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Nobel winner Maria Ressa and her online news outlet are cleared of tax evasion

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

The Nobel Peace Prize winner and her news company were cleared of tax evasion charges she said were among many legal cases used by ex-Philippine President Duterte to try to muzzle critical reporting.

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A University of Alabama basketball player has been charged with murder

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Crimson Tide forward Darius Miles and another man have been charged in the fatal shooting of Jamea Harris, 23, near campus. Fourth-ranked Alabama says Miles is no longer on the team.

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China's economic growth falls to 3% in 2022 but slowly reviving

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The world's No.2 economy grew by 3% in 2022, less than half of the previous year's rate, official data showed Tuesday as China faced pressure from anti-virus controls and a real estate slump.

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China records 1st population fall in decades as births drop

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

China has announced its first population decline in decades as what has been the world's most populous nation ages and its birthrate plunges.

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Boris Johnson lands a deal to write memoir of his turbulent time as prime minister

Monday, January 16, 2023

It will be a prime ministerial memoir "like no other," publisher HarperCollins said. The former U.K. leader's time in office began with a vow to "get Brexit done" and ended in scandal and resignation.

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Germany's defense minister steps down after a string of widely criticized missteps

Monday, January 16, 2023

Christine Lambrecht said "media focus on my person" had clouded the debate about Germany's security policy. Her exit comes as Berlin faces mounting pressure to step up military aid to Ukraine.

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The Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida has died at age 95

Monday, January 16, 2023

"Lollo," as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" after the title of one of her movies.

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Death toll in Russian strike on Ukrainian building up to at least 35

Monday, January 16, 2023

The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to at least 35, an official said Monday, as rescuers continue searching for more victims.

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Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site

Monday, January 16, 2023

A spokesman for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash that killed at least 68.

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Kabul's mannequins hooded and masked under Taliban rules

Monday, January 16, 2023

Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women's dress shops across the Afghan capital are a puzzling sight, their heads sometimes covered in silk, cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags.

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Expanded U.S. training for Ukraine forces begins in Germany

Monday, January 16, 2023

The U.S. military's new, expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces began in Germany on Sunday. Until now the Pentagon had declined to say exactly when the training would start.

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California's system to defend against mudslides is being put to the ultimate test

Sunday, January 15, 2023

California has seen hundreds of landslides this month. But the factors that make the state so vulnerable to landslides go well beyond the atmospheric rivers that have inundated the state.

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The death toll from a Russian strike on an apartment complex in Ukraine is now 29

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that at least 73 people were wounded and 39 people had been rescued as of Sunday afternoon after the attack in the southeastern city of Dnipro.

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Thousands of Israelis have attended a protest against the Netanyahu government

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court.

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A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed in Nepal, killing at least 32

Sunday, January 15, 2023

A plane carrying 72 people crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reported Sunday.

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Two California deputies in the same department were fatally shot just two weeks apart

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Darnell Calhoun was killed on Friday and Deputy Isaiah Cordero died on Dec. 29. The previous slaying of a Riverside deputy occurred in 2003.

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An Iowa official's wife is charged with 52 counts of voter fraud in congressional race

Saturday, January 14, 2023

The wife of a county supervisor allegedly filled out and cast absentee ballots in her husband's unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020, federal prosecutors said.

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The U.K. pledges tanks to Ukraine as Russian missiles target multiple cities

Saturday, January 14, 2023

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also promised to provide artillery systems to Ukraine, amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting Kyiv and a number of other Ukrainian cities.

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A winning ticket for the $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Maine

Saturday, January 14, 2023

The winner, whose name is not yet known, overcame steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million, which led to three months of drawings without a claim on the jackpot.

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Iran has executed an Iranian-British dual national over spying claim

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Ali Reza Akbar, who once worked for Iran's defense ministry, was executed despite international outcry over his death sentence and those of others held amid protests.

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