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Man Shot in ICE Confrontation in Maryland, Officials Say

Federal and local officials said the man, an immigrant from Portugal, tried to flee and harm agents. He and another man were hospitalized after a vehicle they were in crashed.

© Kaitlin Newman/The Baltimore Banner, via Associated Press

A shooting in Glen Burnie, Md., involving a U.S. Immigration and Customs officer left two people hospitalized. They were in stable condition, according to ICE.
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After a Plane Crashed in the Texas Fog, 2 Stories of Rescue

A plane from Mexico was on a medical mission on Monday when it crashed into Galveston Bay, and two men on the water that day helped save two lives.

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Multiple people responding to a plane crash near Galveston, Texas, on Monday.
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No pain, no game: how South Korea turned itself into a gaming powerhouse

Gaming was once compared to drugs, gambling and alcohol in South Korea. Now its gaming academies offer a chance to earn a six-figure salary – if you make the grade

Son Si-woo remembers the moment his mother turned off his computer. He was midway through an interview to become a professional gamer.

“She said when I played computer games, my personality got worse, that I was addicted to games,” the 27-year-old recalls.

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© Photograph: Office of the President of South Korea

© Photograph: Office of the President of South Korea

© Photograph: Office of the President of South Korea

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Trump-backed candidate Asfura declared new president of Honduras

Winning margin of 28,000 votes announced a month late but before review of all ‘inconsistent’ ballots was completed

Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura has been declared the winner of Honduras’s presidential election after a vote count that dragged on for almost a month and was marred by fraud allegations and criticism of interference by the US president.

The rightwing Asfura, 67, a construction magnate and former mayor of the capital, Tegucigalpa, secured 40.27% of the vote, against 39.53% for the centre-right Salvador Nasralla, a margin of just 28,000 votes.

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© Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images

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