WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Republicans stepped up calls on Sunday for the release of an FBI affidavit showing justification for seizing documents from his Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump amid reports of increased threats against federal law enforcement personnel. . A search warrant released last week after the unprecedented search showed that …
Author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed approximately 10 times on Friday, has been taken off a ventilator and is recovering, his agent said Sunday. “The road to recovery has begun,” Andrew Wylie, the agent, said in a text message. “It will be long; the injuries are serious, but his condition is going in the right …
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TAIPEI/WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) – A delegation of U.S. lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Sunday for a two-day trip during which they will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, the second group of high level than the visit while there are military tensions between the self-governing island and China. Beijing, which claims democratically-ruled Taiwan as its …
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In a statement, Heche’s son Homer Laffoon, 20, wrote: “My brother Atlas and I lost our mother. After six days of almost unbelievable emotional changes, I am left with a deep sadness without words. Hopefully my mom is pain free and beginning to explore what I like to imagine as her eternal freedom.” A week …
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“He’s off the ventilator, so the road to recovery has begun,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, told CNN on Sunday. “It will be long, the injuries are serious. But his condition is going in the right direction.” The 75-year-old award-winning author, whose writings have drawn death threats against him for decades, was preparing to give a …
The Russians who threaten Zaporizhzhia are “targets” -Zelenskiy The humanitarian cargo must go to Ethiopia Kyiv, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned Russian soldiers against firing at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant or using it as a base for firing since it will become a ” special target” for Ukrainian forces. …
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The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on the banks of the Dnipro River is occupied by Russian forces. Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Artillery fire resumed Sunday from the direction of a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, with shells penetrating a town from which the Ukrainian military has been unable …
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MUMBAI, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Stock investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, dubbed the “Warren Buffett of India” with an estimated net worth of $6 billion, died early on Sunday at the age of 62, he said his family. An accountant by profession from the desert state of Rajasthan, Jhunjhunwala started dabbling in stocks while in college and …
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Aug 13 (Reuters) – Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie remained in hospital with serious injuries on Saturday, a day after he was repeatedly stabbed at a public appearance in New York state, as police tried to determine a motive of an attack that drew international condemnation. The accused assailant, Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, …
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