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Russian couple arrested after climbing Empire State Building

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Two Russian climbers scaled New York’s Empire State Building on Wednesday as part of a death-defying marriage proposal. Ivan Beerkus and Angela Nikolau, stars of Netflix’s “Skywalkers” documentary, were arrested after dangling from the iconic 1,500-foot building’s spire.

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