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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

US tourist dies after being struck by lightning while hiking Sicily’s Mount Etna

A US tourist dies after being struck by lightning during a hike up Mount Etna, Sicily's towering and perpetually restless volcano. Italian fire services

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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

World’s top humanoid maker and its dancing robots waltz towards record IPO listing in China

On Wednesday, Shanghai's tech-oriented STAR board — widely compared to the Nasdaq — will welcome its most oversubscribed…

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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

Student and teen gunman dead in rare Philippines school shooting, officials say

Student and teen gunman dead in a rare school shooting in the southern Philippines, officials confirmed on Tuesday.…

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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

Hayden Panettiere, ‘Heroes’ actress, dead at 36 after 911 call for cardiac arrest, South Carolina coroner says

Actress Hayden Panettiere, known for portraying an indestructible cheerleader in the series “Heroes” and a country music sensation…

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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

Voters weigh a DeSantis successor and other key races to watch in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming

Florida Republicans are set to choose their nominee in the race to replace term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis on…

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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

Six-minute ‘eclipse of the century’ is coming to the Valley of the Kings

On August 2, 2027, the sun will vanish from the sky above Luxor, Egypt, for six minutes and…

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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

Russian court jails Kremlin critic for 11 years for opposing the war in Ukraine

A Moscow-adjacent court in Pskov handed down an 11-year-and-one-month prison term on Monday to Lev Shlosberg, the 63-year-old…

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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

‘One person kind of controls our fate’: Republicans confront growing midterm peril due to Iran war

One person kind of controls our fate — and for a growing number of House and Senate Republicans,…

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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

Your kid’s school is probably not teaching them how to use AI safely. Here’s what’s at stake

Generative AI tools are now being used by more teenagers than most adults realize to produce explicit images…

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Uncategorized August 18, 2026

How the humble barcode could help prevent the next cyclospora outbreak

On June 26, 1974, a cashier at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned a pack of Wrigley’s…

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