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Month: November 2023

Jimmy Carter set to lead presidents, first ladies in mourning and celebrating Rosalynn Carter

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter will be memorialized Tuesday with classical music and beloved hymns, some of her favorite Biblical passages, and a rare gathering of all living U.S. first ladies and multiple presidents, including her 99-year-old husband Jimmy Carter. The tribute service at Glenn Memorial Church in Atlanta falls

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US tells Israel any ground campaign in southern Gaza must limit further civilian displacement

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has told Israel that it must work to avoid “significant further displacement” of Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza if it renews its ground campaign aimed at eradicating the Hamas militant group, senior U.S. officials said. The administration, seeking to avoid more

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41 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in India for 17 days are on verge of rescue, official says

UTTARKASHI, India (AP) — Rescuers in India were on the verge Tuesday of reaching 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks in the country’s north, after drilling their way through debris to get to them, officials said. Syed Ata Hasnain, a member of the National Disaster Management Authority overseeing

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Germany’s leader vows fixes for a budget crisis as the economy struggles. But he offers few details

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Tuesday that his government will work “as fast as possible” to solve a budget crisis, but he offered few details on how he would achieve his goals of promoting clean energy and modernizing the struggling economy after a court decision

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Derek Chauvin, condenado por la muerte de George Floyd, se encuentra estable tras ser apuñalado, según su abogado le dijeron los funcionarios de prisión

Sofía Barruti Un abogado que representa a Derek Chauvin, el agente de policía de Minneapolis condenado por el asesinato de George Floyd en 2020, dijo que pudo hablar con funcionarios de la Oficina Federal de Prisiones después de que su cliente fuera apuñalado en una prisión federal y se enteró de que la salud de

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1 of 3 Palestinian college students shot in Vermont released from hospital on same day suspect pleads not guilty

By Polo Sandoval, Elizabeth Wolfe, John Miller, Dakin Andone and Steve Almasy, CNN Burlington, Vermont (CNN) — One of the three 20-year-old Palestinian college students who were shot Saturday night in Vermont has been released from a hospital, a source close to the families of the victims told CNN on Monday night. The identity of

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California city calls for permanent cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war, urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and ROBERT JABLON Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland’s City Council on Monday passed a carefully crafted resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war after hours of hearing impassioned rhetoric about the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza. The council in the California Bay Area city voted

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California city calls for permanent cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war, urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and ROBERT JABLON Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland’s City Council on Monday passed a carefully crafted resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war after hours of hearing impassioned rhetoric about the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza. The council in the California Bay Area city voted

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South Korea delays its own spy satellite liftoff, days after North’s satellite launch

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it has postponed the planned launch of its first military spy satellite set for this Thursday. South Korea’s first domestically built spy satellite had been scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. The South

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