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Month: May 2024

Polls close and South Africa counts votes in election framed as its most important since apartheid

By GERALD IMRAY, MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans voted Wednesday at schools, community centers, and in large white tents set up in open fields in an election seen as their country’s most important since apartheid ended 30 years ago. It could put the young democracy into unknown territory.

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Venezuela revoca invitación a observadores de la Unión Europea para las elecciones de julio

Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — A dos meses de las elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela, el presidente del Consejo Nacional Electoral, Elvis Amoroso, anunció este martes que revocaron la invitación a la Misión de Observación Internacional de la Unión Europea (UE), al criticar que el bloque ratificó la mayor parte de las sanciones contra funcionarios venezolanos.

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Josh Gibson becomes MLB career and season batting leader as Negro Leagues statistics incorporated

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year research project. Gibson’s .466 average for the 1943 Homestead Grays became the season

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Insurance company Sura withdraws from Colombia’s health system as government pushes for control

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian insurance company Sura has announced that it will withdraw from the nation’s health system because the resources it receives from Colombia’s government to manage more than 5 million patients, are not enough to cover its growing costs. Opposition leaders in Colombia regretted the company’s decision

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Haiti’s transitional council picks prime minister

By Michael Rios and Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN (CNN) — Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council has tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille to return to the position during the government’s transition period, council president Edgard Leblanc Fils said Tuesday. Conille was chosen by consensus after the council conducted hearings of candidates, Leblanc Fils said. Conille briefly

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Introducir mantequilla de maní durante la infancia puede ayudar a la protección contra la alergia futura al fruto, según un nuevo estudio

Belén Liotti (CNN) — Nueva evidencia sugiere que alimentar a los niños con mantequilla de maní suave durante la infancia puede ayudar a reducir el riesgo de desarrollar alergia al maní incluso años después. En comparación con evitar el maní, comenzar a consumir maní en la infancia (alrededor de los 4 meses de edad, como

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Cohen’s credibility, campaigning at court and other takeaways from Trump trial’s closing arguments

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JILL COLVIN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers and Manhattan prosecutors made their final pitches Tuesday to jurors who will decide whether the Republican will be the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime, squaring off over the strength of the

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