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Month: December 2023

With Iowa’s caucuses a month away, Trump urges voters to hand him not just a victory, but a blowout

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump was uncharacteristically serious when he implored an audience in eastern Iowa to carry him to a blowout in next month’s Republican caucuses. “The margin of victory is very important, it’s just very important,” Trump told about 1,000 people attending a Wednesday

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A Thai senator linked to a Myanmar tycoon is indicted for drug trafficking and money laundering

BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand have indicted a member of the country’s Senate on six charges involving narcotics trafficking, money laundering and association with a transnational criminal organization. Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun denied all the charges when he appeared Thursday at Criminal Court in Bangkok, and was granted release on bail. Upakit’s case is linked

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Un político arrojó granadas durante una reunión de líderes comunitarios en Ucrania dejando decenas de heridos

CNNEE (CNN) — Veintiséis diputados y empleados del consejo de aldea resultaron heridos después de que un diputado local arrojara granadas en un salón comunitario en una aldea del oeste de Ucrania, según el Ministerio del Interior de Ucrania. Seis de los heridos en el ataque en la localidad de Keretsky, en la provincia de

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A Spanish official says spotter planes are helping curtail the number of West African migrant boats

MADRID (AP) — A senior Spanish official says the deployment of two Spanish surveillance planes to watch for migrant boats heading on the treacherous route from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands has enabled authorities to stop 59 canoes from Senegal and Gambia. The vessels carried around 7,200 migrants over the past two months. Spanish

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López Obrador designa a Lenia Batres como nueva ministra de la Suprema Corte de México

macamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, designó este jueves a Lenia Batres Guadarrama como nueva ministra de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN), máximo tribunal del país, donde ocupará el asiento que Arturo Zaldívar dejó vacante tras renunciar al cargo. El Senado de México aprueba la

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2 cousins freed after spending 42 years wrongfully imprisoned – the latest in a spate of high-profile exonerations this week

By Paradise Afshar and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Two Illinois cousins who have spent most of their lives locked up for crimes they never committed walked free Thursday after 42 years behind bars – the latest in a series of exonerations this week involving innocent people wrongfully imprisoned for decades. James Soto, 62, and David

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Los madrugadores podrían haber heredado de los neandertales un reloj corporal más rápido

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los madrugadores pueden haber heredado variantes genéticas de los neandertales que aumentan sus probabilidades de ser mañaneros en lugar de vespertinos, según un nuevo estudio. Aunque el reloj corporal humano es un rasgo complejo determinado por normas sociales y culturales, además de la genética, los neandertales, que evolucionaron en latitudes

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Georgia election workers’ defamation case against Giuliani opens second day of damages deliberations

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurors on Friday began their second day of deliberations to decide how much Rudy Giuliani must pay two former Georgia election workers for spreading lies about them after the 2020 election that led to a barrage of racist threats and upended their lives.

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Suspect charged in killing of a transgender woman as Minnesota investigators weigh whether it was a hate crime

By Rikki Klaus, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors in Minneapolis are investigating whether the killing of a transgender woman last month should be charged as a hate crime, as local activists said the death has amplified safety concerns for some in the city’s transgender community. Savannah Williams was shot in the head on November 29, and a man has been

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El príncipe Harry fue víctima de un ‘extenso’ hackeo telefónico, dictamina el Tribunal Superior del Reino Unido

Sol Amaya (CNN) — El príncipe Harry recibió 140.600 libras esterlinas (US$ 179.000) este viernes después de que el Tribunal Superior del Reino Unido dictaminara que fue objeto de un “extenso” hackeo telefónico por parte de Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) entre 2006 y 2011. El juez Fancourt dictaminó que 15 historias publicadas sobre el Príncipe

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Moldova and Georgia celebrate as their aspirations for EU membership take crucial steps forward

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Moldova and Georgia celebrated after European Union leaders buoyed their aspirations to join the 27 member nation bloc by removing key hurdles on their long path toward membership. Lawmakers in both the Moldovan and Georgian parliaments waved EU flags and played the bloc’s anthem at the opening

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West African court orders Niger’s president to be released and reinstated nearly 5 months after coup

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A court of the West African regional bloc has ordered the release and reinstatement of Niger’s democratically elected president. The legal team of President Mohamed Bazoum said on Friday that the ECOWAS Court of Justice ruled that Bazoum and his family were arbitrarily detained after mutinous

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