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Month: December 2023

Former US ambassador arrested in Florida, accused of serving as an agent of Cuba, AP source says

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government, The Associated Press has learned. Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in Miami on Friday

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Watchdog: Western arms companies failed to ramp up production capacity in 2022 due to Ukraine war

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Many Western arms companies failed to ramp up production in 2022 despite a strong increase in demand for weapons and military equipment, a watchdog group said Monday, adding that labor shortages, soaring costs and supply chain disruptions had been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In its Top 100 of such firms,

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Climate summit leader defends controversial comments that alarmed scientists and sent shockwaves through meeting

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Sultan Al Jaber, the oil executive who is leading the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, sent shockwaves through the gathering by claiming in the days before the UN-backed talks that there is “no science” that says phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to keep global warming under a critical threshold — comments Al

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Inside Racine's Knapp Elementary

‘There’s a need here:’ After-school pickleball teaches lessons about the sport, life

By Emerson Lehmann Click here for updates on this story     RACINE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Inside Racine’s Knapp Elementary, Wednesday is pickleball day. “Given that I’m the basketball coach in the building, too, I’m used to the kids asking me about that in the hallways,” explained Zyaire Strowder, community school coordinator at Knapp. “It quickly transitioned

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