Palestinian members of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, take part in a gathering on Jan. 31, 2016, in Gaza City to pay tribute to their fellow militants who died after a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip. Mahmud Hams | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. is urgently trying to …
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A Florida photographer was slowly cruising through St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, south of Tallahassee, searching for his next great shot when a battle of the food chain unwound before his eyes. About 40 yards away, George Stinson watched as a great blue heron thrashed around in the swamp reeds with something large in its …
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(ACAPULCO, Mexico) — Mexican authorities gave the first human toll for Hurricane Otis’ destruction along the country’s Pacific coast Thursday: at least 27 dead and four missing. Tens of thousands of residents in damaged homes without electricity awaited help more than a day after Otis roared ashore in Acapulco. Federal Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez …
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ROME — A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia, the latest twist in a case that has implicated the pope and laid bare the limits of the Vatican’s in-house legal system.. …
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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Wael al-Dahdouh has been a steady face of wartime news out of Gaza for Al Jazeera Arabic viewers. But on Wednesday night, his work turned personal when he learned that the strikes he had covered from the ground all day had claimed the lives of his wife, …
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The European Central Bank headquarters. Daniel Roland | Afp | Getty Images The European Central Bank ended its run of interest rate hikes on Thursday, despite new upside risks to inflation from oil markets amid the Israel-Hamas war. The key rate is set to remain at a record high of 4%, where it was brought …
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) called the new House speaker “MAGA Mike Johnson” and onlookers suggested the moniker was, unfortunately, a good fit. “MAGA is ascendant,” Gaetz told Steve Bannon on the ex-Donald Trump advisor’s podcast on Wednesday. “If you don’t think that moving from Kevin McCarthy to MAGA Mike Johnson shows the ascendance of this …
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WASHINGTON — In the midst of two active and potentially world-changing conflicts in the Middle East and Europe, the U.S. is hoping to find at least a small measure of common ground with China as China’s top diplomat visits Washington this week. Over three days of meetings that begin Thursday, top Biden administration officials, including …
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A Russian-born Swedish businessman has been acquitted of collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, for almost a decade ByThe Associated Press October 26, 2023, 6:08 AM FILE – A police tape cordons off an area outside a house where Swedish Security Service allegedly arrested two people on suspicion of espionage in a …
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Mercedes-AMG GT 43 4MATIC+ on display at Brussels Expo on January 9, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Sjoerd Van Der Wal | Getty Images News | Getty Images Mercedes-Benz shares were sharply lower Thursday after the German carmaker reported a decline in profit and revenue as challenges from electrical vehicle competition to supply chains. Shares were …
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