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Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, who was convicted for running the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, died on Wednesday in federal prison where he was serving a 150-year sentence, the U.S. …
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered officials on Wednesday to explore petitioning an international court over Japan’s decision to release water from its Fukushima nuclear plant, his spokesman said, amid protests by …
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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was justified in using his knees to pin down George Floyd, a use-of-force expert testified on Tuesday, contradicting testimony by former and current city …
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Wild Oysters Project is creating underwater nurseries around the U.K. coast hoping to bring back the native European oysters from the brink of extinction. Source link
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Egyptian authorities impounded a massive cargo vessel that blocked the Suez Canal last month amid a financial dispute with its owner, the canal chief and a judicial official said Tuesday. …
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Roughly 278 million kilometres away, a small, 1.8 kilogram helicopter is waiting to take its place in the history books alongside the Wright Brothers. After an original target flight date …
Read More A cardiologist testified that George Floyd’s death was “absolutely preventable.” Another witness told the court that no reasonable officer would have used the force that was applied Floyd. But as the prosecution wrapped …
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A doctor in Myanmar says he and his colleagues are being targeted by the military as violence continues to mount in the wake of February’s coup. The doctor, whose identity …
Read More The judge in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin refused a defence request to sequester the jury on Monday, the morning after the death of a …
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Some of the tugboats that helped free the Ever Given, one of the world’s largest cargo ships, from the Suez Canal were designed in Vancouver. The architects who designed them …
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In a rare admission of the weakness of coronavirus vaccines developed in China, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing …
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Russia wants to stretch out imaginary lines on the ocean floor — and below it — and that has one northern security expert worried about consequences for other Arctic countries …
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Prince Charles paid a personal tribute on Saturday to his “dear papa” Prince Philip, saying the Royal Family missed him enormously and that the 99-year-old would have been amazed at …
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Sunday ordered swift rescue and relief efforts after eight people died in an earthquake that hit off southern Java island. Three others were badly injured …
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People who ignored an initial warning to evacuate the area closest to a volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent raced to get clear Saturday, a day after …
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With the death of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth has lost her “mainstay.” What that will mean for the Queen and the Royal Family has some historians and experts looking to …
Read More La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted on Friday after decades of inactivity, sending dark plumes of ash and smoke billowing into the sky and forcing thousands from …
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DMX, the raspy-voiced hip-hop artist behind the songs Ruff Ryders’ Anthem and Party Up (Up in Here), who had one of rap’s most distinctive voices — literally and metaphorically — has died, according to a …
Read More George Floyd’s scuffle with police, along with Derek Chauvin’s knee pressed into his neck, was too much for his underlying heart condition and caused the death of the 46-year-old Black …
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Friday she will not go to the United Nations climate conference due to be held in Scotland in November over concerns that inequality of …
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Boeing has told 16 of its customers to address a possible electrical issue in a group of 737 Max aircraft before using them further. An Air Canada spokesperson told CBC …
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Inside a COVID-19 unit in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, Dr. Tarsila Vieceli said she is seeing first hand the collapse of the country’s health-care system under the weight …
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Authorities in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent have ordered mandatory evacuations on Thursday, saying they believe an active volcano is in danger of exploding. The island’s emergency management …
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At least 11 demonstrators were killed in clashes with security forces in a town in northwest Myanmar after truckloads of troops arrived to quell a protest against the ruling military …
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Young people set a hijacked bus on fire and hurled gasoline bombs at police in Belfast in at least the fourth night of serious violence in a week in Northern …
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It seems the one basic fact everyone can agree on with respect to Georgia’s controversial new voting law is that an outrageous injustice has been committed. What that outrage is depends on …
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Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled …
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Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Kingdom told Reuters he was locked out of the London embassy on Wednesday, with sources saying his deputy had shut him out of the building …
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The European Union’s drug regulator says it has found a “possible link” between the AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine and a rare blood-clotting disorder, but the benefits of the shot and the …
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An Iranian cargo ship believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen has been attacked, Tehran acknowledged Wednesday. …
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