Taylor Swift-Themed Dance Class Attacker Pleads Guilty of Murdering Three Girls – Rolling Stone

  1. Taylor Swift-Themed Dance Class Attacker Pleads Guilty of Murdering Three Girls  Rolling Stone
  2. Man Pleads Guilty to Stabbing 3 Children to Death at Taylor Swift-Themed Event  PEOPLE
  3. Teenager admits murder of Southport girls in attack that sparked UK riots  CNN
  4. Axel Rudakubana was referred to counter-extremism scheme three times  The Guardian
  5. Southport Stabbing: 18-Year-Old Pleads Guilty to Murder at Taylor Swift-Themed Dance Class  The New York Times
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Norway cool on Trump’s demand for a massive defense spending increase – POLITICO Europe

  1. Norway cool on Trump’s demand for a massive defense spending increase  POLITICO Europe
  2. Trump Crazy: Spending 5.0 Percent of GDP on the Military  Center for Economic and Policy Research -
  3. DOMINIC LAWSON: Why freeloading Irish should be first in Trump's sight  Daily Mail
  4. REVEALED: EU’s $650bn UNDERSPEND on defence that has bloc leaders dreading hawkish Trump’s return  GB News
  5. NATO's Rutte says Trump's return will 'turbo-charge' pact's defence spending, production  The Economic Times
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Pope dissolves Peru-based Catholic movement after ‘sadistic abuses’ – The Guardian

  1. Pope dissolves Peru-based Catholic movement after ‘sadistic abuses’  The Guardian
  2. Pope dissolves Peru-based conservative Catholic movement after abuses uncovered by Vatican  The Associated Press
  3. Sodality of Christian Life dissolved by Pope Francis, apostolate confirms  Catholic News Agency
  4. Vatican to suppress Sodalitium Christianae Vitae  The Pillar
  5. Vatican dissolves scandal-plagued Peru group  Crux Now
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Pope dissolves Peru-based Catholic movement after ‘sadistic abuses’

Sodalitium of Christian Life ended after investigation found sexual and spiritual abuses and financial mismanagement

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium of Christian Life (SCV), after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation. The investigation uncovered sexual abuses by its founder, financial mismanagement by its leaders and spiritual abuses by its top members.

The Sodalitium on Monday confirmed the dissolution, which was conveyed to an assembly of its members in Aparecida, Brazil at the weekend by the pope’s top legal adviser, Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda. In revealing the dissolution in a statement, the group lamented that news of Francis’s decision had been leaked by two members attending the assembly, who were “definitively expelled”.

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Colombia vows ‘war’ as guerrilla violence kills 100 – FRANCE 24 English

  1. Colombia vows 'war' as guerrilla violence kills 100  FRANCE 24 English
  2. At Least 80 Dead and 18,000 Flee Amid a New Surge of Violence in Colombia  The New York Times
  3. Colombians flee to Venezuela as clashes between rebel groups escalate in coca-rich border region  The Hill
  4. 80 killed in Colombia’s deadliest wave of violence since peace accords  The Washington Post
  5. Venezuela’s Maduro Sends Troops to Border as Thousands Flee Colombia Terror  Bloomberg
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Illegal mining ringleader escaped during South Africa disaster with help from officers, police say – The Associated Press

  1. Illegal mining ringleader escaped during South Africa disaster with help from officers, police say  The Associated Press
  2. Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months—Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission  The Wall Street Journal
  3. Gang leader 'Tiger' evades South African police after 78 mine deaths  Reuters.com
  4. South Africa police search for gold mine gangster 'Tiger'  DW (English)
  5. Stilfontein mine: South Africa police launch manhunt for illegal mining 'kingpin'  BBC.com
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Palestinians begin search for Gaza’s missing as they return to ruined homes

Ceasefire celebrations replaced by shock and sorrow as people begin to assess the scale of devastation

After the first night in Gaza for more than a year without the sound of drones or bombing overhead following the successful implementation of a ceasefire, people in the besieged Palestinian territory have begun returning to destroyed homes and searching for missing loved ones.

The truce that took effect on Sunday with the release of the first three hostages held by Hamas in exchange for 90 Palestinians from Israeli jails was greeted with euphoria as a large influx of desperately needed aid supplies entered the strip.

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‘Beaten before release’: Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners casts shadow on celebrations – Middle East Eye

  1. 'Beaten before release': Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners casts shadow on celebrations  Middle East Eye
  2. Palestinians celebrate release of 90 prisoners and detainees held by Israel in first phase of ceasefire deal  NBC News
  3. Released female Palestinians say conditions in prison were 'very difficult' and 'chaotic'  Yahoo! Voices
  4. Who are the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel?  Al Jazeera English
  5. ‘My arrest was unjustified’: released Palestinians decry their imprisonment  The Guardian
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North Korean POW Tells Ukrainian Interrogators About Major Troop Losses – The Moscow Times

  1. North Korean POW Tells Ukrainian Interrogators About Major Troop Losses  The Moscow Times
  2. What the North Koreans took into battle against Ukraine  The Washington Post
  3. Inside an Elite Ukrainian Unit’s Mission to Capture a North Korean Soldier  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Suicides, new tactics and propaganda iPads: details from captured North Koreans expose new foe in Ukraine  The Guardian
  5. North Korean Troops Thought Ukraine War Was an Exercise  Newsweek
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