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Thursday, August 24, 2023

BREAKING NEWS / WHEW, WHAT A WILD WEEK IN WORLD EVENTS


FULTON COUNTY JAIL
—Arrested, again.  Our national embarrassment (center) aka Ex-Prez DJT surrendered this week to face charges in the fourth indictment this year. He was released on $200,000 bail. 
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HELLO, RUDY IS THAT YOU?

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NEW YORK
—The DC superhero film “Blue Beetle” (photo, above) led ticket sales this week dethroning “Barbie” from the top spot. Barbie, however, has logged and eye-popping $1.28 billion in ticket sales globally since its debut in late July. 
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—A Man surveys debris following heavy rains from tropical storm Hilary (last Sunday) at the Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage. 
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SYDNEY
—Spain’s Ivana Andres (top) celebrates with goalkeeper Cata Coll at the end of the Women’s World Cup soccer final between Spain and England at Stadium Australia in Sydney. Spain won 1-0. 
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CAMP DAVID
—President Joe Biden greets Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol during the trilateral summit at Camp David near Thurmont, Maryland. 
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MOSCOW--
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group who staged a brief mutiny against Russia’s military leadership in June, was listed as a passenger on a plane that crashed Wednesday, killing all 10 people aboard, according to Russian aviation authorities. “An investigation of the Embraer plane crash that happened in the Tver Region this evening was initiated,” the Federal Agency for Air Transport of Russia said in a statement, according to the state news agency Tass. “According to the passenger list, first and last name of Yevgeny Prigozhin was included in this list.”

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LAHAINA
—Aftermath of last week’s wildfire devastation in Lahaina, Hawaii. 
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AHMEDABAD
, India—Space critter celebrates India’s successful space program landing on the moon this week. He hold a model of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft that sped a lunar lander to the moon’s previously unexplored south pole. It landed successfully on Wednesday making India the fourth nation in history to achieve a soft landing on the moon. 

 Photos and text compiled by Voice of America. 

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