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Houston police officers rescue residents from burning apartment building


October 25, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston police sergeant was severely burned while saving others during a southwest Houston apartment fire. It happened just after midnight Saturday on South Braeswood near South Gessner. The sergeant and other officers were in the area when they saw the flames coming from the building, according to HPD. The officers got on the roof and …

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MTV celebrates National Vote Early Day with art installation at Discovery Green


October 25, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — MTV rolled out the red carpet for voters in Houston to celebrate Vote Early Day. The company partnered with artists to bring a one-of-a-kind pop-up art installation to Discovery Green to celebrate and educate voters about their early voting options and nearby voting locations. The art installation is part of MTV’s Vote for Your Life campaign …

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Notable Houstonians join Nigerian community in #EndSARS movement


October 25, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Africa’s most populous nation is seeing the most unrest it has seen in years. “It was so sad. They killed people and unfortunately, the kids who were protesting. They were innocent,” Houstonian and march organizer Tunde Aogo said. Oct. 20, 2020 will forever be etched in the mind of Nigerians and Nigerian Americans. Houstonians are rallying …

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Popular LGBT rights advocate honored on day dedicated to her


October 25, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Houston memorial service for global transgender rights activist Monica Roberts, who passed away in early October, started off with an applause, giving thanks to a woman who did more than change lives. She saved them. “She was one of the first people that I came out to and told that I was trans non-binary, and she welcomed me …

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Warmer Sunday, but big cooldown coming


October 25, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Sunday will be another nice day, but temperatures and humidity will be increasing as a warm front lifting north brings southerly winds and Gulf moisture back to SE Texas. The ups and downs continue early next week as a stronger cold front looks to impact us late Monday. This front will be stronger and stick around …

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Pakistan reports 832 fresh coronavirus cases in last 24 hours


October 25, 2020

ISLAMABAD: The novel coronavirus has claimed nine more lives across the country over the past 24 hours, surging the death toll to 6,736. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 832 fresh infections surfaced when 28,724 samples were tested during this period, lifting the national tally of cases to 327,895. Overall 310,491 people have recovered from the disease …

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Health ministry decides repossessing risk allowances to undeserving staff: sources


October 25, 2020

ISLAMABAD: The health ministry has expressed severe outrage over the distribution of risk allowance to undeserving staff in federally-administered hospitals and decided to claim it back, citing sources. Sources told ARY News that the health ministry has decided to repossess risk allowance distributed among undeserving staff members at the hospitals administered by the federal government. In a letter issued to …

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‘Olympic Games cannot be marketplace of demonstrations’


October 25, 2020

LONDON: Olympic chief Thomas Bach warned against allowing the Games to ‘descend into a marketplace of demonstration’” on Saturday after criticism of a rule banning protests by athletes. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) president has come under fire for the ruling, announced in a year which has seen widespread support by athletes for the Black Lives Matter movement. But Bach, …

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Kohli most complete player around, says Root


October 25, 2020

NEW DELHI: England Test captain Joe Root considers his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli as currently the most complete player around and said he expects England team-mate Jos Buttler to soon replicate his limited-overs dominance in Test cricket. Root himself is considered one of the four best batsmen in contemporary cricket, alongside the prolific Kohli, Australian run-machine Steve Smith and New …

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