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Thieves steal 4 Renaissance artworks in a Sicilian museum heist during an Italian holiday
12+ hour, 48+ min ago (489+ words) Posted today at 7:19am The thieves bypassed alarm and security systems on Saturday evening at the MuMe museum to make off with three of the five surviving panels of the San Gregorio Polyptych, dated to 1473, as well as the double-sided panel…...
Israel’s Ben Gvir advocates killing ’30 to 40′ people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostage
13+ hour, 47+ min ago (667+ words) Posted today at 9:20am Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir made the statement while speaking to a former Gaza-held hostage, Rom Braslavski, on Braslavski’s podcast. The two were discussing Israel’s recovery from the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, when Ben-Gvir criticized Israel’s…...
Bangladesh says better environment needed for India visit amid rift over ousted leader
14+ hour, 33+ min ago (355+ words) Posted today at 7:50am DHAKA, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Bangladesh signalled on Sunday it wants a more favourable diplomatic environment before it can agree to a top-level visit to India, as Dhaka presses New Delhi to extradite its ousted former leader and other…...
Corgis run, bark and sniff their way to glory at a growing international race
15+ hour, 43+ min ago (468+ words) Posted today at 5:19am The fifth Corgi Race Vilnius drew dogs and their owners to the Lithuanian capital’s Vingis park on Saturday for what organizers said was the biggest edition yet. There were competitors from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Germany, Ukraine,…...
Firefighters battle a massive Belgian wildfire that forced hundreds to evacuate
14+ hour, 45+ min ago (795+ words) Posted today at 5:19am About 600 residents in the nearby municipalities of Waimes and Bütgenbach, in Liège province near the German border, were told to evacuate Saturday as winds shifted and smoke spread through the area. Authorities also advised tourists to leave,…...
Bou Meng, a Cambodian artist and survivor of a Khmer Rouge torture center, has died at 85
14+ hour, 45+ min ago (602+ words) His ability to paint portraits of the then-leader Pol Pot was why he was kept alive. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a U.N.-backed tribunal that sought to try Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and other crimes against…...
Lala is again a tropical storm, sending drenching rain and winds across the Hawaiian islands
15+ hour, 15+ min ago (676+ words) Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm Sunday after skirting Hawaii without making landfall, but it wasn’t done punishing the Big Island with hurricane-force gusts. Total rainfall of nearly three feet (one meter) was expected on the higher windward slopes,…...
Pope calls for an end to West Bank violence against Palestinians
15+ hour, 31+ min ago (319+ words) Posted today at 6:22am CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Pope Leo called on Sunday for an end to violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, amid a surge of attacks by militant settlers and a siege in the territory’s village…...
Ben Franklin chose America. Son William chose the crown. This civil war is a microcosm of revolution
15+ hour, 43+ min ago (966+ words) Posted today at 7:19am William Franklin was buried at the graveyard of St. Pancras Old Church following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he was forced to leave America because of his service to the country his father fought…...
Republicans won the redistricting competition. Don’t tell that to this California congressman
16+ hour, 16+ min ago (1114+ words) That’s because California Democrats sliced Kiley’s district six ways as payback for Republican redistricting in Texas and elsewhere. The chunk of the district that Smull, who identifies as a conservative, lives in is now grafted onto an overwhelmingly Democratic seat…...