President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian elections in nearly 20 years, issuing a decree on Friday to further delay voting for the Palestinian Legislative Council almost another year. Rather than take place as scheduled next month, the decree pushes the elections back to Sept. 11, 2027, according to WAFA, the […]
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Only 2 countries held known public executions last year. The U.S. is preparing for its first in 90 years.
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When Nidal Hasan is put to death by firing squad during a public livestream, he will become the first person to be publicly executed in the United States in nearly a century. The Defense Department announced Thursday the execution of Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted in the 2009 killings of 13 people at […]
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FlyDubai co-pilot Hamam al Hamami spent a year bashing women with “manosphere” rhetoric on X, posts show
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The FlyDubai co-pilot whose alleged violent attempt to crash a flight to Israel last week and kill everyone onboard has a history of writing and sharing misogynistic remarks on social media using the rhetoric of the so-called manosphere, CBS News has found. The Financial Times first reported Wednesday that it discovered some 3,000 posts written and […]
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Across the room from a Linux PC, a Nintendo DSi is drawing Minecraft Java Edition on a pair of 256 by 192 screens that first shipped in 2008. Counter-Strike 2 shows up the same way. Video decoding happens on the handheld. A server on the computer only has to capture a window, squeeze each frame […]
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Milton Bradley shipped the Vectrex in 1982 as a complete arcade cabinet small enough for a coffee table. A screen, a speaker, a joystick, and a cartridge slot arrived in one case. Games showed up as bright strokes rather than blocks of color. Mine Storm, the pack-in, looked related to Asteroids because both were drawn […]
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the U.S. wrapped up on Friday, with no deal announced on artificial intelligence, though he is set to meet with President Trump twice more before the end of the year. Weijia Jiang has more. Trump and Xi to meet two more times before end of year as they […]
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El Niño could cause 451,000 more heat-related deaths compared to normal year, group says. Map shows areas at risk.
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An estimated 451,000 more people could die as a result of excessive heat in the first nine months of the current El Niño compared with a typical year, according to a report from the University of Chicago’s Climate Impact Lab. “That’s on top of the impacts from droughts, wildfires and flooding expected from hotter temperatures […]
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Cuba’s power grid collapses again, leaving millions without electricity for at least 6th time this year
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Cuba’s power grid collapsed once again on Friday, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity for at least the sixth time since President Trump cut off fuel to the island in January. The Ministry of Energy and Mines announced the islandwide power outage on its official X account and added that officials had […]
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One year on from Ricky Hatton’s death – what has boxing done to solve its biggest crisis?
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Boxing lost Ricky Hatton a year ago today (Picture: Getty) A year ago today, British boxing lost one of its most beloved heroes in Ricky Hatton. ‘The Hitman’ took us all on a white-knuckle ride as he ascended to the summit of the sport, leaving behind a towering legacy. While Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury, Lennox […]
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Rape and murder of 3 year old girl sparks outrage in Nepal, with protesters demanding tougher laws
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The rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl in Nepal has sparked widespread outrage and protests in the Himalayan country, with activists and politicians demanding tougher laws on rape, including calls for the death penalty to be imposed for the crime. The little girl went missing from her home in Bara, about 80 miles south […]
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