training base has killed and injured people, and nobody will say how many</title>
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      <description>Defence Minister David McGuinty confirmed deaths and injuries at CFB Wainwright in Alberta but gave no numbers, calling the situation &quot;very, very active and delicate&quot;.</description>
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      <title>US overdose deaths are falling, and the drugs killing people are getting harder to reverse</title>
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      <description>Fentanyl cut with animal tranquillisers is spreading, and naloxone does not work on them. In one Ohio county, 78% of fatal overdoses last year involved stimulants.</description>
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      <description>The BBC tracked four large vessels around Wonsan from July to October. Most North Koreans are legally entitled to 14 days leave a year, and rarely get to take it.</description>
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      <description>An estimated 550,000 marched over school conditions and the cost of living. Town halls burned in Limoges and Lyon, an Apple store was emptied in Lille, and 60 officers were injured.</description>
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      <description>Belgium, France, Poland and the Catholic Church sent envoys to Taybeh to assess settler attacks on the olive harvest. A consul&apos;s car was smashed and a French mayor was beaten.</description>
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      <description>One UI 9 is the final major OS upgrade for the Tab S9 line. The cheaper Tab A9, launched the same year, already had its last one, because it shipped under the old policy.</description>
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      <description>Sam Altman told the Sources podcast &quot;we will&quot; build a humanoid, with a demo expected in 2027. His focus is the brain, not the body, and 27 robotics roles are open.</description>
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      <description>Bleecker Street was told the account had been permanently suspended over its political content. TikTok and X are the only two platforms still refusing to run ads for the film.</description>
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      <title>Meta quietly dropped the terms line that looked like a licence to scrape every publisher&apos;s site</title>
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