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U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and smuggling and was sentenced to nine years behind bars in a politically charged case that could lead to a high-stakes prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow. The 31-year-old Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and a eight-time all-star with the WNBA’s…
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Thirteen people have been killed and 35 injured after a fire broke out on Friday at a night club in Thailand s Chonburi province, southeast of the capital Bangkok, a police official said. Police Colonel Wuttipong Somjai said by telephone that the fire at the Mountain B night club in the Sattahip district had started at…
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Delhi reported its fourth case of monkeypox on Wednesday with a 31-year-old Nigerian woman testing positive for the disease, official sources said. With this case, India’s tally of monkeypox infections has gone up to nine. She is the first woman in India to test positive for monkeypox. The woman has fever and skin lesions and…
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Britain’s Prince Charles is facing more questions over his charities after a newspaper reported that one of his funds accepted a 1 million pound (€1.2 million) donation from relatives of Osama bin Laden. The Sunday Times reported that the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund received the money in 2013 from Bakr bin Laden, patriarch of the large and wealthy…
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden has continued to test positive for Covid-19, his White House doctor said Tuesday, and is experiencing a return of at least one symptom, described as a “loose cough.” After previously suggesting that Biden was symptom free since coming down with a “rebound” case of Covid, White House physician Kevin O’Connor…
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Jabalpur: At least 10 people have been killed after a massive fire broke out on Monday in a hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur, officials said. Several fire tenders were rushed to the New Life Multispeciality Hospital to bring the blaze under control, an official said, adding the rescue operations were underway. Many people including patients…
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden remains positive for Covid but is feeling well and working in isolation as he deals with a so-called rebound case of the virus, his doctor said Monday. “The president continues to feel well as he starts his week,” White House physician Kevin O’Connor wrote in a memorandum. “This morning, as…
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The death toll in eastern Kentucky rose to at least 16 on Friday as flooding unleashed by “epic” torrential rainfall swept through homes, washed out roads and pushed rivers over their banks, state authorities said, warning that more fatalities were expected. Police and National Guard troops, including personnel from neighboring states, used helicopters and boats…
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Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, is charged with failing to pay the Spanish government 14.5 million euros ($15 million) in taxes between 2012 and 2014. The prosecutors said they would also seek a fine of 24 million euros ($24 million). The indictment details six charges against Shakira. The singer this week…
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Over 30 students in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district were administered Covid-19 jab with a single syringe, a sheer violation of “one needle-one syringe-only one time” protocol. A vaccination camp for students was organised at Jain Public School on Wednesday, and a nursing student was deployed for inoculation. When the vaccination was underway, father of a…