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Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside, police said. A police report said Solo was arrested on Thursday in a shopping center parking lot in Winston-Salem and charged with driving while impaired, resisting a public officer and misdemeanor child abuse. She has been released from jail and has a court date of June 28, the report indicated.

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The 29-year-old pop star officially dropped her first-ever live album on Friday, featuring Cyrus performing a variety of tunes that fans helped select. The record, titled Attention: Miley Live, includes new songs "Attention" and "You" as well as old songs like "We Can't Stop" and "Where Is My Mind" plus "Wrecking Ball" and "Nothing Compares."

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containing magnetic particles, which can be manipulated using external magnets. The magnetic particles are toxic, but have theoretically been made safe to enter the human body after being covered in a layer of silicone compound - although further safety testing will be needed in the future. The team in Hong Kong hope the slime will one day be used to collect objects which have been accidentally swallowed.

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The army said on Friday the nine-day military operation beginning on 23 March took place in Sahel’s Moura area – which it termed a “terrorist fiefdom”. The announcement comes as numerous social media reports in Mali this week alleged that dozens of people, including civilians, had been killed in Moura. But the army’s statement said that soldiers killed 203 militants, arrested 51 people and seized large quantities of weapons.

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Israeli forces killed three Palestinian militants in a firefight in the occupied West Bank early Saturday, police said. Israeli media said four members of a police counter-terrorism unit of the Israeli police were wounded, one of them seriously. The troops came under fire as they attempted to arrest suspected militants in the northern West Bank. Tensions have soared in recent days after Palestinian assailants killed 11 Israelis in separate attacks across the country.

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Will Smith has resigned from Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony, saying that he “betrayed the trust of the Academy” and will accept “any further consequences”. In statement released on Friday afternoon, the actor described his actions at the 94th Academy Awards as “shocking, painful, and inexcusable”.

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A miniature unpublished manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old will go on sale at a New York City book fair later this month. The work titled "A Book of Ryhmes by Charlotte Brontë, Sold by Nobody, and Printed by Herself" is smaller than a playing card -- yet it holds a literary treasure of 10 poems by the "Jane Eyre" author. The manuscript, dated December 1829, has not been seen publicly since it was sold in New York in 1916, according to Henry Wessells, an associate at James Cummins Bookseller.

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Reggae singer Eddy Grant may succeed where the attorney general of New York state and other powerful figures have struggled – by forcing Donald Trump to answer questions under oath in a legal proceeding. Grant sued the former president and his campaign over the use of the song Electric Avenue in an ad in 2020.

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Pope Francis apologised Friday for abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada, telling Indigenous delegations at the Vatican it caused him "pain and shame". "I ask for God's forgiveness for the deplorable conduct of these members of the Catholic Church," he said, following meetings this week with survivors from the First Nations, Metis and Inuit aboriginal groups. The pontiff, 85, said he hoped to travel to Canada for the country's St Anne's Feast Day on July 26.

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Tunisian anti-terrorism police summoned the country's main opposition figure for questioning on Friday, as a political crisis deepens in the wake of President Kais Saied's move to dissolve parliament and impose one-man rule. Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Islamist Ennahda party and speaker of the dissolved parliament, was summoned to appear later on Friday, his office said, after investigations were opened into other members of the chamber who had defied Saied.

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Patrick Demarchelier, the fashion photographer who worked with high-profile figures including Diana, Princess of Wales, has died at the age of 78. His death was announced by his representatives on Instagram on Thursday. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Patrick Demarchelier on 31 March 2022, at the age of 78,” the post read. “He is survived by his wife Mia, his three sons Gustaf, Arthur, Victor and three grandchildren.”

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A Hawaii judge has granted a couple's request for a temporary restraining order against Ezra Miller. The couple filed a petition for a temporary restraining order Tuesday, alleging that Miller burst into their bedroom and threatened them in Hilo, a small town on the Big Island. The petition also accused Miller of stealing some of their belongings, including a passport and wallet. The judge's order, filed in court Wednesday, said it was necessary to grant the couple's petition to prevent harassment.

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Keanu Reeves, 57, was seen doing a little shopping when in Los Angeles on Thursday. The Matrix actor was spotted browsing rings at the jewelry store at Irene Neuwirth on Melrose Place in the West Hollywood area, taking his time to check out the various sparkling baubles which include diamonds, pearls and aquamarine. The star, who has never been married before, may be ready to propose to his girlfriend of over four years, artist Alexandra Grant, 48.

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Scientists on Thursday published the first complete human genome, filling in gaps remaining after previous efforts while offering new promise in the search for clues regarding disease-causing mutations and genetic variation among the world's 7.9 billion people.

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An accident in a mine in central Serbia killed at least eight people and wounded 20 Friday, state Serbian television RTS reported. The accident in the Soko coal mine happened around 5 a.m. The RTS report says part of the mine pit collapsed trapping the miners inside. The head of the medical center in nearby Aleksinac, Rodoljub Zivadinovic, said that 18 people have been hospitalized there, mostly with light injuries.

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Police in Sri Lanka have lifted an overnight curfew in the country’s capital after arresting dozens of people and quelling unrest that saw large crowds attempt to storm President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s private residence amid anger over a worsening economic crisis. At least 54 people were detained in Colombo’s Mirihana district in the early hours of Friday, the police said, branding the protesters as “organised extremists” trying to “create anarchy in the country”.

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Japan's Naomi Osaka advanced to the WTA Miami Open final by rallying to defeat Olympic champion Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday.

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The foreign ministers of Britain and Russia are visiting India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to maintain ties with both Moscow and Western nations. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss met with her Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, on Thursday and discussed ways to strengthen defense ties, apparently to reduce India’s strategic dependence on Russia, officials said. India, which is locked in a two-year border standoff with China, is largely dependent on Russia for military supplies.

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