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Month: May 2024

The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

By LAURIE KELLMAN and JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang. Millions of students for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were provocative in their times, products of an ideal that holds universities as sacrosanct spaces for debate, innovation — and

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The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

By LAURIE KELLMAN and JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang. Millions of students for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were provocative in their times, products of an ideal that holds universities as sacrosanct spaces for debate, innovation — and

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Rescuers in Iran trying to reach a helicopter involved in an ‘incident’ while accompanying president

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rescuers in Iran are trying to reach a helicopter involved in “an incident” while traveling with an entourage including President Ebrahim Raisi. That’s according to an Iranian state television report Sunday. There was no immediate elaboration on what happened to the helicopter, nor who was on board. Semiofficial news

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Senior Republican close to Trump criticizes Biden’s arms holdup in speech to Israeli parliament

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Elise Stefanik, a House Republican leader seen as a candidate to be Donald Trump’s running mate, delivered a speech before Israel’s parliament on Sunday in which she criticized President Joe Biden’s approach to the war in Gaza. Stefanik, the fourth highest-ranked Republican in the House of Representatives, is the latest

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

La presidenta de Georgia veta controvertido proyecto de ley sobre agentes extranjeros “estilo Kremlin”

Paulina Nares (CNN) — La presidenta de Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, vetó un polémico proyecto de ley sobre “agentes extranjeros” que provocó semanas de protestas generalizadas en todo el país. Zourabichvili había prometido previamente torpedear el proyecto de ley, pero su veto aún podría ser anulado por una mayoría simple en el parlamento, que aprobó el

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

El centro de EE.UU. enfrenta una amenaza climática severa días después de que tormentas destructivas azotaran Houston

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Millones de personas en partes de las Llanuras Centrales corren el riesgo de sufrir un clima severo este domingo que podría causar tornados, granizo de gran tamaño y vientos dañinos en el área, mientras que el área de Houston se enfrenta a las secuelas de tormentas mortales que dejaron sin electricidad

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Why US Catholics are planning pilgrimages in communities across the nation

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A long-planned series of Catholic pilgrimages has begun across the United States this weekend, with pilgrims embarking on four routes before converging on Indianapolis in two months for a major gathering focusing on Eucharistic rites and devotions. The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is beginning with Masses and other events in California,

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Why US Catholics are planning pilgrimages in communities across the nation

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A long-planned series of Catholic pilgrimages has begun across the United States this weekend, with pilgrims embarking on four routes before converging on Indianapolis in two months for a major gathering focusing on Eucharistic rites and devotions. The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is beginning with Masses and other events in California,

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Elon Musk launches Starlink satellite internet service in Indonesia, world’s largest archipelago

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Elon Musk traveled to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Sunday to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation. Wearing a green Batik shirt, Musk was greeted with a garland of flower petals at a community health clinic in

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Congolese army says it has foiled a coup. Self-exiled opposition leader threatens president

By CHRISTINA MALKIA and CHINEDU ASADU Assocaited Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s army says it “foiled a coup” early Sunday morning and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following a shootout between armed men in military uniform and guards of a close ally of Congo’s president that left three people dead in the capital,

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Dominicans vote in general elections with eyes on crisis in neighboring Haiti

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Voters in the Dominican Republic are casting ballots in general elections likely to reinforce the government’s crackdown on its shared border with crisis-stricken Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the violence-stricken nation. President Luis Abinader has built a Trump-like wall along

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French security forces work to regain control of airport highway in violence-scorched New Caledonia

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press French security forces are working to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French Pacific archipelago where indigenous people have long sought independence from France. A reopening of the Nouméa-La Tontouta airport could allow stranded tourists to

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Slovak prime minister’s condition remains serious but prognosis positive after assassination bid

By LEFTERIS PITARAKIS Associated Press BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European Union nation, the defense minister

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