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Perth Zoo’s loved-up lemurs are proof that chivalry is alive and well.Ring-tailed lemurs, Tiana, 8, and Gimaro, 22, enjoyed an un-fur-gettable romantic Valentine’s Day breakfast on Thursday, feasting on a banquet of capsicum, raspberries, honey and hibiscus leaves.Primate keeper Chris Cornock-Ross said the couple had been together for about seven years, and said lemurs — like many primates — were a matriarchal species, meaning Tiana called the shots.“Everyone knows King Julian from Madagascar (the movie), but it’s actually the opposite in nature — there’s no king in a ring-tail lemur group, it’s actually a queen and the females are in…

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SEOUL: A South Korean court sentenced former interior minister Lee Sang-min to seven years in prison on Thursday (Feb 12) for his role in the 2024 martial law crisis.Yoon abruptly declared military rule in December 2024, deploying armed troops to the National Assembly in Seoul and suspending civilian government.The Seoul Central District Court found Lee had instructed authorities to cut electricity to media outlets seen to be critical of Yoon.”Acts of insurrection undermine the core values of democracy and therefore warrant severe punishment,” a panel of judges said in a televised verdict.”By ordering the National Fire Agency to cooperate in…

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As pathways to freedom have narrowed in immigration courts across the United States, a record number of detainees are giving up their cases and voluntarily leaving the country.Last year, 28% of completed immigration removal cases among those in detention ended in voluntary departure, a higher share than in any year prior, a CBS News analysis of decades of court records found.That figure only appears to be climbing as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown widens and detention populations swell. The percentage of voluntary departures among those detained grew nearly every month of 2025, reaching 38% in December. The analysis does not…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chinese snowboarder Liu Jiayu took a serious fall during an Olympic qualifying run Wednesday. Competition at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics was briefly suspended while Liu remained largely motionless on her back in the snow at the bottom of the halfpipe. The toe edge of Liu’s snowboard appeared to get caught in the snow, sending her slamming, face-first, into the bottom of the halfpipe.An emergency sled was used to remove the 33-year-old from the area for further evaluation. Liu was able to avoid major injuries to her spine, The Associated Press reported, citing…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! TUCSON, Ariz. — Friday night’s dramatic search of a home in Rio Rico, Arizona, just north of the border with Mexico, marked the first known in the investigation for the missing Nancy Guthrie outside a property belonging to a family member.The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI conducted a court-authorized search of a home in the desert community of about 20,000 people where an individual, Carlos Palazuelos, was staying. Palazuelos had been pulled and briefly detained for questioning.Several hours later, early on Wednesday morning, investigators left the scene.Until Tuesday night, the…

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“BRAVE TEACHER”Sasiphat was shot in the chest and died in hospital from blood loss, the Songkhla department said, calling her a “brave teacher”.The school shared its “deepest condolences” in a Facebook post.”Although we have lost her, the memories and kindness she left behind will forever remain in our hearts,” the post said.A teenage girl was also hospitalised with gunshot wounds and underwent surgery, the Ministry of Public Health said.A second student was hurt after jumping from the second floor of the school building but had been discharged from hospital, the provincial department said.Classes would be cancelled for two days while…

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A group of flight attendants walked into a Starbucks in Seoul on Monday and set down their bags, taking over nearly all the seating in the coffee shop. They ordered their drinks, picked them up and then left — without taking their belongings.They returned hours later and retrieved their bags, which had remained untouched.It was the fourth or fifth time this chain of events had occurred at the store in recent days, a Starbucks employee said. Eventually some other customers looking for a spot to sit walked out because there was no room.The commotion, minor as it was, made it…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced she was ending the work of a task force that sought to reform the U.S. intelligence community, including rooting out what she described as the politicization of intelligence gathering, after less than a year since its creation.Gabbard established the group in April, when it was also tasked with probing ways to reduce spending on intelligence and whether reports on high-profile topics such as COVID-19 should be declassified.In a statement on Wednesday, Gabbard said the task force’s work was always intended to be temporary after she…

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