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Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that US strikes ordered by President Donald Trump have destroyed four vessels allegedly carrying narcotics along known trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific. The attacks, which killed at least 57 people, have heightened regional tensions and ignited international debate over their legality. The campaign, which the US describes as part of its war against "narco-terrorism," marks a significant escalation as operations now extend from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean.

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In a groundbreaking medical story that captured global attention, 67-year-old Tim Andrews of New Hampshire has had his genetically modified pig kidney removed after 271 days, marking the longest period any human has lived with such an organ. The transplant, performed at Mass General Brigham in January, was part of a pioneering xenotransplantation experiment aimed at bridging the global gap in human organ donations. Surgeons decided to remove the kidney after signs of declining function, and Andrews will now resume dialysis while remaining on the waiting list for a human donor.

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Aiming to challenge what he perceives as ideological bias, Elon Musk's company xAI has launched Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia intended to compete with Wikipedia. The new site, currently in its initial version (0.1), had amassed over 885,000 articles by Monday evening. While significantly smaller than Wikipedia's extensive collection of over seven million English-language articles, Musk claims the existing Grokipedia is already "better than Wikipedia" and that a future version 1.0 will be "10X better.”

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