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America Needs to Start Telling the Truth About Israel’s Nukes
New York Times 11 Aug 2021photo: AP / Indian Space Research Organization
Indian launch attempt of earth observation satellite fails
Dawn 12 Aug 2021
An Indian rocket failed in its attempt on Thursday to put a satellite into orbit to provide real-time images used to monitor cyclones and other potential natural disasters ... "Performance of first and second stages was normal. However, cryogenic upper stage ignition did not happen due to a technical anomaly ... It will fall back to Earth sometime soon ... .
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Canada needs US to break impasse in row with China: Experts
Straits Times 12 Aug 2021
MONTREAL (AFP) - After more than 2� years of diplomatic squabbling, Canada and China saw their relations sink to a new low this week after two Canadian citizens were handed stiff sentences by Chinese courts - one of them a death sentence ... Experts say only US intervention will break the "impasse" ... The arrest that started it all ... Chinese 'reprisals' ... �.
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Peru's Prosecutors Open Probe Into Prime Minister on Suspicion of Terrorism
Urdu Point 12 Aug 2021photo: AP / Rahmat Gul
Afghan officials: 3 more provincial capitals fall to Taliban
The Wichita Eagle 11 Aug 2021photo: AP / John Minchillo
Hamas rocket fire a war crime, Human Rights Watch says
BBC News 12 Aug 2021
The firing of rockets at Israel by Palestinians in Gaza during the conflict in May amounted to war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The attacks "flagrantly violated" the laws of war, the campaign group said following an investigation. More than 4,360 unguided rockets and mortars were fired, Israel says, killing 13 people there ... .
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Ex K-pop star Seungri ‘jailed over sex and gambling scandal’
The Guardian 12 Aug 2021
Former Big Bang singer reportedly convicted of arranging sex services for potential business investors A military court jailed the disgraced former K-pop star Seungri for three years on Thursday for arranging sex services and other charges stemming from a sex and gambling scandal, according to reports ... Another said ... .
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Pakistani forces clash with Afghan protesters at Chaman border crossing
Dawn 13 Aug 2021
QUETTA. Security personnel on Thursday clashed with hundreds of Afghans stranded on Pakistan’s side of a commercially vital border crossing with Afghanistan after its closure by the Taliban, officials said ... Protesters carried his body to a local Pakistani government office demanding the border be reopened ... No injuries were reported ... .
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Twitter says accounts of Rahul Gandhi, other Congress leaders blocked for violating rules
The Economic Times 12 Aug 2021
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Anderson HR for Chisox, walkoff end in Field of Dreams game
Artesia Daily Press 13 Aug 2021
DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Tim Anderson hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning into the cornfield to end the Field of Dreams game in cinematic fashion, as the Chicago White Sox outslugged the New York Yankees 9-8 Thursday night in the first Major League Baseball game in Iowa ... There were eight longballs in all, two by Judge ... FAMILY FIRST ... Yankees ... ___ ... .
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Saudi decision to limit foreign workers shocks war-weary Yemenis
Anadolu Agency 12 Aug 2021
Saudi Arabia recently announced new regulations on the percentage of foreign workers in private sector establishments in the kingdom. The new rules set the percentage of Indian and Bangladeshi workers at 40 percent, while the maximum limit for Yemeni workers has been set at 25 percent and one percent for Ethiopian nationals ... .
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Syrian properties in Ankara attacked after youth killed
Egypt Independent 12 Aug 2021
ANKARA, Aug 12 (Reuters) – A crowd of Turks attacked shops and homes belonging to Syrians in the Turkish capital Ankara overnight in the wake of a street fight that led to a Turkish youth being fatally stabbed, a witness and media reports said ... Police fired into the air at one point in an attempt to halt the violence, the witness said ... ....
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Record Profits For Alliance Airlines In 2021
Simple Flying 13 Aug 2021
Brisbane-based Alliance Airlines has posted a record profit for the twelve months to June 30, 2021. The airline recorded a US$35.5 million statutory profit before tax. Alliance Airlines is one of the few airlines anywhere to make money in the period. Alliance Airlines has posted a record profit for the 2021 financial year. Photo ... Photo ... Photo ... ....
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Former foreign minister arrested in Nicaragua’s brazen crackdown
The Guardian 12 Aug 2021
Ortega is sweeping up not just political rivals but a newspaper columnist and ‘election geek’ as well It has been a fortnight since Georgiana Aguirre-Sacasa last heard from her elderly father ... “What????”, she replied from her home in Denver, Colorado. “Why????” No answer came ... Related.
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Lebanon's president summons central bank chief over fuel-subsidy cut
The National 12 Aug 2021
Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun summoned the governor of the central bank after its decision to drastically cut fuel subsidies. Central Bank governor Riad Salame announced late on Wednesday that fuel imports would no longer be subsidised at the rate of 3,900 Lebanese pounds to the dollar ... Three killed in brawls over fuel scarcity in Lebanon ... Updated ... .
