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Month: July 2022

Putin expands fast-track Russian citizenship to all Ukraine

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian missiles struck a key Ukrainian city, Russian President Vladimir Putin expanded a fast-track procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians on Monday, another effort to strengthen Moscow’s influence over war-torn Ukraine. Until recently, only residents of Ukraine’s separatist eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions,

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A Texas death row inmate is seeking a 30-day reprieve to donate a kidney. An appeals court has issued an execution stay for a different reason

By Dakin Andone, CNN A Texas death row inmate who’d asked for his execution to be delayed so he can donate a kidney was granted a stay of execution Monday on an unrelated appeal over allegedly false testimony during the penalty phase of his trial. Ramiro Gonzales, 39, who was to be executed Wednesday, had

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Ukraine’s harvest becomes the new battlefield, as fires blacken its arable heartlands

By Tim Lister and Petro Zadorozhnyy, CNN Across Ukraine, in the shimmering heat, one sight is becoming familiar this summer: Combine harvesters sweeping across fields of grain in a race against fast-spreading fires. The conflict’s front lines straddle some of Ukraine’s richest farmland. Whether caused by accident or intention, the fires darkening the summer sky

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Aboriginal flag to permanently replace state flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge

Oscar Holland, CNN Australia’s Aboriginal flag will replace the New South Wales state flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge, after officials scrapped a 25 million Australian dollar ($17 million) scheme that would have accommodated both. In a statement announcing the decision Monday, New South Wales (NSW) Premier Dominic Perrottet said the landmark will provide an “everyday

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Un nadador se infectó con una ameba comecerebros después de visitar una playa de Iowa

olivertapia (CNN) — Una playa en Iowa fue cerrada después de que se confirmara una rara infección cerebral potencialmente mortal, conocida coloquialmente como ameba comecerebros, en un visitante que recientemente fue a nadar allí. La playa en el Parque Estatal Lake of Three Fires en el condado de Taylor estará cerrada temporalmente para los nadadores,

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