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Month: November 2023

Russian artist who protested Ukraine war gets 7 years in prison in latest crackdown on free speech

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for swapping supermarket price tags with antiwar messages, sentencing her to seven years in prison in one of the highest-profile cases involving the recent crackdown on free speech. Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St.

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After court defeat, the UK says its Rwanda migrant plan can still work. Legal experts are skeptical

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s interior minister says the U.K. government can revive its blocked plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda without breaching international law. Home Secretary James Cleverly says the government is “absolutely determined” to begin Rwanda deportation flights next year. The U.K. Supreme Court quashed the government’s plan on

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For second year in a row, US gets D+ grade for high preterm birth rate: ‘There’s so much work to be done’

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The rate of premature birth in the United States remains high, especially in the southern region of the country, according to the infant and maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes. The group’s annual “report card” on US maternal and infant health, released Thursday, says that the nation’s preterm birth

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