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Warren Buffett. File photo credit: AP Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after serving in the role for more than 50 years. Mr. Buffett, 96, will become chairman emeritus and will take on his new role immediately, the company said Friday (September 19, 2026). His son, Howard, will become Berkshire Hathaway’s…
Flag of Pakistan in front of a clear blue sky | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured in a powerful suicide blast during Friday prayers (September 18, 2026) at a mosque near police lines in Kohat district in northwest Pakistan, officials said. The blast occurred at the mosque…
INEOS opens the first full-scale CO2 storage facility in the EU. Photo coutesy: www.ineos.com | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Energy group INEOS announced on Friday (September 18, 2026) that its Greensand carbon capture and storage (CCS) project had begun storing carbon dioxide under the seabed beneath an old oil-platform in the North Sea. “Today, Greensand…
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A missile is launched during drills inspected by Taiwan’s President William Lai Ching-te at a base in Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan, on Friday, September 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Taiwan’s military carried out its first joint combat exercise using multiple types of attack drones this week, President Lai Ching-te said on Friday (September…
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Smoke rises after an F-16 fighter jet crashed in a rural area near Traverse City, Michigan on September 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP An F-16 fighter jet from Texas crashed in rural Michigan during a routine training exercise on Thursday (September 17, 2026), and the pilot ejected safely, a military spokesman said. Sgt Derek…
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Flash flood survivors eat food inside a relief shelter at Devighat in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on September 8, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: Weeks after catastrophic floods hit Nepal, authorities are scrambling to mount a relief effort with over 6,000 people still missing and death toll climbing to 1,410. Aid operations…
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At least one person was killed and four others injured in a shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Friday (September 18, 2026), the Provincial Governor said. The incident follows two shootings since June at schools in the south of the country. School shootings were previously rare in the Philippines. The Department…
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Image used for representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphotos A Sikh truck driver was stabbed multiple times in a rest area’s bathroom in south Wyoming, amid rising anti-South Asian rhetoric in the U.S.. The trucker, identified only as Singh, was stabbed early Sunday morning in Bitter Creek Rest Area in south Wyoming, where he had…
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A helicopter lands on an Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) vessel at Tri Sakti Port in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, on September 17, 2026, before resuming the search for victims of the passenger ship Virgo Transport 8 after it sank in the Java Sea. | Photo Credit: AFP Indonesia has begun an operation to right…
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A China Coast Guard vessel rammed a Philippine fishing boat on a resupply mission in the South China Sea on Friday (September 18, 2026), the Philippine Coast Guard said, damaging its railings and deck structures in the latest confrontation between the two countries in disputed waters. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel…
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