A fire at a chemical facility in Omaha, in the US state of Nebraska, has left thousands of city residents without power and prompted the evacuation of nearby homes. According to the city fire department, the blaze at the Nox-Crete plant was reported at around 7 pm local time on …
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Khabib Nurmagomedov might be a retired fighter nowadays but that certainly hasn’t stopped him from dominating in the training room. The former UFC lightweight champion confirmed his retirement from mixed martial arts in early 2021, several months after first stating that he was stepping away from the sport following a …
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Poland’s Mariusz Pudzianowski, considered by many to be among the finest strongmen competitors in history, stunned his former world champion opponent Michal Materla with a crushing first-round knockout at KSW 70 in Lodz, Poland on Saturday night. Pudzianowski, the 45-year-old multiple time winner of the title of the World’s Strongest Man, transitioned …
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Former tennis world number one Naomi Osaka tweeted that she was “petrified” when trapped in a stampede in Brooklyn after a boxing show on Saturday night. “I was just in the Barclays Center and suddenly I heard shouting and saw people running, then we were being yelled at that there was …
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Mick Schumacher was forced to retire from the Monaco Grand Prix after a gruesome crash saw his Haas vehicle split in half. The son of record seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher had just passed the swimming pool in the final section of the famous marina track when he lost control …
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Two men were badly beaten outside a luxury hotel in Vienna by a group of apparent Ukrainian nationals. The incident unfolded in the heart of the Austrian capital earlier this week, with local police providing some details to the newspaper Heute on Saturday. The brawl was apparently prompted by a …
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US President Joe Biden added to his list of gaffes on Friday by apparently confusing the two Korean states. Speaking at the Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony in Annapolis, Maryland, Biden discussed the importance of US cooperation with allies for the sake of global security. As an example of such cooperation, …
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Protests broke out in the Brazilian city of Umbauba on Thursday following the death of a man in police custody. Video footage purportedly shows police pushing the man into the trunk of a vehicle and filling it with gas, before he appears to stop moving. The cops say he “fell …
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Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke interrupted a press conference devoted to the recent elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas to demand greater gun control. However, he was ordered to sit down and called an “embarrassment” and a “sick son of a b***h.” Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke, a former Democratic congressman and …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu visited some of the soldiers wounded during the conflict in Ukraine on Wednesday. After touring the central military hospital in Moscow, Putin said all of the troops deployed abroad – and families of the fallen – should be compensated. Putin’s schedule …
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