Colorado voters to decide on abortion rights after measure qualifies for ballot

Supporters gather enough valid signatures to put measure – that would enshrine abortion rights into constitution – on to ballot

Voters in Colorado will have a say on abortion rights this fall after supporters collected enough valid signatures to put a measure on the ballot, part of a national push to pose abortion rights questions to voters since the US supreme court removed the nationwide right to abortion.

The Colorado measure officially made the ballot on Friday and would enshrine abortion rights into the constitution in a state which already allows abortion at all stages of pregnancy despite the supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade.

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Israeli military finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, including Shani Louk – The Associated Press

  1. Israeli military finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, including Shani Louk  The Associated Press
  2. IDF recovers three hostages’ bodies from Gaza  CNN
  3. Israel recovers bodies of hostage Shani Louk and 2 others  NPR
  4. Israel recovers bodies of 3 killed by Hamas during music festival  MSNBC
  5. Israel Recovered the Bodies of 3 Hostages  The New York Times
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Four US daycare workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin

New Hampshire employees of day care arrested after six-month investigation and each face 10 charges of endangering children

Four New Hampshire daycare employees allegedly spiked children’s food with the sleep supplement melatonin and were arrested on Thursday.

The arrests stem from a November 2023 investigation at a daycare in Manchester, New Hampshire, about 30 minutes outside the state capital of Concord.

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Blow to UAW as Mercedes workers in Alabama vote against unionization

Workers in Tuscaloosa vote against bid to unionize, as UAW president Shawn Fain hails impact of campaign despite defeat

The United Auto Workers has failed in its effort to unionize workers at two Mercedes-Benz plants in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in a blow to the union’s plans to build its membership in the southern states.

The loss on Friday comes amid the UAW’s ambitious union-organizing campaign to organize 150,000 non-union auto workers around the US.

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Supplies arrive in Gaza via new pier but land routes essential, says US aid chief

Samantha Power says barely 100 trucks of aid a day enter Gaza, far less than 600 needed to address threat of famine

Humanitarian assistance has begun to arrive in Gaza along a US-made pier, but the US aid chief said the new sea corridor could not be a substitute for land crossings, and warned that deliveries of food and fuel entering Gaza had slowed to “dangerously low levels”.

The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, confirmed on Friday that truckloads of humanitarian aid, including food from the United Arab Emirates, sent by ship from Cyprus, had been unloaded on the Gaza coast and handed over to the control of the UN.

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Head of Canada’s intelligence agency says Chinese government can access TikTok user data – The Verge

  1. Head of Canada’s intelligence agency says Chinese government can access TikTok user data  The Verge
  2. Canada security intelligence chief warns China can use TikTok to spy on users, CBC reports  Reuters.com
  3. Intelligence chief warns Canadians that China can use TikTok to spy on them  CBC News
  4. Canadians should listen to CSIS head on TikTok warning, Trudeau says  Global News
  5. Justin Trudeau warns Canadians about TikTok  Toronto Star
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Putin and Xi embrace defying U.S.-led pressure against China helping Russia – NPR

  1. Putin and Xi embrace defying U.S.-led pressure against China helping Russia  NPR
  2. Opinion | It’s Not Just Putin. Russia Needs China, Too.  The New York Times
  3. In Beijing, Xi and Putin left no question of their close alignment in a divided world  CNN
  4. Russia's Putin expresses gratitude to China's Xi for Ukraine peace plan  The Associated Press
  5. Putin Showcases His Ambitions in a Chinese City Built by Czarist Russia  The Wall Street Journal
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Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan shot dead in Afghanistan attack

Four suspects arrested at the scene of attack in Bamiyan, with four more foreigners and three Afghans reported wounded

Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan civilian have been killed in a shooting attack in Bamiyan province, central Afghanistan.

The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, wrote on social messaging platform X that he was “shocked by the news of the murder of Spanish tourists in Afghanistan”.

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Murders of 2 girls and 2 young women in Canada in the 1970s linked to American serial rapist – CBS News

  1. Murders of 2 girls and 2 young women in Canada in the 1970s linked to American serial rapist  CBS News
  2. DNA helps link killings of 4 young women to an American man who lived in Canada illegally  Yahoo! Voices
  3. A Serial Killer From the U.S. Preyed on Young Women in Canada  The New York Times
  4. Man convicted of rape in Coeur d'Alene now linked to deaths of 4 women in Canada  KREM.com
  5. Serial killer linked to four Calgary slayings in 1970s, more victims sought across Canada and U.S.  Calgary Herald
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IDF strike kills Hamas-linked senior operative near Lebanon’s border with Syria – The Times of Israel

  1. IDF strike kills Hamas-linked senior operative near Lebanon’s border with Syria  The Times of Israel
  2. Hamas says commander killed in Israel strike in Lebanon  Yahoo! Voices
  3. Senior Islamic Group commander killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon  The Jerusalem Post
  4. Islamic Group Terror Chief Eliminated In Israeli Strike In Southern Lebanon | LIVE UPDATES - I24NEWS  i24NEWS
  5. IDF eliminates senior Hamas-linked terrorist in Lebanon  Ynetnews
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French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp

‘Bakery scent’ added via microcapsules to postage stamp celebrating ‘jewel of French culture’

The French Post Office has released a scratch-and-sniff postage stamp to celebrate the baguette, once described by President Emmanuel Macron as “250 grams of magic and perfection”.

The stamp, which costs €1.96, depicts a baguette decorated with a red, white and blue ribbon. It has a print run of 594,000 copies.

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