Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former Spice Girl Mel B is among dozens of Black Britons urging Parliament to update the country’s equality laws and prohibit Afro hair discrimination. In an open letter to lawmakers on Tuesday, campaigners including Mel B, singer Beverley Knight and lawmaker Paulette Hamilton called for the U.K. to introduce a
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer CHURCHILL, Manitoba (AP) — Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape the remote Canadian town of Churchill on the shore of Hudson Bay. The economic base collapsed when the military left town. Rail service and cargo ships — the lifeblood of supplies in a town not connected to the rest of
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says Hungary’s threat to send a bus convoy of migrants to Brussels in protest against the bloc’s policies is unacceptable and will be met with a retaliatory response should it go ahead. Hungary’s anti-immigrant government signaled last week that it’s serious about giving migrants free one-way travel to Brussels.
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer Cancer patients can ward off waves of vomiting after treatment with a relatively cheap anti-nausea pill, but some are running into coverage limits. Doctors say restrictions on the number of tablets patients receive can hurt care. Pharmacy benefit managers say their limits guard against overuse, and they offer workarounds to get more
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo say 50,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the United States have arrived in the country. The arrival on Tuesday came a week after the first batch arrived from the European Union. Around 250,000 doses overall have arrived in Congo so far. That’s a fraction of
Continue ReadingBy Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has called for “fundamental changes” to the way Israeli forces operate in the occupied West Bank after the killing of American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest last week. Blinken’s sharply worded rebuke came after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force 1 was deployed to Louisiana on Tuesday in preparation for Tropical Storm Francine. The 45 member group left from Boone County Fire Protection District headquarters in Boone County at 6:30 a.m., according to Boone County Assistant Fire Chief Gale Blomenkamp. The storm remained a tropical storm Tuesday morning
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DERNA, Libya (AP) — It’s been a year since two dams burst upstream from the eastern Libyan city of Derna, unleashing a wall of water that swept away thousands of people. Today, Derna’s residents no longer hold out hope of finding many of their loved ones. For Libya, the disaster on the night
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — The United States and Britain formally accused Iran on Tuesday of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use against Ukraine, announcing new sanctions on Moscow and Tehran before a joint visit to Kyiv by their top diplomats. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking alongside British Foreign Secretary David
Continue ReadingTASITOLU, East Timor (AP) — The estimated crowd of 600,000 people Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor is nearly half of the small Southeast Asian country’s population. The event was held Tuesday on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed during the nation’s fight for independence from Indonesia. Other papal Masses have drawn
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CNN By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Kareem Khadder and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — An overnight Israeli airstrike on an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people in southern Gaza killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, according to local officials in the besieged enclave. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says an American activist killed in the West Bank last week was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by its soldiers, drawing a strong rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the activist’s family. Israel said Tuesday a criminal investigation has been launched into
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer Southwest Airlines will revamp its board and the chairman will retire next year, but it intends to stick with CEO Robert Jordan. The moves were announced Tuesday after Southwest met with representatives from hedge fund Elliott Investment Management, which is pushing for changes including a leadership shakeup at the airline. Southwest says
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A hedge fund investor has bought The Spectator, one of the world’s oldest political magazines, for 100 million pounds ($131 million) after a months-long search for a new owner for the publication. Millionaire Paul Marshall is already the co-owner of U.K. channel GB News, which launched three years ago as a right-leaning,
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TODAY: Sunny skies remain in the forecast today, but you may notice a haze from wildfire smoke. Fortunately this should not impact our air quality at the surface. Temperatures return to the mid-80s thanks to more south wind today. TONIGHT: Temperatures remain in the 60s and 50s overnight, with clear skies. EXTENDED: Wednesday is warmer,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Three men in South Africa are accused of killing two women and feeding their bodies to pigs on their farm in a case that has outraged the public. The men appeared in court Tuesday in the northern province of Limpopo. The state wants them to remain behind bars until their
Continue ReadingGUWAHATI, India (AP) — Indian authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew and shut down the internet in some parts of the northeastern state of Manipur following protests from students against a fresh wave of ethnic violence. At least nine people have been killed and several injured in the last 10 days as armed groups launched
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GENEVA (AP) — An independent U.N. commission says Israel has intensified airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria, inflicting civilian casualties on at least three occasions. Since the Israel-Hamas war began nearly a year ago, Israel has conducted dozens of airstrikes in different parts of Syria. Iran blamed Israel for the April airstrike on
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The former leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and other sexual offenses. Ex-Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson faces one count of rape, four counts of gross indecency and 13 indecent assault charges involving two alleged victims between 1985 and 2008. His wife,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 21-year-old man in Denmark has been arrested for arson after allegedly setting a fire at a Jewish woman’s home in Copenhagen, and he faced preliminary court charges under the country’s terrorism laws that could lead to a life sentence. Preliminary charges are one step short of formal ones
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