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Second set of giant panda cubs arrives at Berlin Zoo

Second set of giant panda cubs arrives at Berlin Zoo — Berlin Zoo employees measuring newborn giant pandas (© 2024 Zoo Berlin/AP)

Fri, 23 Aug, 2024 - 10:15

Associated Press reporters

Berlin Zoo has announced that long-time resident giant panda Meng Meng has given birth to twins — for a second time.

The cubs were born on Thursday and are doing well, the zoo said in a statement.

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<p>The U.S. military said it killed four men in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in international waters in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday (December 4). “Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed,” the U.S. military said in a statement on X. U.S. Southern Command released a 21-second-long video showing the boat being struck. The video appeared to show the boat being hit and erupting in flames in international waters. Screengrab od video supplied by Reuters.</p>

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