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Month: October 2023

Start your week smart: Shutdown averted, Tupac Shakur case, Georgia guilty plea, Mark Milley, Dianne Feinstein

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Generation X, the roughly 65 million people born between 1965 and 1980, witnessed many innovations: MTV, web browsing, digital music downloads and smartphones, to name just a few. They were also the first generation to enter the workforce after the shift from employer-run pension plans to

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Azerbaijan issues warrant for former separatist leader as UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh

By AVET DEMURYAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Azerbaijan’s prosecutor general says the country has issued an arrest warrant for former Nagorno-Karabakh separatist leader Arayik Harutyunyan. Harutyunyan led the breakaway region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but was largely populated by ethnic Armenians, between May 2020 and the beginning of September.

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EU’s top diplomat urges US to reconsider dropping Ukrainian aid from stop-gap budget bill

LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief has called on U.S. lawmakers to reconsider their decision to omit financial support for Ukraine from a stop-gap budget created to halt a federal government shutdown. The legislation passed Saturday to keep the federal government running until Nov. 17 dropped provisions on providing additional aid to

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Nigeria’s leader increases wages to avert a strike that could shut down the government

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader has increased the wages of some government workers in last-minute efforts to appease labor unions whose planned strike this week could shut down government offices in all sectors of Africa’s largest economy. President Bola Tinubu said Sunday in a nationwide broadcast to mark Nigeria’s

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