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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Missing surfers died from gunshots after attempted robbery, Mexican officials say

    Families of two Australians and American who went missing in Baja California have identified the bodies, officials say

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Child dies in flood, hundreds saved after storms lash Texas

    Hundreds of people have been rescued from flooded homes and roads in the Houston area of southern Texas, where rainfsll continued into Sunday, while to the north in the Fort Worth area, a child has died after a car was caught in floodwaters.

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    Ex-minister Mulino leads presidential race as Panama counts votes

    Jose Raul Mulino, the protege of a graft-convicted former head of state, took the lead in Panama's presidential election Sunday evening with half the votes counted, according to election tribunal data.Mulino, 64, led with more than a third of the tallied votes, the data showed.

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    'Everybody is vulnerable': Fake US school audio stokes AI alarm

    A fabricated audio clip of a US high school principal prompted a torrent of outrage, leaving him battling allegations of racism and anti-Semitism in a case that has sparked new alarm about AI manipulation.AI-generated content -- and particularly audio, which experts say is particularly difficult to spot -- sparked national alarm in January when a fake robocall posing as Biden urged New Hampshire residents not to vote in the state's primary.

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    Floor by floor search for flood victims in Brazil's Porto Alegre

    From top to bottom, rescuers scour buildings in Porto Alegre for inhabitants stuck in apartments or on rooftops as unprecedented flooding turned the streets of the Brazilian metropolis into rivers. According to the mayor's office, the level of the Guaiba River that runs past Porto Alegre reached 5.3 meters (about 17.4 feet) on Sunday -- higher than the previous record of 4.76 meters recorded during historic floods in 1941. 

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    Exiled Russian historian rallies fellow emigrants in dark times

    Russian dissident historian Tamara Eidelman was on vacation in Greece when Moscow's tanks rolled into Ukraine in February 2022 and she realized that she would not be going back to her home country.During her lecture in an auditorium of several hundred Russian speakers titled "The Judgment of History," Eidelman examined the painful questions of countries' and societies' culpability and responsibility for crimes from ancient Greece to Nazi Germany -- with the clear undertone of Russia's war in Ukr

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    Bodies in Mexico presumed to be missing surfers have bullet wounds to head

    Relatives of two Australians and an American who disappeared on a surfing trip arrived in Mexico Sunday to identify their presumed bodies, which were found with gunshot wounds to the head, authorities said.Bodies presumed to belong to the three men "all have a hole in their head made by a firearm projectile," Andrade said, adding that the trio had previously visited Mexico several times without any problems.

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