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A property-line disagreement in St. Charles County, Missouri, turned into a criminal case after police said a neighbour fired a gun toward a man repairing a fence. Paula Kohensky, 60, has been charged with first-degree assault or attempted assault and armed criminal action following the Sunday-night incident. According to court documents cited by First Alert…

Swainson’s hawks (All about birds photo) A piece of abandoned farmland in California, once covered with weeds and unwanted grasses, has become home to a rare bird that had not been confirmed nesting in the area for about 30 years. In 2023, conservation workers began restoring 150 acres of land near the Sacramento River. They…

CJI Surya Kant inaugurates the Ladakh HC bench in Leh Sunday NEW DELHI: Almost a century after the establishment of Jammu & Kashmir HC, the Union Territory of Ladakh Sunday got a high court bench, which will sit in Leh, 3,500 metres above sea level — an altitude no other HC can ever match.Inaugurating the…

Representative Image (AI-generated) In 2023, scientists relocated 246 endangered black abalone to a protected coastal site in California to help restore a population devastated by disease. Three years later, surveys recorded 302 individuals, compared with 54 before the intervention, while the density in high-quality habitat reached one abalone per square metre. Researchers also discovered juvenile…

File photo: US treasury secretary Scott Bessent US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused European countries of refusing Washington’s request to impose secondary tariffs on India and China for purchasing Russian oil, questioning why the United States should bear the burden of pressuring Moscow alone.Speaking to NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday, Bessent said…

NEW DELHI: The Centre has directed social media giant Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, to ensure that its recommendation algorithms do not result in “disproportionate exposure of users to a single or limited set of narratives.““Ensure that recommendation systems do not result in disproportionate exposure of users to a single or limited set of…

US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Riley Barnes and US Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch, visit the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh near Ramallah, a day after Israeli militant settlers attacked a French mayor and European diplomats during olive harvest, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. US diplomats visited…

Pakistan sets 2035 Moon landing target as space programme expands, minister says (representative image) Pakistan aims to land on the Moon by 2035 as it expands its space programme, planning minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday, announcing that the country’s first astronaut would embark on a space mission from China on November 25.Addressing the concluding…

Blaze at St Petersburg oil sites Ukrainian drone attacks sparked fires at two oil facilities in St Petersburg on Sunday, killing one person and injuring five others, as Russia claimed to have downed 1,015 Ukrainian drones across its territory, occupied Crimea and the Black Sea.The strikes came amid tensions over a proposed ‘energy ceasefire’, with…

Trump blames immigration for France protests US president Donald Trump has blamed immigration for the violent unrest that swept across France, urging the country to close its borders as protests over the cost of living and public services escalated into clashes, looting and arson.The remarks came as French authorities grappled with widespread damage following Saturday’s…