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Senegal’s governing party poised for parliamentary majority in boost for reform agenda

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s governing party is poised to win a majority of seats in the National Assembly. The country’s main opposition parties conceded defeat Monday in the country’s parliamentary election. The result now paves the way for newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye to be able to pass ambitious reforms. PASTEF

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Protesters in Georgia’s capital set up a tent camp and demand new elections, wary of Russia

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Demonstrators in Georgia’s capital have set up tents on a central thoroughfare and vowed to stay around the clock to demand new parliamentary elections in the country. Last month’s election kept the governing Georgian Dream party in power, but opponents say the vote was rigged with Russia’s assistance. Many Georgians viewed

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Health workers go on trial in Turkey accused of private care scheme linked to 10 infant deaths

Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Doctors, nurses and an ambulance driver are among health care workers on trial accused of causing at least 10 infant deaths linked to a scheme to defraud Turkey’s social security system. Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the court in Istanbul where 47 defendants are accused of transferring babies to neonatal

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Moscow warns the US over allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with longer-range weapons

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin warned Monday that President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles adds “fuel to the fire” of the war and would escalate international tensions even higher. Biden’s shift in policy added an uncertain, new factor to the conflict on the

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New Zealand’s founding treaty is at a flashpoint. Why are thousands protesting for Māori rights?

Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police say tens of thousands of people have arrived at New Zealand’s Parliament in protest of a proposed law that would redefine the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown. Under the principles laid out in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, which guide the relationship

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Florida court fight gives insight into the House review of sex allegations against Matt Gaetz

By Paula Reid and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Accounts of parties involving drugs, alcohol and young women that were allegedly attended by President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, are in the hands of House ethics investigators under pressure to release its findings on the former Florida congressman. The evidence related to

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US and Philippines sign a pact to secure shared military intelligence and weapons technology

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines have signed an agreement to secure the exchange of highly confidential military intelligence and technology in key weapons the U.S. would provide to Manila. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Philippine counterpart, Gilberto Teodoro, signed the legally binding General Security of Military Information

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Zac Taylor insists his Bengals can still be a playoff team after loss to Chargers drops them to 4-7

AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Even after yet another painful loss in a season full of heartbreakers for Cincinnati, head coach Zac Taylor insisted his beleaguered Bengals can still make the playoffs. Taylor’s Bengals (4-7) and their fans might be finding it increasingly hard to keep the faith after the Los Angeles Chargers

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Sri Lanka’s Marxist-leaning president appoints Cabinet after election win

Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president has sworn in a 22-member Cabinet after his party secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority in last week’s election. The margin of victory will allow President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to make sweeping reforms, including a campaign promise of a new constitution, without needing support

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Negotiators are urged to get down to business as climate talks in Baku enter second week

Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — United Nations climate talks resumed Monday with negotiators urged to make progress on a stalled-out deal that could see developing countries get more money to spend on clean energy and adapting to climate-charged weather extremes. U.N. Climate Change executive secretary Simon Stiell called for countries to “cut the theatrics

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Young people, whose futures are at stake in UN climate talks, push through anger to fight for hope

Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — As leaders and negotiators grapple with big questions of money and power, youth COP attendees and activists from around the world grapple with their own questions about how much their voices matter. Behind their protests, speeches and presence at COP, they feel real pain about the climate impacts they

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Typhoon Man-yi leaves 7 dead in Philippines and worsens crisis from back-to-back storms

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Man-yi left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms, officials said Monday. Man-yi was one of the strongest of the six major storms to

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