CONCACAF asks Infantino to skip youth event amid FIFA governance crisis
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European wildfires expose, detonate buried bombs and mines from past wars – CBS News
The Berlin Wall separated his family. Its legacy still endures
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Israeli forces reportedly use phosphorus shells in attacks on southern Lebanon – Middle East Eye
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Man leaves young son on Mount Fuji before ascending Japan’s highest peak
Boy, seven, had complained of feeling tired so father left him with snacks and a soft drink and continued his climb
A man who abandoned his seven-year-old son on Mount Fuji in Japan after the boy complained of feeling tired while on a family hike has been reprimanded by local police.
A worker on Japan’s highest mountain discovered the child sitting alone on a bench near the sixth station of the Fujinomiya trail at an altitude of more than 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) on Thursday.
Continue reading...Man leaves young son on Mount Fuji before ascending Japan’s highest peak
Boy, seven, had complained of feeling tired so father left him with snacks and a soft drink and continued his climb
A man who abandoned his seven-year-old son on Mount Fuji in Japan after the boy complained of feeling tired while on a family hike has been reprimanded by local police.
A worker on Japan’s highest mountain discovered the child sitting alone on a bench near the sixth station of the Fujinomiya trail at an altitude of more than 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) on Thursday.
Continue reading...Iran grants permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through Hormuz – Reuters
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Europe’s devastating wildfires unveil deadly new threat – buried bombs from WWI and WWII – Euronews.com
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Russian strikes kill 6 people in Ukraine, day after shopping complex attack
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Hundreds of children take part in swimming class on Gaza’s shore
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Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage – CNN
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Bangladesh exploring ‘Islamic NATO’: Why joining Pakistan-Turkey-Saudi Arabia’s Mecca pact may make sense to Dhaka | World News – Hindustan Times
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Usain Bolt’s 100m record broken at World Humanoid Robot Games
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Ebola continues to spread in the DRC as 16,000 vaccine doses arrive
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Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine – The Guardian
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US kindergarten vaccination rates dip as exemptions hit record high
New CDC data shows MMR vaccination among kindergarteners declining slightly as non-medical exemptions climb to 4.2%
A week after Donald Trump made a series of misleading claims about vaccines – including that some injections look “like the size of a soda bottle” – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the latest data on national kindergarten vaccination rates.
CDC communications downplayed the changes – a three-sentence announcement said, “overall vaccination rates among kindergarteners remained high” – but medical experts immediately saw cause for concern in the trends.
Continue reading...Pakistan’s PTI seeks contempt action over jailed Imran Khan’s hospital move – Al Jazeera
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More than 16,000 doses of Ervebo vaccine arrive in Ebola-hit DR Congo
The doses are the first of 70,000 allocated for Kinshasa as experts warn of the virus's exponential spread.