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Death toll in Russian strike on Ukrainian building up to at least 35

Monday, January 16, 2023

The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to at least 35, an official said Monday, as rescuers continue searching for more victims.

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Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site

Monday, January 16, 2023

A spokesman for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash that killed at least 68.

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Kabul's mannequins hooded and masked under Taliban rules

Monday, January 16, 2023

Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women's dress shops across the Afghan capital are a puzzling sight, their heads sometimes covered in silk, cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags.

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Expanded U.S. training for Ukraine forces begins in Germany

Monday, January 16, 2023

The U.S. military's new, expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces began in Germany on Sunday. Until now the Pentagon had declined to say exactly when the training would start.

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California's system to defend against mudslides is being put to the ultimate test

Sunday, January 15, 2023

California has seen hundreds of landslides this month. But the factors that make the state so vulnerable to landslides go well beyond the atmospheric rivers that have inundated the state.

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The death toll from a Russian strike on an apartment complex in Ukraine is now 29

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that at least 73 people were wounded and 39 people had been rescued as of Sunday afternoon after the attack in the southeastern city of Dnipro.

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Thousands of Israelis have attended a protest against the Netanyahu government

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court.

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A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed in Nepal, killing at least 32

Sunday, January 15, 2023

A plane carrying 72 people crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reported Sunday.

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Two California deputies in the same department were fatally shot just two weeks apart

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Darnell Calhoun was killed on Friday and Deputy Isaiah Cordero died on Dec. 29. The previous slaying of a Riverside deputy occurred in 2003.

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An Iowa official's wife is charged with 52 counts of voter fraud in congressional race

Saturday, January 14, 2023

The wife of a county supervisor allegedly filled out and cast absentee ballots in her husband's unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020, federal prosecutors said.

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The U.K. pledges tanks to Ukraine as Russian missiles target multiple cities

Saturday, January 14, 2023

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also promised to provide artillery systems to Ukraine, amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting Kyiv and a number of other Ukrainian cities.

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A winning ticket for the $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Maine

Saturday, January 14, 2023

The winner, whose name is not yet known, overcame steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million, which led to three months of drawings without a claim on the jackpot.

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Iran has executed an Iranian-British dual national over spying claim

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Ali Reza Akbar, who once worked for Iran's defense ministry, was executed despite international outcry over his death sentence and those of others held amid protests.

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Brazil's Supreme Court agrees to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for riot

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Brazil's Supreme Court granted the request from the prosecutor general's office to include Bolsonaro in the wider investigation, citing a video he posted on Facebook two days after the riot.

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Robbie Knievel, daredevil son of Evel Knievel, dies at 60

Friday, January 13, 2023

Robbie Knievel, an American stunt performer who set records with daredevil motorcycle jumps following the tire tracks of his thrill-seeking father, died at a hospice in Reno, Nevada.

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Writer E. Jean Carroll's rape claim against Donald Trump can proceed, a judge rules

Friday, January 13, 2023

Carroll alleges Trump raped her in a department store a quarter century ago. The ruling upholds a temporary New York state law letting adult victims of sexual abuse sue their abusers years later.

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The U.S. renames 5 places that used racist slur for a Native woman

Friday, January 13, 2023

The renamed sites are in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, and complete a yearlong process to remove the historically offensive word "squaw" from geographic names across the country.

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'Wakanda Forever' receives 12 NAACP Image Award nominations

Friday, January 13, 2023

The awards honoring entertainers and writers of color will air live in Pasadena, California on Feb. 25. The two-hour show will be held in front of an audience for the first time in three years.

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South Korean police seek manslaughter charges over deadly crowd surge

Friday, January 13, 2023

Among those recommended for indictment include the mayor of Seoul's Yongsan district, and the district's former police chief — two of the six who have been arrested.

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Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's only child and a singer in her own right, dies

Thursday, January 12, 2023

"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us," Priscilla Presley said in a statement.

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