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News 18 29138ce7027b383d1f3eae71c3968c785ae2e1f2 6 https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-explosion-starship-explodes-prior-050026630.html 2025 SpaceX Starship 36 explodes when a "major anomaly" occurs during a static fire test. 2025-06-18 46c8b1dc35da155c811556787b658a029a1c3474 15 China 70 /wiki/china Cook Islands 36 /wiki/cook%20islands New Zealand 13 /wiki/new%20zealand government 1 /wiki/government%20of%20new%20zealand China Cook Islands New Zealand government Government /feed/2025/06/18/the-government-of-new-zealand-halts-its-financial-support-to-the-cook-islands-over-a-partnership-agreement-signed-with-c RNZ 18 1ed5f78dcd7e80522d1369fecaf07f3301fded7d 6 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/564578/new-zealand-halts-cook-islands-funding-in-stoush-over-china 2025 The government of New Zealand halts its financial support to the Cook Islands over a partnership agreement signed with China earlier this year. 2025-06-18 d6f1d149a34334a34c1ce909078d15e6b3c1108a 14 ANO party 36 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https://www.pagina12.com.ar/835303-perpetua-para-la-enfermera-del-neonatal 2025 A court in Córdoba, Argentina, sentences nurse Brenda Agüero to life in prison for the serial murders of five babies and the attempted murder of eight others between March and June 2022, whom she deliberately injected with potassium and insulin. 2025-06-18 5361d19a5ca75e936f6e925bbf0a51f7a957c389 9 Food and Drug Administration 2 /wiki/food%20and%20drug%20administration Gilead Sciences 14 /wiki/gilead%20sciences HIV 71 /wiki/hiv Management of HIV/AIDS 1 /wiki/management%20of%20hiv/aids clinical trial 116 /wiki/clinical%20trial lenacapavir 37 /wiki/lenacapavir Food and Drug Administration Gilead Sciences HIV Management of HIV/AIDS clinical trial lenacapavir Management of HIV/AIDS /feed/2025/06/18/the-us-food-and-drug-administration-approves-gilead-sciences-s-new-lenacapavir-drug-marketed-as-yeztugo-for-the-trea AP 18 9e64f51626204c95cd39f80b6bd7e54029feb3ae 6 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