Cardi B Documents Her Painful Dermal Piercings on Video: 'This B---- Hurt'

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Iraqis face tough homecoming a decade after IS rampage
A decade after Islamic State group extremists rampaged through northern Iraq, Moaz Fadhil and his eight children finally returned to their village after languishing for years in a displacement camp.Iraq -- marred by decades of war and turmoil even before the rise of IS -- is home to more than a million internally displaced people.
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Defiant Lebanese harvest olives in the shadow of war
On a mountain slope in south Lebanon, agricultural worker Assaad al-Taqi is busy picking olives, undeterred by the roar of Israeli warplanes overhead.Elsewhere in south Lebanon, olive trees are bulging with fruit that nobody will pick, after villagers fled Israeli bombardment and the subsequent ground operation that began on September 30.
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Russian delegations visit Pyongyang as Ukraine war deepens ties
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia's natural resources minister in Pyongyang, state media said Tuesday, as visiting delegations from Moscow highlighted deepening ties amid the Ukraine war.Kim met Monday with Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov, who is leading a delegation focused on "cooperation in trade, economy, science and technology," the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
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S.Africa offers a lesson on how not to shut down a coal plant
The cold corridors of South Africa's once-mighty Komati coal-fired power plant have been quiet since its shutdown in 2022 in what was trumpeted as a pioneering project in the world's transition to green energy.- Mistakes and lessons - The missteps at Komati are lessons for other coal-fired power plants marked for shutdown, Pillay said.
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45 prominent activists will be sentenced in Hong Kong's biggest national security case
Dozens of prominent activists will be sentenced Tuesday in Hong Kong's biggest national security case, facing up to life in prison under a sweeping law imposed by Beijing that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. The defendants were among 47 democracy advocates who were prosecuted in 2021 for their roles in an unofficial primary election under the 2020 national security law. Two of the defendants were acquitted.
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Spanish resort to ban new holiday flats in 43 neighbourhoods
Malaga moved Monday to ban new short-term apartment rentals to tourists in 43 neighbourhoods of the southern Spanish city, the latest move in the country to limit holiday flats.Short-term holiday rentals account for 65 percent of total tourist accommodation in Malaga's centre, according to a study conducted by local authorities.
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Prosecutors say cellphone data and bloody jacket link Jose Ibarra to Laken Riley on day of murder
A former roommate of the man charged with murder in the death of Laken Riley — the Georgia nursing student whose killing set off a political firestorm over immigration — testified Monday that he is the man seen in a video throwing away a jacket that prosecutors say had Riley’s blood on it.
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Ex-Army officer who beat officers with a baton on Jan. 6 sentenced to prison
Edward Richmond, Jr., an ex-Army soldier who was court-martialed for shooting an Iraqi civilian, was sentenced to prison for assaulting police on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Japan, UK to hold regular economic security talks
Japan and Britain have agreed to hold regular high-level talks on economic security, Tokyo said Tuesday after the two countries' leaders met on the sidelines of the G20 summit.Ishiba and Starmer agreed to launch the so-called "economic 2+2" talks between their foreign and economic ministers "to further advance bilateral cooperation, in the field of economy including trade and economic security."
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Church and state clash over entry fee for Paris's Notre Dame
France's powerful culture minister on Monday locked horns with the country's Roman Catholic establishment on whether tourists should pay to enter Notre Dame cathedral when it reopens next month.Notre Dame will reopen next month following five years of work involving hundreds of artisans costing nearly 700 million euros.
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Divided G20 fails to agree on climate, Ukraine
G20 leaders failed on Monday to break a deadlock in UN climate talks at a summit in Rio that was dominated by divergences over the war in Ukraine and Donald Trump's impending return to the White House."This is probably going to make it harder to achieve an agreement," he told AFP. The risk of an escalation in the war in Ukraine and the prospect of a return of US President-elect Trump's isolationist "America First" policies also dominated the talks in Brazil.
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Company tied to Alex Jones disputes The Onion's purchase of Infowars
A company tied to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed Monday to dispute the sale of the Infowars website to the parody site The Onion.
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Hundreds queue for sentencing of 47 Hong Kong democrats
Hundreds queued on Tuesday outside a Hong Kong court ahead of the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in a landmark national security trial that has damaged the city's once feisty pro-democracy movement and drawn international criticism. A total of 47 pro-democracy activists were arrested and charged in 2021 with conspiracy to commit subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law. Police formed a tight security cordon for several blocks around the West Kowloon Magistrates Court, as several hundred supporters queued while holding up umbrellas in a light rain to try to secure a seat within the main courtroom and several spillover courts.
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Hong Kong to sentence dozens of democracy campaigners
Hong Kong's largest national security trial will draw to a close on Tuesday, with dozens of the city's most prominent democracy campaigners set to be sentenced for subversion, a charge that can carry up to life imprisonment.Another major national security trial will see a key development on Wednesday, when jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai testifies in his collusion trial.
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Why some Ohio school districts are arming teachers and staff with firearms
Over the last year, the number of school districts in Ohio that allow staff to be armed quadrupled, with 14% of the state's districts now participating.
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What awaits the GOP's narrow House majority: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.
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US to call for Google to sell Chrome browser: report
The US will urge a judge to make Google-parent company Alphabet sell its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the internet giant, according to a media report Monday.Antitrust officials with the US Department of Justice declined to comment on a Bloomberg report that they will ask for a sell-off of Chrome and a shake-up of other aspects of Google's business in court Wednesday.
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Coca-Cola causes controversy with AI-generated ad
Coca-Cola is facing backlash online over an artificial intelligence-made Christmas promotional video that users are calling “soulless” and “devoid of any actual creativity.”
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What does Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy mean for you?
Spirit's bankruptcy filing will affect airfares across the board, whether you fly Spirit or not, experts say.
AFP
Macron hails 'good' US decision on Ukraine missiles
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday hailed the United States' decision allowing Ukraine to fire US-supplied long-range missiles into Russia as it fights Moscow's invasion.The shift puts the focus on other allies supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles -- notably the British-French Storm Shadow missile.

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