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Photos of New Zealand’s parliamentary speaker cradling a colleague’s baby as he presided over a debate has gone viral on social media.   Trevor Mallard, speaker in the country’s House of Representatives, shared photos of him feeding MP Tamati Coffey’s newborn son while in the speaker’s chair. He captioned it: “Normally the Speaker’s chair is only …

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Zimbabwe’s former vice president on Monday fled from anti-corruption questioning after he was summoned over alleged criminal abuse of office, officials said. Phelekezela Mphoko, 79, who served under long-time ruler Robert Mugabe, was due at the police in Bulawayo, the country’s second city, to record a statement on the allegations. But he drove off as …

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Barely a month after a 32-year-old American woman in Saudi Arabia lost a custody battle for her 4-year-old daughter on grounds of being too Western to raise the child well, she has in turn left her parents worried after deciding to stay back in the country.   Bethany Vierra who moved to the Middle Eastern country in 2011 to …

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The odd oil painting — which shows Clinton outfitted in a blue dress similar to the one infamously worn by Monica Lewinsky and suggestively curled up on an Oval Office chair while looking and pointing at the piece’s viewer — is just the latest bizarre twist to emerge from the Epstein scandal in the wake of the …

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Thursday of the risks of an “unchecked population explosion” in the nation of 1.3 billion people, the first time he has raised the issue, and called for family planning measures. India is the world’s second-most populous country behind China with 1.4 billion, and its population is set to surpass …

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A gunman armed with multiple weapons opened fire in a mosque near the Norwegian capital Oslo on Saturday (Aug 10), injuring one person before being overpowered by an elderly worshipper, police and witnesses said. The head of the mosque described the assailant, who was later arrested by police, as white and said he was wearing …

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An animal-rights activist is urging people not to kill mosquitoes, but instead to let the insects bite them. Aymeric Caron, who is also a French TV presenter, says the insects suck human blood to obtain protein for their eggs and should not be swatted in the prcoess. He said that killing mosquitoes is “embarrassing for …

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