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Washington, United States: A US soldier who pleaded guilty to trying to provide information to the Islamic State group to help it attack American troops in the Middle East was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday. Cole Bridges, 24, pleaded guilty in June of last year to attempting to provide material support to…
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Police officers guard outside One Police Plaza NYPD Headquarters. File | Photo Credit: AP Two men were arrested on manslaughter charges Friday (October 11, 2024) in the beating death of a homeless man who was accosted while sleeping in a supermarket parking lot in Brooklyn, police said. The suspects were awaiting arraignment, and it wasn’t…
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TikTok was aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective, according to internal documents and communications exposed in lawsuit filed by the state of Kentucky. The details are among redacted portions of Kentucky’s lawsuit that contains…
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Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced hope Friday for a diplomatic solution in Lebanon and preventing a broader conflict, as he backed efforts by the fragile state to assert itself against Hezbollah. Blinken again said that Israel, which has been carrying out deadly strikes on Lebanon, “has a right to defend itself” against…
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Vehicles line Interstate 5. Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: AP An apparent road rage shooting during rush hour traffic in Los Angeles killed one person and injured another, authorities said Friday (October 11, 2024). The shooting, which was reported Thursday just after 4 p.m., closed down the northbound lanes of the…
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New York: Boeing announced Friday that it plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce as it projected a large third-quarter loss in the wake of a machinist strike in the Seattle region. The aviation giant must “reset our workforce levels to align with our financial reality,” Chief Executive Kelly Ortberg said, adding that the…
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This incident was reported early Friday morning, the police said. (Representational) Jaipur: A man-eating leopard in Udaipur’s jungles, who had attacked a farmer in the nearby village, was found dead on Friday with an injury mark on its neck, forest officials said. Forest Department Officer Sunil Kumar said that the body of the leopard was…
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Boeing employees build 777 aircrafts under production at the Everett Production Facility on June 26, 2024 in Everett, Washington. | Photo Credit: AFP Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce, delay the first delivery of its 777X jet by a year and expects substantial new losses in its defence business as…
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An Israeli airstrike killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three on Friday (October 11, 2024), Lebanon’s military said, just hours after the Israeli military fired on the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, injuring two of them for the second day in a row. The incidents entangling both Lebanon’s official Army — which has…
Apple employees work in an Apple Store at the Grand Central Terminal in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 4, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. National Labour Relations board accused Apple of interfering with workers’ rights to collectively advocate for better working conditions by restricting their use of…
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