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Ex-Prime Minister David Cameron makes shocking return to U.K. government

Monday, November 13, 2023

Cameron, who triggered the country's exit from the European Union, returns as U.K.'s foreign secretary. Hardliner Home Secretary Suella Braverman was fired in the same cabinet shakeup.

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Long-jailed former Philippine senator who fought drug crackdown is granted bail

Monday, November 13, 2023

The European Union Parliament, some U.S. lawmakers and U.N. human rights experts have long demanded the release of Leila de Lima, who was detained as an opposition senator in February 2017.

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Millions of Indians set a world record celebrating Diwali despite air quality worries

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Millions of Indians celebrated Diwali on Sunday with a Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about air pollution soared in the South Asian country.

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More than 100,000 march in Paris against soaring antisemitism amid Israel-Hamas war

Sunday, November 12, 2023

French authorities have registered more than 1,000 acts against Jews around the country in the month since the conflict in the Middle East began.

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More than 800 Sudanese reportedly killed in an attack on a Darfur town, the UN says

Sunday, November 12, 2023

The attack on Ardamata earlier this month was the latest in a series of atrocities in Darfur that marked the monthslong war between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

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Arkansas man receives the world's first whole eye transplant plus a new face

Friday, November 10, 2023

The NYU medical team announced Thursday that Aaron James is recovering well from the dual transplant last May and the donated eye looks remarkably healthy.

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FBI offers $10K reward in search for Jan. 6 attack fugitive from New Jersey

Thursday, November 09, 2023

The agency said it and other law enforcement agencies are looking for 47-year-old Gregory Yetman. The FBI was being joined by law enforcement officers from state, county and local police.

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Envelopes with fentanyl or other substances were sent to several elections offices

Thursday, November 09, 2023

The letters were sent to elections offices in the presidential battlegrounds of Georgia and Nevada, as well as California, Oregon and Washington, with some being intercepted before they arrived.

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Ballot shortages created democracy problems during Mississippi governor's election

Thursday, November 09, 2023

People in Mississippi's largest county are demanding answers about why some polling places ran out of ballots and voters had to wait for them to be replenished on election day.

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Man accuses riverboat co-captain of assault during Alabama riverfront brawl

Thursday, November 09, 2023

Court records show one of the white men accused of assaulting the co-captain during the August brawl filed a complaint last month saying the co-captain hit him first during the chaotic melee.

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U.S. launches airstrike in Syria in response to attacks by Iranian-backed militias

Thursday, November 09, 2023

The U.S. carried out an airstrike on a weapons warehouse in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a number of attacks on U.S. troops in the region.

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Alabama sets January execution date using nitrogen gas

Thursday, November 09, 2023

Alabama has set a January execution date for what would be the nation's first attempt to put an inmate to death using nitrogen gas.

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3 are charged with running sex ring that catered to politicians, military and others

Wednesday, November 08, 2023

DOJ says possibly hundreds of clients include government contractors with security clearances, doctors, lawyers, elected officials, military officers, professors and executives at tech companies.

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An exonerated 'Central Park Five' member will win a seat on the New York City Council

Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Yusef Salaam was one of five Black and Latino teens who were wrongly imprisoned for raping a jogger in 1989 before their convictions were overturned in 2002.

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Portugal's prime minister resigns over a corruption investigation

Tuesday, November 07, 2023

António Costa asserted his innocence but said he must resign amid an investigation implicating members of his government.

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Starbucks increases U.S. hourly wages and adds other benefits for non-union workers

Tuesday, November 07, 2023

The company said Monday unionized workers won't be eligible for some of those perks, a sign of the continuing tension between the Seattle coffee giant and the union trying to organize its U.S. stores.

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Captain found guilty of 'seaman's manslaughter' in deadly California boat fire

Monday, November 06, 2023

A federal jury found a scuba dive boat captain was criminally negligent in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history.

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The father of a mass shooting suspect stands trial for helping him get a gun license

Monday, November 06, 2023

Robert Crimo Jr. is charged with seven counts of reckless conduct — one for each person his son, Robert Crimo III, is accused of killing in Highland Park, Ill., on Independence Day last year.

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Ex-State Department aide sentenced to nearly 6 years in Capitol riot attacks

Monday, November 06, 2023

Federico Klein joined other Trump supporters in one of the most violent episodes of the Jan. 6 siege — a mob's fight with outnumbered police for control of a Capitol tunnel entrance.

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A Philippine radio anchor was shot and killed while on a Facebook livestream

Sunday, November 05, 2023

Juan Jumalon was the 199th journalist to be killed in the country since 1986, when an uprising toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the current president's father.

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