FC Barcelona secured a 1-0 victory over Celta Vigo at Spotify Camp Nou, with Lamine Yamal scoring from the spot in the 40th minute to stretch their La Liga lead to nine points over Real Madrid. The 18-year-old right-winger exited in stoppage time with a suspected left hamstring tear, which could sideline him for 3-5...
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US Weighs Plan To Send Afghans Who Helped With War Effort From Qatar To A Third Country
The Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort and relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar to a third country, the U.S. government and some advocates said. Congo is an option, the advocates said. Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran who heads a coalition that...
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UK Passes Bill That Will Eventually Ban Cigarette Purchases
Opponents of smoking got a breath of fresh air as Parliament passed a bill that will put cigarettes out of reach for future generations. “The end of smoking, and the devastating harm it causes, is no longer uncertain — it’s inevitable,” Hazel Cheeseman, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health, said after a decades-long...
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Russian Oil To Slovakia Resumes Flowing Through Pipeline That Crosses Ukraine
The flow of Russian oil to Slovakia through the Druzhba pipeline that crosses Ukraine has resumed, Slovak Economy Minister Denisa Saková said Thursday. Hungary and Slovakia have been locked in an escalating feud with Ukraine since Russian oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia were halted in January. Unlike most of the rest of the EU,...
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Peru’s Defense And Foreign Ministers Resign After The President Stalls US Military Planes Deal
Peru’s defense and foreign ministers resigned Wednesday following an announcement by the country’s interim president to defer the decision on a $3.5 billion deal for U.S. F-16 fighter jets to his successor who will emerge from a presidential runoff vote in June. Last week, interim President José María Balcázar said he lacks the legitimacy as...
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MrBeast Employee Alleges She Was Harassed For Years And Fired After Maternity Leave In A New Lawsuit
A former Beast Industries employee is suing MrBeast’s media production company after she was allegedly fired from her social media manager job upon returning from maternity leave and following years of what she described as sexual harassment and workplace gender bias. The lawsuit, filed by Lorrayne Mavromatis in federal court in North Carolina on Wednesday,...
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Lebanese Journalist Amal Khalil Killed In Israeli Strike On A House Where She Took Cover, Paper Says
A Lebanese journalist was killed Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon where she had taken cover while reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah war. Her body was only retrieved from the rubble hours later, rescue workers said. The daily Al-Akhbar newspaper says its reporter Amal Khalil was killed in the southern village...
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Islamic Militants Kill 11 People And Burn Homes In Late Night Attack In Nigeria, Local Officials Say
Islamic militants attacked a remote village in northeastern Nigeria overnight, killing 11 people and leaving two critically injured, local officials said Wednesday. It was the latest violence in Africa’s most populous country that has long been battling a complex security crisis. The attack took place late on Tuesday in Pubagu, a community in a remote...
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Iran Fires On 3 Ships In The Strait Of Hormuz As US Maintains Blockade And Diplomacy Stalls
Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key waterway. The attacks came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an American blockade of Iranian ports. The standoff between the U.S. and Iran has effectively...
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EU Close To Approving A $106B Loan For Ukraine After Months Of Deadlock
The European Union on Wednesday was on the cusp of approving a massive loan for Ukraine as oil began flowing again through a key pipeline toward Hungary and Slovakia, lifting a major obstacle to approving the funds. The operator of the Druzhba pipeline in Ukraine, Ukrtransnaft, told the two countries that Russian oil was on...