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BOSTON – Red Sox legend Tim Wakefield died on Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 57 years old. Wakefield pitched for the Red Sox from 1995 to 2011. He was a two-time All-Star and won 183 games in his career. Wakefield was known for his knuckleball, which was one of the most…

October 2, 2023 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions, insisting that the residents of those regions had made their choice to be part of Russia. In a speech to the Russian parliament, Putin said that the annexation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson…

October 2, 2023 Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has been sparring with the German government over the construction of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany. The Gigafactory is Tesla’s first factory in Europe, and it is expected to produce 500,000 vehicles per year once it is fully operational. Construction on the Gigafactory began in 2020, and…

October 2, 2023 US soldier Travis King arrived back in the United States on Thursday after being expelled from North Korea. King was detained by North Korea on July 18 after he crossed the border from South Korea. He was released on September 27 after being held for over two months. King landed at Joint Base…

Michael Gambon, the Irish-born actor who played Albus Dumbledore in the final six Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 82. Gambon’s family confirmed his death to the Associated Press on Thursday, saying that he died peacefully in hospital after a short illness. Gambon was a highly acclaimed actor with a long and…

October 2, 2023. A man arrested in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur was already under surveillance for a previous rape and arson, police said. Jason Billingsley was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the death of Pava LaPere, a 26-year-old tech entrepreneur who was found stabbed to death in her Baltimore apartment on…

October 2, 2023 Mohamed Muizzu, a pro-China candidate, has won the Maldives presidential election, beating incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in a second-round runoff. The victory is a major setback for India, which has traditionally been the Maldives’ closest ally. Muizzu is the leader of the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM), which was in power from…

October 2, 2023 The death toll from a fire at a nightclub in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia has risen to 13, authorities said on Sunday. The blaze broke out in the early hours of the morning at the Teatre nightclub in Atalayas, a suburb of Murcia. The cause of the fire is still under…

BEIJING, Oct. 1, 2023 – China’s factory activity expanded for the first time in three months in September, a sign that the world’s second-largest economy is gradually recovering from a post-pandemic malaise. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 50.2 in September, from 49.5 in August, according to data released by the National…