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Idaho will allow prisoners on death row to be executed by firing squad due to a US nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs. Dwindling supplies of the substances needed have increasingly seen pharmaceutical companies ban jails from using them for killing inmates. Idaho has now joined Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma, and South Carolina in allowing death
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Microchip pioneer and Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore has died at the age of 94. Co-creator of the American tech company Intel in 1968, Moore was one of the engineers to put “Intel Inside” processors in more than 80% of the world’s personal computers. The company announced on Friday that he had died surrounded by
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Ireland’s Prime Minister has apologised for a comment apparently referencing Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky during a speech in Washington. Leo Varadkar was addressing the Washington Ireland Programme and was speaking of his experience as an intern in the American capital in 2000, during the presidency of Bill Clinton. It was two years after
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Joe Biden’s administration will approve a scaled-back version of a controversial $7bn oil and gas drilling project. The move comes despite criticism from environmentalists who say the development of the three drill sites in northwestern Alaska conflicts with Mr Biden’s highly-publicised efforts to fight climate change. The US president has also pledged to shift to
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Millions of rats living across New York City are susceptible to COVID-19, researchers have found. Like humans, the rodents have proved vulnerable to multiple variants of the virus, from the original to Omicron, including high levels of infection in their upper and lower airways. A World Health Organization (WHO) report in 2021 concluded that the
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A US woman who was declared legally dead after disappearing more than three decades ago has turned up alive in Puerto Rico, her family and police have said. Patricia Kopta, now 83, had last been seen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1992 when investigators began looking into her disappearance. She was known to be an “eccentric”
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