Taliban leaders in bust-up at presidential palace, sources say

(BBC)

Taliban leaders in bust-up at presidential palace, sources say
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Yep, alas unpredictable trouble, tussles in a satanic paradise

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Why North Korea keeps launching missiles

(BBC)

Why North Korea keeps launching missiles
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Wrecker Kim loses his shit… any plan enough!

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Two politicians campaign to become France's first female leader

(The New Zealand Herald)

The French presidency: Two politicians campaign to become France's first female leader
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Contest’s epic between chic left Mayor of Paris and a self-comedic far-right Marine Le Pen

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Emma Raducanu makes tennis history with US Open final win

(The Guardian)

Emma Raducanu makes tennis history with US Open final win
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Was one assured masterful champion we think in unanimity

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Remembering 9/11

(National Archives)

It is the 20th Anniversary of the September 11 Attacks 2001, colloquially known as 9/11, committed by a militant Islamist terrorist group led by Osama bin Laden (extinct)
The four targets were:
2 Towers of the World Trade Center -
American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175
The Pentagon - AA 77
US Capitol or the White House - UA 93 plane diverted and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. President George W. Bush was reading that children’s book “The Pet Goat” with a class of second-graders at a school in Sarasota, Florida.
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2,977 victims killed + 19 handpicked fervid al-Qaeda terrorists, mostly Saudi Arabian.
10/7 Problematic war on Afghanistan started.
Ethnocentric Guantanamo Bay detention centre or hellhole, established at naval base to indefinitely detain perpetrators, terrorists and nihilists.
George’s hagiography made me ill.
15 August 2021 Afghanistan’s capital Kabul toppled. What the hell?!
30 August US forces leave. Horror!
11/11 Armistice Day acknowledges the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I
When’s the next war, I contend?

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Image: Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Spanish bishop Xavier Novell quits for life with erotic-satanic fiction writer Silvia Caballol

(The Times)

A Spanish bishop Xavier Novell quits the priesthood for life with erotic-satanic fiction writer Senora Silvia Caballol
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Plaintive lesson, harsh vilification, reprobation as Catholic exorcist has risque affair with lewd potboiler novelist

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Jean-Paul Belmondo obituary

(The Guardian)

The great actor Jean-Paul Belmondo dies
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Ah, reputed to be Gallic James Dean, or not

The great French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo has died
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Ah, perfect hot Gallic James Dean and true Bond hero

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Six Palestinians Tunnel Their Way Out of Israeli Prison

Six Palestinians Tunnel Their Way Out of Israeli Prison
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prisoners unite, warily exit pen isolation as hunt fails

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After Wildfire Thousands Return To Smoke-Choked Tahoe

(National Public Radio)

After Wildfire Thousands Return To Smoke-Choked Tahoe
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It took homes; red fucker airflow threatened thousands

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Capitol riot: 'QAnon Shaman' pleads guilty in federal court

(BBC)

Capitol riot: 'QAnon Shaman' pleads guilty in federal court
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Fact: Phoney Donald Trump’s a Quisling clone, a traitor, a lie
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Quite malign paranoid troll, painted face, horns, lousy act

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Massive solar storm likely to hit Earth, may cause global Internet meltdown

(Zee News)

Massive solar storm likely to hit Earth, may cause global Internet meltdown
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Lethal molecular waves to strike at my home - may bring total online distress

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Image: NASA

Woman jailed for walking in Yellowstone

(The New York Times)

Woman jailed for walking in Yellowstone
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Wow! I don' lie. Gal was mainly jerk, not felon.

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Oklahoma hospitals deluged by ivermectin overdoses, doctor says

(The Guardian)

Oklahoma hospitals deluged by ivermectin overdoses, doctor says
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Sick ‘healers’ believe a dodgy horse nostrum stops Covid malady too

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Taliban claim to take Panjshir

(NBC News)

Taliban claim to take Panjshir ~ jail inhabitants, lock 'em apart

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Donald Trump reportedly planning to announce 2024 presidential run 'any day now'

(The New Zealand Herald)

Donald Trump is reportedly planning to announce presidential campaign run 'any day now'
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Oppugnant and lewdly insane tyrannical gerrymanderer and platitudinous nincompoop

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This is the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan

(CBS News)

Anya Taylor-Joy lived off 'Diet Coke, cigarettes, coffee' on Queen's Gambit

(MSN)

Anya Taylor-Joy lived on 'Diet Coke, cigarettes, coffee'
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A clear-eyed edgy victory took a caffeine jolt on site.

Anya Taylor-Joy lived off 'Diet Coke, cigarettes, coffee' on Queen's Gambit
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Actor seeks alert effective mood on liquid caffeine jag, yet not by yoga.

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Image: Charis Tsevis

Elizabeth Holmes plans to blame Sunny Balwani

(National Public Radio)

Elizabeth Holmes plans to blame Sunny Balwani
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Has-been Nazi woman's lamentable bullshit ploy

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Image: FORTUNE Global Forum

Charlie Watts obituary

(The Guardian)

Obituary for Charlie Watts, the drummer in The Rolling Stones
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Tribute for who? One stellar musician or rhythm artist - legend!

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Image: Ken Kurson

Turkey says Taliban wants it to run airport

(The Times of India)

Turkey says Taliban wants it to run airport
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Istanbul takes a rutty, torn airstrip? No way

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Image: Prachatai