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Thai Cave Two Australian doctors in Thailand to receive royal honors for helping rescue a boys soccer team from a flooded cave say they are looking forward to a reunion with the people they helped save. -- South Africa Church Local media in South Africa are reporting that at least 13 people are dead after part of a church collapsed. -- US Damond Minneapolis police officer Matthew Harrity has testified he feared a potential ambush just before his partner Mohamed Noor shot dead Australian life coach Justine Damond-Ruszczyk in an alley. -- Trump Russia Aust US Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report details Australia's role in sparking the FBI's 2016 investigation into whether Donald Trump's election campaign co-ordinated with the Russian government. -- Northern Ireland shooting Police in Northern Ireland say the dissident republican group the New IRA was probably responsible for the fatal shooting of a journalist during overnight rioting in the city of Londonderry. -- Trump and Russia Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller's report revealed to a waiting nation that President Donald Trump tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller's removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president. Trump was largely thwarted by those around him who refused to go along. -- Japan Crash A car driven by an 87-year-old man has smashed into pedestrians at a Tokyo intersection, killing a woman and a girl on a bicycle and overturning a garbage truck, Japanese police say. -- US Storm A second wave of tornadoes and thunderstorms to hit the US South and Midwest has turned deadly with three people reported killed, as the storms pushed eastward, officials and media accounts say. -- France Cathedral Investigators suspect an electrical short-circuit was the most likely cause of the Notre Dame cathedral fire, according to a French judicial police official. -- Mali Mali's Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga and his entire government have submitted their resignations to the president of the country who accepted them. -- National Enquirer The National Enquirer is being sold to the former head of the airport newsstand company Hudson News following a rocky year in which the tabloid was accused of burying stories that could have hurt Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. -- Thailand Seasteading Thai authorities have raided a floating home in the Andaman Sea belonging to an American man and his Thai partner who sought to be pioneers in the "seasteading" movement, which promotes living in international waters to be free of any nation's laws. Comments are closed.
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