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UK suffers worst year for strike action since 1989

February 14, 2023

This Jan 23, 2023 photo shows ambulance workers hold cardboard signs and flags of the UK's trade union UNISON as they take part in a rally at a picket line outside the Docklands Emergency Operating Centre, Newham Dockside, in London. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON - The United Kingdom recorded the...

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South Africa bus crash kills 20, dozens taken to hospital

February 14, 2023

JOHANNESBURG - A head-on collision between a bus and a cash-in-transit van left 20 people dead on Monday on a major road in South Africa's northern Limpopo province, with dozens taken to hospital, transport officials and an emergency medical company said. Emergency medical care company ER24 said police were investigating...

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Nicaragua’s Ortega frees, expels political prisoners to US

February 10, 2023

Nicaraguan opposition leader Felix Maradiaga is reunited with his wife Berta Valle and daughter Alejandra, in Chantilly, Virginia on Feb 9, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) MANAGUA/WASHINGTON – More than 200 Nicaraguan political prisoners were freed and flown to the United States on Thursday, nearly all of them prominent government critics...

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London policeman jailed for 32 years for ‘monstrous’ rape

February 8, 2023

A van arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London on Feb 6, 2023 during the two-day sentencing of serial rapist police officer David Carrick. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON — A former London police officer was jailed on Tuesday for more than 30 years for an "unrestrained campaign of rape and...

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Abused, erased, but forgotten no more

February 7, 2023

Efforts to shed light on a bitter slice of history for Asian Americans resonate amid rising racism Demonstrators condemn racism against Asians at a rally in Washington, DC, on June 25. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Editor's note: Growing racism against Asian Americans is far from a new phenomenon, as we detail...

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8 dead, 5 missing in southern Peru mudslides

February 7, 2023

This March 15, 2022, file photo provided by the Parcoy Municipality shows the path of a mudslide in Parcoy, Peru. At least 36 people were killed in Peru after a mudslide buried several communities in the province of Camana, authorities confirmed on Feb 6, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) LIMA –...

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At least 34 killed in clashes in Somaliland, doctors say

February 6, 2023

Police officers stand near the bodies of alleged al Shabaab militants who have been killed after the siege at the Mogadishu Municipality Headquaters in Mogadishu on Jan 22, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BOSASO - At least 34 people have been killed in clashes in Somalia's northern breakaway region of Somaliland,...

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Four of six accused get lengthy sentences over Vienna attack

February 3, 2023

Austrian lawyer Manfred Arbacher-Stoeger gives an interview to the media outside the courtroom as the verdict for six men accused of providing various degrees of help to a jihadist who killed four people in a shooting rampage in Vienna in November 2020 is expected, in Vienna, Austria, Feb 1, 2023....

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Four of six accused get lengthy sentences over Vienna jihadist attack

February 2, 2023

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Venezuela tightens oil prepayment rules

January 30, 2023

A Citgo gas station, the US-based subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, is seen in Washington, DC, Jan 31, 2019. (PHOTO / AFP) HOUSTON - Venezuela's state oil firm PDVSA is toughening terms for buyers after a month-long halt to most exports of crude and fuel, demanding prepayment...

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Protester dies in Lima as Peru’s political crisis continues

January 30, 2023

Demonstrators light a fire at the Añashuayco bridge, near the Rodriguez Ballon airport, in Arequipa, Peru, during a protest against the government of President Dina Boluarte and to demand her resignation on Jan 20, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) A man in Peru's capital Lima died on Saturday and others were...

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California staggered by deadly back-to-back mass shootings

January 24, 2023

A suspect is arrested by law enforcement personnel after a mass shooting at two locations in the coastal northern California city of Half Moon Bay, California, US, January 23, 2023 in a still image from video. (ABC AFFILIATE KGO / REUTERS) MONTEREY PARK, Calif., Jan 24 (Reuters) - Just two...

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6 dead in US shooting, including 6-month-old baby, mother

January 17, 2023

In this image released by Tulare County Sheriff's Office, detectives investigate a shooting in Goshen near Visalia, California, early morning on Jan 16, 2023. (TULARE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE VIA AP) Six people including a six-month-old baby cradled in the arms of her 17-year-old mother were shot dead at a home...

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6 dead in US home shooting, including 6-month-old baby, mother

January 17, 2023

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Lula to purge Bolsonaro loyalists from security after rampage

January 13, 2023

Federal Interventor Ricardo Cappelli (center) inspects military troops as they wait for a protest announced by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Jan 11, 2023. (GUSTAVO MORENO / AP) BRASILIA – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were...

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Reports: Biden aides find classified documents at new location

January 12, 2023

US President Joe Biden holds a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, Nov 14, 2022. (SAUL LOEB / AFP) WASHINGTON - Aides to US President Joe Biden have discovered at least one more batch of classified documents...

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US airports rumble back to life after FAA computer outage

January 12, 2023

Travelers check the status of their flight as they arrive at the United Airlines Terminal 1 ahead of the Christmas holiday at O'Hare International Airport on Dec 22, 2022 in Chicago. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) WASHINGTON — US flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was...

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Classified documents from Biden’s vice-presidency found at think tank

January 10, 2023

US President Joe Biden speaks about his student debt relief plan at Central New Mexico Community College, Nov 3, 2022, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (PATRICK SEMANSKY / AP) WASHINGTON - Classified documents from Joe Biden's vice-presidential days were discovered in November by the US president's personal attorneys at a Washington...

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England rushes to discharge patients to free up hospital beds

January 9, 2023

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with a patient as he visits Croydon University Hospital on Oct 28, 2022, in London, Britain. (LEON NEAL / POOL / REUTERS) LONDON - England's National Health Service (NHS) aims to begin discharging thousands of patients into care homes and other settings in the...

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Pardoned Ivorian soldiers arrive home after Malian captivity

January 8, 2023

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara (left) speaks with some of the 46 Ivorian soldiers who were arrested in July and then pardoned in Mali at Abidjan airport on Jan 07, 2023. (SIA KAMBOU / AFP) ABIDJAN - Forty-six Ivorian soldiers recently pardoned by Mali's junta flew home to Cote d'Ivoire's Abidjan...