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US President Donald Trump has banned "negative" signage at national parks and is asking visitors to snitch on unpatriotic text, reports Jack Dolan, of the Los Angeles Times.

Once there were only 22 condors left on Earth. Last week, the Los Angeles Zoo hatched 10 chicks, reports Summer Lin, of the Los Angeles Times.

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A 135m-long container ship, which almost hit a house, stands in Trondheim, Norway, on Friday.

Eighteen people were injured in a knife attack in Hamburg station on Saturday, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported, and local police confirmed they had arrested the suspected assailant.

An Israeli strike on Gaza killed nine of a doctor’s 10 children while she was at work on Saturday, the territory’s health ministry said.

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Gaza is shrinking Lilly Cheslaw, of The Observer, writes.

Severe storms in the United States have killed at least 27 people in Missouri and Kentucky, authorities said yesterday.

Taiwan on Saturday began to shut down its last active nuclear reactor, officially marking its departure from atomic power.

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Virtually unknown in the West, animated film Ne Zha 2 has taken over China and smashed global box office records, The Observer’s Amy Hawkins reports.

British author Phil Tinline, for The Observer, explains how anti-Vietnam War satire sparked today’s conspiracy theories.

Filipino Catholic devotees jostle to touch the carriage carrying the statue of the Black Nazarene during the annual procession on its feast day in Manila, Philippines.

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Police in Tokyo said they arrested a man on Saturday for throwing what appeared to be Molotov cocktails at the headquarters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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