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Salman Rushdie To Release New Novel, Six Months After Stabbing Attack.
Salman Rushdie (file photo)
A new novel by Salman Rushdie will be published on February 7, nearly six months after a man repeatedly stabbed the writer onstage during a lecture in New York state in what was widely condemned as an attack on freedom of expression. Rushdie, 75, was blinded in his right eye and his left hand was badly injured in the stabbing, which happened more than three decades after Iran instructed Muslims to kill Rushdie because of what religious leaders alleged was blasphemy in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. To read the original story from Reuters, click here .
Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Ordered Into Custody Over Graft Allegations.
Ukraine's anti-corruption court on April 26 ordered that Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskiy be taken into custody over accusations that he had illegally acquired land worth about 291 million hryvnias ($7 million).
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Ramstein Format To Discuss Next Steps In Ukraine Support.
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group, also known as the Ramstein Format, is to hold a virtual meeting on April 26 to discuss ways to speed up the delivery of much-needed military aid for Ukrainian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says.
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Siberian Teens Get Prison Terms Over Anti-War Graffiti.
A military court in Siberia has handed prison terms to two teenagers over graffiti they painted protesting Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Detained Former Karabakh Separatist Official Ends Hunger Strike -- Family.
Ruben Vardanian, a former Russian citizen of Armenian descent who served as prime minister in the de facto government of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh from November 2022 to February 2023, has ended a hunger strike in a Baku prison, his ...
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Putin Announces Plans To Visit China In May
Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit China in May. Putin announced the plans on April 25 at a congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow.
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'The Democrats have boxed themselves into a hole': JD Vance.
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, joins ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’ to discuss the need for law and order at college campus protests. #foxnews Subscribe to Fox News! Watch more Fox News Video: Watch Fox News Channel Live: FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour al...
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BREAKING: 'Number of horses' on the loose in central London.
Two loose horses have been seen running around central London, one of which appeared to be covered in blood. Read more on this developing story here: SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: Follow us on Twitter: Like us on Facebook: Foll...
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Watch live: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds news conference with Olaf Scholz.
Watch live as UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a joint news conference with Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Sunak is meeting Scholz in Berlin today for talks on defence and security ties. More on our politics live blog here: #skynews #rishisu...
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Life-saving drug for brain cancer will soon be available for children on NHS.
Children with a specific kind of brain tumour could soon have access to a life-saving drug that's been approved by the NHS. It combines two drugs to significantly slow progression of the disease - and patients now won't have to endure intense roun...
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LIVE: Deputy PM Oliver Dowden faces PMQs after defence budget boost and Rwanda bill's green light.
LIVE: Deputy PM Oliver Dowden faces PMQs amid defence budget boost and Rwanda bill's green light The Deputy Prime Minister will fill in for Rishi Sunak, who is currently in Berlin visiting troops after pledging a £70billion pound boost to the UK's...
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Livestream records Boeing 747 'roughest ever' touch-and-go landing - DW News.
Passengers on a Lufthansa flight to Los Angeles went through a scary 20 minutes when their plane tried to land at the city's airport on Tuesday. A live stream recorded the 'Touch and Go' landing of the Boeing 747 passenger jet, which touched down ...
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