Rescuers blocked from reaching 41 workers trapped by a highway tunnel collapse are shifting to an attempt to reach them vertically. The construction workers have been trapped nine days, though they …
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11/20/23
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Seoul warns North Korea not to launch a spy satellite and hints a 2018 peace deal could be suspended
South Korea’s military has warned North Korea not to go ahead with its planned spy satellite launch. A senior officer suggested Monday that South Korea could suspend an inter-Korean peace deal and …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
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11/19/23
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Russian drones targeted the Ukrainian capital Sunday as the British Defense Ministry said there were “few immediate prospects” for change along the Ukrainian front line as the war enters its …
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11/19/23
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In the first two weeks of November, fires fueled by unusually dry and hot weather destroyed nearly 770,000 hectares (1.9 million acres) of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands. …
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By LUCAS DUMPHREYS and DIANE JEANTET
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11/19/23
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Thousands of families are lining up for free handouts at food banks across the Netherlands. The queues underscore how poverty is taking root even in lower middle class families and why tackling it …
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By MIKE CORDER
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11/19/23
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Voters in Argentina head to the polls Sunday in a presidential runoff election that will determine whether South America’s second-largest economy will take a rightward shift. Populist Javier Milei, …
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By DANIEL POLITI and DAVID BILLER
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11/19/23
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Survivors of Nazi atrocities have joined young Jewish activists in Paris to sound the alarm about resurgent antisemitic hate speech, graffiti and abuse linked to the Israel-Hamas war. The impact of …
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By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and HELENA ALVES
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11/18/23
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Thousands of family members and supporters of some 240 hostages held in Gaza have streamed into Jerusalem on foot to castigate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the war …
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By JULIA FRANKEL
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11/18/23
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Both cheers and jeers for Argentina’s right-wing presidential candidate resounded with acoustic perfection inside the country’s legendary Colón Theater, laying bare the country’s polarization. …
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By DANIEL POLITI
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11/18/23
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People in southwest Iceland are on edge, waiting to see whether a volcano rumbling under the Reykjanes peninsula will erupt. Civil protection authorities say it will likely be months before residents …
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11/18/23
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Ukraine's military says its troops are working to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnieper River. The update given on Saturday came a day after Ukraine claimed to have …
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11/18/23
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Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that threatens to displace their homes and cut up the local ecosystem. But they have found very little to fight …
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By DANIEL SHAILER
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11/18/23
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The first planeload of Palestinian children wounded in the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip has reached the United Arab Emirates, part of a pledged relief effort by the country to aid 1,000 …
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By MALAK HARB
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11/18/23
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With the onset of the war between Israel and Hamas, the world’s attention has swung away from the nearly 2-year-old conflict in Ukraine. In Washington, the war in Gaza consumes attention at the …
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By HANNA ARHIROVA
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11/18/23
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The Miss Universe competition hosted by El Salvador is the latest spectacle touted by President Nayib Bukele in his efforts to change the reputation of his historically violence-torn nation. But …
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By MEGAN JANETSKY
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11/18/23
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In the run-up to the tightly contested Argentina presidential election runoff Sunday, right-wing populist Javier Milei is following former President Donald Trump's playbook, alleging electoral fraud …
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By DAVID BILLER and DANIEL POLITI
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11/18/23
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Forty workers are trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India for a seventh day as rescuers wait for a new machine to drill through the rubble so they can crawl to their freedom. The workers …
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By BISWAJEET BANERJEE
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11/17/23
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Guatemala’s Attorney General’s office has formally requested that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his vice president be stripped of their immunity so it can investigate them for allegedly …
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By SONIA PÉREZ D.
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11/17/23
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Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including three militants, across the West Bank, deepening a surge of violence in the occupied territory that has accompanied Israel’s war in the Gaza …
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By JULIA FRANKEL
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11/17/23
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Senegal’s highest court has effectively barred detained opposition leader Ousmane Sonko from running for president early next year. The court overturned a local court's decision to reinstate Sonko …
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By BABACAR DIONE
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11/17/23
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