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Donald Trump Announces Lawmaker Matt Gaetz As Pick For Attorney General

Donald Trump announced firebrand lawmaker Matt Gaetz as his pick for attorney general Wednesday, naming a fierce defender who would be well-placed to make good on the president-elect's threats of revenge against political foes.




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Donald Trump Names Ex-Democrat Tulsi Gabbard As Director of National Intelligence

Donald Trump on Wednesday named former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, who has opposed US support for Ukraine and met Syria's president Bashar al-Assad, as his incoming Director of National Intelligence.




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Donald Trump Nominates Florida Senator Marco Rubio As Secretary Of State

Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Florida senator and outspoken China hawk Marco Rubio for secretary of state.




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US Contractor To Pay $42 Million To 3 Iraqis Tortured At Baghdad Prison

A federal jury on Tuesday found US defense contractor CACI International liable for its role in torture at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad during the Iraq war.




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Renowned Yoga Instructor Sharath Jois Dies After Suffering Heart Attack While Hiking In US

Sharath Jois, a renowned yoga instructor and the grandson of yoga legend Krishna Pattabhi Jois, died on Monday in Virginia, US. He was 53 years old.




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7-Year-Old Goes For Surgery, Greater Noida Doctor Operates On Wrong Eye

The family created a ruckus at the hospital and filed a complaint with the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Gautam Buddha Nagar.




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Guru Nanak Jayanti 2024: Date, Auspicious Time And History

Guru Nanak Jayanti is celebrated every year on Kartik Purnima, which falls in the months of October-November. This year, Kartik Purnima will fall on November 15.




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On Rally Stage, A Owaisi Served Notice To Avoid Inflammatory Speech

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has been served notice by the police in poll-bound Maharashtra's Solapur over his speeches.




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Historical Marker Dedicated – Mount Olive Holiness Pentecostal Church in Smyrna

Marker Dedication Photo (left to right): Stephen Marz, Director & State Archivist, Delaware Public Archives; Deacon Dorothy Guy, Pastor Deborah Lewis, Elder Janet Bratten and Elder Ralph Bradley of the Mount Olive Holiness Pentecostal Church; Representative William J. Carson and Kent County Levy Court Commissioner Joanne Masten. On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, Stephen Marz, Director, […]




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Guru Nanak Jayanti 2024: Date, Auspicious Time And History

Guru Nanak Jayanti is celebrated every year on Kartik Purnima, which falls in the months of October-November. This year, Kartik Purnima will fall on November 15.




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Patient's Son Walks After Stabbing Chennai Doctor, People Shout "He Cut Him"

A young man who stabbed a doctor multiple times at a Chennai hospital threw away the knife and calmly walked to the exit when people shouted "he cut him up" and security personnel grabbed him.




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7-Year-Old Goes For Surgery, Greater Noida Doctor Operates On Wrong Eye

The family created a ruckus at the hospital and filed a complaint with the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Gautam Buddha Nagar.








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Cabinet Welcomes Historic Issuing of Muslim Marriage Certificates

[SAnews.gov.za] Cabinet has welcomed the historic issuing of the first batch of 33 Muslim marriage certificates by the Department of Home Affairs.




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FG pegs power sector investment gap at $10bn

The Federal Government says it will collaborate with the private sector in raising a portion of the $10bn needed to ensure the provision of consistent and reliable electricity across the country. This initiative is part of the government’s broader strategy to address the country’s chronic power supply challenges and is expected to span a period


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Babalola: Unending controversy over INEC’s electoral commissioner

In this report, Peter Dada writes on the forthcoming Ondo governorship election, highlighting the controversy that has trailed INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner for the poll On Saturday, over two million registered voters would go to the polling centres to cast their votes for the governorship candidates of their choice, to decide who will steer the


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Umahi queries contractor over failed Abuja-Minna road

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has decried the deplorable condition of the Abuja-Minna federal road, saying he did not see any work done by the contractor handling the project. The minister who travelled by road from Abuja to attend a stakeholders’ engagement on the construction of the 125KM three-lane single carriage of the Niger


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New storms and flooding in Spain threaten hard-hit Valencia again

Madrid — New storms in Spain caused school closures and train cancellations on Wednesday, two weeks after flash floods in Valencia and other parts of the country killed more than 220 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Coastal areas of Valencia were placed under the highest alert on Wednesday evening. Forecasters said up to 180 millimeters (7 inches) of rain could fall there within five hours. Cleanup efforts in parts of Valencia hardest hit by the Oct. 29 storm were still continuing, and there were concerns over what more rain could bring to streets still covered with mud and debris. In southern Malaga province, streets were flooded, while 3,000 people near the Guadalhorce river were moved from their homes as a preventive measure. Schools across the province were closed, along with many stores. High-speed AVE train service was canceled between Malaga and Madrid as well as Barcelona and Valencia. There were no reports of any deaths. Spanish weather forecaster AEMET put Malaga on red alert, saying up to 70 millimeters (roughly 3 inches) of rain had accumulated in an hour. Parts of Tarragona province in the east also faced heavy rain and remained under red alert. The forecast in Malaga delayed the start of the Billie Jean King Cup tennis finals between Spain and Poland, which was set for Wednesday. The storm system affecting Spain is caused by warm air that collides with stagnant cold air and forms powerful rain clouds. Experts say that drought and flood cycles are increasing with climate change.




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Life insurance possible motive for murder of ‘Noem My Skollie’ actor




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Wind energy sector calls for urgent grid access reforms to unlock potential




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Storm outside PAR strengthens as it approaches PH, may arrive Thursday

MANILA, Philippines — Tropical Storm Man-yi, which will be assigned the local name “Pepito,” continues to intensify as it moves near the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR). The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) on Thursday said Man-yi was last spotted some 1,375 kilometers (km) east of northeastern Mindanao, still outside the PAR. It packs maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour (kph) near its center, with gusts of up to 105 kph. Man-yi is moving southwestward at 25 kph, with strong to gale-force winds extending outwards up to 380 km from the tropical storm’s center. It […]...

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Nevada trial set for ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor in newly-revived sex abuse case

LAS VEGAS — Former “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse is set to stand trial early next year in Las Vegas on charges that he sexually abused Indigenous women and girls, a significant development in the sweeping criminal case after more than a year of stalled court proceedings while he challenged it. His trial in Clark County District Court is currently scheduled to begin on Jan. 13, court records show. He pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to 21 felonies, including sexual assault, kidnapping and producing and possessing videos of child sexual abuse, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reported. Prosecutors are […]...

Keep on reading: Nevada trial set for ‘Dances with Wolves’ actor in newly-revived sex abuse case




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Moira Dela Torre, Denise Julia lead new November releases

Moira Dela Torre’s third studio album and Denise Julia’s sophomore EP dominate November music releases     Slowly but surely, Mariah Carey and Jose Mari Chan have eased their way into radio waves and mall playlists. But before the holiday classics completely take over this December, check out these upcoming and newly-released November drops. The month’s best and latest will surely be a high point for the year in music—from Moira Dela Torre’s first album in three years to Denise Julia’s sure-hit sophomore EP. READ: What makes Filipinos start celebrating Christmas as early as September? “I’m Okay” – Moira Dela […]...

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Doctors Without Borders ambulance in Haiti attacked, two patients killed

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday that at least two patients were killed when its ambulance was stopped and attacked earlier this week in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince.  The MSF staff said they were violently attacked on Monday after "members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers" stopped the ambulance.  The ambulance, transporting three young people with gunshot wounds, was halted about 100 meters from the MSF hospital in the Drouillard area of the capital and forced to transfer the patients to a public hospital, MSF said.  The group said police attempted to arrest the patients before escorting the ambulance to the hospital, where "law enforcement officers and members of a self-defense group surrounded the ambulance, slashed the tires, and tear-gassed MSF staff inside the vehicle to force them out."  The wounded patients were taken a short distance away and at least two were executed, the group said.  "The act is a shocking display of violence and it seriously calls into question MSF's ability to continue delivering essential care to the Haitian people," said Christophe Garnier, MSF's head of mission.




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Conservative lawyer Ted Olson, former US solicitor general, dies at 84

washington — Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, one of the country's best-known conservative lawyers who served two Republican presidents and successfully argued on behalf of same-sex marriage, died Wednesday. He was 84. The law firm Gibson Dunn, where Olson had practiced since 1965, announced his death on its website. No cause of death was given. Olson was at the center of some of the biggest cases of recent decades, including a win on behalf of George W. Bush in the 2000 Florida presidential election recount dispute that went before the U.S. Supreme Court. "Even in a town full of lawyers, Ted's career as a litigator was particularly prolific," said Mitch McConnell, the longtime Senate Republican leader. "More importantly, I count myself among so many in Washington who knew Ted as a good and decent man." Bush made Olson his solicitor general, a post the lawyer held from 2001 to 2004. Olson had previously served in the Justice Department as an assistant attorney general during President Ronald Reagan's first term in the early 1980s. During his career, Olson argued 65 cases before the Supreme Court, according to Gibson Dunn. "They weren't just little cases," said Theodore Boutrous, a partner at the law firm who worked with Olson for 37 years. "Many of them were big, blockbuster cases that helped shape our society." Those included the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a 2010 case that eliminated many limits on political giving, and a successful challenge to the Trump administration's decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "He's the greatest lawyer I've ever worked with or seen in action," said Boutrous, who worked so closely with Olson that they were known at Gibson Dunn as "the two Teds." "He was an entertaining and forceful advocate who could go toe to toe with the Supreme Court justices in a way few lawyers could. They respected him so much." One of Olson's most prominent cases put him at odds with many fellow conservatives. After California adopted a ban on same-sex marriage in 2008, Olson joined forces with former adversary David Boies, who had represented Democrat Al Gore in the presidential election case, to represent California couples seeking the right to marry. During closing arguments, Olson contended that tradition or fears of harm to heterosexual unions were legally insufficient grounds to discriminate against same-sex couples. "It is the right of individuals, not an indulgence to be dispensed by the state," Olson said. "The right to marry, to choose to marry, has never been tied to procreation." A federal judge in California ruled in 2010 that the state's ban violated the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court let that decision stand in 2013. "This is the most important thing I've ever done, as an attorney or a person," Olson later said in a documentary film about the marriage case. He told The Associated Press in 2014 that the marriage case was important because it "involves tens of thousands of people in California, but really millions of people throughout the United States and beyond that to the world." His decision to join the case added a prominent conservative voice to the rapidly shifting views on same-sex marriage across the country. Boies remembered Olson as a giant in legal circles who "left the law, our country, and each of us better than he found us. Few people are a hero to those that know them well. Ted was a hero to those who knew him best." Olson's personal life also intersected tragically with the nation's history when his third wife, well-known conservative legal analyst Barbara Olson, died on September 11, 2001. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. His other high-profile clients have included quarterback Tom Brady during the "Deflategate" scandal of 2016 and technology company Apple in a legal battle with the FBI over unlocking the phone of a shooter who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in 2015. The range of his career and his stature on the national stage were unmatched, said Barbara Becker, managing partner of Gibson Dunn. In a statement, she described Olson as "a titan of the legal profession and one of the most extraordinary and eloquent advocates of our time."




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Israel must seize historic opportunity to welcome one million olim in 2025


In the early 1990s, the unprecedented wave of aliyah followed the fall of the USSR. A million olim came to Israel and ensured that the country would keep growing.




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Trump taps firebrand US Representative Matt Gaetz for attorney general


Gaetz, who faced a federal probe and opposed key bills, would oversee deportations and Jan. 6 pardons while dismantling what Trump calls a 'weaponized government.'




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‘Nonsense and disgrace’: Ex-Shin Bet Deputy Director slams PMO over classified leak


Yisrael Hasson also condemned the decision to prioritize safeguarding the Prime Minister's son's reputation over national security.






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Panayiotou praises concrete sector for agreeing to negotiation framework

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Wednesday night praised both workers and employers in the concrete sector for agreeing to the negotiation framework he has devised with the aim of bringing to an end the strikes which have been taking place in the industry over the last week. Employers, led by concrete manufacturers’ association head Costas […]




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Prosecutor seeks 5-year ban from office against French far right leader Le Pen

The Paris prosecutor on Wednesday requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office against far-right leader Marine Le Pen, at a trial where she and 24 others are accused of embezzling European Union funds. The trial, which comes almost a decade after initial investigations started, threatens to undermine her party’s efforts […]




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Our View: Government doctors need to be publicly shamed and defeated

After a brief meeting with representatives of the state health services, Okypy, the perennially angry leader of Pasyki (government doctors union), Sotiris Koumas walked out because his members would not be paid the amount he was demanding for work done in 2023. Shortly after the meeting he appeared on a lunch-time news show on CyBC […]




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Trump 2.0: Firebrand congressman Matt Gaetz chosen for attorney general

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump chose loyalists with little experience for several key cabinet positions on Wednesday, stunning some allies and making clear that he is serious about reshaping – and in some cases testing – America’s institutions. Trump’s choice of congressman Matt Gaetz, 42, for U.S. attorney general, America’s top law enforcement officer, was a […]




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Korean live streamer arrested for injuring massage operator

PATTAYA — A Korean live streamer has been arrested for allegedly injuring the owner of a massage parlour while attempting to block his live coverage of a client's massage.




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Blinded by Circumstance: Trachoma’s Stranglehold on Kenya’s Rural Pastoralists

Draped in the vibrant red of his Maasai shuka, 52-year-old Rumosiroi Ole Mpoke sits cross-legged on a worn cowhide mat outside his hut, his face etched with a sorrow deeper than the lines of age. His once-sharp eyes, now clouded by trachoma, can barely make out the shadows of the cattle he once tended with […]




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UNDP’s Sustainable Energy Director Calls For Innovative Financial Solutions for Adaptation, Mitigation

Riad Meddeb, Director of the Sustainable Energy Hub at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), stressed the urgency of finding innovative financial solutions during COP29. Meddeb was speaking to IPS in an exclusive interview at the conference. He said the negotiations were expected to focus heavily on finance—a core issue that has historically hampered climate […]




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Rwanda: Economic Policy Reforms Could Spur Rapid Private Sector Growth - World Bank Report

[New Times] Achieving rapid private sector growth in Rwanda is unlikely without far-reaching reforms to economic policies, a new report released on November 13, by the World Bank has shown.




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'Sonic The Hedgehog 3' creator already has an idea for fourth sequel

Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba to star in 'Sonic 3'Sonic the Hedgehog 3 end will be putting the basis of the fourth installment. Director, Jeff Fowler revealed that he has been talking to his team about ongoing 'fan debate online' surrounding what characters the franchise can further add...




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Nicole Kidman's subtle dig at THIS legendary director for masculine movies

Nicole Kidman reveals she wants to work with THIS movie-makerNicole Kidman has recently taken a subtle dig at one of the iconic directors in Hollywood for his male-centered movies.In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the Stoker actress responded to a question about any notable movie-maker...




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King Charles issues message after solo appearance at 'Gladiator II' premiere

King Charles issues message after solo appearance at ‘Gladiator II’ premiereKing Charles appeared in high spirits as he stepped out on the red carpet for Gladiator II world premiere in London on Wednesday.The monarch, who is a patron of The Film and TV Charity, attended the 72nd Royal...




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Buckingham Palace sets Changing of Guard ceremony to 'Gladiator' theme

Buckingham Palace sets Changing of Guard ceremony to ‘Gladiator’ themeAhead of the Wednesday world premiere of Gladiator II at the Odeon Luxe in London’s Leicester Square, the Buckingham Palace had a special theme set for the Changing of the Guard ceremony.A special recital of...






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Amazon’s Discount Store Is Here, and It’s Full of Junk



Amazon Haul is a sub-$20 discount online store to compete with the likes of Temu and Shein.




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Why Russell T Davies Asked Steven Moffat to Write Doctor Who‘s New Christmas Special



Doctor Who's ramped up production speed is part of why we're getting Double Moff this year.




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Is FEMA Apology the End of the Story?

The guys on Monday's edition of the RealClearPolitics radio show discussed whether an apology from FEMA will be the end of the story, first reported by the Daily Wire, that some disaster relief teams were ordered to avoid houses with Donald Trump campaign signs during the cleanup from Hurricane Milton last month.