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Month: October 2023

UN peacekeepers have departed a rebel stronghold in northern Mali early as violence increases

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — United Nations peacekeepers have withdrawn from a rebel stronghold in northern Mali weeks earlier than planned because of growing insecurity. That leaves the town in the hands of ethnic Tuareg separatists. The U.N. mission says the peacekeepers left Tuesday and describes the conditions of departure “extremely

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Spain’s bishops apologize for sex abuses but dispute the estimated number of victims in report

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Catholic bishops have apologized again for sex abuses committed by members following a report by the national ombudsman that accused the church of widespread negligence. The bishops, however, dismissed as a lie media interpretations of the official report that put the number of victims involving the

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Judge shuts down Fox bid to subpoena George Soros in Smartmatic case

By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — A New York judge on Monday shut down an attempt by Fox News to subpoena George Soros, the Jewish billionaire and frequent target of far-right conspiracy theories, and search for additional links between him and Smartmatic, a voting technology company at the center of false election claims during the 2020 election. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice David B. Cohen

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Cops were sent to Maine gunman’s home weeks before massacres amid concern he ‘is going to snap and commit a mass shooting’

By Shimon Prokupecz, Mark Morales, Linh Tran and Rachel Clarke, CNN Sagadahoc County, Maine (CNN) — The US Army asked local police to check on the reservist who killed 18 people after a soldier became concerned he would “snap and commit a mass shooting,” according to information shared with CNN. Officers from the Sagadahoc County

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Visitors will be allowed in Florence chapel’s secret room to ponder if drawings are Michelangelo’s

By LUIGI NAVARRO Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside Florence’s Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been attributed by some experts to Michelangelo. The secret room — a tiny 10-by-3 meters (33-by-10 feet) space

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