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Jordan arrests three over Karak church attack, state TV says

Jordanian security forces arrested three suspects over a shooting attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak governorate, state television reported, according to Reuters via Al-Monitor and other outlets. The attack, during a funeral in the village of Hamoud on Friday, killed nine people, according to The Jerusalem Post and The Globe and Mail. The New York Times World and DW News said the arrests followed a dawn shootout in which the suspects were wounded. The BBC reported that no group had yet claimed responsibility. Al Jazeera English said authorities had not named the individuals or any group involved. Summary from 11 sources

Sources differ: Sources differ on the number of people wounded, with MyJoyOnline reporting 34 injured and The Globe and Mail reporting 40 wounded.

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‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Casts Sorting Hat, Nearly Headless Nick, and More Hogwarts Ghosts and Portraits

HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” series is casting Revelio on some more Season 1 roles. David Threlfall (“Shameless,” “Nightsleeper”) has been cast as the voice of the Sorting Hat, while Leo Bill (“The Living and the Dead,” “Alice in Wonderland”) will play Gryffindor House ghost Nearly Headless Nick. A Excerpt, Variety

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‘It really was the idiots in charge’: inside the TV sketch show that launched a generation of stars

It influenced The Simpsons and sparked the careers of Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy and many others. Now this extraordinary Canadian series is finally getting its due SCTV – short for Second City Television – is one of most influential comedy shows ever created. In the 1970s and 80s, whi Excerpt, The Guardian Culture

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