Foreign business chambers have been warning for weeks that a proposed, sweeping overhaul of Mexico’s judiciary that would make judges stand for election, would endanger foreign investment in …
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9/6/24
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Prosecutors say a man armed with a machete has been overwhelmed and arrested after threatening to kill officers at a police station in western Germany. Investigators believe he had an Islamic …
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9/6/24
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Water reserves at the artificial Lake Mornos in central Greece have hit their lowest level in 16 years as a drought induced by climate change rampages across much of southern Europe this summer. The …
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By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
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9/6/24
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Sweden’s strong foraging culture could help determine how much radioactive fallout remains in the Scandinavian country, 38 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. The Swedish Radiation Safety …
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By JAN M. OLSEN and STEFANIE DAZIO
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9/6/24
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In a big milestone for Japan’s royal family, Prince Hisahito has turned 18, becoming the first male royal family member to reach adulthood in almost four decades. It is a significant development …
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI
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9/6/24
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Thousands of mourners have gathered for funeral services in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for victims of a Russian missile attack that killed seven people, including a mother and her three …
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By LYUBA SOROKINA and DEREK GATOPOULOS
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9/6/24
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Hungary’s anti-immigrant government is signaling that it is serious about implementing a plan to provide asylum seekers free one-way travel to Brussels. It's a measure meant to pressure the …
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By BÉLA SZANDELSZKY and JUSTIN SPIKE
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9/6/24
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting top military leaders of more than 50 partner nations in Germany to press for more weapons support. Meanwhile, the United States announced it would …
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By TARA COPP
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9/6/24
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UN-backed human rights experts seek wider arms embargo, 'impartial force' deployed to war-torn Sudan
U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war. The fact-finding mission is blaming both sides for …
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By JAMEY KEATEN
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9/6/24
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Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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9/6/24
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Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is visiting South Korea to boost warming ties between the traditional Asian rivals. During his two-day visit to South Korea that starts Friday, Kishida …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
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9/5/24
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A court in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle out of what is supposed to be a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon, which is illegal. Raising …
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By FABIANO MAISONNAVE
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9/5/24
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The leader of Canada’s leftist New Democratic Party says that policies supported by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre have only hurt Canadians, although …
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By JIM MORRIS
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9/5/24
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A woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband so that she could be raped while unconscious by other men has testified in a court in France about her yearslong ordeal. Gisèle Pélicot spoke …
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By LEWIS JOLY and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY
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9/5/24
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Haiti to reaffirm the government’s commitment to a multinational mission deployed to fight gangs in the Caribbean country and push for the …
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9/5/24
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is vowing to keep the pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to leave office in January. But, while speaking to reporters online Thursday from an …
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9/5/24
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A wave of violent storms torrential rain battered northern Italy Thursday, raising fears for the life of a man who was swept away on a tractor in the Piedmont region. Footage by state TV RAI showed …
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9/5/24
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The decision by New York prosecutors to charge a former aide to the New York governor this week with acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government has raised concerns about China’s efforts …
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By HUIZHONG WU
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9/5/24
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Experts says that millions of people in Pakistan continue to live along the path of floodwaters showing neither people nor the government have learned any lessons from the 2022 devastating floods …
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By MUNIR AHMED
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9/5/24
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Authorities in Congo say the first batch of mpox vaccine has arrived in Congo’s capital, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global …
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By JEAN-YVES KAMALE
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9/5/24
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