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That Time Xi Jinping Joked About Espionage

Xi Jinping gave two cellphones to South Korea’s president, who asked how secure they were. “You can check if there’s a backdoor,” he said with a laugh.

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Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, giving two cellphones to President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday.
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Cross-dressing porch pirate caught swiping packages had police baffled: ‘Particular look’

A cross-dressing porch pirate is behind bars after getting caught stealing packages from Alabama homes. Todd Anthony Bond, 46, was arrested early Friday morning after security footage led Mobile County Sheriff’s deputies straight to him — but at first it seemed they might be searching for a woman. “A couple of things that kind of...

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Mississippi woman fatally shoots monkey escaped from overturned truck

Jessica Bond Ferguson said her 16-year-old told her about animal in the yard and she shot it to ‘protect her children’

One of the monkeys that escaped after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway on 28 October was shot and killed early Sunday by a homeowner who said she feared for the safety of her children.

Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She got out of bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone, and stepped outside where she saw the monkey about 60 ft (18 meters) away.

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© Photograph: Scotty Ray Boyd/AP

© Photograph: Scotty Ray Boyd/AP

© Photograph: Scotty Ray Boyd/AP

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