Category: World

Wadea al-Fayoume celebrates his birthday at his home in Illinois, neighbourhood of Plainfield in Chicago,US. — BBC Joseph Czuba has been charged with murder and hate crimes. Czuba also charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder. President Biden says he and his wife were “sickened” by attack. An innocent Palestinian-American boy was killed and his…

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A large black bear was caught on a home surveillance camera raiding a woman’s kitchen in Connecticut and snatching a frozen chicken before darting out the cracked open window. Footage of the unlikely break-in was captured by homeowner Helena Houlis’ Ring security camera and shows the black bear brazenly wandering around the first story of…

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A court in Slovakia found Wednesday former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and gave him a two-year suspended sentence. The county court in the city of Poprad also handed him a fine of 15,000 euros (about $16,000). The verdict is not final and his legal team said he planned to appeal it. Kiska,…

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “we are at war, and we will win it” as the country’s air force began striking Hamas targets in Gaza on Saturday, in response to a surprise assault on the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Hamas militants infiltrated Israeli territory from the Gaza…

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North Dakota state senator Doug Larsen can be seen with his wife and two children in this photograph released on April 8, 2020. — Facebook/Doug Larsen – ND District 34 Senator Republican senator’s death was confirmed by his fellow legislator. The plane was piloted by Doug Larsen which crashed Sunday. Sheriff’s Department says all 4…

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FIRST ON FOX — The New York City bodega clerk who had murder charges dropped after video showed he acted in self-defense is suing District Attorney Alvin Bragg and NYPD for civil rights violations. Jose Alba, an ex-bodega worker who was attacked behind the counter on July 1, 2022, by 35-year-old Austin Simon and his…

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Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, a key architect in reducing India’s widespread hunger in the late 1960s and 1970s, has died at 98 years old after suffering from an age-related illness. Swaminathan, decorated with one of India’s highest honors in 1967, helped turn the states of Punjab and Haryana into breadbaskets, a project known as the “Green…

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Updated September 23, 2023 at 8:29 p.m. EDT|Published September 23, 2023 at 2:20 a.m. EDT Russian Navy members patrol the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea, last year. (AFP/Getty Images) Ukrainian armored vehicles have pushed through Russian lines of defense near the southern village of Verbove, a local commander told The Washington…

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