A 38-year-old Liverpool woman celebrated her first wedding anniversary to a tree, as per a TNN report. Kate Cunningham ‘tied the knot’ with an elder tree in 2019 and changed her surname to ‘Elder’. One year later, she said it was the best decision of her life and has no plans of ‘divorcing’ her partner. …
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A Sri Lankan politician who is on death row for murder was escorted out of prison to become the first convict to be sworn in as a member of parliament, as per a report in AFP. Premalal Jayasekara of the ruling SLPP was convicted in August of murdering an opposition activist when he fired at an election rally in 2015. …
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Donald Trump, who faces a cash crunch, said he would spend “whatever it takes” of his own money to finance the presidential campaign against Joe Biden if he had to, as per a report in Reuters. He currently trails Biden in opinion polls ahead of the election on November 3. Trump told reporters that the campaign had double or triple …
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Protesters in Portland hurled fire bombs at police and at least one person was injured, police said as per a Reuters report. This happened on the 100th day of demonstrations over racial injustice and police brutality. Police said it was “tumultuous and violent conduct” by protesters on Southeast Stark Street. Reuters “Fire bombs were thrown at officers, injuring at least …
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Are you missing the thrill of travelling by air during the COVID lockdown? A Nigerian restaurant is now giving its customers the illusion of being in flight without having to take off, as per a Reuters report. Urban Air diners in Abuja sit on plush white seats and peruse a flight-themed cocktail menu next to windows illustrated with blue skies …
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Israeli warplanes bombed Hamas targets in Gaza which was a response to Palestinians launching incendiary balloons at Israel, said the military according to a Reuters report. No casualties were reported in the strikes. The military said it targeted underground infrastructure that belonged to Hamas which is an Islamist group ruling over Gaza. Reuters Hamas has been trying to pressure Israel …
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Indian-American Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris says President Donald Trump and his campaign will “engage in lies” and “dirty tactics” to try to create a distraction from the actual problems affecting Americans, as per a report in PTI. This was in response to Trump’s promotion of conspiracy theories about her eligibility to serve as Vice President. On August 15, Trump …
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As the investigation into the grounding of Japanese ship Wakashio on a reef near UNESCO protected sites in Mauritius continues, the local investigators have made some unusual findings. The crew of the stricken MV Wakashio, which crashed off the coast of Mauritius on the evening of July 25 were celebrating a crew member’s birthday and veered off course in search of a wifi …
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said it’s a “lie” that fires are destroying the Amazon rainforest, despite data from his own government which show the blazes are rising in number, as per a report in AFP. This is yet another weird statement the leader has made. He has faced international condemnation for presiding over huge fires and rising deforestation in the …
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On August 6 and 9, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. In what goes down as perhaps the most shameful act by any country in the history of war, 75 years on, the scars are still fresh. USA dropped the bombs in a bid to end Japan’s advantage in World War II, but in doing so, …
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