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Nuclear plant resumes: Belarus’ nuclear power plant, which went out of service a few days after it started operating, resumed producing electricity, offifficials said Thursday. The country’s energy ministry said the reactor in the plant’s fifirst unit is working at 40% of its 1,200- megawatt capacity and is sending electricity to the power grid.

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Deadly protests: Seven people were killed and 45 others wounded as violent demonstrations broke out across Uganda on Wednesday, police said, after two presidential candidates were arrested while trying to campaign ahead of a highly anticipated January election. Ugandan police said they had arrested one of the candidates, the popular musicianturned- lawmaker Bobi Wine, in the eastern district of Luuka, on accusations that his rallies had breached coronavirus rules.

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Viagra the musical: Spike Lee’s latest project is a movie- musical that chronicles the development of Viagra, the fifirst drug approved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration to treat erectile dysfunction.“I will be directing a dancin’, all singin’ musical,” he wrote in announcing the project.

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Reno fifires: Authorities now say fifive homes were destroyed and 26 damaged by a wind- driven wildfire that roared through a Reno, Nevada, neighborhood. More than 1,000 people who were forced to evacuate were allowed to return to their homes Wednesday.

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Civil rights leader dies: Drew S. Days III, who was the fifirst African American to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department and later became solicitor general under President Bill Clinton, died Sunday at a long- term care facility in East Haven, Connecticut. He was 79. His wife, Ann LangdonDays, said the cause was complications of dementia.