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Prigozhin's Dead Body Identified by DNA After Plane Crash, Russia Says
The Wagner chief staged a high-profile armed rebellion against Moscow in June, which experts saw as a real threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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DoorDasher Not Prepared for Wild Sight Outside Customer's Home: 'Surprise'
"You wouldn't even have to pay me to drop off this order," commented one social media user.
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Couple Share Shocking Weightloss After Dropping Over 200lbs Together
August and Teresa Miller decided "it was time for a change" and signed up for a weight loss program. They tell Newsweek how it has transformed their lives.
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Dietitian Says This One Food Item Can Improve Your Brain Activity
They say "you are what you eat," so make sure to fill up on this brain-boosting super food for improved memory and cognition.
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Tropical Depression Ten Path, Tracker As Florida Faces Potential Hurricane
Forecasters say the depression is expected to become a hurricane by Tuesday, August 29, and could hit the state as it moves north.
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Thousands of Christians Condemn Greg Abbott's Migrant 'Mistreatment'
The petition calls out the Texas governor "and other religious-right leaders who aren't practicing what Jesus preached."
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Ukraine Says 'Flawless' New Missile Wiped Out Russian S-400 'Triumf' System
Kyiv says it destroyed the air-defense system, along with a number of missiles, and killed or injured Russian personnel in the strike.
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Ukraine Downs Four Russian Cruise Missiles
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Ukraine Downs Four Russian Cruise Missiles
Ukraine said Sunday that it downed four Russian cruise missiles overnight, but did not say where the strikes occurred.
Meanwhile, the last Saturday in August has traditionally been celebrated as a professional holiday by Ukrainian civilian and military aviation workers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his daily address Saturday.
He said this year in Ukraine, there will be a “new level of Ukranian military aviation” in order for “F-16s [fighter jets] to appear in our sky.”
Zelenskyy also remembered three pilots who died “in the sky over Zhytomyr region” Friday. Andriy Pilshchykov was one of the pilots. The president said his call sign was Juice. “He was a Ukrainian officer, one of those who helped our country a lot. A lot,” the president said. The president said it was too early to talk about the details of the pilots’ deaths.
The president also offered a bit of a pep talk for Ukraine’s citizen in his address. “We should not let our emotions take over anywhere or in anything,” he said. Especially between us, within society, between Ukrainians. Please take care of each other.”
Russian forces shelled a café in Podoly — a suburb of the strategically significant northeastern city of Kupiansk — killing two civilians and injuring a third one on Saturday.
The attacks are raising fears that Russians are pushing to reclaim front-line cities in the northeast region. Ukrainian forces say that fighting there has become more intense, but the Russians haven’t broken through.
The British Defense Ministry said Saturday that Russia’s probable objective in the region will be to advance west to the Oskil River and establish a buffer zone around Luhansk oblast.
The U.K. military intelligence reports assess that Russia is attempting to reverse the gradual gains of the Ukrainian counteroffensive near Bakhmut and the Zaporizhzhia region.
The Ukrainian regional administration of Zaporizhzhia reported Saturday that Russia shelled Mala Tokmachka on Friday — one of the villages near which Kyiv's troops were said to be gaining ground. One resident was killed and another was injured in the attack.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian authorities ordered a mandatory evacuation of about 12,000 civilians from 37 towns and villages around Kupiansk, warning that Russian troops are trying to pierce the Ukrainian front.
Kupiansk, a town with a prewar population of about 27,000 people, was seized by Russia in the early days of the February 2022 invasion. Ukrainian troops recaptured it in a surprise offensive last September that embarrassed Moscow.
After the Russian occupiers left Kupiansk last year, Ukrainian authorities said they found torture chambers and mass graves in the region.
Ukrainian officials so far have reported limited advances in Kyiv's large-scale counteroffensive launched in early June, including in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and on the outskirts of Bakhmut, the eastern city that became the site of the war's longest and bloodiest battle before falling to Moscow in May.
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, assessed late Friday that Ukrainian forces were pushing forward in Zaporizhzhia after taking the village of Robotyne earlier this week.
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Russia’s defense ministry and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said the military shot down a drone over the Istra district of the Moscow region, 50 kilometers west of Red Square. Sobyanin said in a Telegram post there were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage.
The attack Saturday prompted an early-morning temporary shutdown of all three major airports around the Russian capital, Russian state media reported.
Three Ukrainian pilots died after two L-39 trainer aircraft collided in midair in central Ukraine, the country’ air force said Saturday in a statement. The loss of the three [...]
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Indian PM Modi Calls for African Union to Join G20
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Sunday for the African Union to be made a G20 member, while also pitching his country as the solution to supply chain woes ahead of the bloc's summit in New Delhi next month.
The Group of 20 major economies consists of 19 countries and the European Union (EU), making up about 85 percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world's population — but South Africa is the only member from the continent.
In December, US President Joe Biden said he wanted the African Union "to join the G20 as a permanent member," adding that it had "been a long time in coming, but it's going to come."
On Sunday, current G20 host Modi also called for including the pan-African bloc, which collectively had a $3 trillion GDP last year.
"We have invited the African Union with a vision to give permanent membership," Modi said at B20, a business forum and prelude to the September 9-10 G20 summit.
Headquartered in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, the AU at full strength has 55 members, but five junta-ruled nations are currently suspended.
Modi also said India was the "solution" to creating an "efficient and trusted global supply chain" following disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic, with New Delhi working to bolster manufacturing to compete with China.
"The world before COVID-19 and after Covid-19 has changed a lot — the world cannot view the global supply chain as before," Modi said.
"That is why today when the world is grappling with this question, I want to assure that the solution to this problem is India."
Relations between the world's two most populous nations nosedived after a deadly Himalayan border clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese troops in 2020.
Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a rare face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of a summit on Thursday, with Beijing saying they held "candid and in-depth" talks to ease tensions along their disputed frontier.
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More Than 600 Firefighters, Water-Dropping Aircraft Struggle to Control Wildfires in Greece
More than 600 firefighters, including reinforcements from several European countries, backed by a fleet of water-dropping planes and helicopters were battling three persistent major wildfires in Greece Sunday, two of which have been raging for days.
A massive blaze in the country’s northeastern regions of Evros and Alexandroupolis, believed to have caused the deaths of 20 people, was burning for a ninth day.
The blaze, one of the largest single wildfires ever to have struck a European Union country, has decimated vast tracts of forest and burnt homes in the outlying areas of the city of Alexandroupolis. On Sunday, 295 firefighters, seven planes and five helicopters were tackling it, the fire department said.
The wildfire has scorched 77,000 hectares (770 square kilometers) of land and had 120 active hotspots, the European Union’s Copernicus Emergency Management Service said Sunday.
Copernicus is the EU space program’s Earth observation component and uses satellite imagery to provide mapping data.
On the northwestern fringes of the Greek capital, another major wildfire has been blazing for days, scorching homes and burning into the national park on Mount Parnitha, one of the last green areas near Athens. The fire department said 260 firefighters, one plane and three helicopters were trying to tame the flames.
A third major wildfire started on Saturday on the Cycladic island of Andros and was still burning out of control Sunday, with 73 firefighters, two planes and two helicopters dousing the blaze. Lightning strikes are suspected of having sparked that wildfire.
Greece has been plagued by daily outbreaks of dozens of fires over the past week as gale-force winds and hot, dry summer conditions combined to whip up flames and hamper firefighting efforts. On Saturday, firefighters tackled 122 blazes, including 75 that broke out in the 24 hours between Friday evening and Saturday evening, the fire department said.
With firefighting forces stretched to the limit, Greece has called for help from other European countries. Germany, Sweden, Croatia and Cyprus have sent aircraft, while dozens of Romanian, French, Czech, Bulgarian, Albanian, Slovak and Serb firefighters are helping on the ground.
With their hot, dry summers, southern European countries are particularly prone to wildfires. European Union officials have blamed climate change for the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires in Europe, noting that 2022 was the second-worst year for wildfire damage on record after 2017.
The causes of Greece’s two largest fires have not yet been determined. For some of the smaller blazes, officials have said arson or negligence is suspected, and several people have been arrested.
On Saturday, fire department officials arrested two men, one on the island of Evia and one in the central Greek region of Larissa, for allegedly deliberately setting fire to dried grass and vegetation to spark wildfires.
Greece imposes wildfire prevention regulations, typically from the start of May to the end of October, to limit activities such as the burning of dried vegetation and the use of outdoor barbecues.
By Friday, fire department officials had arrested 163 people on fire-related charges since the start of the fire prevention season, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said, including 118 for negligence and 24 for deliberate arson. The police had made a further 18 arrests, he said.
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Spain's Soccer Federation to Hold Urgent Meeting Over Rubiales Kiss Scandal
Spain's soccer federation will meet urgently on Monday as its president, Luis Rubiales, faces a FIFA suspension and a storm of criticism over allegations he gave a player an unwanted kiss on the lips following Spain's victory in the Women's World Cup.
Rubiales has steadfastly refused to resign over the incident with player Jenni Hermoso last Sunday in Sydney, saying the kiss was consensual. Players and a string of coaches on the women's squad are demanding he go, and the government also wants him out.
The Royal Football Federation (RFEF) has called regional federations to an "extraordinary and urgent" meeting on Monday "to evaluate the situation in which the federation finds itself" following Rubiales' suspension, an RFEF spokesperson said on Sunday.
FIFA, soccer's world governing body, opened disciplinary proceedings against Rubiales on Thursday and announced on Saturday that Rubiales was suspended for three months from national and international soccer pending an investigation.
Rubiales, 46, said he would use the FIFA probe to show his innocence.
Hermoso, who has said she did not consent to the kiss and felt "vulnerable and the victim of an aggression," has been warmly supported not just by players but by many in wider society.
She appeared among spectators at the Women's Cup final between Atletico Madrid and Milan on Saturday evening, applauded by the crowd. Players at the match held a banner reading: "With you Jennifer Hermoso."
The uproar over the kiss has come in a country where tens of thousands of women have taken part in street marches in recent years protesting against sexual abuse and violence.
Feminist groups have called a demonstration on Monday in Madrid entitled "With You Jenni" in support of the player.
Similar demonstrations were staged by feminist groups in Madrid, Santander and Logrono on Saturday calling for Rubiales' resignation.
All 23 of Spain's cup-winning squad including Hermoso, as well as dozens of other squad members, said on Friday they would not play internationals while Rubiales remained head of the federation.
On Saturday, 11 members of the national women's team's coaching staff offered their resignations to the RFEF in a statement supporting Hermoso and condemning Rubiales.
The Spanish government cannot fire Rubiales but has strongly denounced his actions and said on Friday it was seeking to get him suspended using a legal procedure before a sports tribunal.
Victor Francos, head of the state-run National Sports Council, has called the incident a MeToo moment for Spain. However, he said on Saturday that the scandal would not damage Spain's bid to stage the 2030 World Cup along with Portugal and Morocco.
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Scientists Report Mass Antarctic Penguin Die-Off
According to a new study, thousands of baby emperor penguins drowned last year in Antarctica after sea ice broke up early. The British Antarctic Survey is blaming climate change and says satellite images suggest as many as 10,000 baby penguins may have died.
Emperor penguins are the largest of the 18 species of penguin, and one of the largest of all birds.
British scientists have reported an alarming die-off of chicks after reviewing data from the European Union's Sentinel-2 satellites.
The research shows four of five emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea near the Antarctic Peninsula suffered a “catastrophic breeding failure” at the end of last year.
It is the first time such a widespread regional breeding collapse has been recorded in emperor penguins.
Warming seas prematurely melted the ocean ice, killing baby penguins before they were mature enough to survive. Scientists say when the ice breaks up too soon because of global warming, the chicks fall into the water and drown or freeze. The study by the British Antarctic Survey, the national polar research institute, was published Friday in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.
Mary-Anne Lea, a professor at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. breeding collapses this year could be even worse than those documented last year.
“The changes in Antarctica are happening far faster than any of us would’ve predicted. We can only hope that this is some kind of aberration in this region but the extent of winter sea ice this year would indicate that similar events may occur for Emperor penguins and other species this coming summer,” she said.
Wild emperor penguins are only found in Antarctica. They breed and raise their chicks mostly on floating sections of ice, which is connected to land or to other ice shelves.
Researchers believe that emperor penguins could be mostly extinct by the end of the century because of warmer seas caused by climate change.
They are currently listed as “near threatened” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which documents the most endangered species.
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AMD's FSR 3 Has Feature Previously Only On Nvidia's Priciest GPUs - GameSpot
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PCOS Coach Claims This Diet 'Reverses' Symptoms, but Do Dieticians Agree?
Registered dietitian Alyssa Pacheco told Newsweek that blood-sugar balance and reducing inflammation in your diet can dramatically reduce PCOS symptoms.
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Donald Trump Issues Dire Warning to Fox News: 'Forever Gone!'
The former president skipped the recent presidential primary debate hosted by the network to be interviewed by former Fox host Tucker Carlson.
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Woman's Reason for Calling Cops on Neighbor's 11-Year-Old Son Cheered
Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist based in the U.S., said the woman was right to take action.
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Shock As Cat Caught 'Speaking English' on Pet Camera While Home Alone
"My cat says 'agua' when his water bowl needs replenishing," one user said.
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Former Trump Lawyer Predicts These Three Georgia Co-Conspirators Will Flip
"Donald doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about you one bit," Michael Cohen said in a warning to the former president's co-defendants.
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Donald Trump Posts Executive's Number to Prove He Won Golf Championship
The former president claimed on Saturday to have won a senior golf tournament at his Bedminster club in New Jersey.
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Japan Says Seawater Radioactivity Below Limits near Fukushima
Tests of seawater near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday, days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors.
Japan started releasing water from the wrecked Fukushima plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, sparking protests in Japan and neighboring countries, in particular China, which banned aquatic product imports from Japan.
Japan and scientific organizations say the water is safe after being filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
Because tritium is difficult to separate from water, the Fukushima water is diluted until tritium levels fall below regulatory limits.
The ministry's tests of samples from 11 points near the plant showed concentrations of tritium below the lower limit of detection - 7 to 8 becquerels of tritium per liter, the ministry said, adding that it "would have no adverse impact on human health and the environment."
Monitoring would be carried out "with a high level of objectivity, transparency, and reliability" to prevent adverse impacts on Japan's reputation, Environment Minister Akihiro Nishimura said in a statement.
The ministry would publish test results every week for the next three months at least, an official said.
Japan's fisheries agency said tests of fish from near the plant did not show any abnormalities. Its test on Saturday found no detectable levels of tritium.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) 9501.T said on Friday seawater near the plant contained less than 10 becquerels of tritium per liter, below its self-imposed limit of 700 becquerels and far below the World Health Organization's limit of 10,000 becquerels for drinking water.
Tepco said on Sunday it had not detected any significant change. Fukushima prefecture also published tests from nine locations near the plant that showed tritium below limits.
Tepco is storing about 1.3 million tons of the contaminated water, enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools, in tanks on the site.
The release of the first 7,800 cubic meters, equivalent to about three Olympic pools, will take about 17 days. It is estimated it will take about 30 years to release it all.
Japanese offices have received a barrage of telephone calls, apparently from China, complaining about the water release, the foreign ministry said, adding that it had asked the Chinese embassy in Japan to call on the public in China to remain calm.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Holds Emergency Meeting on High Electric Bills
Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, is holding an emergency ministers’ meeting Sunday to discuss the high electricity bills that have caused some people to take to the street in protest.
“In the meeting, a briefing will be taken from the ministry of power and distribution companies and consultations will be held regarding giving maximum relief to consumers regarding electricity bills,” the prime minister posted earlier this week on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Dawn, a Pakistani newspaper, reported that in Lahore, Sunday, dozens of people gathered their bills together and set them on fire, while chanting, “Expensive electricity is unacceptable.”
Recently increased electricity taxes have caused the monthly bills to skyrocket.
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