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Man caught trying to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas on a plane

Washington Post In addition to the spiders, the South Korean traveler also had 110 centipedes and nine bullet ants in containers taped to his body, Peruvian authorities said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/11/16/tarantula-arrest-centipedes-peru-korea/

Global health experts sound alarm over RFK Jr., citing Samoa outbreak

Washington Post Experts and officials said a measles outbreak in Samoa, which came after a visit by Kennedy, was examplary of the dangers of his rhetoric. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/15/rfk-jr-global-health-samoa-kennedy/

Israel drops massive bomb in Beirut strike, as Lebanon mulls cease-fire

Washington Post Israel has stepped up strikes on the city’s southern suburbs in recent days, an area Israeli officials say hosts Hezbollah militants and infrastructure. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/15/beirut-strike-israel-lebanon-ceasefire/

A baby red panda choked to death. Her vets blame fireworks.

Washington Post Officials at the Edinburgh Zoo want lawmakers to ban pyrotechnics after concluding that they caused 3-month-old Roxie’s stress-induced vomiting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/15/edinburgh-red-panda-fireworks-death/

Ukrainian troops train for trench warfare near France’s WWI battlefields

Fox News Soldiers scramble through trenches under a haze of yellow smoke, machine gunfire booms across the fields, invisible drones buzz overhead and voices scream in Ukrainian “Watch out!” The scene could be 1,860 miles away in Ukraine’s Donbas region, but instead some 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and veterans are training in the muddy fields of…

Fire kills at least 10 people in Spanish retirement home

Fox News At least 10 people were killed after a fire broke out in a retirement home in the northern Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro early Friday, authorities said. The blaze started in one of the rooms, Fernando Beltran, the national government’s top official in Aragon region, told reporters. SPAIN SEARCHES FOR BODIES AFTER…

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has never been more brazen — or in demand

Washington Post Donald Trump says the North Korean leader ‘misses him.’ But Kim Jong Un has a new ally now in Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and that’s emboldening him like never before. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/15/north-korea-jong-un-confident/

Iran told Biden administration it won’t try to assassinate President-elect Trump: report

Fox News In an unusual assurance to the Biden administration last month, Iran promised it would not assassinate Donald Trump in a secret exchange intended to ease tensions, U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal, according to a Friday report. The assurances reportedly came in a written message to the administration on Oct. 14, after…

Protesters storm Putin-backed parliament in Georgia breakaway region

Fox News Protesters on Friday stormed the parliament of the Russian-backed government in the breakaway region of Abkhazia in Georgia and have demanded the resignation of the pro-Kremlin leader President Aslan Bzhania. A truck was used to smash through metal gates surrounding the government building in the capital city of Sukhumi, and images of the riot…

Scientists in Argentina unearth oldest tadpole fossil ever discovered

Fox News A tadpole fossil found in Argentina, dating back at least 161 million years, is the oldest that has ever been discovered. The fossil was found back in January 2020, with news of the discovery published on Oct. 30, 2024, in Nature. The team was not necessarily in search of what they found and…