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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban are appealing to Afghanistan’s private sector to help those fleeing Pakistan’s mass deportation drive. Pakistan is arresting and expelling all foreigners it says are in the country illegally. But the policy mostly affects Afghans because they are the biggest group of undocumented foreigners in the country. The Ministry of Commerce
Continue ReadingBy ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says it foiled an attack by militants on a training air base in eastern Punjab province, killing all nine assailants. The military said the troops’ “swift and effective response” thwarted the attack at Mianwali Training Air Base, keeping its personnel and assets safe, though three
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By Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A man accused of driving through a fence at a South Carolina nuclear power station and trying to hit a security officer with his vehicle this week was arrested Friday evening, a sheriff’s office said. Doyle Wayne Whisenhunt, 66, of Lockesburg, Arkansas, has been charged in connection with Thursday
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stepped up his frantic diplomacy on Saturday, trying to build support for planning a post-conflict future for Gaza as he continued his second urgent mission to the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas conflict began. A day after Israeli Prime
Continue ReadingBy BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese authorities say their focus is on finding survivors after a strong earthquake shook districts in northwestern Nepal just before midnight Friday, killing at least 128 people and injuring dozens more. The death toll is expected to rise as communications were still cut off in many
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Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Uruguay, Francisco Bustillo, renunció a su cargo luego de que una serie de mensajes en chats y audios lo involucraran en un presunto intento de ocultar información a la Justicia, que investiga el otorgamiento de un pasaporte uruguayo al narcotraficante Sebastián Marset. Ese pasaporte,
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAM MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Arab foreign ministers Saturday to find ways to ease Gaza’s growing humanitarian crisis. His mission is complicated by Israel’s insistence there can be no temporary cease-fire until all hostages held by Hamas
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Mientras los dispersos clientes saltan de un bar desierto a otro, cuesta creer que las calles casi vacías por las que zigzaguean fueran antaño de las más animadas de Asia. Es jueves por la noche, una noche normalmente ajetreada, pero no hay multitudes entre las que moverse ni juerguistas que
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Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The average Palestinian in Gaza is living on two pieces of Arabic bread made from flour the United Nations had stockpiled in the region, yet the main refrain now being heard in the street is “Water, water,” the Gaza director for the U.N. agency for
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — A Palestine TV correspondent and 11 members of his family were killed Thursday in southern Gaza, according to the Palestinian Authority-run television network, in what it described as an Israeli airstrike. Mohammad Abu Hattab had been reporting live on-air Thursday night outside of Nasser
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A group of militants have targeted a training airbase in eastern Punjab province, leaving three attackers dead. That’s according to Pakistan’s military, which said three grounded aircrafts were damaged and a fuel tanker was destroyed in the attack. A military statement said the troops‘ “swift and effective response” foiled the attack early
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will protest a lack of transparency in China’s treatment of a detained Australian democracy blogger when meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing during a trade-focused state visit. Albanese said the detention of Yang Hengjun without conviction for almost five
Continue Reading By Andrew Carey and Tara John and Kevin Flower, CNN (CNN) — Israel has claimed responsibility for an attack on an ambulance outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the enclave, which witnesses say killed and wounded dozens of people. At least 15 people were killed and 50 others wounded, the Hamas-run health
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Golden State Warriors and the Oklahoma City Thunder gave the NBA exactly what it wanted out of the inaugural In-Season Tournament — playoff-caliber intensity early in the season. Stephen Curry scored 30 points, including the winning layup with 0.2 seconds left, to help the
Continue Reading By Marc Stewart, Mengchen Zhang and Nectar Gan, CNN Gobi Desert, China (CNN) — When China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei blasted off into space in 2003, it was a history making moment that declared his country’s arrival as an emerging space power. Two decades on, China has become a major presence in space – a
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Rainbows are just one of a wide variety of optical effects caused by the interactions between sunlight and various atmospheric conditions. Sunlight is actually a mix of every wavelength, or color, of the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Credit: https://hubblesite.org/contents/articles/the-electromagnetic-spectrum As sunlight enters a raindrop, it slows down since water is more dense
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sheryl Crow and Olivia Rodrigo kicked off the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday night and Missy Elliott closed the show more than four hours later with a roof-shaking set, as the hall celebrated a strong representation of women and Black
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Connor Stalions, the low-level Michigan football staffer who is at the center of an NCAA investigation into impermissible scouting of opponents and sign stealing, has resigned. He had been suspended with pay two weeks ago. An AP source says Stalions failed to show up for a scheduled
Continue Reading Rebecca Wright and Nic Robertson, John Torigoe, Eli Kiko Cohen and Joel Bennett Re’im, Israel (CNN) — Aliza Samuel walks carefully through debris left strewn across the ground, picking up a bracelet before coming across some small clay trinkets that had been handmade during the Nova Music Festival. “People just dropped everything and left,” Samuel
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