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Month: August 2023

Chicago TV news crew robbed at gunpoint while reporting on a string of robberies

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago television news crew has been robbed at gunpoint while they were reporting on a string of robberies. Spanish-language station Univision Chicago says a reporter and photographer were filming early Monday in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. They were robbed by three masked men brandishing firearms, who took their television camera and

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Israeli PM orders ministries to get his OK before secret talks, as drama over Libya meeting persists

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued an order mandating that his office approve all secret diplomatic meetings in advance, as officials scrambled to contain the growing diplomatic firestorm over Israel’s disclosure that its top diplomat had met with his Libyan counterpart. The exposure of the first-ever

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Zimbabwe opposition party calls for fresh elections supervised by neighboring countries

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has demanded fresh elections supervised by neighboring countries. The Citizens Coalition for Change party dug in on its rejection of last week’s election that saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa win re-election and his ZANU-PF party retain its majority in a vote heavily criticized

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Prigozhin’s internet trolls blame West and defend Putin over Wagner chief’s death, researchers say

By Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — A Russian network of internet trolls has begun to spread messages online blaming “enemies from the West” for the plane crash that killed Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin last week, according to two experts who monitor the activity of the trolls. Prigozhin had previously turbo-charged the use of trolls to

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After Supreme Court curtails federal power, Biden administration weakens clean water protections

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, MATTHEW DALY and JOHN FLESHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands Tuesday, saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court sharply limited the federal government’s jurisdiction over them. The rule would require that wetlands be more clearly connected to other waters

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Switzerland indicts Algerian ex-minister for alleged crimes against humanity during 1990s insurgency

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss federal prosecutors say they’ve indicted a former Algerian defense minister for his alleged role in crimes against humanity during the insurrection in the North African country some three decades ago. Former Gen. Khaled Nezzar is now aged 85 and reportedly “on his deathbed.” The Swiss attorney

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The worm specimen was extracted alive from the woman's brain by surgeons at Canberra Hospital in Australia.

‘Still alive and wriggling:’ Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman’s brain in world first

CNN By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm that wriggled between her forceps. “I’ve only come across worms using my not-so-good gardening skills … I find

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