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Jason Matthews, author of ‘Red Sparrow’ thrillers, dies

Jason Matthews, author of ‘Red Sparrow’ thrillers, dies

10:44 pm April 29, 2021

NEW YORK: Jason Matthews, an award-winning spy novelist who drew upon his long career in espionage and his admiration for John le Carre among others in crafting his popular “Red Sparrow” thrillers, has died at age 69. Matthews died Wednesday from Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD), a rare, untreatable neurodegenerative disease, according to his publisher, Scribner. “How […]

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Cables: US falsely said British queen backed 1953 Iran coup

8:33 pm June 12, 2020

Dubai: The US ambassador to Iran mistakenly told the shah in 1953 that Britain’s newly enthroned Queen Elizabeth II backed a plan to overthrow the country’s elected prime minister and America maintained the fiction even after realizing the error, historians now say. The revelation, based on US diplomatic cables cited by the historians, shows how […]

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Sweden says 34 year mystery of Palme assassination is solved

Sweden says 34 year mystery of Palme assassination is solved

3:18 pm June 10, 2020

Stockholm: Ggraphic designer at an insurance company was the man who shot dead Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986, a prosecutor said on Wednesday, announcing that a case that has haunted Sweden for decades was now closed. Palme, who led Sweden’s Social Democrats for decades and served two periods as prime minister, was one […]

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Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

Trump blames China for coronavirus pandemic; a lab ‘mistake’?

8:06 am May 1, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump on Thursday speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake,” and his intelligence agencies said they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab. […]

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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Democratic voters concentrate on candidates, not impeachment

10:19 pm October 19, 2019

AMES, Iowa: In the liberal strongholds of Des Moines’ west side and the Iowa State University campus in Ames, not once was South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg asked by voters recently about the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. It’s not that the investigation into the president’s request for foreign help in his reelection effort […]

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