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![FILE - The central business district skyline is seen during the dusk in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, April 29, 2019. Indonesia’s Parliament has passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, that criminalizes extramarital sex and applies to citizens and visiting foreigners alike.]()
Indonesia's Parliament passes law criminalizing adulteryJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Parliament passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code Tuesday that criminalizes extramarital sex for citizens and visiting foreigners...By NINIEK KARMINI
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The roots of the thrilling point-and-click noir Norco stretch from Texas to Louisiana.
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The Lone Star State continues to reign supreme.
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This River Oaks mansion offers its future first homeowner ideal indoor-outdoor living.
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Here's a guide inspired by my dad (and his 50-plus years of stocking stuffing experience).
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![People work in the subway station being used as a bomb shelter during a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down more than 60 of about 70 missiles that Russia fired on in its latest barrage against Ukraine. It was the latest onslaught as part of Moscow’s new, stepped-up campaign that has largely targeted Ukrainian infrastructure and disrupted supplies of power, water and heat in the country as winter looms.]()
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![A woman walks through Tajrish bazaar in northern Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Confusion over the status of Iran’s religious police grew as state media cast doubt on reports the force had been shut down.]()
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![FILE - A Maasai man walks with his livestock in search of grassland for them to graze, at Ilangeruani village, near Lake Magadi, in Kenya, Nov. 9, 2022. The conference known as COP15, which begins Tuesday, Dec. 6, hopes to set goals for the world for the next decade to help conserve the planet's biodiversity and stem the loss of nature.]()
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![FILE - An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex, part of Chernomortransneft JSC, a subsidiary of Transneft PJSC, in Novorossiysk, Russia, on Oct. 11, 2022, one of the largest facilities for oil and petroleum products in southern Russia. Oil prices rose Monday Dec. 5, 2022 as the first strong measures to limit Russia's oil profits over the war in Ukraine took effect, bringing with them uncertainty about how much crude could be lost to the global economy through the new sanctions or Russian retaliation.]()
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![FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant at the Buckingham Palace in London, June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Queen Elizabeth II's death in September 2022 was arguably the most high-profile death this year. In her 70 years on the British throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had ever known.]()
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![Passengers disembark from a train at the train station in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Train service in Nigeria's capital city resumed on Monday, eight months after assailants attacked a train with explosives and gunfire, killing seven people and abducting dozens of passengers.]()
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![South African President Cyril Ramaphosa leaves an African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday Dec. 5, 2022. Ramaphosa might lose his job, and his reputation as a corruption fighter, as he faces possible impeachment over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars stashed inside a couch on his farm.]()
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![FILE - An Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of the Associated Press in New York on Aug. 29, 2010. Oxford Dictionaries said Monday Dec. 5, 2022, that “goblin mode” has been selected by online vote as its word of the year. It defines the term as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.”]()
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![People cross the Martyrs of the Nation boulevard, decorated with Albanian and EU flags as well as portraits of personalities who had a contribution to the advancement of the European Union, in Tirana, Albania, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. As the war in Ukraine has put the bloc's enlargement back at the top of the agenda, Albania hosts in Tirana leaders of the EU and the Western Balkans countries for a one-day summit aimed at reinvigorating the bloc's enlargement process.]()
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![FILE - In this image taken from footage provided by the RU-RTR Russian television on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, journalists and Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office employees walk near the bodies of dead seals on shore of the Caspian Sea, Dagestan. A top Russian environmental official said Monday that the thousands of dead seals that washed up on Russia's Caspian Sea coast likely died from oxygen deprivation. (RU-RTR Russian Television via AP, File)]()
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![Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during a Labour Party press conference to launch a report on constitutional change and political reform, at Nexus, University of Leeds, in Leeds, England, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Monday pledged to replace Parliament’s unelected upper house with an elected chamber if it wins government — one of a raft if policies intended to stake out Labour's ground for the next election. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)]()
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![Officers stand by a police van as they leave the grounds of the courthouse complex after the trial of David Hunter in the southwest coastal city of Paphos, Cyprus, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. A British man facing a premeditated murder charge over the death of his ill wife in Cyprus’ coastal resort town of Paphos is expected to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on Dec. 13, with the court to pass sentence at a later date, a state prosecutor said Monday.]()
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![FILE - A French artillery piece Caesar is displayed at the Eurosatory land and airland defense and security trade fair in Villepinte, north of Paris, Monday, June 13, 2022. Global arms sales increased by nearly 2% in the past year, the seventh consecutive year of increases, an international arms sales watchdog noted Monday, Dec. 5, 2022.]()
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![Residents wearing face masks line up for their routine COVID-19 tests along a wall displaying the words "Xi Jinping rule of law ideology learning ground" in Beijing, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. China is easing some of the world's most stringent anti-virus controls and authorities say new variants are weaker. But they have yet to say when they might end a "zero-COVID" strategy that confines millions of people to their homes and set off protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign.]()
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![Rescue workers search the waters of the Jukskei river in Johannesburg, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. At least nine people have died while eight others are still missing in South Africa after they were swept away by a flash flood along the Jukskei river in Johannesburg, rescue officials said Sunday.]()
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![Lawyers speak with defendants through the glass of a specially designed glass box during the start of the trial for the Brussels attacks, that took place on March 22, 2016, at the Justitia building in Brussels, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. More than six years later, ten defendants face charges including murder, attempted murder and membership, or participation in the acts of a terrorist group, over the morning rush hour attacks at Belgium's main airport and on the central commuter line on March, 22, 2016.]()
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![People watch as Mount Semeru spews volcanic materials from it crater in Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Improved weather conditions Monday allowed rescuers to resume evacuation efforts and a search for possible victims after the highest volcano on Indonesia's most densely populated island erupted, triggered by monsoon rains.]()
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![FILE - A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's military exercise during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired around 130 suspected artillery rounds Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, in waters near the rivals’ western and eastern sea borders in another display of belligerence.]()
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![Hospital staff take care of orphaned children at the children's regional hospital maternity ward in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian authorities have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories to raise them as their own. At least 1,000 children were seized from schools and orphanages in the Kherson region during Russia’s eight-month occupation of the area, their whereabouts still unknown.]()
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![FILE - Italian communications expert Francesca Chaouqui talks to journalists July 7, 2016, after a Vatican court convicted her and a Vatican monsignor for having conspired to pass documents to two Italian journalist. A Vatican trial into a money-losing investment has been jolted by revelations that a key prosecution witness was apparently manipulated into changing his story and cooperating with prosecutors.]()
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![A person holds a sign as demonstrators gather at Freedom Plaza in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, to protest in solidarity with the ongoing protests against the Chinese government's continued zero-COVID policies.]()
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![Technicians take samples at a community COVID testing center in Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 28, 2021. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, announced it was launching a high-level independent inquiry into its coronavirus response. (Brett Phibbs/New Zealand Herald via AP)]()
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![A man wearing a face mask holds his testing tube as masked residents line up for their routine COVID-19 throat swabs at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. China on Sunday reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions amid increasingly vocal public frustration over the measures.]()
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![A man looks on as Mount Semeru releases volcanic materials during an eruption on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022 in Lumajang, East java, Indonesia. Indonesia’s highest volcano on the country’s most densely populated island of Java erupted Sunday.]()
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![A house burns after a Russian attack in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022.]()
