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An airline worker stole an empty aircraft from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the US and flew it for about one hour before crashing in a wooded area 40 miles away.
The airport officials said the Horizon Air employee flew the 76-seater aircraft from the airport without authorization at…
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Renowned World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Kane, born Glenn Jacobs, has been elected as mayor of Knox County, Tennessee.
Kane, who made his name playing as Undertaker’s half-brother in the ring, garnered two-thirds of the vote in Knox County, trouncing Democrat Linda Haney.
The 51-year-old…
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A court in Uganda has upheld a constitutional change that removed presidential age limit, allowing President Yoweri Museveni to run for a sixth term.
The country's constitutional court lifted the age gap set for presidential contenders after a majority of the judges voted in favor. In its ruling,…
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' net worth has hit $150 billion, becoming world's richest man in modern history.
Bezos's fortune is $55 billion more than second placed Bill Gates of Microsoft, Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows.
Gates' fortune reached $100 billion mark in 1999 at the height of the dot-…
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Former United States President Barack Obama has named Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o as one of his best African writers.
Obama, in a Facebook post on Friday described Ngugi's book "A Grain of Wheat" as compelling.
“Over the years… I’ve often drawn inspiration from Africa’s extraordinary literary…
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The US government has maintained that it will continue to detain children and parents found entering the country illegally.
In a court filing on Friday, the Trump administration said it has the right to incarcerate children and parents for the period of their immigration proceedings.
A 1997 court…
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Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle, now the Duke and Dutchess of Sussex, are officially husband and wife.
Harry and Markle were pronounced husband and wife on Saturday in a ceremony presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Markle, 36, walked unescorted in a pure white,…
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Forbes Magazine has named Chinese President Xi Jinping as 2018 world's most powerful person.
Jinping unseats his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who drops to number two, having been named world most powerful individual for four consecutive years; 2014-2017.
One year into his term, United States…
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(AP) Kevin Kamenetz, a Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland who was a fixture in state politics for nearly 25 years, has died.
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz died early Thursday, following a cardiac arrest, Baltimore County police said in a news release. He was 60.
The two-term…
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A woman was killed by stoning in Somalia after an Al Shabaab-run court found her guilty of marrying several husbands, the terror organization said.
BBC reports that the woman, identified as Shukri Abdullahi Warsame, had been charged with marrying 11 times, without having divorced her previous…