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Poll Shows Trump's Guilty Verdict May Help Biden's Chances
Even a small drop in support could be decisive in such a close presidential election.
2-min read - BusinessReuters
GameStop surges as 'Roaring Kitty' posts upcoming livestream
(Reuters) -Shares of GameStop surged over 30% on Thursday after the online stock influencer known as "Roaring Kitty" posted on YouTube that he would hold a livestream on Friday. Thursday's surge was the latest in a bout of volatile trading in the struggling videogame seller's shares that kicked off last month after the influencer, whose real name is Keith Gill, returned to X.com after a three-year hiatus. The "Roaring Kitty" channel on YouTube on Thursday showed an upcoming livestream schedule
1-min read - ScienceAFP News
In first, SpaceX's megarocket Starship nails ocean splashdown
SpaceX's massive Starship rocket achieved its first ever splashdown during a test flight Thursday, in a major milestone for the prototype system that may one day send humans to Mars.NASA chief Bill Nelson wrote on X. "We are another step closer to returning humanity to the Moon through #Artemis -- then looking onward to Mars."
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Russian strikes and filthy water: A year after Ukraine dam blast
Standing in what remains of her house, partially destroyed by a Russian artillery strike, Raisa Abramtseva painted a bleak picture of her daily life in southern Ukraine's Kherson region.She had left after the Russian strike on her house in 2022 but soon returned, and now lives in a nearby building that was renovated on her shoestring budget and lacks a proper ceiling.
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Kagame to face two challengers in Rwanda vote
Rwandan President Paul Kagame will face two challengers in next month's election, according to a provisional list published Thursday.The highest-profile name missing from the provisional list was Diane Rwigara, leader of the People Salvation Movement and an outspoken Kagame critic, who had also been disqualified from the 2017 election.
3-min read - NewsAFP News
Four dead, more than 20 injured in Czech train crash
Four people were killed and more than 20 injured when an express train crashed head-on with a freight train in the central Czech city of Pardubice, officials said on Thursday.More recent crashes on Czech railways include a 2020 head-on collision of two passenger trains in the west of the country that left two people dead and 24 injured, and a 2021 crash that killed three people and injured around 70. frj/bc
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'You saved the world': WWII veterans shine on D-Day
Around 180 veterans in their late 90s or even over 100 were guests of honour at D-Day commemorations in France on Thursday, many attending in wheelchairs for possibly the last time.But he said that William "Bill" Cameron, a 100-year-old Canadian veteran, died just before he was to return to France.
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