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By Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers, Melissa Alonso and Ray Sanchez, CNN A Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer was arrested Thursday on a charge of negligent homicide in the fatal shooting earlier this month of Alonzo Bagley, an unarmed Black man, Louisiana State Police said. Officer Alexander Tyler made his initial appearance in court, where a
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By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister is in Kyiv for the first public visit to Ukraine’s capital by a senior Israeli official since Russia’s invasion last year. But there are no signs that Israel is preparing to significantly increase its modest support for Ukraine or meet Ukrainian requests
Continue Reading HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have demolished the home of a Palestinian behind a deadly shooting in the occupied West Bank. The home, in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, was demolished in a controlled explosion early Thursday. The Israeli military said the demolition was carried out after an Israeli court rejected
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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline. The plant’s site in Akkuyu, located some
Continue Reading By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline. The plant’s site in Akkuyu, located some
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday, cheered on by a stronger than expected reading on U.S. retail sales that set off a rally on Wall Street. In the latest data on the regional economy, Japan’s trade deficit reached a record 3.497 trillion yen ($26.2 billion) in
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday, cheered on by a stronger than expected reading on U.S. retail sales that set off a rally on Wall Street. In the latest data on the regional economy, Japan’s trade deficit reached a record 3.497 trillion yen ($26.2 billion) in
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has again pummeled Ukraine with a barrage of missiles, firing a combination of 36 cruise and other missiles and losing at least 16 of them to Ukrainian air defense batteries, Ukrainian officials said Thursday. The head of Ukraine’s presidential office said targets had been hit in the country’s north, west
Continue Reading LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a powerful explosion inside a moving passenger train has killed at least one person and wounded eight others in eastern Pakistan. Thursday’s blast happened in Chichawatni, a district in the eastern Punjab province. District Police Chief Mian Mahboob said officers were investigating whether the explosion was caused by a
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Matt Bradley scored 10 points and No. 21 San Diego State slipped past Fresno State 45-43 on Wednesday night. San Diego State (21-5, 12-2 Mountain West Conference) has won four in a row and eight of nine overall, extending its win streak against the Bulldogs to eight games. “I told the
Continue ReadingBy Manveena Suri, Kunal Sehgal and Rhea Mogul, CNN Indian tax officials have ended their days-long search of the BBC’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, the British broadcaster announced Thursday. Officials had spent three days raiding the spaces following the country’s ban on a BBC documentary that was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Hanna Ziady, CNN The BBC says it will not be “put off” from reporting in India after the government prevented a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from airing in the country and raided the broadcaster’s offices. Indian tax authorities spent three days searching BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai last week.
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has called North Korea “our enemy” in its biennial defense document, reviving the label for its rival for the first time in six years. The defense white paper published Thursday says North Korea’s nuclear programs and provocations are serious threats to security. North
Continue Reading By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban emerged in recent days when Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful government figure, gave a speech seen as implicit criticism of the movement’s reclusive supreme leader. The Taliban leadership has been opaque since the
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Jennifer Feldman, CNN Two Shelby County sheriff’s deputies who were at the scene of Tyre Nichols’ deadly arrest in Tennessee last month violated department regulations and have been suspended for five days each without pay, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office obtained by CNN affiliate WHBQ. The suspensions
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan, Sara Smart and Amanda Watts, CNN The gunman who killed three Michigan State University students and critically wounded five others had a list of other targets, two handguns and plenty of ammunition when police found him on foot after the campus massacre, authorities revealed Thursday. After gunfire terrorized the East
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh, Ana Cabrera and Lilit Marcus, CNN The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu reopened to tourists on Wednesday, February 15, after entry was suspended in December and January amid social unrest in Peru. “This decision reflects the joint commitment of the institutions that make up the Machu Picchu Management Unit, the municipal authorities
Continue Reading By The Associated Press SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — DJ Davis’ 25 points helped UC Irvine defeat UCSB 70-59 on Wednesday night. Davis shot 8 for 16 (3 for 7 from 3-point range) and 6 of 6 from the free throw line for the Anteaters (18-8, 11-3 Big West Conference). Dawson Baker scored 14 points
Continue Reading By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two sheriff’s deputies who have been suspended for five days for their role in the arrest of Tyre Nichols failed to keep their body cameras activated after they went to the location where Nichols had been beaten by five Memphis police officers, officials said late Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Two Australian miners working deep underground were fatally injured when they fell about 15 meters (50 feet) into a void that had opened beneath them, according to a statement Thursday from mining group Perenti. The miners — named as Trevor Davis and Dylan Langridge — were working about 125 meters (407
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