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Month: June 2023

Indonesia deports Australian surfer who apologized for drunken rampage

By ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s authorities on Saturday deported an Australian surfer who apologized for attacking several people while drunk and naked in the deeply conservative Muslim province of Aceh. Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, 23, from Queensland, was detained in late April on Simeulue Island, a surf resort, after police accused

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Zelenskyy says ‘counteroffensive, defensive actions’ taking place in Ukraine

By SAMYA KULLAB and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that counteroffensive and defensive actions are underway against Russian forces, asserting that his top commanders are in a “positive” mindset as their troops engaged in intense fighting along the front line. The Ukrainian leader, at a Kyiv

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Cities across the Northeast experience better air quality indexes as hazardous wildfire smoke subsides

By Alaa Elassar and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Sorely missed blue skies are returning and cities across the northeastern US are experiencing better air quality indexes after the monstrous cloud of smoke spewed by the wildfires in Canada dissipates. Major metropolitan cities across Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut had air quality indexes

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Pope Francis takes doctors’ advice to skip Sunday public blessing as he recovers from major surgery

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, “wisely” following doctors’ advice, will skip Sunday’s customary public blessing to allow himself to better heal after abdominal surgery earlier this week, his surgeon told reporters. Blood and imaging tests indicate that the 86-year-old pope’s recovery is proceeding in an “absolutely normal” manner, Sergio Alfieri,

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Children who were stabbed in France no longer in life-threatening condition as suspect is charged

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Four young children stabbed in a playground in the French Alps are no longer in life-threatening condition but remain hospitalized, the regional prosecutor said Saturday, as the suspected attacker was handed preliminary charges of attempted murder. The victims came from multiple countries, and the

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Ukraine loses 16 US-made armored vehicles, group says, but Kyiv’s forces still gain territory

CNN By Brad Lendon, Andrew Carey, Kostan Nechyporenko, Uliana Pavlova and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has lost 16 US-supplied armored vehicles in the past several days, according to open-source intelligence analysis, as the country’s military announced its forces had captured three villages from Russia in an offensive in the eastern Donetsk region. The

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‘What is there to be afraid of?’ Ukrainians in battered southern town hopeful about counteroffensive

By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Darya Tarasova, CNN Southern Ukraine (CNN) — Deep inside a makeshift bunker, residents of Orikhiv await an aid delivery while artillery shakes the ground above. “It’s comfortable here,” 72-year-old Olga Shumska says, unfazed by the commotion outside. The town in the Zaporizhzhia region sits just five kilometers

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Florida center says ‘Grey Team’ technology, exercise help veterans overcome PTSD and other ailments

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida organization is helping veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental and physical ailments get back into the civilian world. The Boca Raton-based Grey Team has worked with more than 700 veterans since its founding seven years ago. The center uses a 90-day

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