October 28 - Thousands of monkeys are menacing the historic Indian city of Shimla, where sterilisations and illegal poisonings have failed to blunt their frequent attacks on tourists and farms. During India's nationwide coronavirus lockdown, most of the macaques left the city for the countryside to look for food. © Money SHARMA Some residents of the town ...
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September 16 (SkyNews) - The foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have signed historic diplomatic normalisation deals with Israel at a ceremony at the White House. In an event overseen by President Donald Trump, the Emirati foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Bahrain's foreign minister Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayan signed the accords ...
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Washington, August 13 (Reuters) - Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a historic deal on Thursday that will lead to a full normalization of diplomatic relations between the two Middle Eastern nations in an agreement that U.S. President Donald Trump helped broker. Under the agreement, Israel has agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to areas of the West Bank that ...
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May 31 (Reuters) - SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 GMT), launching Doug ...
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January 1 (The Week) - Alot of good things happened over the last decade: scientific breakthroughs, incredible acts of kindness, feats of athleticism, and historic firsts. Here's a look back at some of those moments: 2010 33 Chilean miners rescued after 69 days underground A collapse on August 5 at the San Jose Mine near Copiapó, Chile, left 33 miners trapped ...
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