An independent human rights group said the Taliban detained, bound, and shot to death 27 captives in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley near Kabul last month, disproving the group’s claim last month that the men died in battle.
Flooding in Venezuela’s central Aragua state killed at least three people on Monday, adding to the death toll from weeks of intense rains, authorities said. A downpour on Monday afternoon caused a dam to overflow, causing a flood that carried rocks, trees, and mud down a main road in El Castano, a suburb of the city of Maracay about 74 miles southwest of the capital Caracas.
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A whistleblower has revealed that the FBI is in possession of significant evidence connecting the president’s son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden with potential criminal conduct, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“The research is a clear example of gain of function research,” Dr. Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University said. “If we are to avoid a next lab-generated pandemic, it is imperative that oversight of enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research be strengthened.”
After months of attempting to reenter a nuclear deal with Iran, the White House recently confirmed that these attempts have thus far been unsuccessful.
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Dubbed “Corporal Oliveira,” the dog was taken in by Rio police officer Cristiano Oliveira, who found him in 2019 near his police station abandoned, injured, and hungry.
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As Americans consistently rank the economy as their number one concern going into the midterm elections, a new report shows the average 401(k) has plummeted over 25% in less than a year.
Concerns grow for the safety of Elnaz Rekabi — a female Iranian rock climber who appeared in a recent international championship in South Korea without a hijab — after a text-based image posted to social media remains her only communication since the end of the competition.
The North fired some 100 shells into the sea off its west coast around 10 p.m. local time and shot a further 150 rounds off its east coast, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement on Wednesday.
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“The most important thing is for the Democrats to do well that day, of course,” Marianne Williamson said. “But we’re talking here about something much more important than a political football game; we’re talking about the fate of our democracy. No one person or their career or their political prospects is what matters now.”