A series of Israeli airstrikes targeted Sanaa, Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital, early Thursday, igniting fires at energy facilities and at the Red Sea port city of Hodeida."The targets struck by the [Israeli military] were used by the Houthi forces for military purposes," a statement said. "The strikes degrade the Houthi terrorist...
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A group of agitators waving Palestinian flags stormed the court during a basketball game between Israel’s Hapoel Holon and France’s Nanterre 92, sparking chaos in the stands. The bedlam came during the third quarter of the game in Nanterre, France, which was part of the FIBA Basketball Champions League. Around 10 individuals...
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A dog who went missing in Tennessee will be reunited with his family after he was found injured in a ravine on Wednesday.A Tennessee Department of Transportation crew was removing a tree from the 2400 block of State Route 48 in the city of Dickson when they "heard a sound...
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Fox News host Sean Hannity calls out House Republicans for the stopgap funding bill that was released in an effort to avoid a government shutdown in his opening monologue Wednesday on "Hannity." As of Wednesday, the U.S. national debt – which is a measure of what U.S. taxpayers were on...
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Joe Biden‘s popularity has not improved post-election, with the lame-duck president receiving his lowest approval rating in one respected poll. In a survey conducted this month by Marquette Law School Poll, 34% of respondents approved of Biden and 66% disapproved, for a net approval rating of negative 32 percentage points....
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President-elect Donald Trump has an affinity for winners, but he has handed out a handful of jobs in his administration to people who have one thing in common: losing Georgia Senate elections. A quartet of former Republican Senate candidates from the Peach State have been nominated to Cabinet-level positions and...
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President-elect Donald Trump‘s inaugural fund received $2 million from Uber Technologies and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Khosrowshahi’s contribution represents his largest political donation ever and a promise to cooperate with the administration. Uber is following in the footsteps of a handful of tech companies flocking to Trump and mending strained...
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President-elect Donald Trump is seeking to tame the press during his second term with the help of the courts and taxpayer-funded prosecutors. Invigorated by winning the popular vote in November and putting most of his criminal legal challenges behind him, Trump is ramping up his litigious media strategy by suggesting...
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China said two of its astronauts spent nine hours outside the Tiangong Space Station. The longest previous spacewalk, by Americans, was eight hours and 56 minutes.The spacewalk appears to be the longest in history, barely breaking a record set by American astronauts in 2001.China Central Television, via ReutersTwo Chinese astronauts...
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Just before Thanksgiving, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an unusual set of arrest warrants: one for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, one for his former defense minister Yoav Gallant and one for the deceased Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif. Each man is accused of crimes against...
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The image, from northern Spain, showed a man with a white bag in the trunk of a car. The National Police said it helped them solve a missing-person case.It was a routine image picked up by Google Street View: a man loading a white bag into the trunk of a...
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Dominique Pelicot, the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot, has pleaded guilty to charges of drugging and raping her for almost a decade and arranging for up to dozens of strangers he met online to abuse her unconscious body. His trial, along with that of 50 other men, most charged with aggravated...
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Sterling was up against the dollar and looked likely to rise further as the Bank of England should stick to a gradual pace of interest-rate cuts, Commerzbank said....
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Eurozone government bond yields rose, tracking Treasury yields and Commerzbank said Powell’s hawkish cut poured cold water on any hopes of a year-end rally....
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