Yesterday we highlighted Patrick McDonnell's promoting his new book in Mutts, so it's only fair we do the same with Stephen Pastis now. Tomorrow's Pearls Before Swine will have a gag about Stephan's "world" tour, which begins next month. Not on the tour calendar is Pastis starting out closer to home, but The Santa Rosa
Russian troops launched a missile attack on September 29 on the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv, damaging infrastructure, a regional official said, as the governor of Russia's Kursk region bordering Ukraine said a drone attack had cut off the energy supply of several settlements in the area.
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An explosion at a religious gathering in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan on September 29 killed at least 13 people and wounded at least 50 others, with officials saying the number of dead is expected to go up.
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with Andrei Troshev, the former chief of staff of the Wagner mercenary group, and handed him the responsibility for establishing new volunteer fighting units.