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1940 Kansas City, Kansas: – Orville Brown beat John Grandovich 2 out of 3 falls – Karol Krauser beat Turp Grimes – Wladyslaw Talun beat Albion Britt – Kola Kwariani beat Vanka Zelezniak 1944 Boxing and Wrestling Show: Des Moines, Iowa: – Henry Armstrong beat Jackie Byrd (fourth round boxing) – Jackie Graves beat Cecil …
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> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) NXT TV TAPING REPORT AUGUST …
A major trial into a weight loss drug linked to the deaths of hundreds has opened in France in a case exposing the allegedly unhealthy ties between members of the country’s medicines watchdog and the pharmaceutical industry. Servier, the drugs company, stands accused of aggravated deception, fraud and illegal taking of interest for failing to …
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Afghanistan’s presidential election turnout is unofficially estimated at just over 2 million people or about 20 percent of registered voters, an official said on Sunday, amid concern that low participation could mar the vote. Roughly 7 million turned out to vote in the last presidential election in 2014. Tight security ensured the election took place …
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Jolie King, a British-Australian travel blogger who was imprisoned in Iran with her fiancé on spying charges, has been released from jail. Australian foreign minister Marise Payne said yesterday it was "with some enormous relief" that she could announce Ms King and her Australian partner Mark Firkin "have been released and returned" and all charges against …
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Turkey may have deliberately targeted US forces with artillery in northern Syria in order to push them out, coalition sources have told the Daily Telegraph. US officials confirmed an explosion occurred near where a small contingent of its special forces were based on a hill near the town of Kobane. They said the cause of …
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Donald Trump’s top China adviser regularly quotes a made-up expert whose name is an anagram of his own surname, it has emerged. Peter Navarro, an economist who has written a number of books on China, has employed Ron Vara as a source in at least five of his works, quoting his anti-Beijing views. At one …
Kurdish forces yesterday accused Turkish-backed fighters of violating the ceasefire in northeast Syria with a “vast” new ground offensive and pleaded with the US “to intervene immediately” to stop the assault. Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump boasted of establishing a "permanent" peaceful settlement in the area, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they …
Troops were deployed on the streets of Islamabad and major roads sealed with shipping container barricades as the city awaited the arrival of thousands of protestors in what is seen as Prime Minister Imran Khan’s biggest political test yet. Schools were closed and streets quiet as Pakistan’s capital braced for the culmination of a four-day …
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T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion takeover of Sprint cleared a major hurdle Tuesday when a federal judge rejected claims by more than a dozen states and consumer advocates that the deal will create a corporate behemoth that will raise prices and destroy competition. The Justice Department previously signed off on the merger, and another federal judge still …
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