All posts tagged "General news"
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26InternationalNearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year’s Eve
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate...
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32International
A Swiss flight attendant dies a week after emergency landing due to smoke
ZURICH, Switzerland — A flight attendant aboard a Swiss aircraft that made an emergency landing in Austria due to smoke in the...
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25International
Scholz calls on Germans to unite in solidarity in a new year despite many crises
BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Germany’s 84 million residents to stick together despite the many global crises and wars, the...
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36International
Israeli airstrike near Syrian capital kills 11, war monitor says
BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike in the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday killed 11 people, according to a war monitor, as Israel...
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31International
11 graves with 15 bodies found near Mexican border with Guatemala
TAPACHULA, Mexico — Eleven clandestine graves with the bodies of 15 men were located in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, where...
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29International
Peru’s Navy rescues dozens of fishermen stranded at sea as giant waves pound shore
TUMBES, Peru — Peru’s Navy says it has rescued about 30 fishermen who had been stranded for two days at sea as...
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40International
Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine hits multiple targets, including Kyiv
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine on Tuesday, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and...
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42International
Militants attack a security post in restive northwest Pakistan, killing 2 people
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Militants armed with assault rifles attacked a security post in restive northwest Pakistan early Tuesday, killing a police officer...
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38International
What we know about the deadly passenger jet crash in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — A passenger jet burst into flames while landing at an airport in South Korea on Sunday, killing 179...
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31International
In Gaza’s crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City — For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the...
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37International
Now Syria’s long-ruling Baath party is collapsing, too
DAMASCUS, Syria — A few days after insurgents in Syria overthrew President Bashar Assad, his ruling Baath party announced it was freezing...
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33World
South Korea: Court issues warrant to detain impeached President Yoon
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court issued warrants Tuesday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and search his...
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29International
Butterfly collector with more than 4.2 million seeks to share them for the future
NAIROBI, Kenya — What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa’s largest...
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25International
South Korean authorities seek warrant to detain impeached President Yoon in martial law probe
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean law enforcement officials requested a court warrant on Monday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol...
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35International
Hotel fire in popular Bangkok tourist area kills 3 foreigners
BANGKOK — A fire broke out at a hotel near Bangkok’s Khao San Road, a popular tourist destination, killing three foreigners and...
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45International
South Korea struggles to determine cause of plane crash that killed 179 people
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean officials are struggling to determine what caused a deadly plane crash that killed 179 people, with...
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40International
The Taliban order all NGOs in Afghanistan to stop employing women or face closure
The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they...
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31International
Gisèle Pelicot’s ex-husband won’t appeal prison sentence for orchestrating mass rapes
A lawyer for the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot says he won’t appeal his 20-year sentence for drugging and raping her and allowing...
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21World
The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women
The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights...
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29International
18 passengers killed in 2 separate road accidents in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — A speeding passenger bus overturned on a highway in eastern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 10 people, police said....
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43International
Serbia’s prosecutor charges 13 in a deadly canopy fall that fueled mass protests
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s public prosecutor on Monday indicted 13 people, including a former minister, over the collapse of a concrete canopy...
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34International
Finnish investigators find anchor drag mark on the Baltic seabed following cable damage
HELSINKI, Finland — Finnish investigators probing the damage to a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables said they found an...
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