Firefighters in central Indiana are thanking a mother for safely surrendering her 2-day-old baby to the department’s Safe Haven Baby Box. Kokomo Fire Department said its 2nd Platoon was working when the newborn girl was placed into the box installed at the station on West Superior Street on July 17, setting off alarms and alerting…
Fast-moving wildfires swept across hills in the searing heat outside the Greek capital on Tuesday, forcing authorities to close highways to help protect an oil refinery. Water-dropping airplanes and helicopters flew low though a blanket of smoke tinted orange by the sunset to try and contain two wildfires to the west of Athens before nightfall….
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The Pentagon has assessed that Wagner, the Russian mercenary group that conducted a brief but dramatic rebellion against the Kremlin last month, is no longer “participating in any significant capacity in support of combat operations in Ukraine.” That’s according to Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin told…
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Business & FinanceDealsTechnology 10 July 2023, 8:05 pm 1 minute Reuters was first to report that Taiwan’s Foxconn has withdrawn from a $19.5 billion semiconductor joint venture with Indian metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta, in a setback to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chipmaking plans for India. The world’s largest contract electronics maker signed a pact with Vedanta…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he would back Sweden’s NATO candidacy if the European Union resumes long-stalled membership talks with Ankara. “First, open the way to Turkey’s membership of the European Union, and then we will open it for Sweden, just as we had opened it for Finland,” Erdogan said in a televised…
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US President Joe Biden announces the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a coordinated effort during a speech in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, November 23, 2021. — Reuters “We’re a long way from there. We…
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Authorities in Texas believe a man who shot and killed two people was acting in self-defense after two men allegedly attempted to rob him while he was taking money out of an ATM. In a press conference, the San Antonio Police Department’s Chief William McManus said that on Friday, July 7 at approximately 1 p.m.,…
A Canadian school district fired a special needs teaching assistant after discovering she had an OnlyFans account and she refused to shut it down. Kristin MacDonald said she received an email April 28 from School District 43 in British Columbia, Canada, advising her to deactivate all accounts related to “Ava James,” a persona she maintained…
As Russia’s war in Ukraine reaches 500 days, Zelensky used Snake Island to rally Ukrainians. “I want to thank this place, a place of victory, every one of our fighters for these five hundred days,” he said in a video posted early Saturday that showed him at the island, a small speck of land that…
