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Dear friends, It’s been quite a week. A shooting at Brown University, leaving two dead and many others injured, quickly turned into a days-long manhunt. It resolved with an apparent suicide but was also soon linked to the murder of a former classmate and MIT professor, leaving more questions than answers. The world was treated…
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June 6 (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starship rocket survived a fiery, hypersonic return from space and achieved a breakthrough landing demonstration in the Indian Ocean on Thursday, completing a full test mission around the globe on the rocket’s fourth try. Starship’s controlled fall into the Indian Ocean just 65 minutes after launching from Texas capped the…
Tens of thousands in Spain protest proposed Catalan amnesty deal
Nov. 12 (UPI) — Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Madrid on Sunday against an amnesty deal between the ruling socialist party and Catalan separatists that allows the acting prime minister to stay in power. People in 53 cities across the country, led by the conservative Popular Party, launched protests as Pedro Sanchez readies…
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Iran’s parliament ratified a 20-year strategic partnership with Russia on Wednesday, formalizing a broad alliance that expands military and economic cooperation between the two heavily sanctioned nations, according to state media. The move comes as nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington are in doubt, raising fears of a renewed crisis in the Middle East with…
Supreme Court unanimously upholds TikTok divest or ban law
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Canada, Saudi Arabia resume full diplomatic ties after 5 years
Five years after Saudi Arabia expelled Canada’s ambassador from Riyadh over Ottawa’s remarks on women’s rights activists, both countries agreed Wednesday to restore full diplomatic relations, Global Affairs Canada (Canada’s foreign ministry – GAC) announced in a statement. According to press reports, the meeting in November between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Saudi Arabia’s Crown…


