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Straining under the pressure of thousands of migrants flooding into the US, Border Patrol agents were ordered to begin releasing swaths of people from overwhelmed holding facilities Wednesday. Agents were ordered Wednesday to release migrants from any border sector that reached 125% capacity. They are being released without having a court date and with no…
Tens of thousands gathered across Bulgaria on Wednesday to demand Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov’s resignation, with protesters accusing the government of widespread corruption. The demonstrations come weeks before Bulgaria joins the eurozone on 1 January. Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned on Thursday after tens of thousands of Bulgarians joined protests across the country the night…
A total of five people — including two teenage gunmen who inscribed anti-Muslim hate messages on their weapons — are dead after a shooting at a San Diego mosque. Officers responded to the Islamic Center of San Diego for a report of an active shooter around 11:43 a.m. Monday. Outside the center were three adult…
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Friday offered a ‘brutally honest’ assessment of Europe’s defence capabilities, stating bluntly that ‘we’re not strong enough’ to stand up to Moscow alone before warning against dependence on China. ‘We should make sure that we are stronger,’ Marin said in Sydney on Friday, before adding: ‘I’ll be brutally honest…
US president sent a ‘blunt message’ to his South American counterpart, sources say Donald Trump reportedly gave Nicolás Maduro an ultimatum to relinquish power immediately during their recent call – but Venezuela’s authoritarian leader declined, demanding a “global amnesty” for himself and allies. On Sunday, the US president confirmed the call had taken place, telling…
BENGALURU, Aug 21 (Reuters) – India’s space agency on Monday released images its spacecraft took of the far side of the moon as it headed for an attempted landing on the lunar south pole, just days after the failure of a Russian lander. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft had been in a…