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Washington is watching the radiation levels at Europe’s largest nuclear facility “very closely”
The US is monitoring the situation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which sits close to the front line between Russian and Ukrainian troops, but sees no signs of an imminent threat to the facility, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Monday at the White House press briefing.
A retired intelligence agent turned producer testified at a corruption trial of the sitting Israeli prime minister
Billionaire movie producer Arnon Milchan told a Jerusalem court on Monday that some $200,000 worth of the gifts he sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara may have been “excessive” but claimed he did not think they were illegal.
Pundit Jesse Watters will fill Carlson’s old time slot, the network said
Political commentator Jesse Watters will get Fox News’ prime-time slot previously occupied by top-rated host Tucker Carlson, who was fired from the network in April.
Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott revealed the new lineup on Monday, with ‘Jesse Watter Primetime’ moving from 7 pm to 8 pm US eastern time.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, who killed five people in Colorado last year, will go to prison for life
The man accused of killing five and injuring nearly two-dozen others during a mass shooting at a Colorado gay club last year has been slapped with multiple life sentences, in addition to another 2,208 years behind bars for attempted murder.
Police say the republican demonstrators were conspiring to “cause a public nuisance”
Police officers arrested a number of anti-monarchy demonstrators and seized protest placards ahead of the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday. The protesters say they want to be able to choose their head of state.
London’s Metropolitan Police said on Saturday morning that “a significant police operation” was underway in central London.
Despite proclaiming the end of the pandemic, the World Health Organization has said that it will be “impossible” to eliminate the virus itself
Covid-19 will never be eliminated or eradicated, as it can jump from humans to animals and back, World Health Organization emergency director Dr. Mike Ryan told reporters on Saturday.
Speaking a day after WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus officially downgraded the status of the disease from a global health emergency to a “global health threat,” Ryan stressed that public health authorities still need to be “vigilant.”
Asked whether the virus itself would ever be eliminated,
The club played ‘God Save the King’ at the Premier League’s request, but knew the crowd would react poorly
Liverpool fans loudly booed the national anthem ahead of their Premier League clash with Brentford on Saturday, drowning out ‘God Save the King’ with chants of “Liverpool.” While the UK celebrated the coronation of King Charles III,
The US vice president will ask AI execs to evaluate the safety and fairness of their models
US Vice President Kamala Harris has been appointed to head a new artificial intelligence initiative in partnership with leading companies in the field, the White House announced in a press release on Thursday.
Harris and other senior officials in the administration of President Joe Biden will meet with the CEOs of Alphabet,
The gunman was killed by an officer responding to an unrelated call, police say
A man opened fire at a shopping mall in Allen, Texas on Saturday afternoon, killing eight people and wounding seven, officials have reported. The shooter was shot dead by law enforcement.
The attack took place at Allen Premium Outlets mall,
Samoa has cautioned that Beijing’s contract with Solomon Islands may “morph into something else”
The awarding of a contract to a Chinese state-owned company to redevelop a commercial port in the Solomon Islands’ capital, Honiara, may lead to deeper security tensions, the Prime Minister of Samoa Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has said.
The agreement struck between Beijing and Honiara will see the city’s international port and two domestic wharves upgraded as part of a $170-million project to be completed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC).
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