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Turner Enterprises CEO Ted Turner. | Photo Credit: AFP CNN is reporting that its founder Ted Turner, the outspoken and often outrageous television pioneer, has died at age 87. The network says Mr. Turner died on Wednesday (May 6, 2026), citing a news release from Turner Enterprises. Mr. Turner transformed an obscure Atlanta television station…
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On April 28, the Italian Parliament backed the Georgia Meloni-led government’s plan to donate a decommissioned aircraft carrier, Giuseppe Garibaldi, to Indonesia. If things go as planned, the Indonesian Navy may welcome its first-ever aircraft carrier as early as October 5 this year, as per the Naval Chief, Admiral Muhammad Ali. With this, Indonesia will…
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Iran, which defended its sovereignty against two nuclear armed countries, is now a superpower, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei has said. In an interview at the Ministry in Tehran, he said the country is currently reviewing United States’ response to its peace proposal. Mr. Baghaei added that Iran’s ties with India are “flourishing”. At a…
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U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social platform that the war with Iran could soon end. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with more bombing on Wednesday (May 6, 2026) if it doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz after a report that an agreement is emerging to end war….
A road accident involving a passenger bus and a fuel tanker killed 16 people and injured four others on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Wednesday (May 6, 2026) a disaster agency official told AFP. “Fourteen passengers of the bus and two people from the oil tanker died” in the crash in North Musi Rawas Regency, official…
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Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. | Photo Credit: AFP Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday (May 5, 2026) denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo of her — posing in bed, wearing lingerie — and complained that such artificial intelligence-created images were being used to attack her. Ms. Meloni shared the photo in question on…
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Rescuers work at the site of the private house hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 6, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia fired dozens of drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday (May 6, 2026), disregarding a unilateral ceasefire announced by…
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A boat beside cruise ship MV Hondius anchored off Cape Verde port, on the day sick passengers were evacuated by boat from the cruise ship, in Praia Port, Cape Verde, on May 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters “The regional government of Spain’s Canary Islands is opposed to allowing a luxury cruise ship that has…
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A cruise ship, hit by Hantavirus, is anchored off Cape Verde port. File | Photo Credit: Reuters South African health authorities have identified the Andes strain of hantavirus, which can be transmitted from person to person, in two passengers who were on a cruise ship at the center of an outbreak of the rare infection,…