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    News Serbia's leader says EuroPride won't happen due to threats

    Serbia won't allow a pan-European LGBTQ Pride event to take place in Belgrade next month, the president said Saturday, citing threats from right-wing extremists and fears of clashes. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced the decision to cancel the Sept. 12-18 EuroPride celebration during...
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    News Buses move 400 asylum-seekers from squalid Dutch camp

    Authorities transferred some 400 asylum-seekers away from a makeshift camp outside an overcrowded migrant reception center in the northeastern Netherlands after a damning report called the site where hundreds of people were sleeping rough a health hazard. Leon Veldt, a spokesman for the...
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    News Sick dolphin calf improves with tube-fed milk, helping hands

    The Irrawaddy dolphin calf — sick and too weak to swim — was drowning in a tidal pool on Thailand’s shore when fishermen found him. The fishermen quickly alerted marine conservationists, who advised them how to provide emergency care until a rescue team could transport the baby to Thailand’s...
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    News ‘I have open eyes’: Republican appointees take Broward school board seats after suspensions

    After a state grand jury recommended the suspension of four Broward County School Board members, Gov. Ron DeSantis tasked four Republican men with replacing the four women, but only one will stay until after the 2024 election. The other three will be replaced after the November election. Torey...
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    News Malaysia court slams leak of alleged verdict of ex-PM's wife

    Malaysia’s top court on Saturday condemned as a smear attempt the leaking of an alleged guilty verdict against the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak days after he was imprisoned for graft linked to the looted 1MDB state fund. The High Court is due to deliver its verdict Thursday in...
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    News Abrams, Georgia Democrats look to prove 2020 wasn't 'fluke'

    Four years ago, Georgia Democrats had a contested primary for governor because the party old guard didn’t believe in Stacey Abrams. She blew away the elders’ alternative and, in a close general election loss, established herself as de facto party boss in a newfound battleground. That previewed...
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    News Miami Gardens man dies during crash near Weston

    A 26-year-old man from Miami Gardens died during a single-vehicle crash on Friday evening near Weston. Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue personnel responded to US-27, just north of Interstate 75, and found the man dead after he was ejected from his car as it overturned, according to the...
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    News Puerto Rico government to probe clashes at protest

    Puerto Rico’s governor on Friday said all aggressive incidents stemming from a protest against a private power company that operates the island’s transmission and distribution system will be investigated. The announcement comes after media organizations denounced police who in one video appear...
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    News Haiti reveals ‘colossal loss’ of $4M worth of corruption

    A soccer field that was paid for but never built. A school that diverted resources from its students. A mayor who ran city hall out of his mother’s home and avoided property taxes. Officials say these and dozens of other alleged acts of corruption cost Haiti’s government a “colossal loss” of...
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    News Montenegro reports massive Russian cyberattack against govt

    Montenegro’s security agency warned Friday that hackers from Russia have launched a massive, coordinated cyberattack against the small nation’s government and its services. The Agency for National Security, or ANB, said Montenegro is “under a hybrid war at the moment.” The Adriatic Sea state...
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    News Man who survived fatal wrong-way crash killing 5 in Miami-Dade jailed, corrections reports

    Corrections officers booked a 30-year-old man on Friday afternoon, who is accused of killing a group of five friends — including a teenage girl, an 18-year-old man, and three women ages 18 and 19 — while driving the wrong way on the Palmetto Expressway. The head-on collision was at about 4:30...
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    News Video shows 2 carjackers quickly ambushing a man before stealing BMW in Broward

    Gene Shendov was walking to his parked white BMW sports utility vehicle on Friday morning when two carjackers came out of nowhere in his quiet Broward County neighborhood. His neighbor’s surveillance video shows the two thieves were in another car when they saw him coming out of his home. He...
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    News Pa. man who attacked police on Jan. 6 gets 46-month sentence

    A Pennsylvania man was sentenced Friday to 46 months in federal prison for attacking a police officer with a Donald Trump flag during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The newspaper reported that Howard Richardson, 72, of King of Prussia, told the court in...
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    News Widow of detective who made Broward history says priceless wedding ring worn since 1952 vanished

    Bettye Holloway said she still can’t believe she lost the ring from her soulmate, Ulysses Holloway, Broward County Sheriff’s Office’s first Black detective in the department’s burglary unit and a former Pompano Beach Police Department police officer. After her beloved protector placed it on her...
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    News Takeaways from the unsealed Mar-a-Lago search affidavit

    The Justice Department on Friday unsealed the FBI affidavit justifying the unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. While the document released is highly redacted, with many of its 32 pages crossed out in black blocks, it includes new details about the sheer...
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    News Grown kids recall Vegas dad whose bones ID'd from Lake Mead

    The identification of bones found in May on the receding shoreline of Lake Mead has resurfaced family memories of a 42-year-old Las Vegas father believed to have drowned 20 years ago. Thomas Erndt’s son, also named Tom Erndt, told KSNV-TV in Las Vegas that his father began to struggle after...
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    News Pipeline operator agrees to guilty plea in California spill

    A pipeline operator and two subsidiaries agreed Friday to plead guilty to negligently discharging oil off the Southern California coast in connection with a pipeline break that covered beaches with blobs of crude. The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said in a statement that Houston-based...
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    News Trump election probe in Georgia cites voting system breach

    The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about the alleged involvement of a Trump ally in the breach of voting equipment at a county roughly 200 miles south of her Atlanta...
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    News FBI agents search for 2 armed bank robbers in Broward

    FBI special agents and police officers are searching for two armed bank robbers on Friday afternoon in Broward County. Two men held up a Chase Bank branch at 4223 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, according to the FBI and the Hollywood Police Department. FBI agents and police officers are...
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    News ‘An existential dilemma’: Florida homeowners scramble as another major insurer exits

    One of Florida’s largest home insurers is exiting the market, leaving thousands of homeowners scrambling to find new coverage as options continue to dwindle in the Sunshine State. United Property & Casualty Insurance Company, based in St. Petersburg, announced Thursday that it filed a plan of...
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