Retirement does not mean the old hardware stops working entirely, either. One of the retiring units is being converted into a synchronous condenser, a huge

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Shigeaki Mori, the survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing whom former U.S. President Barack ​Obama embraced during a historic visit to the ‌city in 2016, has died at 88, Jiji Press reported on Tuesday.

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A top security official in U.S. ​President Donald Trump's administration resigned over the war in Iran on Tuesday, saying the country had ‌posed no imminent threat to the United States.

Cuba has reconnected much of its electrical grid and brought online its largest oil-fired power plant, energy officials ‌said on Tuesday, one day after a nationwide blackout left 10 million people in the dark amid a U.S. move to choke off the island's fuel supply.

There was no let-up in attacks by both sides early on Tuesday.

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Mexican drug lord "El Mencho" has been killed in a military operation, an official has said.

The former duke has always denied any wrongdoing in connection with Jeffrey Epstein.