Chinese astronauts add debris shields to Tiangong space station during 8-hour spacewalk (video) – Space

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  1. Chinese astronauts add debris shields to Tiangong space station during 8-hour spacewalk (video)  Space
  2. Shenzhou-20 crew starts a series of experiments within month on orbit  Global Times
  3. Crew floats for 8 hours in its first spacewalk  China Daily
  4. CMSA: Shenzhou-20 crew set for maiden extravehicular activities  news.cgtn.com
  5. Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete first spacewalk  China's Ministry of National Defense
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Inside a Harrowing, Hail-Damaged Flight: ‘We Thought It Was Our Last’ – The New York Times

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  1. Inside a Harrowing, Hail-Damaged Flight: ‘We Thought It Was Our Last’  The New York Times
  2. Passengers scream for their lives after plane struck by one natural disaster after another: ‘I am still in shock’  Yahoo
  3. Storm, Screams, Hailstones: IndiGo's 8,500 Ft/Min Drop After Pak Refusal  NDTV
  4. IAF assisted IndiGo flight after Pak denied airspace amid turbulence: Report  Hindustan Times
  5. Horrified Passengers Can Be Heard Screaming on Plane That Flies Through a Violent Hail and Lightning Storm: Video  People.com
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Case of mother who died during forced sterilisation in Peru to be heard in court

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Celia Ramos was one of thousands of women subjected to government’s brutal policy in the 1990s. A ruling by the inter-American court of human rights could open way for reparations

The case of a forced sterilisation carried out in Peru in the 1990s will be heard by an international court on Thursday, 28 years after the procedure – one of many thousands – resulted in a woman’s death.

Celia Ramos was 34 when she died in 1997, 19 days after surgery for a tubal ligation caused respiratory failure. The mother of three was “harassed” into accepting the procedure, which was part of a nationwide family planning programme.

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Five Valladolid fans given suspended prison sentences for Vinícius Júnior hate crime

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  • Insults were directed towards Brazilian in December 2022

  • La Liga hails judgment as ‘unprecedented milestone’

  • Luka Modric to leave Real Madrid after Club World Cup

Five Valladolid fans who abused the Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior have been given suspended prison sentences, in what La Liga described as a landmark ruling that condemned racist insults hurled in a football stadium as a hate crime.

The case goes back to Madrid’s 2-0 win in December 2022 at Real Valladolid’s José Zorrilla Stadium, during which several fans hurled racist abuse at the Brazilian. The individuals were later identified using images and videos published on social media.

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German troops start first permanent foreign deployment since second world war

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Heavy combat unit of 4,800 soldiers and 200 civilian staff inaugurated in Lithuania on Nato’s eastern flank

The German chancellor has visited Lithuania to mark Berlin’s first permanent foreign troop deployment since the second world war, as he called on allies to dramatically expand their efforts to bolster European defences against a hostile Russia.

As a crowd waved Lithuanian, German and Ukrainian flags, Friedrich Merz and his defence minister, Boris Pistorius, attended a ceremony launching the official formation of an armoured brigade aimed at protecting Nato’s eastern flank.

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Law Enforcement Seize Record Amounts of Illegal Drugs, Firearms, and Drug Trafficking Proceeds in International Operation Against Darknet Trafficking of Fentanyl and Opioids; 270 Arrested Across Four Continents – Department of Justice (.gov)

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  1. Law Enforcement Seize Record Amounts of Illegal Drugs, Firearms, and Drug Trafficking Proceeds in International Operation Against Darknet Trafficking of Fentanyl and Opioids; 270 Arrested Across Four Continents  Department of Justice (.gov)
  2. 270 arrested in global dark web crackdown targeting online drug and criminal networks  europol.europa.eu
  3. Global Operation Targets Darknet Drug Trafficking  fbi.gov
  4. Police arrests 270 dark web vendors, buyers in global crackdown  BleepingComputer
  5. Operation RapTor: 270 Arrested in Global Crackdown on Dark Web Vendors  Hackread
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A family in Indian-administered Kashmir fears being split apart after militant attack – NPR

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  1. A family in Indian-administered Kashmir fears being split apart after militant attack  NPR
  2. ‘Heart bleeds’: Kashmiris grieve children killed on India-Pakistan frontier  Al Jazeera
  3. The Kashmiris Caught in the Crossfire  Foreign Policy
  4. As India, Pakistan hail military feats, Kashmiris are left to grieve  The Washington Post
  5. Sifting through the rubble of Pakistan-India conflict  KMZU.com
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