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There is outrage over the shooting of a teenager who rang the wrong doorbell
A 14-year-old black boy was shot in the chest by a white man outside a residence in US’ Kansas City last week. The family of the victim, Yarl, has said he had come to the wrong address to pick up younger siblings from a friend’s house. The police have said that the shooter will be…
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13 fighter jets were sent to Ukraine by Slovakia
Russian authorities exchanged a Ukrainian passport for one from Russia, Natalia Miriuk, who had come to Russia with her family, said. “Most of the people who came to Russia are less rich than their counterparts in Russia and therefore are not likely to go back,” Miriuk said. However, she added that she wants to visit…
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There is a snapshot of US intelligence officials watching China
China cannot dictate how Taiwan makes friends, China’s Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei told CNN during his recent visit to the US. He further said that China cannot dictate how friends show their support for Taiwan. “China cannot dictate how Taiwan makes friends. China can’t dictate how friends show their support for Taiwan,” he added.
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Pearl, the world’s smallest dog, loves dressing up
Pearl, a dog from California, US, has become the world’s tallest dog after measuring 3.8 inches tall and consuming chicken, salmon and poison during a live-dinner event. Pearl is related to previous record holder Miracle Milly, who measured 3.8 inches tall. One of Milly’s sisters is Pearl’s mother. “We’re blessed to have her,” Vanesa Semler,…
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The unions representing faculty and staff at Rutgers University will begin a strike
A strike by the faculty of Rutgers University in the US has been called after the university failed to reach an agreement with its bargaining committee on wages, benefits and work conditions. The university’s professors, lecturers, graduate and undergraduate students have been on strike since April. However, most classes at Rutgers will continue despite the…
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There is a shift in cryptocurrencies with the Shanghai Update
The world’s second-most popular cryptocurrency Ether will end its links to cryptocurrency mining on April 12, the Ethereum blockchain, home to the world’s second-most-popular cryptocurrency ether, will finally sever its links to cryptocurrency mining. At 19:27 EDT on April 12, Ethereum will finally sever its links to cryptocurrency mining. The miners have better chance of…
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The Spaniard has two career majors, one a Masters victory
After two days of play at the Masters, Jon Rahm has won the tournament by two strokes. The 28-year-old finished with an 11-under total of 277, two strokes ahead of the second-placed Luke List. Rahm is now world number one, overtaking defending champion Lucas Scheffler who finished tied for 10th.
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The third round at the Masters has been suspended because of the rain
Masters 2019 champion Jon Rahm and world number one Bryson DeChambeau completed their final round after the third round was suspended for four hours due to darkness on Sunday. DeChambeau and Rahm, who are the only players to not have broken par in all three rounds of the tournament, finished with a total of seven-under-par…
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You need to know why Carlsen isn’t playing at the World Chess Championship
Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen lost to Hikaru Nakamura in the losers final of the Chessable Masters, which was his last tournament as the world champion. Nakamura, wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with “I literally don’t care”, celebrated with a fist-bump while Carlsen can be seen exclaiming and grimacing in frustration. Carlsen is choosing to relinquish…
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The Arrest of Evan Gershkovich is more proof of Putin’s brutality
The US is planning to declare Russian journalist Gershkovich Mandelstam a victim of ‘wrongful confinement’ in Russia, media reports said. Mandelstam, who has been detained in Moscow since February, “categorically denied” all accusations levelled against him by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and said he was engaged in journalistic activities in Russia, an agency representative…
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The arrest of Evan Gershkovich is more evidence of the brutality of Putin
A Russian military officer has said that there needs to be “a return to the death penalty and the toughest measures in relation to those who participate in this kind of internal squabbling”. This comes after Andrei Tatarsky, a journalist, was killed in a bombing in Moscow on Saturday. Tatarsky had written about Russia’s involvement…
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Seymour Stein was the record executive who signed Madonna
Talking Heads manager Gary Kurfirst said the late Sidney Stein, who co-founded Sire Productions as a precursor to Sire Records, was always ahead of the rest of the world. “Seymour’s…taste in music is ahead of the rest of the world, and always will be,” Kurfirst added. Stein passed away at the age of 83 on…
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The father of the cellphone predicts we will have some kind of device in our skin
Martin Cooper, the first person to call a human using a phone, said, “I’m calling you from a cellphone. You would die if you did not answer the phone.” He said he was polite to a man who was walking down the street in New York City on April 3, 1973. Cooper made the first…
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What does providing decades of Trans Health Care have taught me?
On the occasion of’Transgender Day of Visibility’, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) released new guidelines for health care needs of transgender people. “Our new guidelines focus on two key areas- gender and gender dysphoria. They are a step forward in addressing the health needs of transgender people,” said WPATH President Sarah McCooey.
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The Iowa team defeated the defending champion South Carolina in the Final Four
West Virginia’s Aliyah Boston, who won the Naismith women’s Player of the Year award in 2018-19, will face Australia’s Caitlin Clark for the Naismith women’s defensive player of the year award on Sunday. This is the second time in three years that Boston will be facing Clark, who was awarded the award last year. Clark…
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Disney World board says predecessors stripped them of power
Disney World’s parent company, Walt Disney Company, has said that it hasn’t signed any agreements with the former Reedy Creek Improvement District. This comes after Florida governor Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers passed a bill transferring the tax authority from the former district to Disney. “All agreements signed between Disney…were appropriate, and were discussed and…
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We know about the guns that were used in the school shooting
Audrey Hale, the woman who killed five people at a US school before being shot dead by police, was a trans person or a “female shooter”, Nossi College of Art & Design’s President told CNN. She graduated from the institution last year and was in her final year of studies when the shooting took place.…
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Balance of Power can be changed by joining NATO
Alexandrov Gershkovich, a reporter from the Wall Street Journal who was arrested by the Russian security services on espionage charges, has been working for The Journal in Moscow since January 2022. Gershkovich has also previously reported in Russia for Agence France-Presse and for The Moscow Times. He has pleaded not guilty to espionage charges.
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The Russian man was arrested in the country for making antiwar comments
Russian Federal Security Service has said that a correspondent for The Journal newspaper, Alexey Gershkovich, is suspected of spying in the interests of the US. Gershkovich has been detained in Yekaterinburg, a city 900 miles east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that it was too early to…
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Disney World board says predecessors stripped them of power
The Walt Disney World Board of Supervisors said its predecessors last month signed a development agreement with the company that gave Disney maximum developmental power over the theme park’s 27,000 acres in Florida. Disney had held control of the local district for 55 years before the new supervisors took over. Disney said all agreements between…
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The former student who killed six people at a school in Nashville is being probed by police
The 19-year-old gunman who opened fire at a US school on Monday was armed with a long gun and nearly 12 high-capacity magazines, enough ammunition for a “much worse” situation, police said. When police arrived at the school, the gunman was armed with a long gun and nearly 12 high-capacity magazines, enough ammunition for a…
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This Ukrainian fairy tale ends
A displaced Ukrainian woman in Poland, who is nursing her two-month-old son, has said, “And now it’s over.” The woman, Ievheniia, was displaced from Ukraine when Russia invaded the country a year ago. She said that she and her husband, who served in the Ukrainian armed forces, lost everything during the war. “And now it’s…
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One of Moscow’s largest missile barrages did not deter the defiant Ukrainians
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that there could be “no neutrality” in the face of Russian aggression. Kuleba added that Russia has launched a fresh wave of attacks on Ukrainian cities ahead of the New Year. “There could be no neutrality in the face of such aggression,” he further said, adding there could be…
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In a month of extreme weather, tornadoes ravage the South
The US will probably get more killer tornado and hail-spawning supercells as the world warms, according to a new study. Supercells are the “finger of God” whoppers that are dominant producers of significant tornadoes and hail, the study said. It added that the supercells will edge eastward to strike in the Southern states, like Alabama,…
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There is a lot of information about the open alpha of the Diablo IV game
The general open beta for Diablo IV, the upcoming film based on ‘Diablo 3’, began today and will last through March 27. “Don’t sleep on Diablo IV’s couch co-op mode — it’s delightful,” a report said. It added that the beta will feature four player online co-op for both weekends and a world boss named…