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Military hero praised by Donald Trump for saving children during El Paso mass shooting is found dead

Army Private First Class Glendon Oakley Jr., 23, was found dead in his quarters at Fort Bliss on Wednesday, a spokesman confirmed.




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Lawyer for evangelical megachurch defying social distancing orders is in hospital with coronvairus

Jeff Wittenbrink, 59, who represents the Life Tabernacle Church, is now on oxygen at Baton Rogue General, struggling to breathe after coming down with the virus.




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Man is shot and killed by cops in California Walmart after swinging baseball bat at officers

Officers from the San Leandro PD responded to a disturbance at Walmart on Hesperian Boulevard at 3pm yesterday afternoon to tentative accounts of a man attempting to rob the store.




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California police spark outrage after shooting and killing bat-wielding man

A civil rights lawyer has identified the black man who was shot and killed at a San Leandro, California, Walmart on Saturday after swinging a bat as Steve Taylor, 33, a father-of-three.




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Mom uses a saucepan lid secured inside a hoodie as a faux face mask

The woman, who goes by Mama T on TikTok, said she was getting ready to go shopping when she took out the saucepan lid, put it over her face, and kept it in place with her hoodie.




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Walmart got $12.6 million in federal health stimulus - but decided to give it back

Walmart, which operates urgent care clinics in several of its stores, said it did not request the federal funds, which were sent out automatically to thousands of healthcare providers.




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Donald Trump claims 'big success on the Turkey/Syria border' and lifts ALL sanctions on Turkey

Trump said Wednesday that the ceasefire his administration negotiated last week on the Turkish-Syrian border is intact, even as more blood is spilled in northern Syria.




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ISIS brides desperate to return to Australia promise to obey strict controls if they can come home

The restrictions mean that Australian women and anyone over 14 in the Al-Hawl camp in Syria would be told who they can and can't associate with, banned from social media and meet curfews.




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President Erdogan redoubles threat that he'll flood Europe with millions of refugees

Erdogan made the threats today by saying: 'If there is no support for the projects we are developing for between one and two million refugees, we will have no option but to open our doors.'




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JOHN R. BRADLEY examines likely impact of the death of ISIS leader

JOHN R. BRADLEY: He may have been the world's most wanted terrorist and the supremo of global jihad, but Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was all but a mythical figure to those hunting him.




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British ISIS victims' families salute death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Charlotte Coleman, who daughter, Olivia (pictured), died in the Manchester Arena attack of 2017 has praised US soldiers after they cornered the ISIS leader and he detonated his own suicide vest.




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Military's top officer says he CANNOT confirm Trump's account of al-Baghdadi 'whimpering'

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley couldn't confirm President Trump's account of how ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was 'whimpering' before he died.




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Death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi unveils 'significant intelligence' for Australia

Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne said sensitive information was found when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by US forces in Syria on Sunday.




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Relieved mother of James Foley reveals Trump phoned her after the al-Baghdadi raid

James Foley's mother has said that President Trump phoned her after the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid on Sunday that killed the ISIS leader to personally inform her the terror leader was dead.




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Thousands of EU prisoners may have been radicalised as Islamist militants, security chief warns

Julian King (pictured in Brussels) said there were more than 1,000 people being held on terror charges and said that others imprisoned for unrelated crimes may also have been radicalised.




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Syrian refugee who aced Year 12 exams becomes an Australian citizen

Saad Al-Kassab, now 22, made nation headlines in 2016 after scoring am ATAR or 96.65 and being named dux of his Catholic school in Melbourne. He had fled from Syria two years earlier.




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Marcello Lippi resigns from position as China boss following defeat against Syria

China's first defeat in Group A left them five points behind Syria only halfway through the group stage of Asian qualifying. Marcello Lippi had only returned to the role in May this year.




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Lindsay Graham 'admits blocking resolution recognizing Armenian genocide so as not to upset Erdogan'

Lindsey Graham has admitted blocking a Senate resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide because he was afraid about upsetting Erdogan while he was still in Washington.




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'I kept the oil': Trump defends withdrawal that exposed Kurdish allies

President Donald Trump defended his relationship with Turkey at NATO meetings Tuesday following its invasion of northern Syria,




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Man fleeing from leopard is just one image to make it onto AFP's best photos of 2019 list 

From an emotional Theresa May announcing her resignation to damage caused by Storm Dorian in the Bahamas, AFP has published a selection of its best and most poignant photos of the year.




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Somalia, South Sudan and Syria are ranked the world's most corrupt nations

Somalia, South Sudan and Syria have been ranked as the world's most corrupt nations in Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index report released on Thursday.




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German gay man reveals how he turned to far-right political party AfD after homophobic attack

Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls meets Karsten, 55, from Bremen in tonight's Travels In Euroland on BBC2, to find out why the gay man voted for far right party, Alternative for Germany.




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Syrian military helicopter is shot down by Turkey-backed rebels in Idlib

Dramatic video captured the final moments of a Syrian government helicopter after it was hit by missiles fired by Turkey-backed rebels in Syria's Idlib province on Tuesday.




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Syrian father makes up a game to make his daughter laugh every time a bomb falls in city of Idlib

In a post on Twitter, the father demonstrated the game which he has devised to protect his daughter from the 'psychological crisis' caused by near-constant explosions.




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Shocking moment US military vehicle runs Russian armored truck off the road in Syria

The footage, posted online, is thought to have been filmed in Qamishli, in the north east of the country, from inside a civilian car on Wednesday.




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The bushfires have been devastating. But Australia is rising from the ashes with some great deals

Around 72,000 sq miles of land has been affected by bushfires in Australia. So is it safe to go? Tom Chesshyre says the short answer is yes. Here's his guide to visiting in the aftermath of the disaster.




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Camila Cabello marks 23rd birthday with heartfelt message to shed light on Syrian civil war

Camila Cabello took some time on her birthday on Tuesday to think about those a lot less fortunate than her - namely, the youth of Syria.




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Camila Cabello celebrates her 23rd in BLACKPOOL as beau Shawn Mendes flies 3,300 miles

Superstar songstress Camila Cabello celebrated her 23rd birthday on Tuesday with a glittering bash in Blackpool in Lancashire.




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Ancient human settlement was obliterated by a COMET exploding in Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago

The event destroyed a village found in the Abu Hureyra dig site in Syria and splattered fragments of molten glass 'hot enough to melt cars' to the ground.




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Police arrest a man suspected of travelling to Syria to engage in 'hostile activities' 

Counter terrorism police have arrested a man suspected of travelling to Syria to engage in 'hostile activities'. 




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Mesut Ozil makes £80,000 donation to a Turkish charity to help muslims during Ramadan

The Germany international, who is of Turkish descent, made the generous donation to provide food and aid for 16,000 Muslims throughout the holy month.




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Darts fan slides down London Tube escalator

Freddie Andrews, 22, from Tonbridge in Kent, had sunk 10 pints at the PDC World Championships at Alexandra Palace in north London.




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Darts fan who slid down Tube escalator recalls downfall

Freddie Andrews, 22, from Tonbridge in Kent, had sunk 10 pints at the PDC World Championships at Alexandra Palace in north London.




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London Tube 'fare-dodger' suffers the ultimate humiliation

The man's screams of agony can be heard as people line up to witness the incident. Police and London underground staff members worked to free the young man from the Covent Garden barriers.




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Bailiffs threat for driver in TfL congestion charge error

EXCLUSIVE: Howard Colin, 26, from Cardiff, who has never driven his car in London, received the penalty charge notices after cameras misrecognised one of the letters on his registration.




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Lily Allen sparks row by slamming TfL staff

Lily Allen has taken to Twitter to accuse Transport for London workers of 'celebrating colonialism' over an information board at an underground station.




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London Tube worker defends 'colonialist' station notice

A tube worker accused of 'celebrating colonialism' by singer Lily Allen after a controversial notice board post defended his actions, describing the Rourke's Drift as 'an important day in military history'.




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Ant McPartlin enjoys an economical London tube journey

Ant McPartlin, 42, was seen keeping his costs down as he enjoyed a budget friendly tube journey to head to the Britain's Got Talent photocall in London on Sunday.




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TFL machines decline Apple Pay and contactless cards

Frustrated London punters trying to catch buses and Tubes took to Twitter to complain that their payment method had been rejected - leaving some at a loss what to do.




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London Tube passenger caught demanding a blind man move

Amit Patel, 37, who suddenly lost his sight five years ago from a haemorrhage behind his eyes, was confronted by an irate commuter on an escalator at London Bridge on Tuesday (pictured).




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Commuter chaos as London's District Line hit by closures

There is currently no service between South Kensington and Ealing Broadway / Richmond/ Wimbledon and between Earl's Court and Edgware Road.




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Driving fine overturned due to unreliable camera evidence

Raymond Bryce was given an £130 fine for not paying London's congestion charge. It was cancelled after TfL did not confirm if their cameras were linked to atomic time, according to an appeal body.




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Racist on London train attacks pair who don't speak English

A couple, believed to be Asian, were chatting amongst themselves in a foreign language on a train from Stratford to Romford, east London. The man flipped out at them because he 'felt paranoid'.




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Parsons Green bomber lied about age to stay in Britain, rules judge

Ahmed Hassan claimed he was a 16-year-old orphan when he entered the UK illegally three years ago and applied for asylum. The case raises concerns over how many terrorists are using the loophole.




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Transport for London worker lied he was gay to take council flat

Patrick Ofori-Sampong, 50, said he was gay to take over his alleged partner's property in London then tried to take possession of a man's home while claiming to be his adopted son.




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Police rubbish Olly Murs' Oxford Circus 'shooting cover up' claim

Piers Morgan (pictured) told the singer to 'stick a cork in it' after he claimed there was a 'cover up' over the incident in central London, despite police insisting today that there were no gunshots fired.




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Tube strike: London Underground staff walkout on District Line

The 24 hour walkout on the District Line, one of the busiest London Underground lines, was organised by the Aslef Union, and is causing severe delays across the capital.




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Woman's fingers trapped in brand new Elizabeth Line train door

A woman had to be rescued after she got her fingers caught in the door of a brand new Elizabeth Line train in east London. The passenger was forced to stay on board the train for three stops.




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Central Line sex attacker on the loose after 3 women were attacked

A sex attacker - caught on CCTV wearing a puffer jacket and black flat cap - is being hunted by police after he grabbed his first victim from behind during morning rush hour in east London.




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Jubilee line suffers severe delays after being closed by power failure 

The entire Jubilee line was at a standstill this morning thanks to a power failure, which sparked travel mayhem across London.