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PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government says South Korea’s KHNP has won a lucrative public tender to build at least two nuclear reactors in the Czech…
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee issued a subpoena Wednesday to the…
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Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia have exchanged 95 prisoners of war each, three weeks after their last swap and as part of…
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Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs says he’s running for lieutenant governor of California. Tubbs…
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Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s disciplinary hearing with the African National…
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Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Several major universities in Bangladesh have agreed to shut their doors after at least six people died…
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Continue Reading Paris mayor dips into the Seine River to showcase its improved cleanliness before Olympic events
Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show that the long-polluted…
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Continue Reading Former CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry indicted on charges of secretly working for South Korea
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Continue Reading Papua New Guinea’s sidelined minister to fight domestic violence charge in Sydney court next year
SYDNEY (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s sidelined Petroleum Minister, Jimmy Maladina, will appear in a Sydney court in March to fight a charge of…
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Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hamas-led armed groups committed numerous war crimes during the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel that…
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Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Tens of millions of dollars raised by a landmark climate law in Washington state will go to Native American tribes…
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Continue Reading Relatives of those killed when MH17 was shot down mark 10 years since tragedy that claimed 298 lives
Associated Press VIJFHUIZEN, Netherlands (AP) — Grieving families recited the names and ages Wednesday of all 298 passengers and crew killed when…
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By Nick Watt and Stephanie Becker, CNN (CNN) — The Alameda County District Attorney’s office on Tuesday announced the resentencing of two…
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Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Commissioners in Nevada’s second most populous county certified the results of two local recounts on Tuesday,…
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Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. Ambassador told Russia’s foreign minister that President Vladimir Putin should release detained…
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is seriously considering proposals to establish term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices,…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say the leader of a violent neo-Nazi extremist group based in eastern Europe has been charged with plotting to have an…
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican JD Vance have had their first chat since the Ohio senator became the…
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says a former CIA employee and senior official at the National Security Council has…
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s longest-serving lawmaker has died. Peter Courtney was 81. Gov. Tina Kotek says Courtney died Tuesday morning at…
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Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s prolonged outages following Hurricane Beryl has some fed-up and frustrated residents taking out their…
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Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge says the Secretary of State’s Office was wrong to change the rules governing whose…
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Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention shot and killed a man who was wielding…
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WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska will soon get back about 1,600 acres of land the federal government took more than 50 years…
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Associated Press TAGAYTAY, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say the suspect in last week’s killings of two Australians and their…
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BARNEGAT, N.J. (AP) — Crews are battling a fast-moving forest fire that broke out at a major military gunnery range in southern New Jersey. No…
Continue Reading JD Vance charted a Trump-centric, populist path in Senate as he fought GOP establishment
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Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New England Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte will not be prosecuted on charges related to illegal online…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Dozens of Indian nationals held in “slave-like” working conditions near Verona in northern Italy…
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MILAN (AP) — The mayor of Venice is under investigation in a corruption scandal that has landed his top public works official in jail for an…
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Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday after a video was posted online showing part of a private phone call…
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — WNBA great Sue Bird has been honored with a signature Barbie doll. Mattel announced Tuesday that it has issued a replica…
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