The United Nations Security Council has voted to end its political mission of a few hundred people dedicated to ending the civil war in Sudan. Russia abstained from the unanimous vote to end UNITAMS, …
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By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
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12/1/23
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the Mideast this week looking to press for agreements to extend the Gaza cease-fire, step up the release of hostages held by Hamas and limit …
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By MATTHEW LEE
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12/1/23
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million. The order came as Moscow’s military action in …
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12/1/23
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An attorney for former Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe says he is being held by Haitian authorities at a police station a day after the U.S. repatriated him to Haiti. Jean Joseph Louicher says …
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By EVENS SANON
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12/1/23
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Israel and Hamas have resumed fighting after a weeklong cease-fire, and Israel says 136 hostages remain in Gaza. Most of those remaining in the besieged strip are men who were not included in the …
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By JULIA FRANKEL
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12/1/23
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The U.N. top court has ordered Venezuela not to take any action that would alter Guyana’s control over a disputed territory, but did not specifically ban Venezuela from holding its planned …
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By MIKE CORDER and REGINA GARCIA CANO
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12/1/23
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Dozens of young Israeli men and women who survived the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre at a rave party in southern Israel have been taking part in support sessions to help deal with their trauma at a retreat …
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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
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12/1/23
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Ukrainian media are reporting that the country's spy agency staged two successive train explosions on a railroad line in Siberia that serves as a key conduit for trade between Russia and China. …
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By HANNA ARHIROVA
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12/1/23
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Henry Kissinger is being remembered positively in China as an envoy who was willing to overlook ideological differences at the height of the Cold War and long after. Many Chinese people mourned …
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By KEN MORITSUGU and DIDI TANG
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12/1/23
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Japan’s top government spokesperson expressed concern on Friday that the U.S. military is continuing to fly Osprey aircraft in the country without providing adequate information about a fatal crash …
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI
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12/1/23
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Nearly two months after Hamas infiltrated Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages, dozens are still unaccounted for, their families left living in limbo. In the immediate …
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By SAM MEDNICK
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12/1/23
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The Israeli military said Friday that its fighter jets have begun striking Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, in the clearest sign yet that the war has resumed with full force after a weeklong truce. …
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12/1/23
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with The Associated Press that winter will complicate fighting. Despite a summer counteroffensive that did not produce the results many …
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By JAMES JORDAN, SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV
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12/1/23
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the war with Russia is in a new stage, with winter expected to complicate fighting after a summer counteroffensive that failed to produce desired results …
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By JAMES JORDAN, SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV
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12/1/23
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Thousands of detainees swept up in El Salvador's gang crackdown over the past 1 1/2 years have been released from pre-trial detention. Two of them who spoke to The Associated Press on condition that …
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By CATERINA MORBIATO
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12/1/23
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has been granted leave by the country’s Congress for six months to allow him to campaign for reelection despite a constitutional prohibition on reelection. Bukele …
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11/30/23
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A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers. Quinto Inuma Alvarado was returning by …
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By ED DAVEY and DAVID PEREDA ZAVALETA
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11/30/23
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A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers. Quinto Inuma Alvarado was returning by …
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By ED DAVEY and DAVID PEREDA ZAVALETA
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11/30/23
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Myanmar's military is losing ground against coordinated nationwide attacks, buoying opposition hopes
A major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country …
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By DAVID RISING
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11/30/23
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Myanmar's military is losing ground against coordinated nationwide attacks, buoying opposition hopes
A major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to …
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By DAVID RISING
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11/30/23
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