The dogs, one of which had just given birth to puppies, were housed in a pound in the northwest of the state, and were due to be picked up by volunteers from a Cobar-based animal shelter. However, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Sunday that workers with the Bourke Shire …
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The deputy head of the country’s Foreign Ministry, Alexander Pankin, told journalists on Thursday that Moscow is not considering stepping up troop deployments through its military deals with neighboring nations. Tajikistan, which borders Afghanistan, is a member of the Russian-backed Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which binds former Soviet Republics …
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Imagine if ALL your problems, all the worries that have ever niggled you in your whole life could just be washed away by replacing a single word with an ‘X’, just the one mind you: get rid of male/female, for example, and the world is a perfect place. This seems …
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Contrary to the USAF slogan of “aim high,” the new test would allow airmen to walk or do shuttle-run sprints instead of the running portion of the PT test, planks or sit-ups for core strength, or raised-hand push-ups for the final part. This is what Lieutenant-General Brian Kelly, deputy chief …
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Titled “Silver Spoon Oligarchs,” the new study showed how the top 0.01% richest Americans retained their wealth in spite of what are supposed to be high taxes levied on the ultra-wealthy. Spoiler alert: they aren’t producing useful goods, running factories, creating jobs, or any of that nonsense – they’re hoarding what they …
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James fell to a first-round exit in the playoffs for the first time in his career as defending champions the Lakers went down 113-100 to the Phoenix Suns in Game 6 at the Staples Center on Thursday night, sealing a 4-2 series win for the Suns. James managed 29 points …
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Some 140 people who attended the vaccination center at Reims University Hospital in the town of Epernay, 130km northeast of Paris, erroneously received injections on Tuesday. The injections contained normal saline, which is a harmless solution of sodium chloride dissolved in water. It can be applied externally to clean wounds …
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Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca, the three top producers of Covid-19 vaccines, could fund the vaccination of the entire continent of Africa, some 1.3 billion people, vaccine advocacy group the People’s Vaccine Alliance revealed on Thursday. Or rather, they could have funded all those jabs if they hadn’t spent …
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The Catalans were valued at $4.76 billion, edging out bitter rivals Real Madrid, who came in at $4.75 billion, by the narrowest of margins in the annual list put together by financial experts Forbes. Less than 48 hours after Lionel Messi and his teammates were beaten 2-1 at the Alfredo Di …
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Axios reported on Tuesday that the book, to be titled ‘State of Terror’, will be published in October by Simon & Schuster and St. Martin’s Press. The story will follow a “novice Secretary of State” who “joins the administration of her rival” a president who was inaugurated “after four years of …
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