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Iraq’s first industrial-scale solar plant opens in Karbala desert to tackle electricity crisis

Iraq’s first industrial-scale solar plant opens in Karbala desert to tackle electricity crisis

KARBALA, Iraq (AP) — Iraq is set to open the country’s first industrial-scale solar plant Sunday in a vast expanse of desert in Karbala province, southwest of Baghdad. It’s part of a new push by t...

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Pentagon steps up media restrictions for access to credentials

Pentagon steps up media restrictions for access to credentials

The Pentagon says it will require credentialed journalists at the military headquarters to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been authorized for release — including ...

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YouTube account of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro goes offline

YouTube account of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro goes offline

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The YouTube account of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was offline Saturday, with Venezuelan state-run channel Telesur claiming in a message on X that it was “eliminate...

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Trump administration ends annual report on hunger in America

Trump administration ends annual report on hunger in America

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is ending the federal government’s annual report on hunger in America, stating that it had become “overly politicized” and “rife with inaccuracies.” The ...

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Photos from Russia’s Intervision song contest

Photos from Russia’s Intervision song contest

MOSCOW (AP) — Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc won the inaugural Intervision song contest in Moscow taking home 30 million rubles, approximately $360,000 U.S. dollars. The music contest was created by p...

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Russia’s revamped Intervision song contest names its inaugural winner

Russia’s revamped Intervision song contest names its inaugural winner

When Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc held aloft the crystal cup trophy in Moscow’s Live Arena on Saturday night, he became the inaugural winner of new song contest Intervision — a Russian answer to Eur...

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