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T. rex skeleton sells for over $5M at Swiss auction

Fox News Nearly 300 Tyrannosaurus rex bones that were dug up from three sites in the United States and assembled into a single skeleton sold Tuesday at an auction in Switzerland for 4.8 million francs ($5.3 million), below the expected price. Crafted into an open-mouth pose, the T. rex skeleton measuring 38 feet long and…

South Sudan reports 5 deaths in hepatitis E outbreak

Washington Post South Sudan has reported five deaths and 91 suspected cases from an outbreak of hepatitis E in the northwest of the country https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/south-sudan-hepatitis-outbreak-deaths/d9d40b80-de25-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Trapped by fighting, Sudanese look for ways to survive

Washington Post The lives of of millions of Sudanese have been brutally disrupted since violence suddenly erupted over the weekend between forces loyal to the country’s top two generals https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/sudan-fighting-trapped-khartoum/02915408-de24-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Press freedom groups: Spyware again used against Mexican human rights activists

Fox News Press freedom groups said Tuesday the Mexican government apparently continued to use Pegasus spyware to infect telephones of human rights activists as recently as late 2022, despite a pledge by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to stop such spying. The activists targeted by the spyware work for the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez human…

Alabama officials keep quiet on progress in birthday melee

Washington Post Authorities with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency on Tuesday had yet to announce any arrests in the weekend shooting in Dadeville that killed four and left 32 injured https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/alabama-dadeville-shooting-birthday-investigation/3fefdebc-de1c-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

China offers to facilitate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

Fox News China’s foreign minister told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts that his country is ready to help facilitate peace talks between the two sides, in its latest effort at mediation in the region. In separate phone calls to the two officials on Monday, Qin Gang expressed China’s concern over intensifying tensions between Israel and…

French publishing manager held in UK for obstructing police

Washington Post A Paris publisher says one of its managers has been arrested in London after being questioned by police about participating in France’s protests against pension reform https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/publisher-arrested-french-terrorism-protests-macron-pension/cc5feb6e-de1f-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Tunisia detains opposition leader as crackdown escalates

Washington Post The detention of Rachid Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda party, is the latest and most dramatic in a wave of arrests of Tunisian President Kais Saied’s critics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/rachid-ghannouchi-arrest-tunisia-kais-saied/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Mexican president accused of wiretapping activists, violating pledge

Residents, aid workers surprised by closure of Iraqi camp

Washington Post Iraq’s ministry of migration and displacement has announced it shut down a camp housing internally displaced Iraqis with alleged ties to the Islamic State group https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/iraq-jadah-5-closed-islamic-state/9920aabc-de1b-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world