Afghanistan’s new penal code sets 15 days in prison for wife-beating, 5 months for animal fights – AP News

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  1. Afghanistan's new penal code sets 15 days in prison for wife-beating, 5 months for animal fights  AP News
  2. The Taliban’s new penal code: Two weeks in jail for breaking a woman’s arm and five months for mistreating a camel  EL PAÍS English
  3. UN rights chief says Taliban decree expands executions, deepens repression  Reuters
  4. Afghanistan sets tougher penalties for animal fights than domestic violence, UN high commissioner says  Sky News
  5. Women at risk as Taliban curbs hit Afghan healthcare, UN expert warns  Yahoo
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Lenten Retreat: Bishop Varden reflects on ‘Bernard the Realist’ – Vatican News

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  1. Lenten Retreat: Bishop Varden reflects on 'Bernard the Realist'  Vatican News
  2. ‘Hidden Glory’: Here are highlights from Bishop Varden’s meditations for papal Lenten retreat  OSV News
  3. At Curia retreat, Bishop Varden warns of Gospel's use 'as a weapon in culture wars'  National Catholic Reporter
  4. Bishop Varden tells Vatican retreat: Not every fall ends in joy  EWTN News
  5. A ‘chatbot’ can’t replace angels, Bishop Varden tells Pope Leo, Roman Curia  Crux
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Danish PM calls an early election seeking ‘Greenland bounce’

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Mette Frederiksen hopes to profit from her stand against Donald Trump’s attempt to claim the Arctic territory

Denmark’s prime minister has called an early election to take advantage of a “Greenland bounce” after Donald Trump’s threats to invade the Arctic territory.

Mette Frederiksen, who has been in office since 2019, is required by Danish law to call an election by 31 October. Setting a date with eight months to go appears to be an attempt to ride improved poll ratings after disastrous local elections in November that saw her Social Democrats lose control of Copenhagen for the first time in a century.

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What North Korea’s mysterious party congress reveals – The Economist

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  1. What North Korea’s mysterious party congress reveals  The Economist
  2. Kim Jong Un vows to strengthen nuclear program, watches military parade with daughter  CNN
  3. North Korea: Kim Jong Un re-appointed as general secretary at party congress  BBC
  4. Quick Take: Initial Assessment of Key Personnel Changes in North Korea’s 9th Party Congress  38 North
  5. Kim Jong Un's sister makes first public appearance since her niece was named successor instead of her  New York Post
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Greek court sentences Predator spyware gang – politico.eu

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  1. Greek court sentences Predator spyware gang  politico.eu
  2. Greek court finds four guilty of prying on private data in wiretapping scandal  Reuters
  3. Israeli spyware maker sentenced to 8 years in Greece’s Predator case  The Times of Israel
  4. Greece Predator scandal: Four convicted over spyware affair that shook Greece  BBC
  5. Ex-top Israeli Officer and Intellexa Founder Convicted in Greek Spyware Case  Haaretz
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World’s Leading AIs Were Given Nuclear Codes and Pitted Each Other in a War Game Simulation. It Went Exactly As You Expected – ZME Science

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  1. World's Leading AIs Were Given Nuclear Codes and Pitted Each Other in a War Game Simulation. It Went Exactly As You Expected  ZME Science
  2. AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations  New Scientist
  3. AI really likes using nuclear weapons in simulated war scenarios. Here's why  Axios
  4. AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios  theregister.com
  5. Top AIs insist on using nuclear weapons in war simulations  Boing Boing
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What is Greater Israel, and how popular is it among Israelis? – Al Jazeera

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  1. What is Greater Israel, and how popular is it among Israelis?  Al Jazeera
  2. Outcry after Ambassador Mike Huckabee suggests Israel has God-given right to Middle East land  NBC News
  3. US ambassador's Israel comments condemned by Arab and Muslim nations  BBC
  4. How Christian Zionism explains Mike Huckabee’s expansive view of Israel’s borders  The Forward
  5. Huckabee: US investment in Israel is a ‘two-way street’  The Times of Israel
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Italian woman awarded compensation after breaking ankle while working from home

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University of Padua employee fractured ankle when getting up to fetch documents during video meeting

An Italian woman who fell and broke her ankle while working from home has obtained compensation in an unprecedented court ruling hailed a victory for workers’ rights.

In April 2022, the woman, an employee in the University of Padua’s law department, fractured her ankle in two places. The injury, which happened during a Zoom meeting where she fell after she got up from her desk to fetch documents, required surgery and treatment lasting more than four months.

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Mafia accused of using Naples hospital for fraud and illegal transport of corpses

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Four arrests over Camorra’s alleged infiltration of San Giovanni Bosco to carry out lucrative criminal activity

Italian police on Wednesday arrested four people over an alleged Camorra plot to infiltrate a Naples hospital, stage fake crashes for insurance payouts and spirit corpses away on oxygen-masked stretchers to profit from private ambulance transfers.

The investigation, prompted by the testimony of a state witness, uncovered a web of lucrative criminal activity allegedly carried out by members of the Contini clan of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, inside San Giovanni Bosco hospital. Prosecutors said the “operations were made possible by the organisation’s capacity for intimidation, a force that bent public officials and private citizens alike to its will”.

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