The Daily Populous

Wednesday September 27th, 2023 evening edition

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Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Residents of a Pennsylvania town are being asked to keep a lookout for a tortoise who escaped his home at a veterinary clinic for the third time.

The Mahoning Valley Animal Hospital in Leighton said in a Facebook post that Tank, a tortoise belonging to veterinarian Mike Nelson, escaped from his outdoor pen outside the clinic.

She said Tank apparently escaped Thursday night or early Friday morning.

She said Tank is known for his escapes.

This is probably the third time he's gotten loose.

We found him the past two times, obviously relatively close.

The last time he was missing for maybe about two weeks," she said. »

If Canada is to be believed, India has gone rogue

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And if Canada is to be believed, India has gone rogue.

Sikh separatists have sought shelter in Canada since the mid-1980s, after the Indian government cracked down on the movement and its leadership.

The United States expressed concern but calibrated, calling on both Canada and India to uncover the full truth without condemning New Delhi. »

Ukrainian children as young as 4 months old are being forcibly taken to Russia. Officials don't know what is happening to them.

Authored by businessinsider.com
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An official estimate from the Ukrainian government puts the total number of forcibly displaced kids at just under 20,000. »

Blizzard veteran Chris Metzen is Warcraft's new executive creative director

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Blizzard veteran Chris Metzen - who retired from the studio back in 2016, only to rejoin at the end of last year - has been made executive creative director of Warcraft.

Since rejoining Blizzard, however, Metzen has been solely focused on Warcraft (in the role of franchise creative advisor), and his new executive creative director position will continue in much the same vein, seeing Metzen focus exclusively on developing the Warcraft universe, initially with an eye on "crafting the next generation of [World of Warcraft] adventures.

Blizzard announced Metzen's promotion in a post on social media, writing, "We are excited to share that Chris Metzen has taken on a full-time role as executive creative director of the Warcraft universe. »

Elon Musk's X is being used as a key 'weapon of mass manipulation' for Russian disinformation, the EU says, and warns it is 'watching' the social network

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An EU report found X has the highest proportion of Russian disinformation of any major social network.

X said that it disagreed with the "overall framing" of the data published in the EU's report.

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