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Ex-US embassy employee in Africa gets life sentence for raping two desperate girls after making promise to help their sick mom

A former US embassy employee was sentenced to life behind bars Thursday for repeatedly raping two desperate teen girls while he was working at the embassy in Burkina Faso, the feds announced. Fode Sitafa Mara, 41, an American citizen, was employed at the US Embassy in the impoverished West African country when he repeatedly sexually...

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Bird flu kills dozens of elephant seal pups at California state park

About 30 seals had died as of Thursday, nearly all of them weaned pups, amid the rise of avian influenza

An outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu has killed more than two dozen elephant seal pups in California, leading to the temporary closure of seal-viewing areas at a popular Bay Area park.

California’s Año Nuevo state park is home to an elephant seal colony with about 5,000 seals during the marine mammals’ breeding season, which runs from mid-December through March. Researchers said about 30 seals had died as of Thursday, nearly all of them weaned pups, amid the rise of avian influenza.

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© Photograph: Godofredo A Vásquez/AP

© Photograph: Godofredo A Vásquez/AP

© Photograph: Godofredo A Vásquez/AP

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Netflix given four days to match ‘superior’ Paramount offer for Warner Bros Discovery

WBD board says $31-per-share offer constitutes ‘company superior proposal’, triggering Netflix’s window to respond

Netflix has been given four days to beat a sweetened offer by Paramount Skydance for the assets of Warner Bros Discovery in the latest twist in the battle for control of the media giant.

In an announcement on Thursday afternoon, WBD said that its board had determined Paramount’s revised offer to be a “company superior proposal” compared with Netflix’s $82.7bn deal – triggering Netflix’s window to respond.

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© Photograph: Tim Whitby for NFTS/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Tim Whitby for NFTS/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Tim Whitby for NFTS/Shutterstock

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