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A new study — published in the Human-Animal Interactions journal — reveals that cows who are cuddled as therapy animals showed a strong preference for interactions with women when compared to men.

In turn, the research, which opens a new era on whether some therapies may be initially stronger based upon gender and not procedure, highlighted that the women also reported greater attachment behaviours towards the steers.

Dr Katherine Compitus, Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University, and Dr Sonya Bierbower, Associate Professor at United States Military Academy West Point, conducted the research using the Human-Animal Interaction Scale (HAIS) as a measurement tool.

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GREENBELT, Md. — Federal prosecutors will seize Marilyn Mosby’s condo on Florida’s gulf coast, Judge Lydia Griggsby ordered Thursday morning.

She was convicted on one count of mortgage fraud stemming from a false gift letter.

She will get down payment and 10% of appreciated value back.

Prosecutors argued Mosby should be required to give up the property following her mortgage fraud conviction in February 2024. Mosby bought the condo in February 2021 for $476,000 in Long Boat Key, Fl.

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400,000 birds are slaughtered as bird flu plague spreads  MSN

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A video captured a mass stabbing at the Taichung Mass Rapid Transit (TMRT) in Taiwan on Tuesday, Focus Taiwan reported.

A man reportedly attacked two passengers with a knife on a TMRT train, causing injuries and chaos. The incident prompted emergency responses at Taichung City Hall Station, according to police reports, Focus Taiwan stated. The suspect allegedly started randomly stabbing fellow passengers. The assault began when the attacker, whose motivations are currently unknown, allegedly pulled a knife from his bag and stabbed the man nearest to him.

 

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May 22 (UPI) — Serial killer Robert Picton remains in critical condition and is not expected to survive following an attack in prison. The Canadian murderer was speared in the head with a broken broom handle while serving his maximum security sentence at Port-Cartier prison.

The 74-year-old Picton was attacked Sunday and was between life and death Tuesday after surgery, according to two sources including one police source cited by Radio-Canada.

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Protest Erupts in Taiwan Over Plan to Curb Lai’s Power  Bloomberg

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TAIPEI, Taiwan — China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, Human Rights Watch said, in an extensive report that adds to state government and independent reports of efforts to assimilate rural Tibetans through control over their language and traditional Buddhist culture.

The international rights organization cited a trove of Chinese internal reports contradicting official pronouncements that all Tibetans who have been forced to move, with their past homes destroyed on departure, did so voluntary.

The relocations fit a pattern of often-violent demands that ethnic minorities adopt the state language of Mandarin and pledge their fealty to the ruling Communist Party in western and northern territories that include millions of people from Tibetan, Xinjiang Uyghur, Mongolian and other minority groups.

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President Emmanuel Macron flew to France’s Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Wednesday, where nine days of riots have killed six, injured hundreds and incinerated cars, shops and public buildings.

Macron’s plane was en route from France to the troubled islands, a holiday destination now strewn with hundreds of charred vehicles and scarred by burned-out stores, businesses and schools.

The deadliest unrest in four decades has been blamed on French plans to give voting rights to thousands of non-indigenous residents, which Indigenous Kanaks say will dilute their votes.

French authorities said the violence, which erupted May 13, had eased since 1,050 troops, tactical police and national security reinforcements from Paris were deployed, including to “highly sensitive” areas.

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Anatoly Maslov faces a 14-year ‘death sentence’ in Russian prison after he was accused of betraying state secrets to China. It follows a spate of prosecutions against fellow hypersonic scientists

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Myanmar Junta to Jail Draft Dodgers  The Irrawaddy

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Taiwanese lawmakers pushed, shouted, and unfurled banners at one another in a dispute about efforts to pass contentious parliamentary reforms.

The two main opposition parties, the pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), have joined hands to back reforms that give parliament greater scrutiny over the government.

Another controversial proposal is where lawmakers can punish officials for contempt of parliament if they are considered to making “false statements” or “withholding information.”

The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says such a law lacks a clear definition. Lawmakers wearing headbands reading “democracy has died” demanded more discussions on the proposals. Though they vented their anger at the opposition there was no repeat of Friday’s scenes of MPs kicking and punching one another

 

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday called for “decent nations” to defund the International Criminal Court (ICC) after a court prosecutor filed applications for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders for alleged “war crimes.”

Prosecutor Karim Khan said his office had collected evidence to give “reasonable grounds” to believe Netanyahu and Gallant “bear criminal responsibility for… war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine.”

Khan said those alleged crimes include “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare” and “intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population.”

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(Reuters) – Protesters and a thousand French police reinforcements were playing a “game of cat and mouse” in New Caledonia, ahead of the arrival of France’s President Emmanuel Macron after the worst riots in 40 years in the French territory, pro-independence groups said on Wednesday.

France’s High Commission said Macron would be accompanied by ministers for defence and interior for Thursday’s talks, and some 100 members of the GIGN or elite tactical response group were deployed in New Caledonia.

More than 1,000 security reinforcements from France were on the ground, some 90 barricades had been cleared from roads, and the night had been calmer despite two fires in Noumea, the high commission said on Wednesday. Some 20 arrests were made yesterday, with 280 rioters arrested in the past week.

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Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera.

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Multiple people died Tuesday and at least a dozen were injured when a powerful tornado tore through a small Iowa town, carving a bleak landscape of destroyed homes and businesses, shredded trees, smashed cars, and widely strewn debris.

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• 64% of Americans don’t trust the government to make fair decisions about what information is allowed to be posted on social media platforms.
• Today, FIRE presents a model bill to shine a light on the government’s arm-twisting of social media platforms.
• In a new report, FIRE outlines three principles to help social media platforms build trust and promote free expression.