The race kicked off Saturday morning in Jingtai Yellow River Stone Forest, a popular tourist attraction and a park sprawled across some 50 square kilometers and located southeast of Jingtai County in Gansu Province in northwest China, bordering Mongolia. It was about 1 p.m. Saturday when what was intended to …
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IDF spokesperson Brigadier General Hidai Zilberman confirmed to Israeli media that the military targeted the home of Yehiyeh Sinwar, the top Hamas leader in Gaza, who is said to live in the town of Khan Younis. Al Jazeera cited a Hamas TV station confirming Sinwar’s home was attacked. The IDF …
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Today, ex-President of Georgia and former Governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili stated that he and his party “Vigente . Saakashvili underlined that he does not need anybody’s support. We are talking about the proposal that was received from the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko in the address Saakashvili. …
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