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When police went to his home to bring him to prison he took a firearm. Santiago, Chile: A retired Chilean general killed himself on Tuesday before he could be jailed for the 1973 murder of beloved folk singer Victor Jara in the aftermath of a military coup that installed dictator Augusto Pinochet, the attorney general’s…
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The roughly 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike in early May. LOS ANGELES: An all-star lineup of late-night television hosts are uniting to chat about Hollywood’s ongoing labor disputes on a new podcast, a group effort to raise funds for their striking staff writers. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy…
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Rollout of rover of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 from the lander to the lunar surface, as observed by Lander Imager Camera. File. | Photo Credit: PTI India protests China’s map claiming Indian territory, MEA says it ‘complicates’ border resolution India has lodged a “strong protest” with China over the publication of a new map that was released…
Florida residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were ordered to pack up and leave on August 29 as Hurricane Idalia gained steam in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall. Idalia also pummeled Cuba with heavy rains on Monday and Tuesday, leaving the tobacco-growing province…
Russia claimed that it destroyed 4 Ukrainian boats carrying 50 troops in black sea. Moscow: Russia said on Wednesday its forces had destroyed four Ukrainian boats carrying up to 50 troops in the Black Sea. An aircraft “destroyed four high-speed military boats with landing groups of Ukrainian special operations forces with a total number of…
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Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin along with 10 people were killed in plane crash last week. Moscow: Russia informed Brazil’s aviation authority that it will not open an investigation into the plane crash that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules “at the moment”, the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday. Prigozhin, two top lieutenants…
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The weapons will be drawn from existing U.S. stockpiles and will include mine-clearing equipment, artillery and rocket rounds, ambulances and medical gear, among other items. File. | Photo Credit: AP The Biden administration announced on August 29 that it will send an additional $250 million in weapons and ammunition to Ukraine as part of its…
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Smoke rises as a wildfire burns at Dadia National Park in the region of Evros, Greece, August 29, 2023. | Photo Credit: REUTERS A wildfire burning in northeastern Greece for 11 days has destroyed an area larger than New York City, the European Union-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Tuesday, as firefighters from five…
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evgeny Prigozhin was believed to have been buried at the Porokhovskoye cemetery Moscow: Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash two months after staging a short-lived mutiny, was on Tuesday laid to rest in a secret ceremony in his native Saint Petersburg. He was believed to have been buried at…
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US military aid package also included air defense missiles, artillery rounds and anti-armor missiles. Washington: The United States on Tuesday announced a new $250 million military assistance package for Ukraine that includes equipment for clearing mines and obstacles. Kyiv’s forces are struggling to make substantial gains in a counteroffensive launched earlier this summer that has…
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