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Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito has fled prison in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo, where he was awaiting extradition to Italy, the interior ministry announced Monday. Morabito and three other inmates "escaped through a hole in the roof of the building" late Sunday and robbed the occupants of a nearby farmhouse, the ministry said in a statement. The statement said Morabito -- a top 'Ndrangheta figure arrested in Uruguay in 2017 after decades on the run -- was awaiting extradition for "international drug trafficking".

Every Panchayat Samiti in the state will have 50 road safety volunteers who will assist the administration in case of road accident or traffic jam, Rajasthan Transport Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said Monday. The volunteers will be given road safety training by the transport department and NGOs. They will also be given special monogram and helmets, Khachariyawas told reporters here. The decision was taken in the meeting of the state road safety council on Monday. He also said that efforts... Читать дальше...

A man accused of targeting pensioners tells a court he went to church to meet potential victims.

India's big three two-wheeler makers - Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor Co - Monday hit out at Niti Aayog's plan to push for 100 per cent electric vehicle, saying such a transition is completely uncalled for and could jeopardise the industry. Arguing that changing from conventional two-wheelers to 100 per cent electric is "not like Aadhaar, not a software and print cards", the companies said concerns of all stakeholders must be taken into consideration instead of imposing adoption of EVs. "This is not like Aadhaar... Читать дальше...

Petaluma, CA…June 23…Bradley Terrell won the 25 lap PitStopUSA.com Wingless Spec Sprint Main Event Sunday night at Petaluma Speedway. This was the annual race during the Sonoma-Marin County Fair, and it was also the third win of the season for Terrell. Terrell had the pole for the Main Event, but it was recent winner Cody […]

Israel's UN ambassador on Monday urged Palestinians to surrender their struggle for a homeland in exchange for economic benefits as the United States prepared to roll out part of a peace plan promising billions of dollars. Palestinian leaders have said the US plan will be tantamount to surrender and declared President Donald Trump's initiative as dead on arrival. "I ask: What's wrong with Palestinian surrender?" wrote Ambassador Danny Danon in a New York Times op-ed. "Surrender is the recognition that in a contest... Читать дальше...

The idea that Donald Trump would be an ethics reformer in the executive branch was always an absurd joke.

The Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom have praised the for shooting down a trespassing ‎American surveillance drone over the ‎country’s southern territorial waters.‎

Two senior state BJP leaders Monday courted controversy by saying the party would follow the "Uttar Pradesh model" of giving free hand to the police to wipe out criminals in encounters, when it comes to power in West Bengal. The ruling Trinamool Congress hit back asserting that it would never allow the saffron party to convert West Bengal into a police state. After we are voted to power, we will ensure that criminals and extortionists will be thrown behind the bars or they will flee. We would follow the Uttar Pradesh model. Читать дальше...

Former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda Monday said the party's new state president would be appointed in three days. With Deve Gowda reportedly not accepting his resignation, the present incumbent A H Vishwanath had threatened that he would resign from the Karnataka assembly if he was not relieved from his responsibility. "We will appoint the new JD(S) state president in three days," Gowda told reporters in Bengaluru, days after Vishwanath resigned apparently peeved at the... Читать дальше...

Got to Be Realness: Miss Attitude Is Over You June 28, 1994 They keep assuring us she’s on her way. Her assistants buzz around us....

The championship marks the second event of the GC32 Racing Tour, with the Oman Air crew having emerged as worthy winners at the GC32 Villasimius Cup in Sardinia last month a clear nine points ahead of the chasing pack.

1. 'Hell is coming': week-long heatwave begins across Europe  The Guardian
2. Brutal 41C heatwave to blast British holiday hotspots in Europe thanks to African plume  The Sun
3. Europe heatwave: 'Remarkably intense' temperatures to sweep continent  Sky News
4. BBC Weather: African plume to sweep north to UK as record-breaking 40C heat grips Europe  Express.co.uk
5. The UK will be hot due to a "dangerous" heatwave in Europe this week  Cosmopolitan.com
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In a rare gesture, two senior IAF officers of the rank of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Monday flew aircraft as part of a 'vic' formation of five Mirage-2000 at the air base here to commemorate 20 years of the Kargil War. An impressive fly-past was organised at the Gwalior Air Force Station in which, besides Mirage-2000, MiG-21, Jaguar, and an Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) also were used. "As an (IAF) chief, I am very, very proud of the fact that both of my AOC-in-Cs were flying in the formation today. Читать дальше...

Earlier, they were taught at a nearby temple, where menstruating girls were not allowed

Students in Jagargunda village in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, which bore the brunt of naxal violence, were elated Monday with reopening of government schools after a long gap of 13 years. Jagargunda villagers had left their homes in fear after the launch of the Salwa Judum, the erstwhile anti-Naxal movement, in 2005-06. Subsequently, the villagers, comprising around 1200 families, got settled in government-aided relief camps in the area. Schools and hostels in Jagargunda were then shifted to Dornapal... Читать дальше...

The French government on Monday said it was taking the unusual step of delaying national school exams scheduled for this week to protect pupils during a heatwave. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said the Brevet national diploma exam -- a key test for children aged around 14 that was set for Thursday and Friday -- would be delayed until next week. France and other European countries are bracing for record temperatures in an unusually early summer heatwave which could push thermometers over... Читать дальше...

Lukashenka knows that there is no one to protect him.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum on Monday denounced “efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events” – a reaction to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s equating border facilities for migrants to concentration camps. The New York freshman Democrat sparked an outcry last week by accusing the Trump administration of housing immigrants in “concentration camps” on...

Welspun Corp said Monday that the company will buy back 2.8 crore shares for Rs 390 crore, at a price of Rs 135 apiece. "The buyback committee at its meeting held today (Monday) has fixed the buyback size of Rs 390 crore at a buyback price of Rs 135 per share," according to a BSE filing. The company will buy back up to 28,888,888 equity shares. The committee has fixed July 5 as the "record date" to determine the company's equity shareholders who would be eligible to participate in the buyback, it added.

Writer E. Jean Carroll provided a detailed allegation of rape against Donald Trump in New York magazine and it's barely breaking through the news cycle.