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April 30, 2024, 1:08 p.m.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The torrential rains and deadly floods that have hit Kenya since March have been some of the most catastrophic in the country in recent years. At least 169 people have died due to the heavy rains, ...
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April 30, 2024, 1:06 p.m.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of pieces of ammunition have gone missing from two military bases in the South American country. In a brief statement, Petro said that an inspection this ...
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April 30, 2024, 1:01 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats will vote to save Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s job should some of his fellow Republican lawmakers seek to remove him from the position, Democratic leaders said Tuesday, likely assuring for now that Johnson will avoid ...
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April 30, 2024, 12:56 p.m.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top U.N. court rejected on Tuesday a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel and renew funding to the U.N. aid agency in Gaza. The International Court ...
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April 30, 2024, 12:49 p.m.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Bélizaire as the Caribbean country's prime minister Tuesday as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling ...
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April 30, 2024, 12:47 p.m.
Wheat for May was off 5.25 cents at $5.85 a bushel; May corn rose .25 cent at $4.3950 a bushel, May oats was down .25 cent at $3.71 a bushel; while May soybeans fell 15.25 cents at $11.4550 a bushel. ...
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April 30, 2024, 12:43 p.m.
ROME (AP) — He was fired by the defense minister after writing a book deemed offensive to women, gays and Blacks. He is under investigation by Rome prosecutors for allegedly inciting racial hatred. He set off a firestorm over suggestions ...
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April 30, 2024, 12:29 p.m.
TORONTO, Ontario (AP) — Two grandparents and their infant grandchild were killed on a highway east of Toronto when a van being chased by police crashed while going the wrong way, causing a six-vehicle collision, Canadian police said Tuesday. The ...
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April 30, 2024, 12:00 p.m.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to keep rising as donors cut back on aid, the head of the U.N.'s migration agency warned Tuesday, as pressure builds over their arrival on the Mediterranean island ...
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April 30, 2024, 11:49 a.m.
ROME (AP) — He was fired by the defense minister after writing a book deemed offensive to women, gays and Blacks. He is under investigation by Rome prosecutors for allegedly inciting racial hatred. He set off a firestorm over suggestions ...
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April 30, 2024, 11:22 a.m.
LONDON (AP) — Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree that toppled over on Hadrian's Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday. Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged ...
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April 30, 2024, 10:57 a.m.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to keep rising, the head of a top international agency working with migrants warned Tuesday, as pressure builds due to their arrival on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. ...
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April 30, 2024, 10:56 a.m.
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Kazakhstan have arrested a former interior minister in connection with a deadly police crackdown on unrest that gripped the country in 2022 , local media reported Tuesday. The prosecutor general's office announced on Monday ...
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April 30, 2024, 10:38 a.m.
LONDON (AP) — A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a northeast London suburb Tuesday, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring four other people, British authorities said. A 36-year-old man was subdued with ...
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April 30, 2024, 10:33 a.m.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rain-swollen water levels at two Kenyan hydroelectric dams are at “historic highs” and people downstream should move away, the Cabinet said Tuesday, and ordered residents of flood-prone areas across the country to evacuate or they'll be ...
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April 30, 2024, 10:32 a.m.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Belizaire as the country's prime minister Tuesday as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence. ...
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April 30, 2024, 10:12 a.m.
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s main opposition coalition said Tuesday it won’t take part in the North African country’s upcoming presidential election unless President Kais Saied’s political opponents are freed and judicial independence is restored. More than 20 political opponents ...
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April 30, 2024, 10:07 a.m.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A 98-year-old woman in Ukraine who escaped Russian-occupied territory by walking almost 10 kilometers (6 miles) alone, wearing a pair of slippers and supported by a cane has been reunited with her family days after they ...
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April 30, 2024, 9:46 a.m.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African police were investigating Tuesday if former President Jacob Zuma's new political party forged supporters' signatures to register for national elections next month. The MK Party, which has been highly critical of the ...
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April 30, 2024, 9:41 a.m.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah , where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war, just as cease-fire ...
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