Crowd sets Waymo self-driving vehicle ablaze in San Francisco

A crowd vandalized and set fire to a Waymo self-driving car using a firework in San Francisco on Saturday, the Alphabet-owned company and authorities said, marking the most destructive attack so far on driverless vehicles in the US. On Saturday night, a crowd surrounded a white sport utility vehicle that was moving along a street […]

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Age, mental capacity dominate campaign trail after report questions Biden’s memory

The mental ability and age of the United States’ presidential candidates took center stage on the campaign trail on Saturday, following a report that suggested President Joe Biden was suffering memory lapses. Former President Donald Trump accused both Biden, the Democrat he will likely face in November’s general election, and Nikki Haley, Trump’s last remaining […]

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Police block roads to halt Indian farmers marching to New Delhi

Indian police on Monday blocked roads to halt farmers who were marching to New Delhi to press for the better crop prices promised to them in 2021 when thousands of growers camped out on major highways leading to the country’s capital. The farmers protest revolves around the demand of a law guaranteeing Minimum Support Price […]

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Convicted Thai ex-PM Thaksin facing possible royal insults charge

Thailand’s attorney general is considering prosecuting convicted former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra over an alleged insult of the powerful monarchy, an official said on Tuesday, just weeks away from his possible release on parole. The complaint concerns a 2015 interview he gave while in South Korea and was filed by a junta that ran Thailand […]

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Kremlin declines comment on alleged visit of Tucker Carlson to Russian presidential administration

The Kremlin, asked on Tuesday whether US journalist Tucker Carlson had visited the Russian presidential administration in Moscow this week, declined to comment. Russian media showed pictures of Carlson at several spots around Moscow on Monday during a visit which has fuelled speculation that the former Fox News host may become the first Western journalist […]

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11 dead, 60 injured in India firework factory explosion

At least 11 people were killed in a giant explosion at a fireworks factory in Madhya Pradesh, India. At least 60 people were injured in this incident. The death toll is feared to increase. The fire broke out in the factory on Tuesday morning located at Bairagarh in the Harda district of the state. Then […]

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UK minister to meet with US lawmakers on restoration of Northern Ireland government

Britain’s minister for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, will travel to Washington to discuss the restoration of the province’s devolved government with US lawmakers and market its economic potential, his department said on Tuesday. Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom and shares a border with Ireland, on Saturday appointed its first Irish nationalist […]

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Spanish farmers blockade roads, joining EU peers’ protests

Spanish farmers blocked traffic on some of the country’s main highways on Tuesday, joining colleagues in other European countries protesting against high costs, bureaucracy and competition from non-EU nations. “With different shades, in the whole of the European Union, we have the same problems,” Donaciano Dujo, vice president of ASAJA, one the largest farmers associations […]

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Chile’s capital faces heat wave, experts warn of more to come

SANTIAGO – Chile’s capital and other regions are facing a heat wave, as meteorologists warn that extremely hot weather will become increasingly frequent in the country’s austral summer. Over six million inhabitants of Chile’s capital Santiago have been enduring days of hot, dry temperatures made worse by the surrounding mountains blocking fresh hair to the […]

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In South America, African-inspired religions gain more followers

MONTEVIDEO – Thousands of devotees of different African-based religions on Friday flocked to the waterfront of the Uruguayan capital, part of an annual Feb 2 offering to the Yoruba goddess of fertility and prosperity, Yemanjá. “Water represents a return to freedom, to native Africa,” said Mother Susana Andrade, known as “Mae Susana de Oxum”, the […]

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