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A mayor in Mexico has married a feminine alligator-like animal in a standard ceremony which is believed to convey success to his folks.Victor Hugo Sosa wed the caiman reptile referred to as Alicia Adriana as he re-enacted an ancestral ritual. Local lore, or custom, calls the creature the "princess girl" and the mayor mentioned the pair "loved each other".Onlookers clapped and danced in San Pedro Huamelula, a city of indigenous Chontal folks in Oaxaca state, southern Mexico, as they entered into holy matrimony. Twitter This content material is offered by Twitter, which can be utilizing cookies and different applied sciences. To present you this content material, we want your permission to make use of cooki...

Campaigning for Cambodia’s basic election formally started Saturday, an train that's extra an affirmation of a nominally democratic course of than a prelude to a real contest. ...

A Tajikistan nationwide who fatally shot two safety officers at Moldova’s essential worldwide airport is needed in his native nation in relation to the kidnapping of a neighborhood financial institution official, Tajik authorities mentioned. ...

Australia has develop into the primary nation to permit psychiatrists to prescribe psychedelics to sufferers with melancholy or post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD).From Saturday, Australian physicians can prescribe doses of MDMA, also called ecstasy, for PTSD. Psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in so referred to as "magic" mushrooms, may also be given to individuals who have hard-to-treat melancholy.Authorities within the nation have positioned the 2 medicine on the record of authorized medicines by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.Some scientists in Australia have been shocked by the transfer, which was introduced in February however took impact on 1July. One stated it places Australia "at the forefront of research in this field".Chris Langmead, deputy director...

Myanmar’s Supreme Court scheduled hearings for this month to think about appeals from ousted chief Aung San Suu Kyi towards her conviction in circumstances that noticed her obtain a complete of 33 years in jail, authorized officers stated Saturday. ...

Satellite photographs analyzed by the Associated Press on Saturday confirmed what gave the impression to be a newly constructed military-style camp in Belarus, with statements from a Belarusian guerrilla group and officers suggesting it might be used to deal with fighters from the Wagner mercenary group. ...

King Willem-Alexander has apologised and requested for forgiveness over the Netherlands' historic involvement in slavery, describing it as "a crime against humanity".The monarch was talking at an occasion to commemorate the one hundred and sixtieth anniversary of the abolition of slavery within the nation, together with its former colonies within the Caribbean. It is a part of a wider reckoning with colonial histories within the West which were spurred in recent times by the Black Lives Matter motion. Addressing 1000's of onlookers on the nationwide slavery monument in Amsterdam's Oosterpark, Willem-Alexander stated: "On this day that we remember the Dutch history of slavery, I ask forgiveness for this crime against humanity."He admitted that racis...

LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) —One of the final leaders of Mexico’s anti-gang residents’ motion was buried Saturday alongside two of his devoted followers, and any hope of reviving armed civilian resistance to drug cartels most likely died with them. ...

A teenage driver has died in a crash at a race in Belgium.Dilano van't Hoff, who was from the Netherlands, was competing on the Formula Regional European Championship. Organisers stated the 18-year-old MP Motorsport driver was competing in a morning race on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit.The race organisers stated they had been "devastated" by the information."Everyone associated with the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa is devastated by the news that Formula Regional EU by Alpine driver Dilano van 't Hoff lost his life in an accident during this morning's race," they stated. "We express our deepest condolences to his family, friends and MP Motorsport."A minute's silence was held earlier than the beginning of the principle 24 Hours of Spa race on Saturday. Motorsport's governin...

Hold the “Chariots” — a French firefighter has damaged the world information for working distance and for time to make 100 meters with out oxygen whereas carrying a protecting go well with alight with hearth, Guinness World Records introduced Thursday. ...