World News: 23 July 2022

Russian missiles hit Ukraine port, putting landmark grain deal at risk
Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa just hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday’s airstrikes as “spit in the face” of Turkey and the United Nations, which brokered the agreements.

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Twitter blames Musk, weak ad market for drop in revenue
The legal battle started after Twitter sued Musk for breaching the $44 billion contract he had signed to buy the tech firm. Twitter has asked a Delaware court to order Musk to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share.

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Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient
Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated company policies and that it found his claims on LaMDA to be "wholly unfounded."

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Abortion pill maker says Mississippi law is unlawful 'de facto ban' on drug
In a motion filed on Thursday in federal court in Jackson seeking permission to file a new complaint in the case, GenBioPro Inc said the trigger law amounted to a "de facto ban" on the drug mifepristone even in cases of rape reported to the police or life-threatening conditions, where Mississippi law allows exceptions.

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Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered
After wintering in the mountains of central Mexico, the butterflies migrate to the north, breeding multiple generations along the way for thousands of miles. The offspring that reach southern Canada then begin the trip back to Mexico at the end of summer.

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Has Florida Man finally met his match? Meet Florida Sheriff
When a naked man in southwestern Florida recently raised a ruckus outside his house and threatened a deputy with a kitchen knife, the SWAT team swooped in and apprehended him. Soon afterward, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stood on the man's driveway in combat gear for a news conference while the suspect went to the jailhouse that the sheriff likes to call the “Marceno Motel.”

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