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    Kim Jong Un mourns death of North Korea's former propaganda chief

    North Korea's former propaganda chief, credited with masterminding the personality cult surrounding the ruling Kim dynasty, has died, state media said Wednesday, with leader Kim Jong Un photographed bowing at his funeral bier.He is credited with masterminding the cult of the Kim family dynasty, and Pyongyang's state media on Wednesday described him as "a veteran of our Party and the revolution, a prestigious theoretician and a prominent political activist".

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    US centenarian to marry at Normandy, 80 years after Allied landing

    Americans Harold Terens and Jeanne Swerlin promise their courtship is "better than Romeo and Juliet": He is 100, she's 96, and they marry next month in France, where the groom-to-be served during World War II. US Air Force veteran Terens will be honored on June 6 at a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, the historic Allied operation that changed the course of the war.Terens, wearing a World War II cap with "100 Year Old Vet" embroidered on the side, is over t

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    Ritacuba Blanco: death of a Colombian glacier

    Just a few months ago, the Colombian mountain peak of Ritacuba Blanco was covered in an unbroken layer of white ice and snow, just as it had been for as long as anyone can remember.- Last chance for tourists - According to the most recent recorded data, in 2022, some 12.8 square kilometers (4.9 square miles) of Ritacuba Blanco was covered in ice and snow -- the lowest ever measured by Ideam.

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    US restorationist solves 60-million-year-old dinosaur fossil 'puzzles'

    Before a T. rex can tower over museum visitors or a Triceratops can show off its huge horns, dinosaur fossils must first be painstakingly reconstructed -- cleaned, fit together and even painted.- Patience and observation - Movies make audiences believe that dinosaur fossils are dug up from the ground intact, says David Temple, a paleontology curator at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. 

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    Experts rubbish claim Greta Thunberg related to non-existent Rothschild

    There is no evidence that Greta Thunberg is related to the Rothschild banking dynasty, contrary to social media posts targeting the climate activist with the baseless claim. The posts said Thunberg's great-grandfather was "Joachim Rothschild-Thunberg" but researchers said there was no evidence he existed.

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    Travel chaos at Heathrow and major UK airports over Border Force issue

    Thousands of passengers were stranded at Britain’s busiest airports on Tuesday night as the e-gate system failed causing chaos.

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    Trump trial: This was Donald with his trousers down - no doubt

    It was the prosecution's assurance prior to questioning Stormy Daniels after Donald Trump's lawyers had objected, in advance, to her testifying to the details of sexual acts. In a dingy New York courtroom, this was the president and the porn star, together again, in a reunion most reductive for Mr Trump. Ms Daniels told her story, of growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of a single mother.

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