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Pa. Senate race no longer tossup as Fetterman memes zero in on Oz’s wealth
Comment on this storyCommentIn Pennsylvania’s contentious Senate race, Democratic nominee Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is hitting his Republican rival, Mehmet Oz, where he lives.Fetterman took aim Wednesday at the number of houses Oz owns, using the celebrity doctor and TV personality’s 10-property portfolio to paint him as a wealthy carpetbagger who…
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3,500 Unification Church followers protest Japanese media reports
About 3,500 followers of the Unification Church from across South Korea, mostly Japanese women married to local men, staged a protest in central Seoul on Thursday against what they call biased Japanese media reports about the religious group.
The women, who immigrated to South Korea via mass weddings arranged by the…
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Israeli PM speaks to Germany’s Scholz on Iran nuclear deal
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid spoke to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday, pressing Israel's position that efforts to revive a nuclear deal with Iran should end, a senior Israeli diplomatic official said.As well as speaking with Scholz, Lapid spoke to Ted Deutch, chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee's…
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Soccer giant Man City continues Australian expansion with football school in Adelaide
English Premier League giant and reigning champion Manchester City has struck up a deal with an Adelaide school as part of its ongoing push into Australia.Key points:Adelaide's Rostrevor College will host the Manchester City Football School from next yearThe English football giant will provide coaching clinics, including for students from the…
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FBI’s sealed evidence that led to search of Trump’s home focus of court hearing
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug 18 (Reuters) - Sealed records containing evidence the U.S. Justice Department presented to secure court approval to search Donald Trump's Florida home will be at the heart of a hearing on Thursday, when news organizations will try to persuade a federal judge that the public deserves to see the details.The Justice…
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Anne Frank adaptation, 40 more books pulled from Texas school district
Placeholder while article actions loadBack in April, Laney Hawes thought she had saved a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary from being purged from a North Texas school district’s libraries and classrooms. But on Tuesday morning, a school official sent an email telling principals and librarians to pull it off the shelves — along with…
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UK has more than 1,000 livestock mega-farms, investigation reveals
There are more than 1,000 US-style mega-farms in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including some holding as many as a million animals, according to a new investigation.In the US, mega-farms are defined as those that hold more than 125,000 birds reared for meat, or 82,000 egg-laying hens, 2,500 pigs, 700 dairy cows or 1,000 beef cattle. These…
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‘Extremely difficult phase’: Jaishankar’s status check on India-China relations
India-China relations are going through an “extremely difficult phase” because of Beijing’s actions on the border and it will be difficult to have an Asian century if the two countries don’t come together, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday.Jaishankar also defended India’s decision to purchase Russian oil and the country’s…
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Mali Accuses France of Supporting Islamist Militants
Mali’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Abdoulaye Diop, in a Monday letter to the U.N. Security Council’s president for August, accused France of supporting “terrorist groups.”The letter said there were more than 50 “deliberate violations of Malian airspace” by foreign aircraft, “particularly operated by French forces,” and listed several incidents…
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Finland says Russian MiG-31 fighter jets violated its airspace
Finnish air force sent up ‘an operational flight mission’ and identified the planes and the Border Guard launched an investigation into the violation.Two Russian MiG-31 fighter jets are suspected of violating Finnish airspace near the coastal city of Porvoo on the Gulf of Finland.
The suspected violation happened at 06:40 GMT on Thursday and the…
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