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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes what it says the test-firing of strategic cruisemissiles. | file photo | Photo Credit: AP North Korea launched several cruise missiles into the sea Saturday, South Korea’s military said, extending its weapons testing activities in response to the United States-South Korea summer military drills. South Korea’s military detected the launches…
Mohamed Al-Fayed was born in Alexandria and was the son of a schoolteacher. Mohamed Al-Fayed was an outspoken and successful Egyptian business tycoon. His death comes almost 26 years to the day after the car crash in Paris that killed his eldest son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997. Here are…
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Preparations in the final phase for India’s maiden solar mission, Aditya L1 onboard the PSLV-C57, ahead of its launch on Sept. 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI India’s first solar observatory mission Aditya-L1 to be launched at 11.50 a.m. today India’s first solar observatory mission, named Aditya-L1, will be launched onboard the Polar Satellite Launch…
In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Plesetsk in northwestern Russia. File. | Photo Credit: AP The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said on September 1 that the country has deployed an advanced intercontinental ballistic missile that President Vladimir Putin once said will…
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Al-Fayed died on Wednesday – a day before his son and Princess Diana’s 26th death anniversary London: Mohamed al-Fayed, the self-made Egyptian billionaire who bought the Harrods department store and promoted the discredited conspiracy theory that the British royal family was behind the death of his son and Princess Diana, has died, his family said….
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Belarus said the incident took place over the Grodno region on the border. (Representational) Warsaw, Poland: Poland on Friday denied a military helicopter had breached Belarus’s airspace, calling Minsk’s claims “lies and provocations” at a time of escalating tensions between the neighbours. Relations between Minsk and Warsaw, frozen for years, have hit new lows since…
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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu. File. | Photo Credit: AP Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu plans to attend the G20 summit in India to try to promote foreign investment in Africa’s largest economy and mobilize global capital to develop infrastructure, his spokesman said on Friday. Mr. Tinubu has embarked on the country’s boldest reforms in decades, which…
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Russia accused Dmitry Muratov of creating, distributing content from other foreign agents. (File) Moscow, Russia: Russia on Friday added respected journalist and Nobel Prize co-recipient Dmitry Muratov to its list of foreign agents, a label authorities commonly use to stifle critics. The move targeting the editor of Russia’s top independent publication Novaya Gazeta is part…
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Authorities announced the hostage-takings on Thursday. (Representational) Quito, Ecuador: Inmates in six Ecuadoran prisons on Friday released the 50 guards and seven police officers who had been taken hostage in the latest spasm of narcotics-related mayhem, the state prison institute said. The prison guards and police “were freed and are undergoing medical evaluation to verify…
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded journalist Dmitry Muratov. File. | Photo Credit: AP Russian authorities on September 1 declared newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, to be a foreign agent, continuing the country’s moves to suppress critics and independent reporting. Russian law allows for individuals and organizations receiving funding from abroad…
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