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China's economic growth slows following COVID lockdowns
China's economy contracted in the three months ending in June compared with the previous quarter after Shanghai and other cities shut down to fight coronavirus outbreaks.
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How do you move 250 elephants to their new home? Very carefully
One by one, the elephants are being sedated and moved from Malawi's overcrowded Liwonde National Park to the much larger Kasungu park 236 miles away in the country's north.
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NTSB now says a 13-year-old was not a driver in a Texas crash that killed 9 people
A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, investigators said.
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Twitter users were unable to access their accounts for about an hour
The global outage came at a tumultuous time for Twitter, which has sued billionaire Elon Musk in an attempt to force him his $44 billion purchase of the company.
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A U.S. tourist is rescued after falling into a crater in Italy's Mount Vesuvius
The tourist and relatives were cited by local police because they went off the authorized path to get closer to the crater, apparently to take a selfie, according to news reports.
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A former CIA engineer is convicted in a massive theft of secrets released by WikiLeaks
Joshua Schulte, who represented himself in his retrial, told jurors that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.
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Rowdy the runaway cat is caught after weeks on the lam at Boston's airport
Rowdy, a 4-year-old black cat with green eyes, escaped her cage on June 24. She eluded airport and airline personnel, animal experts and safe-release traps until Wednesday.
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A heat wave forecast for Spain and Portugal is fueling wildfire worries
Meteorologists said an overheated mass of air and warm African winds are driving temperatures in the Iberian Peninsula beyond their usual highs.
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Biden administration: Doctors must offer abortion if mom's life is at risk
HHS told hospitals that they "must" provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency care preempts state laws that now ban abortion without exception.
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Three runners are gored in a tense 5th Pamplona bull run
It was the first run with gorings in the festival so far this year. Three more daily runs before it finishes Thursday.