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• World’s First Patients Successfully Treated With Novel Scarcell Therapeutics Therapy Using Gum Cells Designed to ...

  09-12-2025 15:20 via article.wn.com
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• GOAT India Tour Organiser Satadru Dutta Arrested After Chao

  14-12-2025 08:36 via article.wn.com
  Kolkata Police have arrested Satadru Dutta, the main organiser of Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour, following chaos at the Salt Lake Stadium during the event. The arrest was confirmed by West Bengal...
  
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• Police seize 222 kg of hashish in northern Afghanistan

  14-12-2025 08:31 via article.wn.com
  KABUL, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police have arrested two drug traffickers for...
  
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• Us shifts ai chip exports and markets after China move

  14-12-2025 08:30 via article.wn.com
  The United States government’s approval for Nvidia to export its powerful H200 artificial intelligence chips to China has upended expectations across global technology markets and deepened debate over export controls and strategic competitiveness. President Donald Trump confirmed that U. S. authorities will permit sales of Nvidia’s H200 processors to approved Chinese customers under a regime that levies a 25 per cent levy on such transactions, a policy intended to balance economic in
  
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• Google opens museum doors online

  14-12-2025 08:30 via article.wn.com
  Google has expanded its cultural mapping ambitions with the debut of the Google Art Project, a digital platform that places high-resolution artworks and virtual museum galleries within reach of anyone with an internet connection. The initiative extends the company’s mapping tools beyond streets and landmarks, offering close-up access to paintings, sculptures and artefacts held by leading museums across Europe, North America and Asia. Launched as a collaboration with major cultural institut
  
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• Brown University shooting latest: Manhunt on for suspect after two killed and nine injured in ...

  14-12-2025 08:29 via article.wn.com
  Hundreds of officers launch manhunt for suspect after vanishing from Ivy League in Rhode Island...
  
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• Police hunt gunman who killed two at US university | Kuwait Times Newspaper

  14-12-2025 08:28 via article.wn.com
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• Women fleeing Mali's conflict say they were sexually assaulted but silence hides many more

  14-12-2025 08:25 via article.wn.com
  Women and girls from Mali are...
  
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• Takeaways from AP report on sexual violence in Mali

  14-12-2025 08:25 via article.wn.com
  Multiple women have told The...
  
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• Chile holds an election that could deliver its most right-wing president since dictatorship

  14-12-2025 08:25 via article.wn.com
  Chileans are headed to the polls and even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate is now almost certain to become Chile’s next leader. Kast has a meaningful lead in the polls over his rival in ......
  
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• Anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies intensify across Europe

  14-12-2025 08:25 via article.wn.com
  In the past year, tens of thousands...
  
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• University of Arkansas prof. canned over alleged support for Iranian regime, anti-Israel stance

  14-12-2025 08:21 via article.wn.com
  A political science professor at the University of Arkansas stands accused of praising Iran’s Supreme Leader using the school’s letterhead and attacking Israel, The Post has learned. Shirin Saeidi, head of the school’s Middle East Studies program, also allegedly supported a convicted Iranian regime war criminal, evidence shows. Now, lawmakers and a group of Iranian dissidents are demanding administrators at the university further discipline Saeidi, who was removed from her posi
  
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• Six UN peacekeepers killed in drone attack in Sudan’s South Kordofan

  14-12-2025 08:21 via article.wn.com
  Six United Nations...
  
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• North Korea admits troops hunted mines for Vladimir Putin, with several returning injured, dead: ‘Absolute loyalty’

  14-12-2025 08:21 via article.wn.com
  North Korea sent troops to clear mines in Russia’s Kursk region this fall, nine of which were killed during the dangerous deployment, leader Kim Jong Un said in a speech carried by state media Saturday. In a rare admission of the kamikaze missions assigned to Pyongyang’s soldiers fighting alongside Moscow in the war in Ukraine, the hermit kingdom ruler praised their “heroic” conduct. Kim said the men demonstrated “absolute loyalty” to the ruling Workers’
  
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• Israel kills top Hamas commander Raad Saad with IDF strike in Gaza City, officials say

  14-12-2025 08:21 via article.wn.com
  A top Hamas military commander and “one of the architects” of the gruesome Oct. 7 massacre was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza Saturday, thrusting an already fragile cease-fire into further peril. The Israeli Defense Forces said Saad, a member of the Qassam Brigades, the terror group’s military wing, had been involved in efforts to “restore and manufacture the group’s weapons.” He served as chief of Hamas’ weapons manufacturing headquarters and is
  
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• Disney dismisses claims it pushed pro-Palestinian subliminal messaging in Christmas ad for streaming service

  14-12-2025 08:21 via article.wn.com
  Disney is pushing back on claims it injected pro-Palestinian “subliminal” messaging into a recent Christmas ad, after facing intense backlash on social media. The shot — which appears for less than two seconds in the less than two minute television spot for the Disney+ streaming platform — shows a watermelon sticker on a teenage girl’s laptop. The fruit is a long-standing...
  
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• Birth control: China slaps new taxes on condoms, contraceptives in effort to boost birth rates

  14-12-2025 08:21 via article.wn.com
  It’s a taxing time for sweethearts in China. After a 30-year exemption, the country is slapping a 13% sales tax on condoms, birth control pills and devices, hoping to boost its declining birth rates and offset the long-term impact of an aging population and declining workforce. And with contraception more expensive under the new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2026, officials are hoping other financial incentives help usher in a baby boom. On Jan. 1, 2026, China is slapping a 13% sales tax
  
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• King Charles has ‘responded exceptionally well’ to cancer treatment: Buckingham Palace

  14-12-2025 08:17 via article.wn.com
  King Charles delivered “good news” about his cancer, explaining in a personal message that early detection and “effective intervention” have allowed his treatment to be scaled back in the coming year, according...
  
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• Brown University shooting latest: Manhunt on for suspect after two killed and nine injured in mass shooting

  14-12-2025 08:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of officers launch manhunt for suspect after vanishing from Ivy League in Rhode Island
  
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• Ex-Brazil midfielder Ribeiro extends Bahia contract

  14-12-2025 08:13 via article.wn.com
  RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Bahia has extended the contract of former Brazil international midfielder...
  
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• Wemby shines on comeback as Spurs stun Thunder, Knicks down Magic

  14-12-2025 08:11 via article.wn.com
  Victor Wembanyama made a triumphant return from injury to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a stunning NBA Cup semi-final upset of the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday as the New York Knicks downed the Orlando Magic to book their ......
  
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• Liwa Festival 2026: Sport, Culture & Heritage Unite in Abu Dhabi

  14-12-2025 08:10 via article.wn.com
  Abu Dhabi: Day Three of the Liwa International Festival 2026 kicks off today with the bike race, part of the festival’s sports programme, in a highly competitive and thrilling atmosphere, drawing broad participation from motorsports enthusiasts. The event features five categories and follows a straight-line format, with riders’ best times recorded according to approved technical regulations. The races are overseen by specialised organisational and technical committees to ensure safet
  
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• Welcome to our age of impunity – where the ICC prosecuting atrocities is a rare ...

  14-12-2025 08:09 via article.wn.com
  The jailing of a Sudanese militia leader is an anomaly in a world where Putin, Netanyahu and yes, Hegseth, act without fear of international law...
  
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• Thailand declares curfew along coast as Cambodia border fighting spreads

  14-12-2025 08:09 via article.wn.com
  BANGKOK, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Thailand...
  
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• Police in Tasmania say missing Belgian woman's phone found two years after her disappearance

  14-12-2025 08:09 via article.wn.com
  SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Police in...
  
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• ‘Like a mini Louvre’: two generations of Rothschilds fight over treasure trove of artworks

  14-12-2025 08:09 via article.wn.com
  Baronesses Nadine and Ariane de Rothschild at odds over future of Swiss chateau’s priceless contents...
  
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• Chile votes in presidential race expected to lurch country to the right

  14-12-2025 08:09 via article.wn.com
  SANTIAGO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Chileans will vote in a runoff presidential election on Sunday that is expected to result in the South American country's sharpest rightward shift since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. Read full story ......
  
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• Brown University shooting: How the deadly attack unfolded in Rhode Island

  14-12-2025 08:08 via article.wn.com
  A deadly shooting during...
  
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• Fear grips Brown University after shooter kills 2 and wounds 9 as police search for shooter

  14-12-2025 08:04 via article.wn.com
  Hundreds of police officers are scouring the Brown University campus and nearby neighborhoods in the hunt for a shooter who killed two people and wounded nine others in a classroom. The search stretched late into a second day after the ......
  
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• AP News Summary at 1:35 a.m. EST

  14-12-2025 08:04 via article.wn.com
  Fear grips Brown University after shooter kills 2 and wounds 9 as police search for shooter ......
  
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