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• Wishing for white flags

  06-05-2025 20:16 via article.wn.com
  As the undisputed economic and military superpower at the end of WWII, the US could have thrown its weight around – instead it worked towards a world where even the vanquished Germany and Japan could flourish. ......
  
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• CBS News pushes back on report Weiss held another 60 Minutes story critical of Trump’s policies

  09-01-2026 18:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  The segment is by veteran journalist Anderson Cooper and covers the Trump administration’s decision to accept refugees from South Africa, a report says
  
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• Trump team looking at West Wing expansion after tearing down East Wing to make way ...

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
  He’s dubbed the project the ‘Upper West Wing’...
  
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• Trump says Ayatollah looking to flee as US warns it will ‘hit Iran hard’ if ...

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
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• Single elephant suspected to have killed as many as 13 people in just a week ...

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
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• Singapore’s Lee Hsien Loong admits US raid on Venezuela has left small countries alarmed

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
  Singapore joins Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and China in voicing concern over Nicolás Maduro’s ouster...
  
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• More than 100 human skulls and body parts found in Pennsylvania grave robbing case

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
  Jonathan Gerlach faces...
  
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• Indian state considers new ‘honour killing’ law after brazen murder of young pregnant woman

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
  Six months...
  
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• ICE officer in shooting was Iraq vet, ex-Border Patrol

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
  Two separate ICE-related shootings fuel protests nationwide After two ICE-related shootings in separate parts of the country, protests continued in cities nationwide. The federal immigration officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis this week is a U.S. Army veteran with deployments to Iraq and years of experience, newly released records show. Jonathan Ross, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement removal officer based in Minnesota, told a court about his career in December, during the cr
  
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• Huge 550lb bear living under man’s house finally leaves after months long ordeal

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
  The black bear living under Ken Johnson’s home in California has caused thousands of dollars in damage...
  
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• Desperate search for Philippines landfill workers buried alive in garbage

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
  City councillor says collapse may be linked to unsafe waste management practices...
  
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• CBS boss Bari Weiss holds another 60 minutes story critical of Trump policies: report

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
  The delayed segment is...
  
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• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Who is Iran’s supreme leader as protests grip the country

  09-01-2026 18:04 via article.wn.com
  Iran’s supreme leader faces his biggest threat yet after more than three decades in power...
  
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• Trump says he scrapped new Venezuela attack after prisoner release

  09-01-2026 18:01 via article.wn.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he called off a second wave of attacks on Venezuela after securing cooperation with the new leadership, which began releasing prisoners nearly a week after...
  
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• Swiss prosecutors request male bar manager to be placed in pre-trial detention over fatal fire

  09-01-2026 18:01 via article.wn.com
  MARTIGNY, Switzerland (AP) — Switzerland held a national day of mourning on Friday for the 40 people who died in an Alpine bar fire during a New Year’s Eve celebration, as prosecutors requested one of the managers to be placed in pre-trial detention. Valais region’s chief prosecutor Beatrice Pilloud said in a statement the detention of the man was needed to avoid a “risk of flight.” The man’s wife and co-manager will remain free under judicial supervision, the
  
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• Keir Starmer 'now more unfavourable than Hamas' in UK: YouGov

  09-01-2026 18:01 via article.wn.com
  The British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has a higher unfavourability rating in the UK than the Palestinian militant group Hamas, a has found. The poll found that Hamas, which is a proscribed terror group in the UK, has an unfavourability rating of 63 per cent, while Keir Starmer's unfavourability rating stood at 74 percent. Starmer did fare better in favourability, with 18 per cent having a favourable view of the Prime Minister, compared to 5 per cent for Hamas. The poll also asked about...
  
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• Enpower Corp. Completes Sale of Wadham Energy Limited Partnership, the World’s Largest Rice Husk Fired ...

  09-01-2026 18:01 via article.wn.com
  SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 9, 2026-- ......
  
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• What to know about restrictions on state use of money for child care and other ...

  09-01-2026 17:59 via article.wn.com
  The Trump administration has frozen...
  
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• The Latest: Outrage spills onto streets of Portland and Minneapolis after ICE shootings

  09-01-2026 17:59 via article.wn.com
  A day after an Immigration and...
  
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• Protesters vent outrage over the immigration enforcement shootings in Minneapolis and Portland

  09-01-2026 17:59 via article.wn.com
  Another round of protests is planned...
  
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• Spanish citizens released from Venezuela prison arrive in Madrid

  09-01-2026 17:58 via article.wn.com
  MADRID, Jan 9 (Reuters) - ‌Four Spanish...
  
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• Russian drone strikes hit two foreign vessels in Odesa region, Kyiv says

  09-01-2026 17:58 via article.wn.com
  KYIV, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Russia ‌has attacked two foreign-flagged civilian vessels with drones ‌in the southern Odesa region, killing a Syrian national ‌and injuring another, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. Read full story ......
  
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• Poland worried about tensions in NATO over Greenland, says Tusk

  09-01-2026 17:58 via article.wn.com
  WARSAW, Jan 9 (Reuters) - ‌Poland's prime...
  
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• Italian PM says she disagrees with Trump over Greenland

  09-01-2026 17:58 via article.wn.com
  ROME, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday that she disagrees with U.S. President Donald Trump on Greenland. Speaking at her year-end press...
  
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• Dutch parties aiming for rare minority coalition government

  09-01-2026 17:58 via article.wn.com
  AMSTERDAM, Jan 9 (Reuters) - ‌Government formation talks in the Netherlands ‌will be aimed at forming a rare ‌minority cabinet, leaders of the three prospective coalition parties said on Friday. Read full story ......
  
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• Defiant Bosnian Serbs, their leader celebrate banned state holiday

  09-01-2026 17:58 via article.wn.com
  BANJA LUKA, Bosnia ‌and Herzegovina, Jan 9...
  
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• Chinese property developers award scholarship to Kenyan university students

  09-01-2026 17:57 via article.wn.com
  NAIROBI, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Property Developers Association of Kenya (KCDA), an alliance of investors in the real estate sector, on Friday donated two million Kenyan shillings (about 15,500 U.S. dollars) to support 30 local students...
  
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• More than 100 sets of human remains found in Pennsylvania grave robbing case: ‘A horror movie come to life’

  09-01-2026 17:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jonathan Gerlach faces nearly 500 charges in Pennsylvania after officers found at least 26 mausoleums and vaults had been forced open since early November
  
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• One-Pan Orzo With Spinach and Feta and More Popular Recipes

  09-01-2026 17:55 via article.wn.com
  And more reader favorites from this week. ......
  
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• US Military Seizes Another Tanker in Caribbean Sea ‘Without Incident’

  09-01-2026 17:53 via article.wn.com
  U.S. military forces boarded an oil tanker in an early morning operation in the Caribbean Sea on Jan. 8, the third such...
  
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