Billionaire Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty bids for TikTok newsthirst.

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Just 10 days before the U.S. ban on TikTok goes into effect, businessman Frank McCourt’s internet advocacy nonprofit Project Liberty announced Thursday it has submitted a proposal to buy the social media site from Chinese technology company ByteDance. Project Liberty and its partners, known as “The People’s Bid…

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Ukrainian comedians cope with war through humour newsthirst.

Vitaliy Shevchenko BBC Monitoring Russia editor Anton Tymoshenko/Underground Standup Stand-up comedy helps Ukrainians cope with the war, according to comedian Anton Tymoshenko On 14 October 2023, an unusual event was held in Ukraine’s most prestigious venue, Palace Ukraine in Kyiv. Anton Tymoshenko became the first Ukrainian stand-up comedian to give a solo performance there. “I…

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Diddy’s son clashed with Ray J before Chris Brown broke up Halloween party fight: Report newsthirst.

Things got tense at a Halloween bash in Los Angeles when Diddy’s sons and Ray J clashed in a heated exchange, ready to fistfight each at the parking lot, PageSix reports. Report states that after the party, Diddy’s sons Quincy, Justin, and Christian confronted Ray J over his recent comments about their father, leading to…

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Israeli military abducts alleged Hezbollah official in sea raid | Lebanon newsthirst.

The Israeli military abducted who it said was a senior Hezbollah official in an unprecedented operation on Saturday morning during which Israeli commandos landed on the shores of Batroun, northern Lebanon, captured the alleged official and escaped via speedboat. In a statement, an Israeli military official said its forces captured a “senior operative of Hezbollah”…

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Bangladesh ex-PM Sheikh Hasina’s palace to become revolution museum | World News newsthirst.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the leader of the caretaker government in Bangladesh, announced on Monday that the former palace of ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina will be converted into a museum to commemorate the revolution that ousted her. Nobel laureate and chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government Muhammad Yunus (4L) as he tours the battered Gonobhaban…

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