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Washington, Kyiv say a peace deal must 'fully uphold' Ukraine sovereignty - The
- GENEVA: Washington and Kyiv said that any eventual deal to halt the war with Russia must fully uphold Ukraine's sovereignty, after "constructive" talks between US, Ukrainian and European officials in Geneva. After a day of meetings that kicked off based on a US proposal that was criticised as being in Russia's favour, negotiators have drafted "an updated and refined peace framework", a US-Ukraine joint statement ...

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Who was Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah official killed by Israel?
- Israel has attacked the Haret Hreik area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, killing five people, including Hezbollah's highest ranking military official. Sunday's attack, which took place amid an uptick in Israeli attacks across Lebanon, was the first on Beirut's southern suburbs in several months and the first without warning since last year's ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was ...

Source: aljazeera.com
Hours elapsed before cops learned Slender Man attacker was missing
- ( NewsNation ) — Police in Wisconsin said more than eight hours passed before they were notified a former student convicted of stabbing a classmate in the infamous "Slender Man" case had cut off an electronic monitoring bracelet and fled a group home Saturday. Local authorities did not alert the public until Sunday morning that Morgan Geyser , 23, was missing. Police in Posen, Illinois, captured Geyser around ...

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'That doesn't exist': DOGE, earlier led by Elon Musk, shut down ahead of schedule; employees move into new roles - The
- The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a signature initiative of US President Donald Trump , has reportedly been disbanded with eight months remaining on its charter, drawing attention to the early closure of a programme launched to streamline federal operations by "modernizing federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity." However, its guiding principles remain ...

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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How did McLaren get it so wrong with their cars in Las Vegas?
- Disqualifications of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri bring unnecessary stress for McLaren in the final two F1 races of the season As misjudgments go, McLaren's error in calculations that led to the disqualification of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri from the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Sunday could barely have been more cataclysmic nor more poorly timed. Quite how they got it wrong just when they wanted to close out the ...

Source: theguardian.com
BUSINESS  
Fullestop Launches Enterprise 'Agentic AI' Division to Automate Complex Corporate Workflows
- a global digital transformation agency with a 24-year history of delivering high-impact technology solutions, announced the official launch of its Agentic AI Solutions division. This new service line is designed to help global enterprises transition from passive "Generative AI" experiments to active, autonomous "Agentic Automation" that drives measurable operational efficiency. While Generative AI excels at ...

Source: aithority.com
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Elon Musk unwittingly exposes MAGA influencers as foreign trolls
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Some users were based in places like Nigeria, Eastern Europe, and India despite posting U.S.-focused right-wing content Changes at Elon Musk's X may have unwittingly revealed that many MAGA accounts are actually foreign actors profiting from the sowing of division in the U.S. On ...

Source: independent.co.uk
High school football players of the week: 28 standouts from the semifinals
- Here are the notable performances from high school football players in Eastern Mass. conferences/leagues. Dominic Funke , Xaverian — The BC-bound senior defensive end wrecked Springfield Central's offensive game plan with relentless pressure, forcing a late fumble and interception to seal a 36-22 state semifinals win. Funke helped hold Springfield's star tailback, Isaiah Rogers, to 43 rushing yards. Maxwell ...

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Australian far-right Senator Pauline Hanson slammed for wearing burqa to parliament to demand ban
- Sydney  — A far-right Australian politician sparked outrage Monday after donning a burqa at the country's parliament, in a display that other lawmakers condemned as racist, unsafe and disrespectful. Pauline Hanson of the anti-immigration One Nation party was seeking to introduce a bill in the Senate that would ban full face coverings in Australia — a policy she has campaigned on for decades. Just ...

Source: cbsnews.com
WORLD  
The G20 summit in South Africa ends with the glaring absence of the US after Trump's boycott
- JOHANNESBURG — The Group of 20 summit in South Africa ended Sunday with the glaring absence of the United States — the next country to lead the bloc — after the Trump administration boycotted the two days of talks involving leaders of the world's richest and top developing economies. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the summit in Johannesburg closed by banging a wooden gavel on a ...

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Yes, a Browns rookie QB can win his first start! Take a bow, Shedeur Sanders – Terry Pluto
- CLEVELAND, Ohio — It's promising. It was fun. It was Shedeur Sanders' first NFL start. OK, Browns fans, don't you want to see more from the rookie? And by the way, the Browns beat Las Vegas, 24-10. And how about this? Rookie Cleveland Browns QBs had lost their previous 12 first starts. The last rookie QB to win was Eric Zeier in 1995. Yes, those were the old Browns, who are now in Baltimore. That streak is ...

Source: cleveland.com
50 schoolchildren escape captivity in Nigeria; over 250 still being held
- Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria's Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, bringing relief to some distraught families after one of the largest school abductions in Nigeria's history. The schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according to the Most ...

Source: nbcnews.com
Oregon back in top five of AP Top 25 poll; Miami leads pack of five ranked ACC teams
- Oregon returned to the top five of The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday, five Atlantic Coast Conference teams were ranked for the second time this season and Georgia Tech took the biggest fall after its second loss in three games. Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M remained the top three teams for a sixth straight week, and Georgia was No. 4 for the second week in a row. Oregon jumped over idle ...

Source: nbcnews.com
Kash Patel slammed for his girlfriend receiving FBI protection
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Kash Patel has previously been criticized for using the FBI's $60 million plane to visit his girlfriend after a report claimed that his country music star girlfriend has been assigned an FBI SWAT team for protection. The elite agents assigned to protect Alexis Wilkins, Patel's ...

Source: independent.co.uk
UAB football player, accused of stabbing 2 teammates, remains in custody
- A football player at the University of Alabama was arrested after allegedly stabbing two teammates Saturday morning, hours before the team's game against the University of South Florida, university officials said. The two wounded players were in stable condition, interim head coach Alex Mortensen said at the postgame news conference. He said the team decided to play to honor graduating seniors in the last home game ...

Source: cbsnews.com
Pocket watch owned by Titanic victim sells for $2.3M at auction
- Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A gold pocket watch owned by Isidor Straus, a first-class passenger who died with his wife when the famed ship sank, has sold for $2.3 million at auction. Straus, a German-born American businessman and politician who co-owned the department store Macy's, had been offered a seat on a lifeboat because of his age but chose to let others go first as his wife, Ida, stayed arm-in-arm by his side. The ...

Source: upi.com
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Climate Talks End With 'Empty Deal' That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels
- The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, concluded on Saturday in Belém, Brazil with a deal that does not even include the words "fossil fuels"—the burning of which scientists agree is the primary cause of the climate crisis . Environmental and human rights advocates expressed disappointment in the final Global Mutirão decision, which they say failed to deliver road maps to ...

Source: commondreams.org