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Vietnam Pledges Human Rights Reform by Year 2099 (www.newsweek.com)

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Robbers' getaway car stolen as they're robbing Colorado check chasing store, police say (www.usatoday.com)

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Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country (www.theguardian.com)

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Man shocked to discover source of headaches for 5 months is pair of chopsticks inside his skull (www.foxnews.com)

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FDA warns chemical company not to mix brake cleaner into hand sanitizer (arstechnica.com)

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These magnificent purple and green lights aren’t auroras. This is Steve (www.cnn.com)

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Baseball great Ichiro Suzuki throws shutout against a high school girls’ team in Japan | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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Biden admin plan to release 7 grizzly bears annually near rural communities faces widespread backlash (nypost.com)

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Fights erupt outside Museum of Tolerance after screening of film on Hamas (abc7.com)

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Australian farmer Colin Deveraux survives crocodile attack by biting back (www.bbc.com)

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Tourist accidentally sparks bomb scare with wrong translation for ‘pomegranate’ (nypost.com)

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The words for pomegranate and grenade are the same in the Russian language, however, in Portuguese they are two separate words (with romã meaning pomegranate and granada translating to grenade) - a distinction that may have been lost during the language app’s translation.