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Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is known for its unusual history of changing statuses from an Orthodox cathedral to a mosque, then a museum and then a mosque again.

What’s the cord doing?

Break? Gas?

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Life in freezing Yakutsk … cold as ice

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🇧🇷 Statue of Liberty falls due to winds in Guaíba, Brazil

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🇨🇿 That clock in Brno is amazing

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🐮 Barn cleaning robots make healthier and happier animals.

It’s impossible to clean everything all the time for humans … but such a robot can drive around 24/7 and remove all the waste and poop.

So the animals live in fully clean environment

Great stuff.

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"He had a girlfriend for two minutes":

In China, a visually impaired girl didn't realize she was sitting with a stranger – she got the wrong table and ate with a stranger.

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🔥WOW! It was just announced that the U.S. government has lost 271,000 THOUSAND workers since President Trump took office in January.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:

"We had the longest government shutdown in history... we're still going to finish the year probably 3.5% GDP growth, which is incredible — WITH a shrinking budget deficit. We have very good momentum coming into next year."

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Boris, 69, and Sofia, 61, Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants who died as one of the first victims

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💍Trump announced the engagement of his eldest son to model Bettina Anderson.

The US president made the announcement at a Christmas reception at the White House and invited the couple to the microphone.

According to Page Six, Donald Trump Jr. and Anderson began a relationship in 2024.


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🇱🇷The Clintons were summoned to Congress for questioning on the Epstein case, but they did not appear — CNN

Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary were summoned to Congress for questioning about the Epstein case. However, they did not show up. In this regard, the House of Representatives has set a new date for questioning Bill and Hillary Clinton — January 13 and 14. This is reported by CNN.
The first subpoenas were sent to the spouses back in August. Since then, the Clintons' lawyers have been in correspondence with the committee's clerks. The lawyers' final argument is that the committee is showing a "dishonest and unequal" attitude towards the Clintons, since some witnesses were allowed to provide written testimony, while the Clintons are required to attend in person.

"Your clients are in a different position, and therefore your argument about unfair treatment of them, which you keep repeating, is baseless. For example, unlike these other people, President Clinton and Secretary of State Clinton had personal relationships with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell," James Comer, head of the oversight committee of the lower house of Congress, told the lawyers.

He said that if the Clintons did not appear for questioning, a procedure would be initiated to accuse them of contempt of Congress.

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🇷🇺Kremlin: There will be no "Christmas truces" — peace is needed

Russia needs peace, not a truce, which Kiev uses to further the war. This was announced today, December 16, by Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.

This is how he commented on the idea of a "Christmas truce", which was previously expressed by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and then supported in Kiev.

"We want peace, we don't want a truce to give Ukraine a break and prepare for the continuation of the war. We want to stop this war, achieve our goals, secure our interests, and guarantee peace in Europe for the future. That's what we want," Peskov said.

He also said that Russia would not pay attention to the statement by the leaders of the EU countries following the talks in Berlin, which proposed sending multinational forces to the country and maintaining the number of Armed Forces at least 800,000 people.

"We have seen newspaper publications so far, we will not respond to newspaper publications. We haven't seen any texts yet. When we see it, then we will analyze it," Peskov said. — We want to stop this war, achieve our goals, secure our interests and guarantee peace in Europe for the future. That's what we want."

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Elon Musk: The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is the empathy exploit

“There's a guy who posts on the internet who's great, Gad Saad, and he talks about basically suicidal empathy. There's so much empathy that you actually suicide yourself. So we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on.

I believe in empathy. I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy for civilization as a whole and not commit to a civilizational suicide.

The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.

I think empathy is good, but you need to think it through and not just be programmed like a robot. Its weaponized empathy is the issue.”

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American food is poisoned.

“This is McDonald's French fries from the United States. It has 11 ingredients, but in the UK there's only 4

Gatorade here in the United States uses red 40 and caramel color. In Germany, they use carrots and sweet potatoes to color or their Gatorade

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‼️🇷🇺 Attacker's name is Timofey K. — a student in Class 9B of the same Uspenskaya School

Shortly before the attack, he posed wearing what appears to be an airsoft vest and holding a piece of paper that read: “Happy birthday, Brenton — White Power

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❗️🇷🇺Student stabs classmates in one of Moscow's schools

A 15-year-old, reportedly inspired by Brenton Tarrant attacked classmates with what appears to have been a pair of scissors, killing one and injuring three

The victim was a fourth-grade student who didn't even realize what was happening

He then barricaded himself inside one of the classrooms and took a girl hostage — Russian special forces stormed the building and detained the suspect

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