US sprinter Fred Kerley arrested for allegedly punching former girlfriend

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  • Olympic medallist not running at Grand Slam Track
  • The 29-year-old charged with ‘battery-touch or strike’

Fred Kerley, twice an Olympic 100m medallist, has been arrested for allegedly punching the hurdler and his former girlfriend Alaysha Johnson in the face, and the American sprinter will not compete in the Grand Slam Track event in Miami this weekend.

The alleged incident occurred on Thursday at a hotel where Johnson, who is listed as a competitor in the Miami event, had an appointment with her conditioning coach when she told police she ran into Kerley.

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Malta, Greece, Turkey said threatening to seize Gaza activists’ drone-hit ship if it docks – The Times of Israel

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  1. Malta, Greece, Turkey said threatening to seize Gaza activists’ drone-hit ship if it docks  The Times of Israel
  2. Explosions Cripple Ship Carrying Aid to Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea  The New York Times
  3. Aid ship bound for Gaza catches fire after alleged Israeli drone attack off Malta  CNN
  4. Gaza humanitarian aid ship ‘bombed by drones’ in waters off Malta | Israel-Gaza war  The Guardian
  5. Activists say ship aiming to sail to Gaza was attacked by drones  BBC
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Captive-bred axolotls thrive in Mexican wetlands, researchers find – NPR

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  1. Captive-bred axolotls thrive in Mexican wetlands, researchers find  NPR
  2. Captive-bred axolotl thrives in restored wetlands in Mexico City  BBC
  3. The axolotl is endangered in the wild. A discovery offers hope  Science News
  4. Can Mexico bring back the endangered axolotl?  Al Jazeera
  5. Endangered axolotls bred in captivity can survive in wild, study finds  The Washington Post
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Trump’s Truth Social posts make no sense – what do they say about his mentality?

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The president’s little used social media platform offers him a forum for his nonstop haranguing and score-settling

No political leader has used social media quite like Donald Trump. But his recent posts on Truth Social, the social media platform he founded in 2021, have become increasingly bizarre: the president using the lack of scrutiny afforded by the platform’s small user base to truly let loose.

In the hundreds of “Truths” since he took office, Trump has variously used Truth Social to reimagine himself as a king and to urge Americans to “BE COOL!” as the stock market tanked in the wake of his trade war, the president’s seemingly random use of capital letters, punctuation and inaccurate spelling consistent across the messages.

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Dying Syrian grandmother allowed to come to UK in Home Office U-turn

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Soaad Al Shawa had been barred from spending final days with her family, who fled Damascus to settle in Glasgow

A Syrian grandmother who is dying of cancer has been given permission to come to the UK to spend her final days with the grandchildren she has never met, after a Home Office U-turn.

The government had wanted to bar Soaad Al Shawa, who has liver cancer and has been given just weeks to live by doctors, from travelling to spend her last days with her daughter Ola Al Hamwi, son-in-law Mostafa Amonajid and their three children aged seven, five and one. Al Shawa has only been able to communicate with her grandchildren on video calls.

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South Korea’s conservatives pick hardline Kim Moon-soo as presidential candidate

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People Power party trail in polls in election called after President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed for trying to impose martial law

South Korea’s conservative People Power party has picked former labour minister Kim Moon-soo as its candidate for the 3 June presidential election, which was called after the removal of Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed attempt to impose martial law.

Kim will face the liberal Democratic party’s candidate, Lee Jae-myung, who has led each of the declared conservative candidates by large double-digit margins in polls.

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Groups fear Israeli proposal for controlling aid in Gaza will forcibly displace people – AP News

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  1. Groups fear Israeli proposal for controlling aid in Gaza will forcibly displace people  AP News
  2. LIVE: Israel’s attacks kill 30 in Gaza as baby dies of starvation  Al Jazeera
  3. “The Situation Now Is So Beyond Imagination”  The New Yorker
  4. Gaza kitchens warn food will run out in days after two months of Israeli blockade  BBC
  5. Gaza: ‘Worst-case scenario’ unfolds as brutal aid blockade threatens mass starvation  UN News
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Australians sizzle on election day with ‘democracy sausage’ and ‘budgy smugglers’ – Reuters

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  1. Australians sizzle on election day with 'democracy sausage' and 'budgy smugglers'  Reuters
  2. Democracy Sausage, Voting In Swimsuits: Bizarre Polling Trends In Australia  NDTV
  3. Uber Eats offers delivery democracy sausages – but is it ‘unAustralian’?  The Guardian
  4. Australia Election Sausage  chronicleonline.com
  5. AP Strange SummaryBrief at 9:31 p.m. EDT  couriernews.com
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Brazil corruption: Social security minister latest to quit in major pensions fraud scandal – BBC

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  1. Brazil corruption: Social security minister latest to quit in major pensions fraud scandal  BBC
  2. Brazil’s social security minister steps down amid pension fraud investigation  The Indian Express
  3. Brazilian police probe a pension fraud scheme that stole $1 billion from retirees  ABC News
  4. Brazil social security minister resigns, Lula names secretary for the role  Reuters
  5. Brazil social security minister set to resign, report says  1470 & 100.3 WMBD
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