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7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Russia, Several Aftershocks Recorded

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Several aftershocks were recorded after the initial quake (Representational) Washington, United States: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early Sunday morning local time, according to the regional earthquake monitoring service. The local emergencies ministry said tremors were felt along the coast including in the region’s capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. “Operational…

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Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh: Return of the Islamists

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Chaitey gelaam odhikaar, hoye gelaam razakar! In the tsunami of slogans that swept away the Sheikh Hasina government earlier this month, this particular one (“We asked for our rights but became razakars”), dripping with sarcasm, stood out as the summary of the political history of Bangladesh’s independent existence. As her law and order machinery overplayed…

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Gaza Records First Polio Case In 25 Years As UN Urges Vaccinations

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Poliovirus, most often spread through sewage and contaminated water, is highly infectious. Gaza: Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after UN chief Antonio Guterres called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children. Tests in Jordan confirmed the disease…

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Safety “Deteriorating” At Ukraine Nuclear Plant After Nearby Drone Strike: UN Watchdog

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The plant was seized by Russia’s forces early in the war Vienna, Austria: The UN’s nuclear watchdog warned on Saturday that the safety situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was “deteriorating” following a nearby drone strike. Earlier on Saturday, Russia accused Ukraine of dropping an explosive charge on a road near the occupied plant…

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Trump Again Calls Kamala Harris “Radical, Lunatic” As Race For Pennsylvania Heats Up

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Vice President Harris will conduct a bus tour of western Pennsylvania Pennsylvania: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Saturday he believed Democrat Kamala Harris will be easier to beat than President Joe Biden even as some polls showed her edging ahead in the race for the Nov. 5 presidential election. Trump, the former president,…

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X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge’s content orders

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Musk, in posts on X, called Moraes an “utter disgrace to justice” and said the company could not have agreed to the judge’s “secret censorship and private information handover demands.” File | Photo Credit: Reuters Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship…

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Germany To Cut Down Military Aid For Ukraine In 2025: Report

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This year, aid from Berlin amounted to 8 billion euros. (File) Berlin: Germany, the second largest contributor of aid to Ukraine, plans to halve its military aid to Kyiv in 2025, a parliamentary source told AFP Saturday. Instead, the government of Olaf Scholz will bank on money generated from frozen Russian assets to continue supporting…

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More than 18,700 mpox cases detected in Africa since January: health agency

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A health worker attends to a girl suffering from mpox, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A total of 18,737 suspected or confirmed cases of mpox were reported in Africa since the beginning of the year, including 1,200 cases in one week alone, the African…

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Three crew on Chinese boat missing after collision off Taiwan island

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Three crew members from a Chinese fishing boat were missing on Saturday (August 17, 2024) after their ship collided with an unidentified vessel and sank off the coast of a Taiwanese island, Taiwan’s coast guard said. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory and relations between the two have deteriorated in recent years….

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Russia says Ukraine used Western rockets to destroy bridge in Kursk region

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A view of a damaged bridge over the Seym river in the Glushkovo district, following a Ukrainian strike in the Kursk region, Russia, in this still image taken from a social media video released on August 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Ukraine had used Western rockets, likely U.S.-made HIMARS, to…

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