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Young environmental activists prevail in first-of-its-kind climate change trial in Montana
Print 🖨 PDF 📄HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Young environmental activists scored what experts described as a ground-breaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development. The ruling in this first-of-its- kind trial in the U.S. adds to…
Iran prisoner swap: US citizens freed in $6bn deal
Print 🖨 PDF 📄 Five Americans jailed for years in Iran and widely regarded as hostages are on their way home to the United States. The last pieces in a controversial swap mediated by Qatar fell into place when $6bn (£4.8bn) of Iranian funds held in South Korea reached banks in Doha. It triggered the…
Protester describes ‘barbaric’ attack at Chinese consulate in UK
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Taiwan Forces Fire at Drones Flying Over Island near China
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Taiwan’s military fired warning shots at drones from China flying over its outposts just off the Chinese coastline, underscoring heightened tensions and the self-ruled island’s resolve to respond to new provocations. Taiwan’s forces said in a statement that troops took the action on Tuesday after drones were found hovering over the Kinmen…
Outage at Amazon Web Services takes down apps, websites globally
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Oct. 20 (UPI) — Scores of the websites and apps, including Facebook, Disney+ and Reddit were hit by a global outage overnight caused by an “operational issue” at U.S. cloud services provider Amazon Web Services. At the peak of the incident, early Monday, AWS reported more than 70 of its own services…
