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Sinclair and Nexstar to reinstate Kimmel on ABC stations
Sakshi VenkatramanUS reporter Getty Images Jimmy Kimmel Live! will now appear again on all ABC channels. Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Media Group announced on Friday they will bring the show back to their ABC affiliates after a week-long ban. The two companies, which carry dozens of ABC stations across the US, pulled the programme…
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How Trump and Comey’s relationship soured years before indictment
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making false statements to a Senate committee in 2020, though he maintains he is innocent. US President Donald Trump has welcomed the indictment against a high-profile figure who has long drawn his ire. But years ago, Trump was once fond of Comey. The BBC’s Bernd Debusmann…
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Assata Shakur, black Liberation activist exiled in Cuba dies at 78
Assata Shakur, an activist with the Black Liberation Army exiled in Cuba for four decades, has died in Havana, aged 78. Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, died Thursday of unspecified health conditions and “advanced age”, Cuba’s foreign affairs ministry said in a statement on Friday. She had been on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists…
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NYC office shooter had low-level CTE, medical examiner finds
The gunman who killed four people in a Manhattan office building had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease often linked to high-contact sports like American football, according to the New York City medical examiner’s office. In July, Shane Tamura, 27, drove from Las Vegas to New York City with an assault-style rifle, shooting…
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Dubai sex-trade ring boss held by police after BBC investigation
Watch: Charles Mwesigwa [known locally as Abbey] filmed by an undercover reporter posing as an event organiser sourcing women for high-end parties. Warning: Contains disturbing content and graphic descriptions of sexual acts The BBC understands the boss of a degrading sex-trade ring that exploited vulnerable women in Dubai’s most glamorous neighbourhoods has been detained in…
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Canada Post strike brings mail delivery to a halt nationwide
Canada Post workers have embarked on a nationwide strike after the federal government authorised widespread reforms that would shut some post offices and end certain types of deliveries. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) called the proposed reforms an “attack on our postal service and workers” as it announced the job action. The strike…
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Netanyahu attacks Palestinian recognition as dozens walk out of UN speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the recognition of a Palestinian State by multiple Western countries during a combative speech at the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu labelled the recognition moves a “mark of shame” that sent the message “murdering Jews pays off”. Dozens of officials and diplomats staged a walk-out as he took to…
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Slovakia passes law to recognise only two sexes and restrict adoption
Slovakia has changed its constitution, enshrining into law recognition of only two sexes – male and female. The legal change, which passed in a knife-edge vote in parliament, also restricts adoption to married heterosexual couples and prohibits surrogate pregnancies. The constitutional amendment was defined as enshrining “sovereignty in cultural and ethical matters”. Critics including Amnesty…
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'Order in the hall': Dozens walk out as Netanyahu begins speech at UN
Dozens of people filed out of the room in protest at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Source link
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Here’s what you need to know
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order, approving a proposal that would allow TikTok to continue operating in the US under American ownership. But details of the deal have not been confirmed by China, or the app’s Chinese owner ByteDance. The BBC’s Suranjana Tewari explains everything we know so far about how the deal…
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