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The Chinese tagline on the movie poster says it all: "I will wait for you, no matter how long it takes." It tells the true story of Hachiko, the faithful dog that continued to wait for its master at a train station in Japan long after…
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For one long June night and a day, Russia's notorious mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin staged an apparent insurrection, sending an armoured convoy towards Moscow and raising questions about Vladimir Putin's grip on power. The Russian…
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Toronto will soon decide who will be its next mayor, after revelations of an extramarital affair pushed the city's long-time leader out of office. There is no shortage of candidates to choose from - in fact, a historic total of 102 names…
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A year-long BBC investigation has uncovered a sadistic global monkey torture ring stretching from Indonesia to the United States. The World Service found hundreds of customers in the US, UK and elsewhere paying Indonesians to torture and…
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Do Kwon, the cryptocurrency boss behind the $40bn (£31.3bn) collapse of the terraUSD and Luna tokens, has been sentenced to four months of jail in Montenegro. Mr Kwon was found guilty of forging official documents. He was arrested in…
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A Belgian TikToker faked his own death to find out who cared and then turned up to his own funeral. David Baerten, 45, and his wife and children decided to prank friends and family members to find out what they really thought him. To…
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The war in Ukraine must end, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has told Russia's leader Vladimir Putin. Mr. Ramaphosa's remarks came as he met Mr. Putin in St Petersburg on Saturday as part of a peace mission with six other…
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A Texas law that bans all abortions - except in dire medical circumstances - is one of the strictest introduced since the right to the procedure was overturned. Critics say it is forcing many women, and their doctors, to choose between…
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A crocodile in Costa Rica has made herself pregnant, the first recorded instance of a "virgin birth" in the reptile species.  The crocodile was kept in captivity in a zoo and had no contact with males - but a fully-formed foetus was…
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Mourners at the wake of an elderly Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive. A hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspected stroke. She was placed in a coffin and…
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