Category: World
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Serbia buried Ratko Mladić with military honours and a state send-off. Bosnia has recalled embassy staff and suspended bilateral meetings — but cannot sever relations, because the decision rests with a presidency whose Serb member attended the funeral.
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Two people were killed and at least ten injured in overnight drone and missile strikes on Kyiv, with damage recorded at sixteen locations across five districts. The attack ended a weekend pause that had coincided with the first official visit by US envoys Witkoff and Kushner.
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Akbar Bugti was killed in a Pakistani military operation on 26 August 2006. Two decades on, the insurgency that followed is one of the least covered armed conflicts in the world — partly because of what it is, and substantially because of how hard it is to report from there.
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Both the US and Iran are attacking oil tankers, and both call the other’s attacks war crimes. What the law of naval warfare actually says about when a merchant ship stops being a protected civilian object — and where each side’s legal argument is weakest.
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Hurricane Lowell’s centre is forecast to pass west of the main Hawaiian islands, and Kauai is still under a tropical storm warning with up to 14 inches of rain possible. Why the category number tells you little about what a storm does to a mountainous island — and why islands prepare differently.
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Petrol at $4.14 a gallon is a Labor Day record in cash terms. Adjusted for inflation, 2008 was the equivalent of $5.63, and 2005 and 2022 were also higher. Which measure is right depends on what you are trying to know — and both sides of politics can use the same number.
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A federal judge called it a cruel bait-and-switch, said the timing was bizarre — and ruled for the Pentagon anyway. Three Stars and Stripes journalists can be fired while their lawsuit proceeds, because speech made as part of official duties is not protected the way private speech is.
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A campaign group, not a public authority, is prosecuting alleged animal welfare offences at a Lincolnshire pig farm. A court deadline falls this week. Nobody has been found guilty of anything, and the case is as much a test of who enforces animal welfare law in England as of what happened on one farm.
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An aircraft touches down at up to 160 miles per hour with a fixed distance in which to stop. Water, wind, weight and a slightly long touchdown each eat into the margin. Why runway overruns almost never have a single cause, and what is meant to be waiting at the end of the pavement.
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Regular petrol averaged $4.14 a gallon over the Labor Day weekend and diesel hit a record $5.85. Analysts point to the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz. The reserve is emptier than at any time since the early 1980s, and none of the available policy levers reach the actual cause.