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Month: August 2023

Rail service in southern Pakistan is partially restored after train crash that killed 30 people

By ASIM TANVEER Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say engineers have partially restored passenger rail service in southern Pakistan, a day after a passenger train derailed there, killing at least 30 people and injuring 90. Local authorities have handed over 27 bodies of the victims of Sunday’s crash to their families for burials

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People are losing more money to scammers than ever before. Here’s how to keep yourself safe

By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Business for scammers is booming. The most recent Federal Trade Commission data from 2022 shows that reported consumer losses to fraud totaled $8.8 billion. That’s a 30 percent increase from 2021. The biggest losses were to investment scams, including cryptocurrency schemes, which cost

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The Maldives’ incumbent President Solih will face seven other candidates in next month’s election

MALE, Maldives (AP) — Incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and seven other candidates have registered to run in the Maldives’ presidential elections next month, the island archipelago’s fourth since becoming a multiparty democracy in 2008. Solih is expected to face stiff competition after democracy campaigner and ex-President Mohamed Nasheed split off from the ruling Maldivian

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West African leaders will meet Thursday after Niger’s junta defies key deadline and shuts airspace

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Leaders of West Africa’s regional bloc said Monday that they would meet later this week to discuss next steps after Niger’s military junta defied a deadline to reinstate the country’s ousted president while its mutinous soldiers closed the country’s airspace and accused foreign powers of preparing

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De Filadelfia a Atlanta, más de 120 millones de personas en EE.UU. están bajo el riesgo de tormentas severas que podrían traer granizo y vientos dañinos

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Más de 120 millones de personas en el este de Estados Undos corren el riesgo de tormentas eléctricas severas este lunes que pueden afectar a comunidades desde Filadelfia hasta Atlanta con ráfagas de viento dañinas, granizo grande, fuertes lluvias y algunos tornados. Se espera un patrón de tormentas eléctricas muy

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Japan raises concerns over Iran’s nuclear enrichment and drone supplies to Russia for Ukraine war

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has expressed concerns over Iran’s advancing uranium enrichment program and its suspected supplying of combat drones to Moscow for Russia’s war on Ukraine. Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi raised the two issues during talks on Monday with his visiting Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amirabdollahian, in Tokyo. Japan’s

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