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Month: August 2023

Major wildfires sweeping through forests in Greece force evacuations near Athens and the northeast

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Major wildfires burning for days in northeastern Greece and on the fringes of the country’s capital have incinerated more tracts of forest and forced additional evacuations Thursday as firefighters struggled against strong winds and arid conditions to bring the multiple fronts under control. The wildfires have

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A plane crash believed to have killed mercenary chief Prigozhin is seen as the Kremlin’s revenge

By The Associated Press Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and top officers of his private Wagner military company were presumed dead in a plane crash that was widely seen as an assassination, two months after they staged a mutiny that dented President Vladimir Putin’s authority. Russia’s civil aviation agency said that Prigozhin and six top

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Hopeful signs of an economic ‘soft landing’ emerge in Jackson Hole as Fed meets with world watching

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — At the height of the post-pandemic economic recovery, Andy Parazette’s taco shop enjoyed such a crush of business that customers sometimes had to wait an hour for a burrito. Though Parazette welcomed the sales, the influx was unsustainable. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was absorbing a

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In Japan’s neighbors, fear and frustration are shared over radioactive water release

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Public fears and frustrations are being shared in Japan’s neighboring countries about the release of treated radioactive wastewater from a crippled nuclear power plant. Some people in South Korea say they won’t eat seafood, even after its conservative government endorsed the safety of the Japanese

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UK political watchdog says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ‘inadvertently’ broke ethics rules

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been chided by Parliament’s standards guardian for failing to declare his wife’s financial interest in a childcare firm that stood to benefit from government policy. The standards commissioner says Sunak broke the code of conduct for government ministers, but the mistake was “inadvertent” and he should

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Republican candidates fight each other, and mostly line up behind Trump, at the first debate

By SARA BURNETT, JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump fought — sometimes bitterly – over abortion rights, U.S. support for Ukraine and the future of the party during the first primary debate of the 2024 campaign. But on

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Niger junta’s 3-year transition plan is a ‘provocation,’ says West African regional bloc

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The West African bloc ECOWAS has rejected the proposal by Niger’s mutinous soldiers for a three-year transition to democratic rule, with a commissioner describing the slow timeline as a provocation. A commissioner interviewed by The Associated Press said the bloc remained open to diplomacy but was

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Plane crash believed to have killed Russian mercenary chief is seen as Kremlin’s revenge

By The Associated Press Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and top officers of his private military were presumed dead in a plane crash that was widely seen as an assassination, two months after they staged a mutiny that dented Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority. Russia’s civil aviation agency said that Prigozhin and six of his

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