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The explosion in the city of Herat left the courtyard of the Guzargah Mosque littered with bodies, the ground stained with blood, video from the scene showed. Men shouted, “God is great,” in shock and horror. The bomb went off during Friday noon prayers, when mosques are full of worshippers. Among the dead was Mujib-ul Rahman Ansari, a prominent cleric who was known across Afghanistan for his criticism of the country’s Western-backed governments over the past two decades....

Post Office Travel Money’s analysis of twelve typical tourist spends for UK visitors to 20 popular cities found that prices in the Greek capital have fallen by 15% since 2021. The bill for expenses, including two nights’ hotel accommodation for a couple, meals, attraction tickets and local transport fares, came to £207, compared to £218 in runners-up Lisbon. Both cities were ahead of eastern destinations usually renowned for low prices, such as Krakow in Poland (£219), Riga in Latvia (£220) and Budapest in Hungary (£221)....

Donald Trump deutet erneut an, wieder Präsident werden zu wollen. Celina Euchner aus New York (USA) Ex-US-Präsident Donald Trump (76) tourt durchs Land – offiziell um seine Schützlinge, in diesem Fall Mehmet Oz (62), bei deren Wahlkampf zu unterstützen. Doch Trumps Reden klingen viel mehr nach Wahlkampf für sich selbst – samt vagen Ankündigungen für eine mögliche Präsidentschaftkandidatur. In Wilkes-Barre, im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania, wiederholt Trump das Muster. Er sagt vor seiner versammelten Anhängerschaft: «Vielleicht muss ich es einfach noch einmal tun....

Energie segeln „Wir haben alle Rennen solide beendet und hatten auch ein sehr gutes Rennen. Alles in allem haben wir uns eine gute Ausgangsposition geschaffen, um in die Goldflotte einzusteigen. Jetzt heißt es nach Hause gehen, nochmal ausrasten, die Akkus wieder aufladen und dann gegen die Top 25 alles geben“, ergänzte der Tiroler. 13 Punkte beträgt der Rückstand des Olympia-Zehnten auf die Bronzemedaille vor den sieben Spielen der Final Series....

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Elkhorn corals once dominated the Caribbean. But just as other vital coral ecosystems are being degraded around the world, the elkhorn is rarely seen alive in the wild anymore. This species – so important because it provides the building blocks for reefs to thrive – has until now been very difficult to grow in aquariums. That’s why the scientists were thrilled to see that their breeding experiment was successful. “When it finally happened, the first feeling was pure relief....

1 out of 4 Well, not quite. AP No. 14 USC put a 66-14 hurt on Rice with the help of not one, not two, but three pick sixes. But No. 11 Oregon was destroyed by No. 3 Georgia, and No. 7 Utah went into the Gainesville Swamp and walked away with an L against unranked Florida. Temporarily unranked, that is. After knocking off Utah in Billy Napier’s coaching debut, the Gators will soar in the AP poll, possibly as high as the Top 10....

“How many more lives are going to be lost in this kind of reckless activity? How many more young black lives are going to be lost?” Rex Elliott, an attorney for Lewis’ family, said Thursday at a news conference. Lewis joined a growing list of black people killed in clashes with law enforcement in the city of nearly 900,000 people. Casey Goodson Jr., 23, was shot in 2020 while walking into his home, 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was outside her foster home in 2021, and Andre Hill, 47, was walking toward an officer in 2020 while holding a lighted cellphone in his hand....

EMTs require nine weeks of training compared to the 50 weeks it takes to become a paramedic. They will be allowed back into ambulances for the first time since they were deemed to need more training in 2007, but will have a more limited role. Beginning in early 2023, ambulances transporting people to medical appointments or home from surgery will be staffed by one paramedic and one EMT instead of two paramedics....

Money given to the convoy through crowdfunding platforms GoFundMe and GiveSendGo has been placed in court-ordered escrow pending a proposed class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Ottawa residents and businesses. Protest organizer Tamara Lich is among a group of 10 defendants named in the lawsuit who want some of the escrow funds released to pay for their participation in the Public Order Emergency Committee, which will hold hearings on the Liberal government’s plea in the Emergency Law....

Geister-Flugzeug über Ostsee abgestürzt – wohl vier Personen an Bord Über der Ostsee ist am Sonntagabend ein Flugzeug abgestürzt. Die Maschine wurde offenbar von niemandem gesteuert. 1/4 Diese Maschine stürzte am Sonntagabend über der Ostsee ab. Über der Ostsee ist nahe der lettischen Küste eine Cessna ins Meer gestürzt. An Bord der Maschine sollen sich vier Personen befinden, meldet die «Bild». Laut dem Flugradar startete die Maschine offenbar um kurz nach 14 Uhr im spanischen Jerez....

Nouvelles plaintes russes contre l’Ukraine. Ce dimanche, la Russie a de nouveau accusé l’armée ukrainienne d’avoir bombardé la centrale nucléaire de Zaporijia. “L’un des coups a touché un réacteur”, a déclaré Alexander Volga, chef de l’administration d’Energodar près de la centrale. “C’était un obus d’artillerie.” J’en ai des images”, a-t-il confirmé, dans des déclarations citées par l’agence de presse russe Tass et diffusées par 7sur7. Il n’y a pas de danger immédiat, car une seule frappe ne suffit pas à détruire la structure protégeant les réacteurs de la centrale nucléaire capturée par les Russes....

Jean-Christophe Destaylor, mayor of Halloween (different centre), in the North, is concerned. In this city of 22,000 inhabitants Resident of Lille and the Belgian border, she is not the only one. In front of him, a gastroenterologist has been stirring heaven and earth for so long that health authorities have examined the effects of thirty-one years of dioxin discharge from the old household waste incinerator at the entrance to the city....

Russians who came for a final look at former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday mourned both the man and his policies that gave them hope. President Vladimir Putin claimed he was too busy to attend. Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday aged 91, initiated sweeping reforms that helped end the Cold War. But it also hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Putin had called the “biggest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century....

Subscribe to CNN’s science newsletter at Wonder Theory. Explore the universe with news of exciting discoveries, scientific advances and more. Kennedy Space Center, Florida CNN — NASA has once again scuttled an attempt to launch the new moon’s massive rocket on an unmanned test mission due to technical problems. The scrub was called at 11:17 am. ET, three hours before the start of the launch window. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said mission managers will hold a meeting to discuss next steps and determine whether a Monday or Tuesday launch is possible or whether the rocket stack must return to the Vehicle Assembly Building....

Comment A pilot flying a small private plane was circling erratically in the skies over Tupelo, Miss., Saturday morning and threatening to crash into a Walmart, authorities said. The Tupelo Police Department said on Facebook that it received reports around 5 a.m. that the plane was flying over the city. The pilot had called an emergency line and was “threatening to intentionally crash into the Wal Mart on West Main,” according to the department....