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What made Pearl Harbor inevitable

Over 2,400 Americans died that Sunday morning as the 1st Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the dreaded Kido Butai, struck the Pacific Fleet at anchor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. One US battleship, the Arizona, was destroyed outright. Another, the Oklahoma, damaged beyond repair. Six others were …

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Putin and Biden wrap up video meeting after 2 hours of talks

The much-anticipated video “summit” on Tuesday touched on a number of topics, including the American accusation that Russia is amassing troops to “invade” Ukraine, which Moscow has dismissed as “fake news.” READ MORE: First images released from crucial Putin & Biden summit (VIDEO) Contact at the highest level was “badly …

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Amazon down for thousands worldwide

There have been over 20,000 outage reports for the main Amazon site and 11,000 for AWS. The Downdetector heatmap shows the problem is most acute in eastern US.   As a lot of web infrastructure uses AWS to operate, outages have been reported on other services, from the McDonald’s app and …

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Papers reveal what CIA did to captives in Afghanistan

In a recent legal filing, the lawyers of Abu Zubaydah – the Guantánamo Bay detainee almost tortured to death by the CIA, held without charge by the US for nearly 20 years – urged that their client be released, given Washington’s wars in Afghanistan and with Al-Qaeda are finally over. …

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Two killed in shooting at Moscow government building

Writing on Twitter, the city’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin explained that the shooter had been detained. “I offer my condolences to the victims and the families of the victims,” he wrote. “Doctors are doing their best to help the wounded.” The incident took place at a multi-functional public service center in …

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Raab ‘proud’ of Kabul evacuations, blames chaos on US

Speaking to Sky News’ Kay Burley on Tuesday, Raab hailed the evacuation of British nationals and allied Afghans from Kabul as “an absolutely heroic and Herculean effort.”  “We did everything we could,” he argued, adding that the airlift was “a record that those involved, particularly those working on the ground, …

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