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NBA forward Clarke's death due to effects of drugs

Source: BBC News - World · Published: 2026-08-08T12:05:04+00:00

Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke's death was due to the effects of heroin and cocaine, the Los Angeles medical authority reveals.

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Обрання суддів МКС: що сталось з кандидатом від України

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-08-08T12:04:30+00:00

5 серпня Дорадчий комітет з номінування суддів Міжнародного кримінального суду (МКС) визнав кандидата від України Лева Кишакевича таким, що не відповідає кваліфікаційним вимогам для посади судді. Комітет...

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Super-rich complain but experts welcome Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-08T12:00:46+00:00

New York mayor’s policy set to generate revenue and address housing crisis despite outcry in some quarters New York City’s introduction of a pied-à-terre tax has provided fodder for Zohran Mamdani’s critics, who accuse the democratic socialist mayor of attacking the rich – even as others welcome it as a much-needed effort to tax the wealthy in a city known for its yawning inequality and cost-of-living crisis.The tax, aimed at closing the city’s budget gap, covers people who own but do not live full-time in a house worth more than $5m or a condominium or cooperative unit worth at least $1m. Con

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Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-08T12:00:45+00:00

Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken overWhen Sir Demis Hassabis said AI had brought the world to a “pivotal moment in human history” last month, he knew another big change was imminent.This shift was closer to home. The Nobel prize-winning head of Google DeepMind, Google’s AI unit, announced this week he was relinquishing his day-to-day duties as chief executive and becoming chair. He is also taking on the role of chief scientist at DeepMind’s parent, Alphabet. Continue reading...

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Чоловіка висміювали за посадку 11 тисяч дерев: за кілька років усі побачили результат

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-08-08T11:50:00+00:00

У Центральній Яві чоловік самотужки протягом кількох десятиліть відновлював ліси, незважаючи на глузування людей. Але результат перевершив усі очікування.

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Blanche confirmation allows Trump to continue ‘pervasive, breathtaking corruption’, says Schumer – US politics live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-08T11:47:23+00:00

Senate minority leader condemns Republicans after Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer was confirmed by 50 votes to 49 early on Saturday morningThe US embassy in London is offering grants of up to half a million dollars for new “public education” programmes in what has been criticised as interference in British domestic politics.Using language that the pro-Trump Maga movement has sought to appropriate, a funding notice identifies a goal of fostering a “national conversation” about “shared civilizational values” underpinning US-UK ties. Priority will go to applicants aiming to celebrate “freedo

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LEAP India IPO: Look before you LEAP

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-08T11:43:02+00:00

Dominant pooling franchise and debt reduction cannot offset the aggressive valuation for LEAP India

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Q1 Results Today Live: BEML Q1 loss narrows to ₹27 cr, Eveready profit up 22%, Aditya Birla Fashion Q1 loss widens to ₹249 cr; Delhivery, Akums Drugs Pharma among firms to announce results today

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-08T11:38:34+00:00

Track all the latest Q1 FY27 earnings announcements, corporate developments and management commentary as companies including Delhivery, Eveready Industries India, Medi Assist Healthcare Services, Oswal Pumps, Studds Accessories report their June quarter results.

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Q1 Results Today Live: BEML Q1 loss narrows to ₹27 cr, Eveready profit up 22%, Aditya Birla Fashion Q1 loss widens to ₹249 crore; Delhivery, Akums Drugs Pharma among firms to announce results today

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-08T11:34:16+00:00

Track all the latest Q1 FY27 earnings announcements, corporate developments and management commentary as companies including Delhivery, Eveready Industries India, Medi Assist Healthcare Services, Oswal Pumps, Studds Accessories report their June quarter results.

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Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Q1 loss widens to ₹249 crore

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-08T11:20:45+00:00

Total expenses of ABFRL, which owns Pantaloons and Style Up brands , along with a host of ethnic brands, were at ₹2,395.45 crore, up 11.5%

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Може долати тисячі кілометрів над океаном: науковці розкрили секрет крихітної бабки

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-08-08T11:15:00+00:00

Метелик монарх, якого довгий час вважали одним із найвідоміших мігрантів серед комах, поступився бабці місцем лідера за дальністю перельотів.

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Arron Banks ‘hired private detective’ to look into journalist who investigated Reform UK

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-08T11:11:54+00:00

Asked whether he targeted reporter who investigated party finances, Brexit campaigner says: ‘When you live by the sword, you die by the sword’The prominent Reform UK member and Brexit campaigner Arron Banks is said to have set private investigators on a Sunday Times journalist after he broke a series of stories about Nigel Farage.Banks is alleged to have paid for the services of investigators to examine Gabriel Pogrund, editor of the paper’s Insight investigations team. Continue reading...

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The ornithological artist drawing 1,000 birds by hand – all for an app that wants you off your phone

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-08T11:00:47+00:00

The mission of the Flock app is quietly subversive: to encourage users to ditch their screens and explore the wonderful world of birdingOn a brilliantly bright afternoon in his gallery and studio in Bolinas, a small town on the northern California coast, Keith Hansen was putting the finishing touches on a watercolor of an almost improbably flamboyant painted bunting.With an ultra-fine sable brush, he made a few intricate additions to the cobalt blue plumage on the bunting’s head, and, satisfied with his work, slipped the watercolor into a stout binder that every few days welcomes a new additio

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Baywatch honors teenage lifeguard hero who saved boy in viral video

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-08T11:00:47+00:00

Ryder Williams, 16, presented with distinctive red jacket by star of TV rescuer reboot, Stephen AmellAs life imitates art and vice versa, the star of the Baywatch reboot recently presented one of the distinctive red jackets seen on the beach rescuer drama to the teenage lifeguard who went viral for saving a boy off the California coast on camera.Stephen Amell, who was cast as the main protagonist for the first season of the new Baywatch scheduled to premiere in early 2027, presented the garment worn by lifeguards on the fictional show and its prequel franchise to 16-year-old Ryder Williams in

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Yemen Teeters on Civil War as Regional Stability Hangs in the Balance

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-08-08T11:00:45+00:00

While the Middle East waits to hear whether a deal can be reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Yemeni government’s conflict with Iran-backed Houthi rebels escalated overnight.

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The Bond effect? How MI6 fascinates spy watchers around the world

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-08T11:00:44+00:00

Britain’s spooks take quiet satisfaction from survey ranking Secret Intelligence Service Europe’s top espionage agency MI6 has the swagger of James Bond; its French equivalent, DGSE, the complexities of the television drama Le Bureau. The film and TV shows may be fictional, but a survey run by a French magazine that placed the British spy agency above the French as No 1 across all of Europe this week is not.L’Express, a news weekly, conducted a Eurovision-style poll of 60 current and former spies from across the continent, plus the CIA and Israel’s Mossad. Each was asked to rank their top five

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Aux Etats-Unis, la droite trumpiste réhabilite Richard Nixon

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-08-08T11:00:09+00:00

Cinquante-deux ans après la démission du président républicain à cause du scandale du Watergate, le 8 août 1974, la mouvance « America first » soutient qu’il a été victime d’une machination de « l’Etat profond » et établit un parallèle avec Donald Trump.

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