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Mexico will sue Google if it continues to label the entire Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America", the country's president has warned. One of Donald Trump's first acts on his return to the White House was to sign an executive order purporting to rename the body of water.

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An alleged drug dealer was busted on Valentine's Day by Peru's most-loved rodent.

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A woman accused by a shopkeeper of squeezing a bag of buns has been charged with criminal damage in Japan. The 40-year-old woman insisted that she had "only checked the firmness" of the buns by "pressing lightly with my hand", the BBC reports.

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A judge has reversed the £32.5 million sale of a London mansion whose owner failed to disclose it was infested with moths. New owners and residents Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak said they began to encounter dozens of moths every day, including on their towels and toothbrushes and in t

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Mafia bosses have been recorded telling new recruits to watch The Godfather out of despair with their unfamiliarity with their code of honour. Police in Sicily revealed the content of private conversations between alleged members of Cosa Nostra after apprehending nearly 150 suspects in dawn raids on

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Nearly a quarter of a million Danes have backed a call for Denmark to purchase California from the US. The joke online petition is a response to Donald Trump's repeated — and rebuffed — demands to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

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Ed Sheeran was forced to end an impromptu performance on the streets of Bangalore after being shut down by police for illegal busking. A member of the public complained to police after the singer, one of the world's best-selling musicians, started performing in the southern Indian city over the week

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Cocaine is as harmless as whiskey and only illegal "because it is made in Latin America", the president of Colombia has said. Gustavo Petro, who presides over the world's largest producer of cocaine, claimed that scientists had analysed the drug and come to that conclusion, CBS News reports.

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A colony of beavers jumped the gun on a seven-year-long dispute by constructing a series of dams exactly where local authorities wanted to build them. Environmentalists had called for years for the construction of new dams in Czechia's Brdy mountains to reverse damage caused by the communist-era Cze

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Scotland's first minister has firmly ruled out a proposed ban on cats. The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission (SAWG) has suggested strict new measures on outdoor cats because of their "significant impact on wildlife populations", the BBC reports.

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Organisers of an illegal fight club have insisted their late-night public brawls are community events suitable for the whole family. Police in Dundee, Scotland broke up a planned fight in a park on Saturday night, where a large crowd had formed in advance of the organisers arriving by limousine.

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A school head teacher has been arrested after allegedly hosting a boozy house party for more than 100 under-age drinkers. Police in Cocoa Beach, Florida say they arrived at the home of Roosevelt Elementary School principal Elizabeth Hill-Brodigan to find "over 100 juveniles... many of whom were cons

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A man accused of drunkenly speeding at more than 130 mph allegedly told police he was desperate to get home to see his cat. Logan Mirmozaffari, 28, was arrested by police in Norwich, Connecticut early on Sunday morning, Daily Voice Norwich reports.

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China's first corgi police dog has become a social media hit — despite his frequent misbehaviour. The police force in Weifang, in China's eastern Shandong province, has just marked one year since Fu Zai joined the team as a reserve bomb-detector dog.

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