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Idaho high school student goes viral with defiant act at her graduation after district banned books

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 31, 2024
Annabelle Jenkins gave West Ada Superintendent Derek Bub a graphic novel adaptation of 'The Handmaid's Tale' during the Idaho Fine Arts Academy commencement on May 23. The book is one of 10 books the West Ada School District removed from shelves in December. Jenkins posted a TikTok , that has since garnered millions of views, showing the moment she defiantly handed Bub the book. 'I just realized that I did not want to walk across that stage and get my diploma and shake the superintendent's hand. I just did not want to do that,' Jenkins said.

Man who was kidnapped aged 19 and discovered 26 YEARS later had only been a few minutes' walk from his family's home the whole time but never cried out for help because he was convinced his captor had 'cast a magic spell on him'

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 16, 2024
Omar Bin Omran vanished during the decade-long Algerian civil war of 1998, leading his family to assume that he was killed in the conflict. However, he was found amid haystacks on May 12 (pictured left) - now aged 45 - only about 200 yards away from his family's home in the city of Djelfa after the captor's brother aired grievances on social media, reportedly due to an inheritance dispute. The alleged culprit, a 61-year-old doorman at the municipality in the nearby town of El Guedid, was taken into custody after attempting to flee, the ministry said. Pictured right: Omran is seen as a younger man before he was kidnapped.

Man who vanished aged 17 is discovered ALIVE in his neighbour's cellar where he has been held captive for 27 YEARS

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 15, 2024
Named as Omar Bin Omran (right, as a teenager), he is said to have disappeared in the city of Djelfa in Algeria 27 years ago. His family assumed he had been killed during the civil war between the North African nation's government and Islamist rebel groups that raged for 10 years in the 1990s and early 2000s. The truth literally hit close to home: the missing man is alleged to have been taken prisoner by a 61-year-old neighbour who is now in police custody after Omar, now 45, was found in his basement earlier this week (left).