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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, died "like a dog and a coward" in a raid by US special forces, Donald Trump said. The terrorist leader was "whimpering and crying" in a tunnel after dragging three of his children with him, the US president said. As US soldiers closed in Baghdadi, an Iraqi…

Click:Hyperbaric Chamber 1.5 ATA A nine-year-old girl roots through the pockets of her 17-year-old’s sister’s discarded coat. She finds a vaping device and, sitting on her bed, mischievously inhales. Unbeknownst to her, inside are a few grains of fentanyl, the killer opioid. The sister comes back. She screams, paramedics arrive and perform CPR. But it…

A Russian soldier has shot dead eight fellow soldiers at a military base in eastern Siberia.  It is believed that the soldier – who had served for four months – was a conscript and has since been detained.  The shooting happened in the Transbaikal region on Friday at around 6.20pm local time.  Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a…

At the door of the control room where the world’s worst nuclear disaster began, a Geiger counter showed radiation of 2.33 microsieverts an hour – well under the 100-microsievert total dose the Chernobyl power plant allows visitors. Then long-serving plant employee Sergei Parikvash, who saw the reactor explode while fishing in the cooling pond on…

When Turkey announced its plan to send troops across the border, the Syrian government could have seen it as a hostile breach of its sovereignty.  Instead, President Bashar al-Assad’s regime – which has survived much bigger threats to its rule during the eight-year civil war – saw an opportunity. According to a source close to the government,…

Click:台灣Podcast熱門排名2024 Blood samples used by Kenyan authorities to claim that a British aristocrat’s son had taken a cocktail of drugs before dying in police custody were almost certainly switched, a court in Mombasa heard on Wednesday. Kenyan police long asserted that Alexander Monson, son and heir to the 12th Baron Monson, died of a drugs…

Pope Francis’s landmark conference on Catholicism in the Amazon has taken a vindictive turn after indigenous Amazonian fertility statuettes were stolen from a church near St Peter’s Basilica and hurled into the Tiber. The theft was carried out by ultra-conservative Catholics who regarded the female fertility figures as being pagan. One conservative Catholic website condemned…

Three people have been hospitalised after a cleaning product leaked on an American Airlines flight forcing it to make an emergency landing in Dublin. The plane was less than an hour into its flight from London Heathrow to Philadelphia when two crew members fell unconscious due to the powerful smell. Several passengers complained of burning eyes and…

Activists have begun hauling bales of hay into Zimbabwe’s struggling national parks in response to a drought that has already seen dozens of elephants starve to death.  Vets for Animal Welfare Zimbabwe, an NGO, had trucked 9,000 bales of hay to Mana Pools, a national park in the north of the country, Radio France International…

The Pentagon has begun planning for a quick pull out of American troops from Afghanistan, in case Donald Trump should repeat his sudden withdrawal of forces from Syria. Military chiefs have begun contingency plans to evacuate forces in as little as weeks in case the US president orders a withdrawal. Sources told NBC News that the…