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Comment on this storyCommentA Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Thursday to a chemical-spray assault on three police officers in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, including Brian D. Sicknick, who later collapsed and died the following day.In a plea deal with federal prosecutors, Julian Khater, a smoothie-shop owner of State College, Pa., admitted…

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By Noel Randewich(Reuters) - U.S. chip stocks tumbled on Thursday, with the main semiconductor index down more than 3% after Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices said U.S. officials told them to stop exporting cutting-edge processors for artificial intelligence to China.Nvidia's stock plummeted 11%, on track for its biggest one-day percentage drop…

Rainsy faces complaints filed by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his son-in-law and deputy national police chief © AFP / Emmanuel DUNAND Paris (AFP), Sep 1 – Veteran Cambodian opposition figure Sam Rainsy went on trial in France on Thursday in defamation cases brought against him by the prime minister and a…

Interpreter worked with Gorbachev for 37 yearsSays he was shocked, upset by events in UkraineSays Gorbachev still believed in idea of Soviet UnionBut he was against use of force to achieve goalsMOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and…

Comment on this storyCommentMoscow and its separatist allies in Ukraine are using a vast and punitive “filtration” system to detain, interrogate and surveil Ukrainians, according to U.S. officials and human rights investigators, and have forcibly transferred hundreds of thousands to Russia since the start of the war.The system operates in…

ISTANBUL — Teachers have become the latest professional group to draw the ire of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following a demonstration in Ankara that ended in a violent police reaction.  Responding Thursday to calls for teachers to boycott professional exams due to be introduced in November, Erdogan described the move as a “malicious…

Comment on this storyCommentOhio police released body-cam footage Wednesday of an officer fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in his bed. Twenty-year-old Donovan Lewis was shot around 2 a.m. Tuesday by a police officer who was trying to serve an arrest warrant for him, the Columbus Dispatch reported.The video shows an officer pushing open a…

York Region public health has alerted the public not to consume two products linked to a food poisoning investigation after 12 diners who ate at a Markham, Ont., restaurant last weekend became seriously ill. Dr. Barry Pakes, the region's chief medical officer of health, said Thursday that Mr. Right brand Kaempferia Galanga Powder, a…

According to the UN report, "the described policies and practices in (the region) have transcended borders, separating families and severing human contacts, while causing particular suffering to affected Uyghur, Kazakh and other predominantly Muslim minority families, exacerbated by patterns of intimidations and threats against members of the…