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Month: January 2024

Italian leader Meloni opens an Africa summit to unveil a plan to aid development and curb migration

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is opening a summit of African leaders aimed at unveiling Italy’s big development plan for Africa. The government is hoping the plan will help stem migration numbers and forge a new relationship between Europe and the continent. Two dozen African leaders, top European

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Pro-Trump network OAN execs may have ‘engaged in criminal activities’ while promoting 2020 election lies, Smartmatic alleges

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — In the wake of the 2020 election, the president of the far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive email to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, with a spreadsheet claiming to contain passwords of employees from the voting technology company Smartmatic, according to court filings. The existence

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Tax season begins this week

Starting this week, the IRS will accept and process your federal income taxes. The deadline to file 2023 taxes is April 18. However, Californians who were affected by severe weather in 2022-2023 have extra time to file. People who live in Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange or Los Angeles county now have until November 16. to

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What is Tower 22, the military base that was attacked in Jordan where 3 US troops were killed?

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A little-discussed United States military desert outpost in the far reaches of northeastern Jordan has become the focus of international attention after a drone attack killed three American troops and injured at least 34 others there. The base, known as Tower 22, sits near the demilitarized zone

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France’s protesting farmers encircle Paris with tractor barricades, vowing a ‘siege’ over grievances

By SYLVIE CORBET and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press JOSSIGNY, France (AP) — Protesting farmers encircled Paris with traffic-snarling barricades Monday, using hundreds of lumbering tractors and mounds of hay bales to block highways leading to France’s capital to pressure the government over the future of their industry, which has been shaken by repercussions of the

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The WWE knew Vince McMahon was a liability. So why did it bring him back after his scandalous departure?

By Kyle Feldscher and David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — WWE’s parent company knew Vince McMahon — the founder of the wrestling behemoth — was a potential liability. It said so itself in government filings. McMahon, who resigned Friday from his role as executive chairman of WWE parent company TKO following accusations of sexual assault and trafficking, posed

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German president calls for alliance against extremism as protests against far right draw thousands

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president has called for a broad “alliance against extremism” in the wake of a report about far-right discussions of deporting millions of immigrants that prompted protests by hundreds of thousands of people. Germany has seen more than two weeks of protests against the Alternative for Germany party and others on the

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Islamic State group claims responsibility for the Istanbul church attack that killed one person

By ROBERT BADENDIECK and MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during Mass that killed one person. It said in a statement late Sunday that it “attacked a gathering of Christian unbelievers during their polytheistic ceremony” inside the

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Putin and Lukashenko meet in St Petersburg to discuss ways to expand the Russia-Belarus alliance

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The leaders of Russia and Belarus have discussed ways to further expand their alliance that has seen the deployment of some of Russia’s nuclear weapons on the territory of its neighbor. Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that Russia and Belarus have developed a “strategic partnership” as part of their 25-year

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